The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds Tour
Friday July 5th, 2024
B.C. Place Stadium
777 Pacific Blvd.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Taper: LeifH [2024#14]
Source: CA-11 > A10
Transfer: PC via USB > RX9 > Wavepad > flac (8) via TLH

Setlist: 02:08:00
01 intro
02 Start Me Up
03 Let’s Spend the Night Together
04 Bitch
05 Angry
06 Street Fighting Man
07 Wild Horses
08 Mess It Up
09 Tumbling Dice
10 You Can’t Always Get What You Want
11 Tell Me Straight
12 Little T & A
13 Before They Make Me Run
14 Sympathy for the Devil
15 Honky Tonk Women
16 Midnight Rambler
17 Gimme Shelter
18 Paint it Black
19 Jumpin’ Jack Flash
-encore-
20 Sweet Sounds of Heaven
21 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Had tickets for the 2020 gig, and then… you know…
Wasn’t going to bother attending this one for a variety of reasons. Death of Charlie Watts, tickets were even more expensive than the original booking, and general dislike (to put it lightly) of stadium shows, just to name a few.

Neil Young was due in town a couple weeks after this, but unfortunately cancelled. Had tickets to both shows booked at Deer Lake Park. The money was refunded right away (much unlike Stones 2020) and all of a sudden the Stones were in town. The day of the show I found a secondary market ticket for well below face value and ended up paying about the same price as one of those Neil Young tickets.

Met up with some pals before hand for a few pints. We entered the venue during the opening act, Ghost Hounds. As soon as I got to my seat, I remembered why I never go to these kind of shows. Brutal. Ghost Hounds didn’t do it for me, generic boring American rock music. I wonder how much their buy-on was for this tour… Anyway, I used their last few songs as a record-level check to make sure I was all set for the main attraction (included here as a bonus).

The setlist was fairly ideal for a first and likely only time seeing the Stones. The overall experience left something to be desired. I never felt like I was really there but rather experiencing the show second or third hand, as if I was watching TV from across the street through binoculars or something. I’ve felt more like I was at a show while peering over a festival fence from a distance.

After being treated and sanitized, the recording sounds 150x better than it did at the show. Plus you don’t have to sit on a harsh plastic chair and smell my neighbour’s cheap hotel fatty acid soap aroma. Sit back in your favourite seat or listen to it on the go.