"There is a difference between each country." "The problem is remembering what it is." "A lot of times you don't remember the show, but you remember the place." "I've just been overwhelmed at all the different territories we've been going to in the world." "You don't know quite what to expect." "When you plan them, they're really adventures, you know?" "You never know what's gonna happen, who the audience is gonna be-- you don't know if there's even gonna be an audience." "Once you're up there it's its own country and you just do the show." "It is very unusual for this particular rock and roll band, or anyone to do what the Stones are doing for us tonight to fight global warming." "They speak to a lot of generations, a lot of different cultures." "That's precisely what we need to do to get a handle on global warming." "And when I was told that the Stones were gonna do this concert, but they wanted me to introduce them, I was flattered and honoured and thrilled to come." "I'd like to thank you very, very much, everyone, for coming here." "I know some of you have paid $5000 a seat tonight to be here." "Some of you have paid nothing..." "We wanted to do the show." "They wanted to do it for free." "They wanted no one to pay to come in." "They asked us to do the show to raise awareness-- for these environmental issues... for the NRDC." "There are certain things that we do, because we just feel it's right and also that we're together." "Yeah, it was good, that's Clinton." "He came along, didn't he?" "'Rent-a-guest.' l'm here because the Stones aren't term limited and they're just as old as I am." "If there's something that needs to be addressed, we'll do it." "We do lots of things that people don't know about." "You know something?" "We're all doing the same thing-- putting the spotlight on a very good cause." "You can all feel really good about yourself tonight for that." "It's nice to do something for the planet." "We've got to put back." "We keep taking out all the time-- it's nice to remind people we've got to put something back." "There are things you can do." "You can buy cars that use clean fuel." "The hybrid car, which I drove for a few blocks, it felt fine-- for a few blocks." "I don't know if I want to drive to San Francisco in it, we'll see." "I'd give it a whirl." "'Cause whatever we do, it's gonna make a difference." "So when you leave here tonight, remember, even though the Stones once said, 'lt's only rock and roll,' tonight it's way more than rock and roll." "Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest rock and roll band in the whole world ever," "The Rolling Stones." "Welcome, Mick Jagger." "Yesterday, the Rolling Stones chartered a jumbo jet and came to Japan." "Good afternoon!" "Konnichiwa." "I'm happy to be back in Japan." "...this time we're gonna play in the Budokan, which is smaller and a favourite venue for people, I know." "I'm really glad to be back in Tokyo." "It feels good to be here in Budokan for the first time." "I think the thing about the Budokan was that it's a famous place to play gigs." "A lot of rock gigs played there." "It's a traditional rock gig place and we'd never done it." "We'd been in Japan a few times, but we'd never done the Budokan." "I found out after the show it was the first time the Stones had ever done it, or at sound check, 'cause I thought," " 'The Stones must have done Budokan.'" " That was our first theatre show ever." "That was a special show and it was cool." "Thank you very much." "It's nice to be in the Budokan." " lt's nice to be anywhere." " The thing with the Budokan was that it the first time we'd seen the audience without any barriers and everything, just all mixed up." "And they were very, very young, really." "We saw the banishment of the tiny little red piece of gauze that fitted across the crowd barrier, they never crossed it." "They would go, 'Oh,' mad just behind it." "...after every song and then we did another song and it was..." "'Cause they always stayed behind these invisible lines," " because that's just the way they are." " But now they just go crazy." "They were standing up and going, 'Oh, it's okay.'" "Then create aisles, there was nothing." "It was the laxest security I've ever seen in any kind of those gigs." "We go there to educate them, that it's okay to have a good time." "And actually they're really-- they're a great crowd." "You got to say, 'Come on, it's okay, you can express yourself a little more.'" "And in a way you've got to show 'em how." "Thank you!" "This is a good place to start the first-- to do the first gig we've ever done in India." "This is a good place right here." "Never having played there before, there's that sort of anticipation and the unexpected." "It looks like playing the Weeley Festival." "I'm expecting to be on with The Faces." "It's so big and so many people." "It was a different sea of faces." "You could see them really clearly and it's a different look." "Also interesting, everywhere there are a lot of young people about." "Bangalore." "It had to rain, right?" "Bangalore, it drenched-- l mean, it was a thunderstorm." "Hey, the weather was never this good in Glastonbury." "...just to keep the dust down." "It poured, and we were filming." "It was a bit of a mess." "Sometimes it's sleet, sometimes it's wind, sometimes it's heat, because God joins the band." "This guy comes in and He doesn't rehearse," "He just throws shit at you, you know what I mean?" "Most audiences respond to that." "They love it, somehow." "You're all getting wet together, I suppose." "If you run away and hide under an umbrella or you know, call it off, it don't make it." "'Here it is." "This is what we came for and we all take it together.' lt's cool like that." "Camaraderie with the audience, I think it's the most beautiful thing." "You're all in the rain