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bengigan
-Ride em on down at Desert Trip 1
-Just your fool at Desert Trip 2
These shows were a couple months before B&L came out, but there was more hype about the recording of the album.
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Rockman
They should do a dirty version of When Your Gone .....
I don’t want to think about you when you’re gone
I don’t want to hear your voice talk on the phone
All those notes and all those cards, I'm going to throw them in the yard
I’m going to put them in the trash where they belong ........
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Doxa
We should also add to Deardoctortake1's list the songs from LET IT BLEED album - most notably "Midnight Rambler", not to forget "Love In Vain" and "Live With Me" - they performed in Hyde Park and during their American Tour 1969. The album was released 5th of December, a day before Altamont concert - so the official tour was alraedy done by then. Fascinating to think that they performed "Midnight Rambler" every night to totally fresh ears... And it was a show highlight with a great audience response already then...
- Doxa
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Hairball
I think both of those tunes were officially pre-released or leaked before the Desert Trip shows.
Just Your Fool was officially released as a single Oct 6 - eight days before it was played at Desert Trip wkd. 2.
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Hairball
Ride em On Down was officially pre-released mid-late November, but I could swear I had already heard it before they played it at Desert Trip wkd.
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Doxa
We should also add to Deardoctortake1's list the songs from LET IT BLEED album - most notably "Midnight Rambler", not to forget "Love In Vain" and "Live With Me" - they performed in Hyde Park and during their American Tour 1969. The album was released 5th of December, a day before Altamont concert - so the official tour was alraedy done by then. Fascinating to think that they performed "Midnight Rambler" every night to totally fresh ears... And it was a show highlight with a great audience response already then...
- Doxa
Good point Doxa, for some reason I thought Let It Bleed was released In the spring of 69 , thanks for including in the list
So more reasons for the Stones to do one new track ...
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October 1978- they briefly performed Summer Romance during SNL rehearsals to a small audience (including myself)
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deardoctortake1
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October 1978- they briefly performed Summer Romance during SNL rehearsals to a small audience (including myself)
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Could you tell us about that?
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Doxa
We should also add to Deardoctortake1's list the songs from LET IT BLEED album - most notably "Midnight Rambler", not to forget "Love In Vain" and "Live With Me" - they performed in Hyde Park and during their American Tour 1969. The album was released 5th of December, a day before Altamont concert - so the official tour was alraedy done by then. Fascinating to think that they performed "Midnight Rambler" every night to totally fresh ears... And it was a show highlight with a great audience response already then...
- Doxa
Good point Doxa, for some reason I thought Let It Bleed was released In the spring of 69 , thanks for including in the list
So more reasons for the Stones to do one new track ...
Actually, if I would go totally precise and 'nerdy' here (well, that's what I am haha), all the STICKY FINGERS numbers they played during their 'Farewell Tour to England' in 1971 should be counted too. The tour take place in March and the new single "Brown Sugar" and STICKY FINGERS album wee relased in April. So in addition toalreday 1969/70 performed "Bitch" and "Dead Flowers", there is at least "Bitch" and "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?" (if that was played,which still seems to be debated). If a Chuck Berry number "Let It Rock" counts here. I don't know which other STICKY FINGERS numbers were played during this tour. "I Got The Blues" - but only at MARQUEE, which took place after the release of the album, or did it?
- Doxa
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October 1978- they briefly performed Summer Romance during SNL rehearsals to a small audience (including myself)
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Could you tell us about that?
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October 1978- they briefly performed Summer Romance during SNL rehearsals to a small audience (including myself)
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Could you tell us about that?
Well stanLove, thanks for asking, if I may indulge......
Friday October 6th, 1978 I was a 19 year old sophomore at a New Jersey College. That night I had a first date planned with a girl I just met for dinner and a movie.
But that afternoon, my sister, who worked for NBC Channel 4 in New York , called me at my dorm room on the pay phone to tell me she just rode in the elevator with Mick Jagger. The stones were to rehearse for their SNL appearance for the next night. She told me to get to New York right away. I told her I had a date,she said bring her.I remember calling my date to apologize that I couldn't take her to dinner and a movie, but how would you like to go to a rolling stones rehearsal in New York? She didn't mind.I took her, I think we drove in to the city.
We met my sister at the security desk. She was so nervous I wouldn't get there in time. Mick was already in the building. A handful of people were in the lobby as my sister got us through the security desk in front of the elevators.
