Re: WHO SAW THE 1972 SHOWS? TELL US EVERYTHING YOU REMEMBER, PLEASE!
Date: July 8, 2005 00:58
drbryant Wrote:
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> Saw the Stones in Jan 73 in Honolulu, Hawaii. I
> wasn't even 13 years old yet, at my first concert.
> ZZ Top opened the show. It was an all white
> stage, very simple, with a large tongue backdrop.
> The only real prop was a huge moving mirror on the
> ceiling of the arena, operated by a man in a tiny
> cage, that was used to reflect to the stage
> spotlights aimed at the mirror from behind the
> stage. Pretty cool, actually.
>
> They came out through the tongue backdrop. Jagger
> in his white jumpsuit, Keith all over the stage.
> Mick, thin and blonde, and Bill, stonefaced except
> for the occasional smile at Mick, glued to their
> spots on stage, and Charlie, rock solid as usual.
> They played about 85 minutes, no encore, and
> absolutely incredible. From today's perspective,
> a virtual greatest hits set, but at the time, most
> of it was still fresh.
>
> Brown Sugar, Bitch, Rocks Off, Gimme Shelter, It's
> All Over Now, Sweet Virginia, Happy, Tumbling
> Dice, Dead Flowers, YCAGWYW, Midnight Rambler, Rip
> this Joint, JJF, SFM (might be forgetting one).
>
> Absolutely Amazing.
If you saw the first show, on Sunday night, where they played "Live With Me" and Mick talked about 'cat's eyes' binoculars, you saw on the of the best Stones live performances in their careers.
"The wonder of Jimi Hendrix was that he could stand up at all he was so pumped full of drugs." Patsy, Patsy Stone