Rolling Stones 2024 Rehearsal Reports (**Spoilers / Complete prototype setlists**)

 




After my reconnaissance missions a few weeks ago failed to turn anything up closer to home I was finally clued in to the rehearsal location somewhere in Hollywood. Did a drive by late Sunday night with predictably no signs of anything but Monday spotted a few familiar faces and knew it was the place.

This time around it was a bit more low key compared to 2013 with less excitement and less people turning up.

There was a main street front entrance where the band arrived and where security was concentrated to escort them in and out. When Mick left, one of the bodyguards performed a nightly ritual of waiting until maximum traffic clogged the avenue, then walking out and stopping tit  with a flashlight so Mick could pull out and be instantly surrounded by vehicles. Miraculouly neither the bodyguard or any vehicles in the street were damaged but he deserves hazard pay especially with automobiles murdering pedestrians in Los Angeles on an almost daily basis.

Down a side street there was an unobstructed loading dock and a few vents that allowed for listening of very low volume with room for only a few people. So don't blame me for that setup which likely resulted in you not getting an invite.

I know this has been a big mess in Toronto in years past with large throngs showing up to hear or see something but here people hanging around or congregating in strange places doesn't even get a second look. Kinda like New York with rats, in Hollywood everybody knows they are less than 20 feet from a celebrity at all times. The most amusing sight Friday was seeing someone in a Stones shirt walking down the street, see all the people on the sidewalk and cross the street to avoid us, obliviously continuing on.

Turns out AC/DC rehearsed the same place and you could hear clearly outside. I asked someone who was there "did you they play anything not in the Indio setlist?" "I didn't see the Indio setlist." Would have loved more details to share but I can only work with what info I have! Not many historians among us. There were also people there listening for weeks prior but no one is posting the details. I have a friend who lives on that block who is going to keep an eye on the place but there are really few acts that can carve a set out of a list of 60 songs, trying and discarding from a sizeable back catalog.

At least the final week is where we hear the show come together. It's obvious they want to play a lot of new songs, keep rotating album cuts as well as the play the same songs they always do. Friday is when they reluctantly took out the scalpel and cut out some parts no one really wants to see go. They aren't going to play 4 hours and play an all new song / deep cut set at a random midwestern stadium show where the cost of admission is equal to a mortgage payment. My own preference is for as many new songs as possible but I am sure they going to give us a decent show regardless of what contents they ultimately choose to include.



Monday 4/15/24

Start Me Up
Get Off My Cloud
Honky Tonk Women
Sympathy For The Devil
Paint It Black
Jumpin' Jack Flash (full -> partial -> full)
Street Fighting Man
Shattered
Angry (twice)
Mess It Up (twice)
Sweet Sounds Of Heaven
Depending On You (twice)
Sad Sad Sad
Out Of Time
Wild Horses

Tuesday 4/16/24 (several songs may have been played twice)

Miss You
Bite My Head Off
Rocks Off
Out Of Control
Dead Flowers
Whole Wide World
Live By The Sword (twice)
Live With Me
Far Away Eyes
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Tell Me Straight
Little T&A

4/17/24 (they play an obvious first half of a set, then take a long break)

Start Me Up
Get Off My Cloud
Angry
Out Of Time
Mess It Up
She's A Rainbow
Sweet Sounds Of Heaven
Tumbling Dice
Like A Rolling Stone
Honky Tonk Women
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Whole Wide World
Beast Of Burden
Emotional Rescue
Fool To Cry
Gimme Shelter
Midnight Rambler

4/18/24 (obvious second half of set, then long break)

Get Close (mainly Steve with others joining in working on intro for awhile)
Sympathy For The Devil
Gimme Shelter
Miss You
Paint It Black
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Sweet Sounds Of Heaven
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
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Bitch
It's Only Rock 'N' Roll
Shattered
She's So Cold
All Down The Line
Monkey Man (full -> partial -> full)
Sweet Virginia
Tell Me Straight


I was planning on heading out to the Mavis Staples 85th all-star birthday party where tickets were languishing at $5 on the secondary but during Monkey Man I just knew I wasn't going to pull myself away.

4/19/24 (final day, set played straight through, obviously a prototype setlist)

Start Me Up
Get Off My Cloud
Shattered
Out Of Time
Angry
Beast Of Burden
Whole Wide World
Tumbling Dice
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Tell Me Straight
Little T&A
Sympathy For The Devil
Gimme Shelter
Honky Tonk Women
Miss You
Paint It Black
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Sweet Sounds Of Heaven
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Last 2 songs definitely structured as an encore.

Paul McCartney was spotted leaving in a blue Corvette. It was a pink one in 2013. Missed opportunity. Wish I could have taken you on a similar journey to 2013 but there wasn't really much to do but lean against the wall and write down songs in a very reduced time frame.

My friend, who was mistaken for a construction foreman for a job site on that block chatted up the truck drivers for a bit but they claimed to have no idea where they are headed or when they are leaving.