Moments later , through the lobby , past the security desk, in comes the 4 other Stones with a small entourage and waited for the next elevator next to me.
I was in such awe, I remember I couldn't tell the difference between Woody and Keith. I first spoke to Bill. I remember they all looked so short, old and wrinkled . Bill had a few streaks of long grey hair in the back only. I foolishly told Bill that I was the biggest stones fan in the world and that I thought they were the greatest rock n roll band in the world. Like he never heard that. He told me " you ought to tell Charlie then". As I turned to Charlie, I gently put my hand on his shoulder. I remember thinking how skinny and bony his shoulder and arm was.
Just before the elevator came, Bill, Charlie, and Keith signed a piece of paper I had. Keith was talking to my sister about something and Keith put his arms around my sisters shoulder. Then they all got in the elevator. My sister my date and I took a separate elevator up the 8th floor where studio 8H was for SNL.
The 3 of us stood in the hallway on the 8th floor, just feet away from the studio door. Nobody else was there, just us, and a handful of cast member walking about. There were security men, from NBC, possibly police at the door of the studio. My sister had heard a rumor that if anyone was even to just say hello to Mick, he would walk off the set. Regardless, when Mick suddenly appeared from down a side hallway toward the studio door, I couldn't help but yell out Mick !! He turned and said "Hi" in his cockney accent, then proceeded in to the studio.
For much of the rehearsals, where they played Beast Of Burden Respectable , and shattered over and over, the security guards, who realized we were there, were nice enough to keep the studio doors open so we could see and hear much of the rehearsal from the hallway.
It was amazing to be part of this intimate rehearsal.
I vaguely remember hearing a song being performed that I didn't recognize just after a break. Thankfully, about 10 years later, a video surfaced of these rehearsals, and I learned that song was Summer Romance, a Some Girls sessions song, later released on Emotional Rescue. Those rehearsals at SNL are of course on you tube now.
At the end that break, and they took a lot of breaks, after Summer Romance, you can hear Mick calling for Woody, "Woody to the stage, you're part of the band". Well , Woody was with me!! During that break, I called him over to me and my date and sister. He put down his styrofoam cup of coffee and vodka on a table and signed my paper, and my dates paper too. Best wishes Ronnie Wood on mine, and love Ronnie Wood with a heart on hers. Then he quickly ran back to the set.He didn't take his cup, I did, and I still have it to this day.That's how I know what he was drinking. Much to my wife's chagrin, and she was not my date, I keep Woody's cup in our wall unit with our other fine china etc..
At one point the doors did close, so we went up to the 9th floor, the balcony part of the studio and watched more rehearsing from there. Later one break was very long, and we decided to leave, and my date and I went back to school.
That was one of the greatest nights of my life!! Watching the Stones, my childhood idols in an intimate setting. I proudly display the autographs of Bill, Keith, Charlie, and Woody, along with Woody's cup that I got while being next to them. I never got close to Mick that night, but my sister did get' Micks Autograph separately from me. I'm glad he didn't walk off the set when I said hi to him.
I'm so thankful to have these sessions on video.
Oddly, I never saw my date much after that, don't even know where she is these days. I guess I couldn't compete with The Stones.
Thanks for listening to my story.[/b] I'll try to post my autographs.
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MisterDDDD
Great story, deardoctortake1 !
Was interested in whether you were able to stay for the live show taping, as nowadays (and maybe then) they make you choose tickets for either rehearsals or live taping. Sounded like a non-issue as you had a connection to get in.. perhaps just for the rehearsal?? What a great experience and also great. like you said, that the rehearsal footage became available. Wow.[/quote
Sadly Mrdddd, my sister couldn’t get her channel 4 tickets for the show. But she was able to get and attended many SNL shows from the first show in 1975 through about 2000.
I was fortunate enough to attend many SNLs, including Keith in 88 plus a similar rehearsal story for keith, and Jerry Hall with mick rehearsal show . But not the stones in 78, too tough of a ticket. I was devestated about Micks voice for the live show. It was great the day before .
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2018-03-17 19:06 by deardoctortake1.
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Monsoon Ragoon
The problem is that the new songs do not have the quality of Dead Flowers, Brown Sugar, Loving Cup etc. - since decades. Just watched the 1st O2 2012 show on DVD - the two new songs are the weakest of the show, by far. The only other track that isn't very old, Out Of Control, is the 3rd weakest.