Stones play Loving Cup for first time in 8 years in Perth, Australia

The Rolling Stones are not known for mixing up their set night after night.  Particularly where huge staging effects and lighting cues are involved everyone on the crew needs to know what's coming next.  Still you'll notice five songs into their set in Perth Australia (10.29.04) they dropped in Loving Cup (by request).

The Perth Arena only holds a scant 15,000 and the cheapest tickets were going for $380.  But the opportunity to see the Stones at the end of their life cycle in such a small venue was undoubtedly viewed as priceless especially since they may not make a trip across the pond to the penal colony again. 

As Jambands.com has reported the song Loving Cup (popularized in the last ten years as a dutiful cover Phish plays often as an encore) has only been played 21 times between 1969 and 2006.  Also of note to is that Karl Denson (Greyboy Allstars, Lenny Kravitz, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe) is filling in for longtime saxophonist Bobby Keys on the Australian leg of the tour.