I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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SwayStones

Many thanks for clearing up ! I didn't know the existence of the Great Forum Links ,I thought that Honestman was refering to "sticky threads" ,that's why I was misunderstood....
So I asked bv for it.

No no Sway take a look, you read me too fast i was refering to Great Forum Links
but i thought you knew this part of IORR Board!

Anyway very good job and congrats to the Photographer of course!!!

HMN



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The rest of the Barbarians joined for Jumpin Jack Flash

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with sssoul
>> The rest of the Barbarians joined for Jumpin Jack Flash <<

as i noted somewhere earlier (i think!) there are some other photos
that indicate that Stanley Clarke was onstage for more than just JJF -
i reckon he just couldn't help it :E

Canadian National Institute For The Blind Benefit Concerts:
The New Barbarians played the first part of the show through "Before They Make Me Run" at both shows. Then everyone left except for Keith. He was then joined by Mick Jagger and they played "Prodigal Son". Then the rest of the Rolling Stones came out and played the rest of the show. They were joined onstage by the remaining New Barbarians for "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
DATE: 22nd April
Venue: Oshawa, Civic Auditorium 1st show
Setlist:
Breathe On Me
Come To Realise
Infekshun
Lost And Lonely
Am I Grooving You
Seven Days
Before They Make Me Run
Prodigal Son
Let It Rock
Respectable
Star Star
Beast Of Burden
Just My Imagination
When The Whip Comes Down
Shattered
Miss You
Jumping Jack Flash

DATE: 22nd April
Venue: Oshawa, Civic Auditorium 2nd show
Setlist:
Sweet Little Rock’n Roller
F.U.C. Her
Breathe On Me
Infekshun
I Can Feel The Fire
Am I Grooving You-Seven Days
Before They Make Me Run
Prodigal Son
Let It Rock
Respectable
Star Star
Beast Of Burden
Just My Imagination
When The Whip Comes Down
Shattered
Miss You
Jumping Jack Flash

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I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

The Stones' Keith Richards Does Time—onstage—as His Heroin Sentence, but He May Face WorseBy Jim Farber
It's great to be back in Toronto," leered Mick Jagger as he pranced onto the stage of the Oshawa Civic Auditorium to join Keith Richards and the other Rolling Stones. "We've got a special relationship here."

Special, indeed. This concert was not enjoined but ordered by a judge. Over two years had passed since the most lurid lost weekend in rock history. It was February 1977, and the Stones had flown into Toronto's El Mocambo Tavern to record a live LP. Instead they wound up splashed in the headlines with a newly liberated fan, Margaret Trudeau. Worse, Richards was also arrested—his most serious of several drug busts—when Mounties raided his hotel room and recovered 22 grams of high-grade heroin.

In the ensuing trial last October, Richards pleaded guilty, and the Canadian prosecutor asked for six months to a year (he could have requested seven years). But Judge Lloyd Grayburn let a relieved Richards off on probation with one unique proviso: He must give a free concert for the blind within six months. Outraged hard-liners like former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker immediately denounced the verdict as "preposterous and overly lenient." Even some of the blind were unhappy. One group threatened to demonstrate at the concert on the grounds that "this just increases the people's view of us as helpless charity cases." Then, when Richards finally arrived for last week's Toronto benefit, he was personally served with an "application for appeal" notice from Canada's attorney general that could ultimately throw out the sentence in favor of a tougher one.

Understandably uptight, all of the Stones isolated themselves on the 29th floor of Toronto's Four Seasons Hotel. Bassist Bill Wyman flew in from southern France, drummer Charlie Watts from England and Jagger from New York. Richards and guitarist Ron Wood, currently touring with their own subgroup, the New Barbarians, jetted in from L.A. Three hulking bodyguards kept away press and groupies. Mrs. Trudeau didn't show, but Mick Jagger's current model, Jerry Hall, did and commented: "Keith is just glad the first judge was so nice, and he has been trying hard not to worry about anything else."

Richards, whose slashing lead guitar has held the band in place for 17 years, couldn't resist more defiant noises. "Paper, schmaper," he said of the prosecution appeal. In the presence of Anita Pallenberg, his common-law wife and mother of his two children, he waved a glass of white wine and added, "We'll beat this thing. They can't get anything on me." Just to be sure, Richards must visit his parole officer, Hugh Osier, three times this year and submit a doctor's statement verifying that he is free of his expensive smack habit.