together-- except Charlie who's covered up." "My tendency is to go like a snail inside the shell and sit-- sit nice-- but they blossom in it." "Once you're wet, you're wet." "You know what I mean?" "Everybody in the back of the house say, 'Ow-ww!" "'" "Ow-ww!" " Everybody say, 'Ow-ww!" "'" " Ow-ww!" " Ow-ww!" " Ow-ww!" " Whoo!" " Whoo!" "Dancing was out of the question." "It was wiggling about." "Wave your arms a lot." "It had to pass for dancing." "It's a little more difficult to play guitar when you watch the skid marks coming off and you feel like you're playing underwater." "You know those things you walk through at the swimming pool when you have to walk through to clean your feet?" "It's a bit like that on stage." "Like three inches of water, like, 'Oh!" "'" "Keith and Mick particularly are fantastic in the rain, actually." "Some of the most intense shows have been in those kind of conditions." "Thank you very much, Bangalore." "Good night." "You've been a fucking great audience." "Welcome to Cirkus Krone." "I'm gonna lay something on you tonight." "We haven't played in this place for a very, very long time." "Years and years and years ago, before I was born," " we played here-- - lt's only been 38 years." "I must say, I don't remember anything about playing the Cirkus Krone." "This is only a Cirkus, but it's a show of The Rolling Stones for the first great beat concert." "After this, all the managers make beat concerts in the Cirkus Krone." "Just because the room's so unique." "We love playing those different clubs, especially ones with history like the Cirkus Krone." "This is such a lovely building." "The nature of the building-- basically, it's like some version of Valhalla, in that there's oak..." "and the heat rises." "The audience are actually hotter than we are." "I think this is the hottest one yet, don't you think?" "There seems to be some competition in this tour about the hottest shows, 'cause we had so many hot ones." "And all those indoor little shows have been boiling." " Where it's hot, hot, hot." " The hotter it is, the more sweaty and rock and roll it gets." "But it was one of the hottest gigs I've ever played." "There's so much sweat flying around you're gonna-- you're gonna miss a few notes here and there, because it's like surfing." "Some of the things that go wrong make it work, but not everything." "We just screw up better than anybody on stage and most times people don't even know it." " lt's what they call spontaneous." " Purely impromptu, not planned." "Charlie's gonna do a song for you in a minute..." "Thank you very much." "I've done that lots of times, a long time ago." "'On behalf of the band--'" "Bunch of bastards." "Bless your hearts, you know?" "Thanks." "Thank you very much, Munich!" "We've had a great time, we did three shows." "Thank you very much." "You've been great." "Good night, everybody, good night." " Hello, Madrid!" " Thank you very much." "It's good to be back." "It's good to be back." "Especially at the Calderón." "They don't call it 'The Cauldron' for nothing in Madrid." " lt's red hot in the afternoons." " Really hot, that was a heat wave." "is the audience gonna come up slightly half-baked by the time you get to them?" " But it was a great gig." " lt was a great audience there." " l mean it's fantastic." " The Spanish audience has an incredible amount of energy." "Goodnight, Barcelona!" "You rock!" " To Barcelona." " People turned out in the streets as we were arriving in darkened windowed vans, it didn't matter." "The people just came out of the shops." "They came out of buildings in a way that they don't normally do." "Barcelona is fantastic!" "Catalan, all right?" "They do their-- like they do in Argentina-  'Olé, olé-olé-olé...' - 'Olé, olé, olé' chant." "That was like Argentina again, wasn't it?" "You're nuts." "It makes you realize when you play South America where 'Olé, olé-olé-olé' really comes from." "Thank you very much." " l have a show to do." " Very reminiscent of Buenos Aires and Argentina and South America." "'Olé, olé, olé,' you know?" "All three of those Spanish gigs were fantastic." "Thank you very much." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Prague, how you doing?" "It took me a long time to get here, but here we go." "One..." "The first time we played in Prague was in 1990." "which was just after... the Velvet-- so-called 'Velvet Revolution' when the countries of Eastern Europe, all Communist regimes-- were all crumbling one after the other." "It was one of those things you never forget, because it's not often you sort of roll into a country that's just liberated itself." "We had nothing to do with the liberation, but we were a part of the celebration of the liberation." "And the people were so excited everywhere." "The emotion and everything there was amazing." "It's just an amazing thing." "You don't forget that kind of thing." "It is above and beyond being a rock and roll show or whatever." "It was, you know, bits of the world coming back together again." "They saw rock music-- l think it's a sort of touchstone of freedom." "The bad times are out and the good times are in." "The day we played, the Russian troops left and the Russian tanks left." "That was when he made the posters," "'The tanks roll out, the Stones roll in.' lt was a very important moment, because it was first time after our revolution when such known people came to our country and everybody understood it as a sign of freedom." "And it was big moment." "Havel was then the leader of the new Czechoslovakia." "After he had been imprisoned, he was the leading dissident writer, he was a leading rock fan." "That was all part of their-- it's pretty normal, they're all kind of music fans as well as literati." "They were like... what used to be called 'art students,' running the country." "In a way, I