Regarding the 1st show at 5 PM:
Was it really "reserved for French fans"?



By the way, this poster was
transformed to art and was auctioned
for € 23.400!

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I remember there was a French train with fans to Brussels 73 and here's the translation of a French site:

Belgium and its National Forest are present in the book. Indeed, the 1973 concert is listed there. You learn different things there. That the RTL France station had reserved an entire train for its listeners for a second Stones date in Brussels. Concert reserved only for the French public. Why ? Let's say that between the hexagonal police and Keith Richards it was not great love at the time… The author describes the concert of October 17, 1973 in these terms. Brussels is burning, Keith in Nero mode, Mick Taylor who stirs up the flames and the other Mick dancing in the middle of the blaze. A one-and-a-half-hour mirage, from which you come out emptied, already wanting to relive it one day, just to try to understand how it works.

50 concerts mythiques des Rolling Stones passés au cribleparismatch.be › Culture › Littérature

[youtu.be]



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French fans exclusive? That sounds strange to me.
I know the European tour 1973 didn’t include any date in France (the story goes that Keith’s earlier drug bust was a problem), and it is understandable if the bulk of the tickets for that one show were released to the people with French nationality on a priority basis to make up for the lack of the shows over there...but no Belgian fans (or non-French fans for that matter) allowed to be in? That’s hard to understand.

Hopefully someone with sufficient information sheds a light on the matter.

IMHO that only means that tickets were sold only in french outlet.



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..Yes , with a special train coming from Paris (and back) to the concert in Belgium...

All Fans Matter!

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ds1984
IMHO that only means that tickets were sold only in french outlet.

Well, that as a matter of fact means you can’t buy a ticket unless you are French or a foreigner who lives in France by chance.

And...the noises you hear the audience make from the first show are of French fans for the most part if not all? In the Belgian capital? Sounds odd.

Some more Brussels 73 info translated:


An exceptional-scale operation: two special Paris-Brussels trains, two “Rock and roll express” plus dozens of coaches, motorcycles and cars poured the French public onto the concert venue. *** Mariella Righini, Le Nouvel Observer. Oct. 1973.


1973, Keith interdit en France... Bruxelles, le rock n'roll express...therollingstones-passionnement.over-blog.com › ...

Authentic inscription for train rtl
[www.cjoint.com]

Authentic inscription for train rtl
[www.cjoint.com]

Thank for this, i guess i got the same somewhere.

I was "hired" by RTL/SpectacleClub to control the tickets in the train.
We wore yellow sweat shirt with a red RTL LOGO.
As i was under 18 at that time, it was my only solution to go there!

Two trains in fact : around 2500 people by train + people coming fom Lille and Reims.
The Forest National was something like 7000 attendance.
So yes, 90% of the people were french for the 1st show.

Outside, after the show, people were waiting to go in.
Policemen on horses!!! Something very new for me.

I remember someone selling a tix for the 2nd show.
i hesitated a couple of minutes : i could pay but with no money to come back to Paris. HitchHike in the middle of the night ?

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marclaff
Two trains in fact : around 2500 people by train + people coming fom Lille and Reims.
The Forest National was something like 7000 attendance.
So yes, 90% of the people were french for the 1st show.

How strange.
Brussels, October 17, 1973 shows are legendary. And some say the first show is better of the two. That Midnight Rambler.
After all these years, it has turned out that the majority of the audience was French, not Belgian. From now on, we should remark that when talking about this show, this recording.

Brussels Affair...that was almost French Affair in terms of the Bootleg version that spawned the legend.

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JMARCOU
Authentic inscription for train rtl
[www.cjoint.com]

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