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8205180162 France Mick Jagger Inspects Venue Mick Jagger from The Rolling Stones poses for photographers during a visit to the Hippodrome D'Auteuil in Paris, France on May 18, 1982. The Stones will play at the racing venue in June along with concerts in Lyon and Nice. (AP Photos/Herve Merliac)
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Most probably taken by Arthur Elgort.
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Mick Jagger in June 1982 with the Stones tour through ten German cities.
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Chuck Leavell early days with the Stones... with a real piano!! - Bobby Keys and Gene Barge Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne - July 5, 1982
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CANCELLED! Secret Dates Kick Off Stones Tour Other show banned in Boston by Mark Moses and Kurt Loder
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Exilestones, THANK YOU for posting this! I've always wondered if the Stones flew in the 1981 indoor arena stage for these Frankfurt shows, and now I know.
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exilestonesCANCELLED! Secret Dates Kick Off Stones Tour Other show banned in Boston by Mark Moses and Kurt Loder
Ever since August 17th, when the Rolling Stones moved into the Long View Farm recording complex in North Brookfield,
Massachusetts, to begin rehearsals for their first U.S. tour in three years, rumors had been rocketing around
New England that the band would play at least one surprise small-club gig. On September 14th, they finally did –
and proved that the Stones' magic remains undimmed after nearly twenty years.
Logistics for the show were kept as simple as possible. Three hundred tickets were distributed through WAAF-FM,
a rock station in Worcester, not far from the farm. The lucky recipients were those listeners who were found either
wearing the station's logo or having WAAF bumper stickers affixed to their cars. The site of the impromptu concert
– an earthy, Union Jack-emblazoned Worcester rock club called Sir Morgan's Cove – was kept secret by WAAF until another
station, WBCN-FM in Boston, an hour away, leaked the location. Not wanting to prompt a riot, WBCN warned its listeners
to stay away from the small Worcester club – apparently to little avail.
A crowd of approximately 1,500 to 4,000 fans lined both sides of the street outside the club for three blocks.
Worcester police – an initial force of seventeen officers soon augmented by two busloads of reinforcements – kept
the crowd off the streets and monitored access to the club from nearby rooftops. Several arrests were made
for disorderly conduct and use of firecrackers, but overall, the atmosphere was that of a woozy block party. In the
intermittent rain, hard-core fans rubbed elbows with disgruntled British and American reporters (all press had
been specifically excluded from the gig) and bemused locals (some of whom eventually drifted off to Sam's Tavern,
two doors down, to watch the Oakland Raiders play the Minnesota Vikings on TV). Crowd commentary ranged from shouts of
"Death to imperialism!" and "A media event! In Worcester!" to "C'mon, Mick, show us your underwear!"
At around 11:30 p.m., a thirty-five-foot van squeezed into the alley between Sir Morgan's Cove and a neighboring garage.
Inside were all five Rolling Stones, two auxiliary keyboardists (tour vets Ian Stewart and ex-Face Ian McLagan) and
Keith Richards' twelve-year-old son, Marlon. ("He was sort of coordinatin' security," Richards later remarked.
"Sittin' in the front of the bus, sayin' to the driver, 'Where do we meet the police escort?'")
At midnight, the Stones took the tiny stage and, powered by the unmistakable, resounding wallop of Charlie Watts' drums,
plowed through an exciting ninety-minute set that included such tried-and-true war horses as "Honky Tonk Women" and
"Under My Thumb," mixed in with more recent material ("Miss You," "Shattered," "When the Whip Comes Down," "Hang Fire,"
"Neighbors") and an assortment of such seldom-heard gems as "I Just Want to Make Love to You," "Let It Bleed" and
"All Down the Line." Hot and sweaty was the word for it.
"It was extraordinary," said Gil Markle, the owner of Long View Farm, who was also on the scene. "It's a very small
place, and people were dumbfounded that they were actually seeing a legend so close up."
The Stones finished with a rousing version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash." At 1:40 a.m., their van backed out of the alley,
Jagger lifted one of the rear curtains and grinned, and then the group was gone.
"It was great," said a still-smiling Richards a few days later. "Probably better than we thought, because it was
our first gig, and technically it was real rough. Also it was so hot, and there was no air. But the audience was great;
we all had a good time and it really helped us, you know? Afterward, we knew exactly which songs worked onstage and
which ones we didn't know well enough and needed to rehearse. It wasn't a difficult gig, really. It was as if we
were playing the Station Hotel in Richmond in 1963. You don't forget those things. It was sort of like, 'Well, we did
it then, we can do it now.' "
In the days following their set at Sir Morgan's Cove, the Stones attempted to set up another surprise gig. On Tuesday,
September 15th, concert promoter Don Law applied to the city of Boston for a license for the band to play at the
2,800-seat Orpheum Theatre the following Friday and Saturday nights. This plan was rejected by security-conscious
authorities on Wednesday. The same day, Boston's mayor, Kevin White, offered to let the Stones play a free concert
at the City Hall plaza on Sunday; radio stations WAAF and WBCN encouraged this plan by offering to help defray
security costs. The Stones, however, declined. "The fun of it was gone," said a spokeswoman for the group,
"It became a political thing."