mean, it felt like that." "They were all Havel's mates and everything and they were young-- politician, is he?" "He's a politician less by nature than by circumstance." "He is a very bright man. I think he could have done anything he wanted." "And he's a writer." "His books are incredible." "I've always said we need a few more Havels in this world running things." "Today, after a long 1 3 years, these messengers are facing this open area where our freedom was born." "We were playing in this park, Letna Plain Park, which was the park that Havel led these huge protest rallies that eventually led to the end of the Communist regime." "And that's where we played and he gave a speech before we went on." "This place is very important because here was the main manifestation before the changing of regime in our country." "Several hundreds of thousands of people met here to let their opinion be known, stating they did not want to live under a totalitarian regime anymore, and, foremost, that they wanted freedom." "So you know, it must have been quite emotional for him to be standing in that place." "With all these people-- with the big crowd." "It was a wonderful honour to play with all the people who protested." "They said, 'Either shoot us or put this guy in.' lt was very moving." "And now they are here on this place." "And I think this-- it has-- a big sense for our citizens." "And to play there again this time, after-- 1 3 years, I think President Havel said." "Let us also wish that this moment will be an encouraging sign that freedom will continue to roll everywhere on our planet!" "Things are happening too fast, and we're on the move all the time." "You know, I woke up in my own bed the other day, and I go, 'l don't recognize this hotel." "Where's the bathroom?" "Oh, it's-- l'm home.' l went to my house last night." "Loads of crap I've left behind from a couple of years ago." "For me it's nice because I've some of my family here." "You do feel a certain affection for-- 'cause it was that area of London that really" "Southwest London," "Richmond" " Twickenham- Kingston area that became our main base." "We used to play at this place called the Station Hotel, which was right in the middle of Richmond opposite the railroad station." "We played there first." "The next week, there were twice as many, the week later-- there were so many, we had to move to the middle, the rugby thing, to accommodate people because the pub couldn't." "And from there it grew to playing in theatres and now we're playing in football stadiums." "The thing is that no one's ever played in this Twickenham Rugby Club before." "The first one at Twickenham was great." "And nobody had ever played in that place before." "It had been rugby 'hallowed ground.'" "So we're-- you and l-- we're very privileged to be here." "It's not always the easiest place to play when you're at home." "Home thing, everyone splits up." "No one's in the hotel." "You're all in separate places and houses." "You've still got to get through the 19 or 20 numbers, you've got this to do, that to do." "I thought all the shows were good and we got fantastic reviews for them." "Which is nice because in London they can give you horrible reviews." " lt's a great town for that." " lt's kind of a first in its way." "It was a great venue." "It felt very... warm." "Everyone seemed to enjoy it." "They liked the idea of the 'small, medium and large.' They kind of got it." "You don't know it's a home crowd when you're up there... to be honest. I don't." "Whether I was in Bangalore, or Singapore, or Perth, or Chicago, London or Prague, wherever, I wouldn't be able to tell you where l was." "They are different cultures, and they are different shows and different audiences, but they're always so very homogeneous." "So you can either spotlight... how they are the same so much, or you can spotlight also that they really are quite different." "When you get there, you create this energy, and it could be anywhere." "I think that's maybe one of the interesting things about it too." "If you put a bunch of people in a place where they want to be, and it's all working and the energy's going, then basically it is very universal." "People basically are all the same-- everywhere you go." "But there are quite extreme differences." "I'm not sure whether an impartial observer would really-- sort of really get the difference." "I mean, what's the difference in playing... you know..." "Barcelona and Finland?" "It looks, on the surface of it-- it looks the same." "At the same time, you're doing the same thing." "You're sweating and... 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' and loving it and everything." "But the others, every time you do it there's a different feeling in the air." "You always think it's never going to be as big or as good as the last one." "We've, fortunately over 40 years, always been as good, if not better, than the last one." "That's what you've kind of hoped for, really." "That's the reason to keep the band going together." "I mean, it was not to break any world records." "But then you've got this other level where you're asked to be a force for some attraction to good." "So whether that's in some environmental thing, or whether that's in Prague for a celebration of some sort of freedom, or whether that's in Canada." "Whatever the message, attaching yourself to that gives those events a special added meaning for some people." "So that's the kind of other level of performing, and being in this kind of well-known band." "It's an amazing journey, you know... that you couldn't do without a huge number of people wanting to see you." "It's been absolutely..." "a learning experience." "I mean, you can't get off the bus." "To me, I mean, you've really got to sort of drop dead on this trip." "There's no other chance, you know."