As if the legal intricacies weren't enough, the standard rock benefit hassles occurred. The auditorium owned by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind had only 250 seats, and a hockey playoff precluded use of Toronto's 18,000-seat Maple Leaf Gardens. The solution was to stage two shows in the Oshawa auditorium (capacity 5,500), 33 miles from Toronto. Though the Stones management maintained that 60 percent of the 11,000 seats would go to the sightless, only 2,600 blind people and their escorts actually picked up tickets, and even fewer attended the concerts. Many, of course, may have disposed of or scalped their passes. Other difficulties included a sound system that seemed patched in from a bus terminal PA. The concerts also started an hour late—and without the rumored appearances of such titans as Dylan and the Eagles. .

John Belushi did make it to provide some rambling, self-promoting introductions.

Once onstage, the Stones took charge with Richards' blistering chords dominating the hour-long assaults. Jagger, in Pepto-Bismol-pink pajama bottoms and dense eye shadow, flung his 34-year-old body through recent Stones hits like Shattered, followed by When the Whip Comes Down and Miss You. What may be the Stones' only concert of 1979 yielded a small surplus for the CNIB and gave evident satisfaction to most of the audience, rock fans or not.

Mon Jul. 28 2003 9:47:27 PM

Why the Stones keep coming to their 'favourite city'
Canadian Press

TORONTO — It's so typically Canadian.

When the Rolling Stones agreed to do a benefit concert for SARS-bruised Toronto, they called it their favourite city. And the record shows they've had a long and storied relationship with the place, going back to their first gig in 1965.

But it's not difficult to find a Torontonian who is somewhat puzzled that the legendary bad boys of rock keep coming back. To paraphrase Bogie, of all the gin joints and all the towns in all the world, they pick ours.

Maybe it has to do with our paparazzi-lite culture. Only in T.O., for example, could the boys rehearse unharassed for upcoming tours as they have so many times. Only here would they all rent bicycles for a quiet steel wheels tour of the region during their rehearsal breaks.

Only here could they party with a runaway prime minister's wife, could Keith Richards get busted by the RCMP for heroin possession and get off with probation.

Or maybe it's just Canada as a traditional tax dodge and the fact Toronto had been home base for their international tour organizer.

Toronto bar owner Jerry Stone, professing to be on a first-name basis with the boys in the band, says it's partly economic, the devalued Canadian dollar saving them money.

"Silly me, always thinking math, economics," says Stone, who bears a marked resemblance to Jagger, not only in looks, but in the manic energy he exudes as be bounces around his west-end watering hole which is part pub and part Stones museum, with a dash of New Orleans bordello.

But seriously, he's asked.

"There is a certain kind of love here with the city. I think with the boys it's the people themselves of Toronto, (who are) just very friendly, outgoing. They're not mobbed on the streets."

He says that means a lot to the Stones, the ability to actually leave their hotel.

"Keith still has a fear of stepping out, you know, after the John Lennon thing. Once in awhile he wants to go wandering till 7 in the morning."

At the start it was a love affair that often came close to being out of control.

On their first visit in 1965, they played Maple Leaf Gardens twice and were mobbed by fans who climbed all over their limousine. Later in London, Ont., a mini-riot broke out and the police pulled the plug, literally, on the lights and sound system.

Of the 15 or so appearances here since '65, the most famous - or infamous - was in 1977, the tour that saw their historic appearances at the El Mocambo club, Keith Richards' arrest by the RCMP on heroin charges and Margaret Trudeau's scandalous weekend fling with the musicians.

It began badly when Keith Richards' wife, Anita Pallenberg, was arrested at the airport after marijuana and heroin were found in her luggage. She was released on bail. Later, the RCMP raided the couple's room at the Harbor Castle hotel and they were arrested for possession of heroin for sale, a charge that could bring a life sentence.

"Being famous is OK," a very worried Richards said at the time. "But in the courtroom it only works against you."

The authorities were also worried, aware that a violent fan backlash was possible. In the end, Anita and Keith were fined and a few weeks later were allowed to leave the country so Keith could undergo drug-addiction treatment in New York.

"I have a strange relationship with this town," Richards mused during the Bridges to Babylon tour visit in 1997, 20 years after the events. He has since thanked Toronto for saving his life by getting him on the road to conquering his addiction.

But that wasn't all that happened back in '77. It was also the visit during which the band played its now-legendary gig at the El Mocambo, with several of the tunes recorded during the live appearance ending up on the Love You Live album.

Jerry Stone was in the bar that night.

