Lost Opportunities 1973
Date: October 15, 2006 23:49
I was reading an old Rolling Stone Magazine article from early 1973. I never realized that they had planned to do 7 consecutive shows at the Budokan in Japan, before being denied visas b/c of Mick's drug bust. Mick says: "we had a lot of different shows for Japan; we were just building up for that. We were going to do seven shows in one place -- we've never done that before -- and by the time you've done three or four, there's all kinds of things you can do, @#$%& around. I was going to cook popcorn, hundreds of things, we really mad, had it all going . . but it needed two weeks rehearsal . . . " I'm not sure whether he's talking about songs or stage gimmicks, but I wonder if they would have mixed it up there, and whether there would have been a monster live album recorded? They had a lot of incentive to do so, since ABKCO was preventing the release of the planned double live album (w/Stevie Wonder) by withholding their consent on the pre-Sticky Fingers material.