Stones songs. Lots of them. From the most recent performance.
Richard Kerris, the band's former AV geek, tells Variety he introduced Mick, Keith, Charlie, Ronnie & Co. to the wonders of the iPod on the 40 Licks tour. Ever since, the band has been recording all of its shows to a Mac laptop sitting behind Charlie Watts' drum stand. After the show, the techies then port the play lists to iPods so the band can listen afterwards.
As Kerris tells Variety, "If you look at any of the old videos from that tour you'll see a laptop, a Mac laptop sitting behind Charlie, everything's recorded with these two stereo mics, so they have a rough, they have a full 48-track underneath, but everything goes into that laptop. Everything's connected to a little distribution amp with five Firewire cables hanging off of it. So while the band was doing their bows and the fireworks were going at the very end, the backline crew would plug in their iPods, synchronize the thing, and put in their bathrobes an iPod that had that night's show, so when they came offstage, they'd grab their stuff, get in their car and they would have the show with them right then and there. No one had done anything like that at all."
Mick, says Kerris, is a natural geek. He took to the technology in short order. And Keith? Well, that's a different story. Says Kerris, "Keith doesn't use the computer as much, he just recognizes what part it plays."