I flat out love the Los Angeles Sports Arena - have long searched for images from the tour closing 1965 show there, but to no avail. I've been there many many times - have shot there - sees games, concerts, etc- and I ALWYS think of the Stones having been there.

BUT - found this audio artifact - Jagger promoting the show for then-hot radio station KHJ - so I made a rough copy of it and added a visual ad from the show







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The Sports Arena has it's place in LA Concert history. I've seen Bruce there many times, as well as ZZ Top and Michael Jackson...I am am sure there were others. The sound is better than the Forum and far better than the Staples Center. It is, as Bruce Springsteen puts it, "The Dump That Jumps"

Ricky Schroder said when he did commercials as a kid "I'd have to say a whole gob of words in a brief time. In commercials, they want you to say as many words as possible in the shortest time possible. It was a pain." That's obviously how Mick was directed here.

Thanks for posting. The Sports Arena rules as a concert venue in L.A.

Thanx for sharing...

as i type this here in my office- i am sitting in a chair from the sports arena - adore that place

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Ricky Schroder said when he did commercials as a kid "I'd have to say a whole gob of words in a brief time. In commercials, they want you to say as many words as possible in the shortest time possible. It was a pain." That's obviously how Mick was directed here.

you don't think mick was speaking off the cuff?

alt. script: Hey, this is mick jagger - if you want some satisfaction, have your mother give you a little help and get tickets to our December show at the sports arena - this may be the last time so don't play with fire!

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Thanks for posting. The Sports Arena rules as a concert venue in L.A.

Yeah, but the neighborhood! Yuck!

Scotty,
Irvine, CA

93 KHJ was a kick ass AM radio station. It ruled Los Angeles at that time.

FM? What was FM ?








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I loved "93 KHJ . . ." back in the 60's. KRLA and KFWB were their competitors back then. KRLA had Casey Kasem and had a distinct favor and I listened to both KHJ and KRLA every day.

I saw only one concert at the Sports Arena. There were several groups on the bill, but I only remember the Turtles. Also saw the Lakers there.

sports arena was one of only two u.s. arenas that got the original version of The Wall - (nassau coliseum was the other)

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Thanks for posting. The Sports Arena rules as a concert venue in L.A.

Yeah, but the neighborhood! Yuck!

Scotty,
Irvine, CA

Yeah, really. And I always enjoyed driving to the Forum. And the buzz of being in traffic on the way to a Stones show at Dodger Stadium.

My concert going career started thanks to KHJ.

They had this safecracker contest and I was the 13th caller. While I didn't win the big prize of $1,000, I did win the consolation prize of a pair of tickets to see the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Hollywood Bowl. The song that was on the radio when I called in was The Snake by Al Wilson, I can't believe I remember that!

some photos from the Sports Arena:













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mitch! where did you find them?? amazing!

Great photos. That's the first one I've seen where Bill has moved over by Keith, leaving Brian alone. I always wondered if that was caused by the growing schism within the group towards Brian.

This KRLA Beat magazine has an interview from around the time of the concert, plus other gems.

[krlabeat.sakionline.net]



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Great photos. That's the first one I've seen where Bill has moved over by Keith, leaving Brian alone. I always wondered if that was caused by the growing schism within the group towards Brian.

I think Brian had just missed about four concerts from being sick with pneumonia.



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Great photos. That's the first one I've seen where Bill has moved over by Keith, leaving Brian alone. I always wondered if that was caused by the growing schism within the group towards Brian.

I think Brian had just missed about four concerts from being sick with pneumonia.

Brian didn't miss any gigs after 1964.

I think Bill moving to the other side of the stage was possibly because of a combination of these things.

1 Brian needed more room on his side of the stage once he started using the Vox Continental, which would have pushed Bill even further left of Brian.

2 ALO might have suggested it as it placed Keith more in centre view of the stage and ALO was quite in to promoting Keith at this point.

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This KRLA Beat magazine has an interview from around the time of the concert, plus other gems.

[krlabeat.sakionline.net]

They used the Los Angeles press conference to officialy announce their new movie, "Back , Behind and in Front" to be filmed in April 1966.

Never heard another word about it.



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It turns out the movie was to be based on a book called Only Lovers Left Behind, to be directed by Nicholas Ray, who did Rebel Without a Cause.
in which the Stones would play a "youth gang . . . battling for survival in a postapocalyptic world.

I guess it went nowhere because the financing wasn't there or the group lost interest . or they thought Ray couldn't pull it off.





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sports arena was one of only two u.s. arenas that got the original version of The Wall - (nassau coliseum was the other)

I was there for two of those nights hbwriter (I think they played 6 or 7 niights?)...anyways, very memorable experiences!

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some photos from the Sports Arena:

When I first glanced at this I thought it was Jim Morrison at the mike.

^ Strange that Keith is plugged in to the Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz Tone, suggesting they are playing Satisfaction, but that Brian is using his Rickenbacker 12 string.

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^ Strange that Keith is plugged in to the Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz Tone, suggesting they are playing Satisfaction, but that Brian is using his Rickenbacker 12 string.

You think he only plugged it in just before playing that song? I think he plugged it in before the concert started...

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^ Strange that Keith is plugged in to the Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz Tone, suggesting they are playing Satisfaction, but that Brian is using his Rickenbacker 12 string.

You think he only plugged it in just before playing that song? I think he plugged it in before the concert started...

No, at their concerts during 1965 - 1966 he has it sitting on the amp not in use, sometimes plugged in to the 2nd channel of the amp. The guitar going direct to amp, when it's time for Satisfaction he then put the pedal in to the 1st channel signal chain or plugs in to the fuzz which is going in to the 2nd channel.

The probable reason for this is that those Maestro Fuzz Tone had no true bypass, so when you use them the signal is affected slightly, muffled a bit when the pedal is disengaged. So for Keith it seems a compromise of sound due to the use of the Fuzz Tone was only acceptable to him for Satisfaction because the Fuzz Tone was at that point essential to the performance of the song.

The photos for this gig show that the Maestro Fuzz Tone when not in use is on the amp, but plugged in to the 2nd channel of the Fender Showman amplifier. Keith is plugged in to the 1st channel, then when the fuzz is shown in use on the floor, he is then going in to the 2nd channel which I assume would be set up brighter to counter the non true bypass signal of the Fuzz Tone.



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Slow down there Poindexter !

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Here is the likely playlist for the Sports Arena Concert. I doubt if they were on the stage more than 35 minutes.

Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
Play With Fire
Mercy Mercy
Around And Around
The Last Time
That's How Strong My Love Is
Get Off Of My Cloud
Satisfaction


Brian on the organ:







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