I had the amazing opportunity to see the Rolling Stones with front row seats two nights at the Forum in L.A. in 1975. I somehow managed to bring in a camera to shoot the shows. I shot over 100 slides. Sadly, most of them deteriorated over the years, but some of them survived. I just converted them to digital format and I wanted to share the best ones with the IORR community. Here are a couple to get started:

Wow! Thanks for sharing!
These first two are really great and make me curious about the rest.

Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away

Superb! Love the colouring on that first one, the warmth really comes through - the digital sharpness of modern cameras often loses that aspect. Like comparing vinyl to mp3. Looking forward to more, thanks.

Great stuff. All I can say is MORE please! Also would welcome you story and memories of the shows. How did you score the great seats? I imagine this is before the whole scalper biz was in full swing and that many of the people in front actually got their tickets at face value.

Those two shots really reflect how in control of the music Keith seemed to be at that time.

Thanks for posting.

peace

Thanks so much - these are amazing. What a vantage point! Hope you will post all that you are able to salvage!

Fantastic....

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

Those are f*cking phenomenal. Bravo, on front row and then managing to still use a camera to save the moment.

What nights were you there? I was at the July 10th show.

Fanfreakintastic! I ve seen that first one before?

Thanks for the nice comments everyone. The story was simple and crazy. All you had to do was camp out in front of the box office windows at the Forum. I was 21 at the time, just out of college hunting for my first real job, so I had plenty of time. My friends and I had done the sleepover thing in '72 and I snagged 2nd row center for that show. (And yes, I shot one of those shows too!) Back to '75, when we got the word, we grabbed our sleeping bags and ran to the Forum. I think we slept three nights there. I was right in front of one of the ticket windows when they opened. I bought four for one night, my friend bought four for another night and we swapped pairs so we could both go both nights.

When I heard they were going to release a DVD of these shows, I hoped that they would pick one of my shows, but unfortunately, the show they chose was not one of mine. Oh well. But I was right there and it was amazing. Ronnie Wood had just joined.

Here are two more pix from this set. The first one shows Mick playing guitar. I'm pretty sure this was on Fingerprint File. The second one is one of my favorites. It includes Billy Preston and Ollie Brown on You Got To Move...

love keiths hair in the second. so young and healthy

The "Keith in black" pic makes me think you went to the July 13 (very last) show. (It's the one whose audio was released under the Stones Archives program).

Some time ago a Polish IORRer had Id'ed all the Forum pic by the clothes the band wore night after night. Great job!

Thanks a million for sharing these wonderful photos, keep 'em comin'! Would love to see few pics from your '72 gig as well... cheers.

Thanks for posting.

Hi Vibrolux,

Simply outstanding photos...thanks a ton for sharing these!

Cheers,

Simon.

I think I went to the first show (the 9th?) and the closing show (the 15th?), but it's 40 years. A lot of mileage since then.

Mileage or no mileage, these pictures are great! Thanks so much for sharing these, and any others you may be able to salvage, with us!

Peace,
Mr DJA

Cool ....nice shots!!! ....fanks vibro



ROCKMAN

thanks for share

Fantastic photos, vibrolux. Thanks for sharing!

Impressing pics!

Did you have any problems with security? How did you manage to bring the camera up to the very front and shoot so many pictures?

great stuff! thank you for posting, look foward to more

Great pics, thank you?

What camera were you using?

C

That's the tour about which David Geffen said "Mick Jagger looked like a tired old stripper." Way back in `75.

Front row pix from L.A. 1975...

Keith was then and still is the MAN !!

Whoa that's awesome! That must've been so cool camping out to get tickets. Thank you so much for sharing!

thank you for sharing. two of the pics were form opening night when I was there! 7-9-75