Finally, all systems seemed to be go for a concert on Saturday, September 19th, at the 3,200-seat Ocean State Theatre
in Providence, Rhode Island. The night before, however, a local television station, WLNE, interrupted a Boston
Red Sox game to leak the news. By eleven o'clock, two other stations had reported the supposedly secret gig.
The Stones canceled.
"We're just going to start the tour as scheduled, in Philadelphia on September 25th," the group's spokeswoman said
wearily. She also downplayed a story in the Hollywood Reporter that said the Stones' tour, due to run through
mid-December, would ultimately gross some $39 million – more than any previous series of concerts. "The tour may
gross $30 million," she said, "but that doesn't mean the Rolling Stones will get anywhere near that. Their
production costs are very, very high."
So high, it seems, that the group was happy to accept a partial subsidy of the tour from Jovan, the men's cologne
manufacturer. "We've never done any of that crap before," said Richards of the multimillion-dollar Jovan deal.
"But we can use the money constructively to pay for small gigs that otherwise we wouldn't have been able to do.
It's like a happy medium: Jovan is getting what they want out of it, and we're getting some cash up front to pay
for gigs that we're gonna work at a loss. I mean, with the crew and the equipment we've got, by the time
they've got the stuff in the front door of those small places, it's costin' the Stones bread, you know? That's
no way to run a tour."
This story is from the October 29th, 1981 issue of Rolling Stone.
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NO CONCERTS IN BOSTON OR LOWELL, STONES TURNED TO PROVIDENCE
August 21, 1981
(PROVIDENCE) — THE ROLLING STONES, UNABLE TO ARRANGE CONCERTS IN BOSTON OR LOWELL, APPARENTLY TURNED TO PROVIDENCE,
RHODE ISLAND AND APPARENTLY MET A SIMILAR FATE. A STONES CONCERT PLANNED FOR TONIGHT AT THE 35-HUNDRED SEAT OCEAN STATE
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER REPORTEDLY WAS CANCELLED LATE LAST NIGHT BECAUSE OF ADVANCE TELEVISION PUBLICITY. THE
PROVIDENCE JOURNAL-BULLETIN QUOTED A SOURCE AS SAYING THE SHOW WAS "DEFINITELY OFF". TWO PROVIDENCE TELEVISION
STATIONS REPORTED LAST NIGHT THAT THE BRITISH ROCK BAND WOULD GIVE A CONCERT. A MAN WHO SAID HE WAS A MEMBER OF
THE BAND'S ADVANCE CREW TOLD THE PROVIDENCE PAPER THE GROUP FEARED ADVANCE PUBLICITY WOULD DRAW A LARGE CROWD
THAT MIGHT CAUSE SECURITY AND SAFETY PROBLEMS. THE STONES AND BOSTON COULD NOT AGREE ON A SITE FOR A CONCERT.
AND PREMATURE PUBLICITY APPARENTLY KILLED PLANS FOR A CONCERT IN LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS. 9/21
Ocean State Performing Arts Center Stones Show Cancelled
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STONES CANCEL PROVIDENCE CONCERT DUE TO LEAKS
August 19, 1981
(PROVIDENCE) — A CONCERT BY THE ROLLING STONES PLANNED FOR TONIGHT IN PROVIDENCE REPORTEDLY HAS BEEN CANCELLED
BECAUSE OF ADVANCE TELEVISION PUBLICITY. THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL-BULLETIN QUOTES AN UNIDENTIFIED SOURCE CLOSE TO GEMINI
CONCERTS INC. AS SAYING THE SHOW IS "DEFINITELY OFF." GEMINI HEAD FRANK RUSSO SAID, "THERE NEVER WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT,
THEREFORE THERE WAS NO SHOW." TWO PROVIDENCE TELEVISION STATIONS REPORTED LAST NIGHT THAT THE ROCK BAND WOULD GIVE A
CONCERT TONIGHT AT THE 35-HUNDRED SEAT OCEAN STATE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. A MAN WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS A MEMBER
OF THE BAND'S ADVANCE CREW TOLD THE JOURNAL-BULLETIN THE GROUP FEARED ADVANCE PUBLICITY WOULD DRAW A LARGE CROWD THAT
MIGHT CAUSE SECURITY AND SAFETY PROBLEMS.
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NORTH BROOKFIELD MA
photo by Bill Wyman
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Exilestones, THANK YOU for posting this! I've always wondered if the Stones flew in the 1981 indoor arena stage for these Frankfurt shows, and now I know.
I wondered if this photo was the Stones since it was an indoor concert but it was confirmed by Alamy:
Stock Photo - Audience in the Festhalle.The Rolling Stones on 29 June 1982 in Frankfurt (Germany). [www.alamy.com]
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Exilestones, THANK YOU for posting this! I've always wondered if the Stones flew in the 1981 indoor arena stage for these Frankfurt shows, and now I know.
I wondered if this photo was the Stones since it was an indoor concert but it was confirmed by Alamy:
Stock Photo - Audience in the Festhalle.The Rolling Stones on 29 June 1982 in Frankfurt (Germany). [www.alamy.com]
Yeah, it's weird: whereas 1981 was evenly split between stadiums and arenas, the 1982 tour was almost exclusively outdoor stadium shows, except for West Berlin (an amphitheater gig) and these three Frankfurt shows. Maybe the Berlin Olympiastadion and the Waldstadion in Frankfurt were unavailable.