"Fabulous! I was right behind the mixing board. It was a crazy night, just like a sauna in there."

Also present was a budding photographer named Margaret Trudeau. Maggie had just left her prime minister husband although the country didn't know it yet. Her first freedom fling was to accept an invite to come to Toronto and party with the Stones.

The whole weekend has been layered in sexual innuendo over the years. But in her 1978 autobiography, Beyond Reason (Paddington Press), Margaret endeavoured to paint an innocent picture of her notorious bout with the Stones, albeit innocent by '70s values.

It began with drinks with Mick. No drugs. He was "polite and charming."

The next day she ran into Ron Wood in a hotel corridor and he invited her to test out her budding photography career by snapping pictures at the previous night's session at the Elmo.

She declined to attend a party afterwards.

The following afternoon there was a tiny rattling of her hotel door handle. In the hallway was Keith Richards' seven-year-old son Marlon, crying. She accompanied him back to the Stones' suite and found Richards overdosed on the floor, moaning in a fetal position. She did her best to haul him into a bed and stayed to babysit the worried, abandoned youngster until the others, including Mick and Pallenberg, Marlon's mom, returned from a shopping trip.

That night, it was dinner with Wood and Charlie Watts, which ended with her return to her room at midnight. At 5 a.m., a call from the lobby. The Stones wanted to come up and play dice. She dressed and the gang arrived, ordering champagne from room service.

"We settled down to drink, play dice, smoke a little hash," Margaret writes. "Mick and Keith disappeared into a corner to work out a new number. It was fun."

At 9 a.m. the band members began to depart to their own rooms, with Wood the last to leave.

The following morning she left for New York and says she never saw the Stones again.

But the scandal had exploded in the media with headlines alleging a sex orgy had occurred involving the wife of the prime minister.

"By then I was branded: a promiscuous, irresponsible wife."

Drugs were always a part of the Stones experience, on the part of the fans as well as the band.

Bob Heise of Brampton, Ont., was a diehard Stones fan in his youth and saw them play in person twice, once in the early 1980s in Pontiac, Mich., when he was only 15, then in 1989 during one of the Steel Wheels Tour stops in Toronto.

He recalls approaching the U.S. border at Detroit on a tourbus filled with drunken, stoned revellers.

"The customs agent came on, she got to the third guy and he was so wasted. She just said 'You Canadians are pathetic!' and waved us through."

At the stadium, too, the authorities had a huge garbage bin into which they pitched all the confiscated booze bottles.

Heise, now 37, will be there again at Downsview Park Wednesday but is expecting a much tamer crowd.

"It's not going to be a Woodstock-type thing because mindsets have changed, right? Look at me. Now I don't drink, I don't do drugs and there was a time when I did."

He concedes it's quite possible that members of the older generations in the crowd will embarrass the younger fans as they try to recapture their youth.

A quick look at the history of the Rolling Stones' visits to Toronto:

April and October 1965: Brian Jones was still alive, of course, as the newly formed band played Maple Leaf Gardens twice during their third North American tour. Enraptured fans mobbed the band, even climbing onto their limo. In London, Ont., an audience riot broke out and police pulled the plug.

June 1966: Back to the Gardens with Mick, Keith, Brian, Charlie, Bill and Ian Stewart. Satisfaction as an encore was a crowd favourite.

July 1972: Maple Leaf Gardens yet again, with Mick Taylor joining the band for the Stones Touring Party (STP) tour. Stevie Wonder was the opening act but the visit was renowned for its partying.

June 1975: The last Gardens visit was saved for Tour of the Americas. Billy Preston accompanied the band and two tracks on the Love You Live album came from the concert tapes.

March 1977: The most infamous Stones gig of them all, when the band made a surprise and rare club appearance at the legendary El Mocambo with April Wine as opening act. (Several tunes made it to the Love You Live double album.) Keith was busted for drugs by the Mounties, and Margaret Trudeau had left her PM hubby and partied notoriously with the boys.

April 1979: After Keith's drug-bust conviction two years earlier, the band agreed to a judge's order to play a couple of benefit concerts at the civic auditorium in nearby Oshawa. The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi) introduced the band.

September and December 1989: Two visits during the Steel Wheels Tour, one at Exhibition Stadium, one at SkyDome. The band was backed by a four-piece horn section, chorus singers and a pair of keyboardists. At the Dome, Jagger taunted the typically subdued crowd of nearly 60,000: "I don't want you behaving like typically restrained Canadians now!"

