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BY GARY GALBRAITH (with Gerardo Liedo)

1973 WINTER TOUR

Western Springs Stadium, Auckland, NZ – 11^th February 1973 – Last tour with Nicky Hopkins

Winter Tour 1973 Overview

The Stones spent the final month of 1972 recording tracks for ‘Goats Head Soup’ in Jamaica before breaking for Christmas. Mick Jagger’s plans for a quiet seasonal break with his wife ended on 23^rd December when a devastating earthquake struck Bianca’s home city of Managua and the shocked couple flew to the Nicaraguan capital where they managed to find her mother amongst the ruins as well as help distribute typhoid injections and medical supplies to the survivors. A hastily arranged benefit concert at the Los Angeles Forum was duly set up for January 18^th ahead of a ‘winter tour’ which was scheduled to take in shows in Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia.

Unfortunately, the Far East part of the tour had to be cancelled as Jagger’s previous drug conviction resulted in him being denied a visa to enter Japan. Initially the band were also denied work permits to visit Australia (feel free to insert your own ironic joke about Australia and English convicts) although this was rescinded a few days later. Nevertheless, this resulted in a three-week gap in the tour schedule, part of which the band spent back in Los Angeles working on more recording sessions before flying down under to play ten shows, all of which took place outdoors in the middle of the scorching antipodean summer in a mix of tennis, rugby, cricket and horseracing venues.

The 14 shows performed in January-February find the band still on top form and recordings of all of the shows circulate (most of them complete) in varying quality from poor audience to excellent soundboard recordings. Whilst the early part of the tour in the US contains the more interesting setlists, the band were probably peaking by the time they hit the home straight in Sydney and (especially) Perth.

Number of shows – 14

Number of shows in circulation - 14

Recommended shows – the soundboard recordings from Perth and both Sydney and the audience recording of the first Honolulu show.

Personnel – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman with Nicky Hopkins (piano), Bobby Keys (sax), Jim Price (trumpet/trombone) and occasionally Ian Stewart (piano)

Concert Listing

No.	Date	City	State/Country	Venue	Notes
1	18-Jan	Los Angeles	California	The Forum	Nicaraguan Benefit Concert
2	21-Jan	Honolulu	Hawaii	Honolulu International Center
3	22-Jan	Honolulu	Hawaii	Honolulu International Center	Early Show
4	22-Jan	Honolulu	Hawaii	Honolulu International Center	Late Show
5	11-Feb	Auckland	New Zealand	Western Springs Stadium
6	14-Feb	Brisbane	Australia	Milton Park Tennis Courts
7	17-Feb	Melbourne	Australia	Kooyong Tennis Courts	Early Show
8	17-Feb	Melbourne	Australia	Kooyong Tennis Courts	Late Show
9	18-Feb	Melbourne	Australia	Kooyong Tennis Courts
10	20-Feb	Adelaide	Australia	Memorial Drive Park
11	21-Feb	Adelaide	Australia	Memorial Drive Park
12	24-Feb	Perth	Australia	Western Australia Cricket Ground
13	26-Feb	Sydney	Australia	Royal Randwick Racecourse
14	27-Feb	Sydney	Australia	Royal Randwick Racecourse

SETLISTS

	18-Jan	21-Jan	22-Jan (early show)	22-Jan (late show)
	Los Angeles, Ca	Honolulu, HI	Honolulu, HI	Honolulu, HI

1	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar
2	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch
3	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	Rocks Off
4	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter
5	Route 66	It’s All Over Now	It’s All Over Now	It’s All Over Now
6	It’s All Over Now	Happy	Happy	Happy
7	Happy	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice
8	Tumbling Dice	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia
9	No Expectations	Dead Flowers	Dead Flowers	Dead Flowers
10	Sweet Virginia	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want
11	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	All Down The Line	All Down The Line	All Down The Line
12	Dead Flowers	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler
13	Stray Cat Blues	Live With Me	Rip This Joint	Rip This Joint
14	Live With Me	Rip This Joint	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash
15	All Down The Line	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man
16	Rip This Joint	Street Fighting Man
17	Jumpin’ Jack Flash
18	Street Fighting Man
19	Midnight Rambler

	Nicaraguan Benefit Concert
	Circulating recording only includes
	songs 1-18.
	Jose Areas (congas) on song 11
	Song 5 last played June ‘65. Song 6
	last played 22.1.67. Song 9 last played
	at Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus 11.12.68

	11-Feb	14-Feb	17-Feb (early show)	17-Feb (late show)	18-Feb
	Auckland, New Zealand	Brisbane, Australia	Melbourne, Australia	Melbourne, Australia	Melbourne, Australia

1	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	1
2	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	2
3	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	3
4	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	4
5	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	5
6	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	6
7	Love In Vain	Love In Vain	Love In Vain	Love In Vain	Love In Vain	7
8	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	8
9	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	9
10	All Down The Line	All Down The Line	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	10
11	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	All Down The Line	All Down The Line	All Down The Line	11
12	Rip This Joint	Bye Bye Johnny	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	12
13	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Rip This Joint	Bye Bye Johnny	Bye Bye Johnny	Bye Bye Johnny	13
14	Street Fighting Man	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	14
15		Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	15

	Percussion by a member of ITAMBU			Probable setlist.
	(the show’s opening act) on some songs			Circulating recording only features
				songs 1-2 and 6-11.

	20-Feb	21-Feb	24-Feb	26-Feb	27-Feb
	Adelaide, Australia	Adelaide, Australia	Perth, Australia	Sydney, Australia	Sydney, Australia

1	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	1
2	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	2
3	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	Rocks Off	3
4	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	4
5	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	5
6	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	6
7	Love In Vain	Love In Vain	Love In Vain	Love In Vain	Love In Vain	7
8	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	Sweet Virginia	8
9	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	9
10	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	10
11	All Down The Line	All Down The Line	All Down The Line	All Down The Line	All Down The Line	11
12	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	12
13	Bye Bye Johnny	Little Queenie	Little Queenie	Little Queenie	Little Queenie	13
14	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Rip This Joint	Rip This Joint	14
15	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	15
16				Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	16

		Circulating recording only features songs	Probable setlist
		1-6 and 8-15. ‘Love In Vain’ appears to	Circulating recording (soundboard source)
		have been played as after song 6 Mick	only features songs 1-6 and 10-13
		introduces the next song as ‘a blues’	The band also sing ‘Happy Birthday To
		then theres a slight cut before he	You’ to Nicky Hopkins during the intros
		then introduces ‘Sweet Virginia’	before ‘Little Queenie’

SONGS PERFORMED ON THIS TOUR (23)

No.of concerts = 15

All Down The Line
Bitch
Brown Sugar
Bye Bye Johnny	5 shows only
Dead Flowers	L.A. & Honolulu only
Gimme Shelter
Happy
Honky Tonk Women	last 8 shows only
It's All Over Now	L.A. & Honolulu only
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Little Queenie	last 4 shows only
Live With Me	18 & 21.1.73 only
Love In Vain
Midnight Rambler	not played only on 18.1.73
No Expectations	18.1.73 only
Rip This Joint	9 shows only
Rocks Off
Route 66	18.1.73 only
Stray Cat BLues	18.1.73 only
Street Fighting Man
Sweet Virginia
Tumbling Dice
You Can't Always Get