Received my copy last friday.
Superb job
Thanks for sharing Erwin.

I received my copy today and am very pleased. A beautiful work and very thorough. Lots of information.

Greetings from the Jersey Shore.

Received my copy from Erwin this week, I can’t recommend this enough, what a mine of information!
I’m going to enjoy reading this while listening to the available recordings of the shows, fantastic, get a copy while you can!

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In my humble opinion the Tourbook '72 is more than you may expect. It's one of a kind. Have searched for anybody who could tell something about what happened to them when the Stones came to town, in 1972. All the recordings have been compared and reviewed. Also info about the Unreleased live album is included. My hope is that the Stones will use my information for a future VR release of the whole tour.

This totally true, the book is a fantastic adventure following the complete tour of 1972 and more. Deep respect for all the time and research that went into this bible of that tour. This work deserves a great release and the writer a great compliment ! Wish there were books like this about every tour

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rolling1us said everything I wanted to say.
This book deserved at least a foreword by the Stones themselves.
Congratulations on this exhausting work and I wish you all the best Erwin.

Nice day to start reading or re-reading this fantastic guide
A really must to have Rolling Stones book.
Another thank you, Erwin Hoetjes.

Thanks again for your hard work on this! I read your recent email and believe your manuscript will find a place in the Stones history.

I received a copy from a very good friend for Christmas this year and all I can say is, what a fantastic collection of stories about the STP. Thanks for this hard work. Think I'll read this in every free minute.

Hi everybody,
Just recieved my Tourbook today from Erwin.
The Book is awesome , very beautiful, with lots of informations from the 72 tour.A must to have.Erwin is a really nice person and will be very helpful with you .
Congratulations to his incredible work on this Book.

Received the book today, ordered it last weekend. I forgot all about this book untill I read the " Which Stones Books Are Missing In My Collection" tread and I thought: " Fast ordering before it's gone!"

It looks realy great! Better than I could imagine and I will read it this weekend while listining to the " Philladelphia Special" boots.

If you don't have ordered it yet, don't be a fool, just do it and you won't regret it.



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Absolutely fantastic book.
Highly recommend buying it.
Great work, Erwin.

As a '72 tour veteran I still have hope that somebody with the resources to will work with Erwin and turn his labor of love into the basis for a formally published book. A lot of licensing for copyrighted content will need to be obtained, but enjoyment of this prodigious body of work should not be limited to a few hundred of us.

Thank you all for responding so kind. The responses have been overwhelming. I could write a book about it.

The chances for an official release are slim. Publishers will skip the bootleg section and most of the pictures. Then my purpose is lost. A thorough research in which the Stones find data about each show. The music, the pictures, the lore. You name it. Soon the test prints are no longer available.

My hope is/was leaning on our heroes themselves.
I have sent books to Bill and MT. Never received feedback.
Went to the Stones headoffice in Amsterdam by foot. It's 15 minutes walk from our company's office, downtown. Dressed up in suit with STP tie. Rang the bell, told I had a delivery. The buzz opened the door. Tried to find my way in the building. No signs from any of the multiple companies where, on which floor they were located. Asked someone where to find Promotone. She gave directions. Couldn't use the stairs had to use the elevator. When the door opened I knew I was on the right spot. A mancave like office. Stones Memorabilia everywhere. A big room with two girls working in a far corner. One of them had answered the door. I asked for Jan, the CEO. They directed me to a semi dark room in which Jan was sitting behind an old skool office desk.
I walked towards him. It was early June 2022. So I didn't put my right hand forward to shake, but introduced myself and asked few minutes of his time.
He looked startled to me and asked if I had an appointment. I said no, but I'm here to give you three books. One for you. One for Keith. And one for Mick.
There's great opportunities for the Stones to finally do this 72 tour right. I did this project in order to help you guys to show what the 72 tour was about. As recent interviews from the band on 1972 questions didn't give much hope.
He spoke a soft, restrained thank you and asked the girls to show me the way out.
Never heard anything back from him.
Or the others.

That's us diehard Stones fans faith. Ignored about our hunger for the past.
And still we love them very much.

Best Regards,
Erwin J. Hoetjes

No one can say you didn't try everything, Erwin.
As I read your account of the attempted contact, I was hoping it would at least end with a friendly response from the "bosses"... Nothing.
Shame.

Since I've had the book, I don't think a week has gone by that I haven't opened its pages for a quick scan: I always end up reading for an hour or more and listening to some bootleg from the tour.
Thanks again for your great work.

In CS Blues , there are snippets of songs from the 1972 tour.Robert Frank must have filmed the entire performances of these songs.Do you know whatever happened to this film?

Thx for sharing the story of visiting their office, Erwin! Reminded me of trying to peddle my screenplays without having an agent (one of which I even tried to get to Mick), often felt foolish doing so, but your story made me feel a bit better

And thanks so much for your work. I enjoy my copy very much.

Erwin, I still think that if you could find an avenue to get it into Thomas Tull's hands, there'd be a decent chance he'd be interested in making a project out of it. I doubt there's a billionaire in the world more passionate about the Stones than him, and if he found it interesting as a project he wouldn't care about expense, he'd just put people on it and order it done.

Watch his documentary It Might Get Loud. Watch the special features (on the bluray), they have more of Tull in them than in the documentary itself. He says he got his first choices of guitarists from each era in Jimmie Page, Edge, and Jack White. Producers always say "we got our first choices" even when they don't, and I don't believe Tull on 1/3 of that claim. Jimmie's incredible yes but I cannot believe the project didn't get a "pass" from Keith first.

He kept after the Stones anyway.

We all expect the Stones to tour again. There are going to be opening bands again...

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I'm down in Virginia
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Thank you for sharring your story, Erwin, you realy tried and got as far as you can, more you can't ask of yourself,

the only thing you can do now is when they are touring again next year (let's hope so!) waiting for them by the hotel and try to give the book with a personal letter inside to one of them, maybe Ronnie is the best option and he will give it for sure for reading to the others.

CS Blues might be still under a Stones ban. There's other threads on iorr who said it all.
Other Robert Frank Snippets (than those from CS Blues) have been used in the Crossfire Hurricane docu. Personally I judge that Frank and Danny didn't film entire performances. Just snippets.

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Thank you for sharring your story, Erwin, you realy tried and got as far as you can, more you can't ask of yourself,

the only thing you can do now is when they are touring again next year (let's hope so!) waiting for them by the hotel and try to give the book with a personal letter inside to one of them, maybe Ronnie is the best option and he will give it for sure for reading to the others.

Last time around I saw Ronnie smoking on the balcony of the Amstel Hotel. I shouted his name and we waved. Ofcourse I didn't have a copy of the manuscript with me...

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Erwin, I still think that if you could find an avenue to get it into Thomas Tull's hands, there'd be a decent chance he'd be interested in making a project out of it. I doubt there's a billionaire in the world more passionate about the Stones than him, and if he found it interesting as a project he wouldn't care about expense, he'd just put people on it and order it done.

Watch his documentary It Might Get Loud. Watch the special features (on the bluray), they have more of Tull in them than in the documentary itself. He says he got his first choices of guitarists from each era in Jimmie Page, Edge, and Jack White. Producers always say "we got our first choices" even when they don't, and I don't believe Tull on 1/3 of that claim. Jimmie's incredible yes but I cannot believe the project didn't get a "pass" from Keith first.

He kept after the Stones anyway.

We all expect the Stones to tour again. There are going to be opening bands again...

[en.m.wikipedia.org]

Tried to connect with Tull at LinkedIn but he never responded. Anybody any leads?