July, August and December 1994: A bounty year for Stones appearances, when they performed another of their surprise club gigs, this time at the warehouse-like RPM (900 fans at $5 a ticket), a warmup for their Voodoo Lounge tour. Jeff Healey opened. Later they hit Exhibition Stadium and the SkyDome. Rehearsals were held at a private school in the city's north end. The tour set an industry record with $124 million US in grosses.

September 1997: Yet another club warmup, this time for their Bridges to Babylon tour, at the Horseshoe Tavern, with rehearsals at the Concert Hall. They also made a satellite appearance from Toronto for the annual MTV Awards. "I have a strange relationship with this town," Richards mused, recalling his drug bust 20 years earlier.

April 1998: The Bridges to Babylon tour arrives at the Dome, a concert postponed from January when Mick had a bout of laryngitis. It was the final stop on their 36-city North American tour.

February 1999: Bridges to Babylon returns, this time at the new Air Canada Centre, while many mused that it might be their last visit to the city with band members pushing senior citizen age.

July and October 2002: First, another of their rehearsal periods - again at a private boys' school - before the 27-city Licks North American tour arrived at the Air Canada Centre and two days later at SkyDome. In August, 1,000 fans were pleasantly surprised ($10 a ticket) when the Stones offered another of their impromptu performances, a sellout at the Palais Royale Ballroom (with another Stone, Sharon, hanging out backstage). The boys even rented bicycles to exercise during their time in town



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Some of my fave..... awwwwwwwwesome !

I love Keith facial expression .....Mick is so powerful .










And especially for Palace Revolution.....Keith with a white shirt .





I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

those are really beautifull wonderfull pictures , this is one of the if not the best i have seen this year (or last couple of years) just stunning, thanks BJ

Oh HELLO White T Shirt! Finally..

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SwayStones
As if the legal intricacies weren't enough, the standard rock benefit hassles occurred. The auditorium owned by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind had only 250 seats, and a hockey playoff precluded use of Toronto's 18,000-seat Maple Leaf Gardens.

What are these things you call Hockey Playoffs???? [Sigh.]

Also, Jerry Stone, quoted in the Canadian Press article, is indeed the owner of the Stones Place bar - the memorabilia collector extraordinaire.

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SwayStones
As if the legal intricacies weren't enough, the standard rock benefit hassles occurred. The auditorium owned by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind had only 250 seats, and a hockey playoff precluded use of Toronto's 18,000-seat Maple Leaf Gardens.

What are these things you call Hockey Playoffs???? [Sigh.]

Also, Jerry Stone, quoted in the Canadian Press article, is indeed the owner of the Stones Place bar - the memorabilia collector extraordinaire.

I sent an E-mail to Brian this morning ,and told him we found out the name of the bar owner he was talking about earlier.

Hockey playoff ? From the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Club ?



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

such a foc-ing nice thread....oohhh......i woke up this morning ...after a party....and looked at my cnib boot....my gawd!!!....just 2 war horses!!! MY...JJF.... can you believe that??.....just like to go back....when im wasted

matter of fact the boot is in my room above the tv....what a great cover!!!

The back side of the boot!!! is in my room ..so cool...lets post it!! Sorry im to lazy!

I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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such a foc-ing nice thread....oohhh......i woke up this morning ...after a party....and looked at my cnib boot....my gawd!!!....just 2 war horses!!! MY...JJF.... can you believe that??.....just like to go back....when im wasted

Only for you , roooter !....

Brian , this pic is so great ! You just shot the most intense moment !!





I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

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HMN



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I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

I like to see the crowd....the stage was very low ,wasn't it ?

Looks very low. Now Keith's Angel was right up front, right?

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Looks very low. Now Keith's Angel was right up front, right?

Reminds me another show....Was it at Montreal 2003 ? Or am I mistaken ? When Keith did a brilliant "Slipping Away" ,then the crowd got crazy. And Keith dedicated it to "his blind angel, Rita....She knows", he said. ... Rita was in attendance for the show.

He waved out in her direction and began to sing Slipping Away. It was a very very emotional moment.



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

I found out another web site with great music shots :

[www.godfreyjordan.com]

There is a photo I'd never seen ,Mick & Bianca ,Montreal Olympics ,July 1976 .
[www.godfreyjordan.com]

Godfray told me that he is redoing part of his site and the" ROLLING STONES IN OSHAWA (Apr 22, 1979) pictures will be part of that.

May be some more unseen pics ?



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Bump for Mr Jeffey