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24FPS
'Before They Make Me Run' indeed.
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Chacho
The 1978 tour was number 4 in The Stones 5 most important tours. 1981 was the "last tour".
I saw all of them but 1978.
To this day I do not know how I missed getting tickets, with WNEW FM playing 12 hours a day, I still missed getting the tickets for the New York area. (and I never was in to traveling more than 75 miles for ANY concert)
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peoplewitheyes
Great story Timmy! Very evocative.
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24FPS
This was their absolute sleazy tabloid peak. Keith's skin had a ghoulish green tint. He looked like a junkie on that tour, and his future was still up in the air, facing possible life imprisonment in Canada. 'Before They Make Me Run' indeed. The music from Some Girls was like the immediate journalism of their lives. It would never be like that again. After the ramshackle '78 Tour, it got real professional. I was at the Cleveland gig. I felt I was seeing the last wisps of the excitement of the British Invasion. The Stones were still gods, from far away England. Mick's energy as he danced up and down the tongue stage over the audience was incredible.
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HouseBoyKnows
I was also at the Philly '78 show with a set list crammed with Some Girls tunes that had only been out for a week or so. Of course I loved it, but it got a bad rap over the years. So when they came back to the same stadium to open the 1981 tour, it seemed like they were trying to make amends with the long and varied set lists over two days. Now those shows also have a bad rap in historical context. But again, they were wonderful from my perspective at the time. I almost cried when they played Time is on My Side.
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spikenyc
Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ 1978 my very first Stones show!
My best friend in high school won tickets from WNEW.
We were wide-eyed, naive 16 year olds and had no clue what we were in for.
The setlist was awesome and one that I have not seen topped since. Opening with "Let it Rock", then into "All Down the Line", and then all the new Some Girls material and more. It was a hot sweaty night and the band was on fire! I feel very fortunate to have seen this as my first Stones show. No stage set, and flat out rawness in their style of playing. Mick's stage banter was epic that night and Keef made a lasting impression for a lifetime.
And then my friends dad picked us up and drove us home.(we were to young to drive)
Ahh, the good old days.
Got this boot. It contains parts of the buffalo show which fell on July 4 , a national holiday. I'll never forget it .Quote
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