THE "ROCKS OFF" ROLLING
STONES SETLISTS PAGE
BY GARY GALBRAITH (with Gerardo
Liedo)
1978 USA TOUR
Playing "Far Away Eyes"
Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, OH - July 1, 1978 © scanned from a slide with
special thanks to our regular Moyette Meyran (moy)
1978 US Tour
Overview
The Stones opened 1977 by deciding to play a series of
five club dates at Toronto’s El Mocambo Tavern in March 1977, which were to be recorded
for the upcoming live album. Plans were thrown into disarray when rehearsal
time was reduced by Keith arriving in Canada a few days late and made even
worse when a couple of days later he and Anita Pallenberg were busted in their
hotel suite by the Mounties who found enough heroin to charge him not only with
possession but trafficking, a charge which saw him facing several years in jail
and which would almost certainly spell the end of the Stones as a band. Released on bail, he re-joined the band for
rehearsals for the shows which were now reduced in number to just a couple of
dates. Somehow amidst all the chaos, the band managed to rise to the occasion
and delivered two superb performances – the four covers included on ‘Love You
Live’ are the highlights of the entire double album and the surviving partial
soundboard of one of those shows (almost certainly the second night – rumour
has it, the tapes from the first show were unusable) shows the band at their
ragged best. On fan forums over the years, these shows seem to be at the top of
fans’ Wishlist for a vault release. Hopefully someday the Stones organisation
will see sense and put them out officially.
With Keith’s day in court looming ominously on the
horizon for 1978, the band spent two months either side of Christmas in Paris
working on over 40 new songs which would be whittled down to the ten that would
be released on ‘Some Girls’ in June 1978 as well as stockpiling others for
future use. Their finest work in years, it would become their biggest selling
studio album. The band promoted it with a relatively short summer tour around
the US (Canada was unsurprisingly left off the schedule) which took in 25
shows, all but one of them one nighters, in what seemed a random mix of
theatres, arenas and stadiums. It made for a strange schedule with the sole New
York date being a show at the Palladium in front of 3,500 whereas a few weeks
later they played to 60,000 in the small university town of Boulder, Colorado.
The shows saw a return to a stripped-down pure rock
‘n’ roll sound which saw Mick added on guitar for several songs as the Stones
ran through a high-octane set which was usually around 18-19 songs, clocking in
around 85-90 minutes and which on most nights featured up to eight songs from
the new album, most of them played back-to-back around the middle of the
concert. Other than four performances of
‘Satisfaction’, the shows featured no Stones songs that pre-dated 1968 and the
previous three studio albums were ignored entirely save for ‘Starfucker’ from
Goat’s Head Soup. Two Chuck Berry songs
were performed regularly, with a raucous performance of ‘Hound Dog’ being added
in Memphis (naturally) and Lexington. The remainder of the set consisted of
half a dozen numbers from the ‘Golden Era’ of 1968-72 plus an occasional
‘Street Fighting Man’ as an encore. Audience recordings vary from awful to very
good, but fortunately the tour is well represented in the form of the 2011
archive release of the ‘Some Girls Live in Texas’ DVD and CD from the show in
Fort Worth as well as a few astounding King Biscuit Flower Hour FM broadcasts
showcasing excerpts from the concerts in Memphis, Lexington, Detroit and
Houston. Additionally, there is a superb
soundboard from the Capitol Theatre show in Passaic near the start of the tour
which is complete apart from the last couple of minutes of the final song
(legend has it, that the taper was ‘caught in the act’ but managed to pull his
c-90 cassette out of the mixing desk just in time before hotfooting it out of
the theatre).
Number of shows – 25
Number of shows in circulation – 25 (most of them
complete)
Recommended shows – other than the officially released
show from Fort Worth (18th July), any bootleg release which includes
the KBFH (King Biscuit Flower Hour) FM performances mentioned above (“Gorgeous
Girls Redux” and “Handsome Girls” are two of the best known titles) are
essential, as is the soundboard from Passaic (14th June). Of the audience recordings, the best one is
Oakland (26th July).
Personnel - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie
Watts, Ronnie Wood and Bill Wyman with Ian Stewart on piano and Ian McLagan on
keyboards.
Concert
Listing
No. |
Date |
City |
State |
Venue |
1 |
10-Jun |
Lakeland |
Florida |
Civic Center |
2 |
12-Jun |
Atlanta |
Georgia |
Fox Theater |
3 |
14-Jun |
Passaic |
New Jersey |
Capitol Theatre |
4 |
15-Jun |
Washington |
District of Columbia |
Warner Theatre |
5 |
17-Jun |
Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania |
JFK Stadium |
6 |
19-Jun |
New York City |
New York |
Palladium |
7 |
21-Jun |
Hampton Roads |
Virginia |
Hampton Roads Coliseum |
8 |
22-Jun |
Myrtle Beach |
South Carolina |
Convention Center |
9 |
26-Jun |
Greensboro |
North Carolina |
War Memorial Coliseum |
10 |
28-Jun |
Memphis |
Tennessee |
Mid-South Coliseum |
11 |
29-Jun |
Lexington |
Kentucky |
Rupp Arena |
12 |
1-Jul |
Cleveland |
Ohio |
Municipal Auditorium |
13 |
4-Jul |
Buffalo |
New York |
Rich Stadium |
14 |
6-Jul |
Detroit |
Michigan |
Masonic Temple |
15 |
8-Jul |
Chicago |
Illinois |
Soldier Field |
16 |
10-Jul |
St. Paul |
Minnesota |
Civic Center |
17 |
11-Jul |
St. Louis |
Missouri |
Kiel Opera House |
18 |
13-Jul |
New Orleans |
Louisiana |
Superdome |
19 |
16-Jul |
Boulder |
Colorado |
Folsom Field |
20 |
18-Jul |
Fort Worth |
Texas |
Will Rogers Auditorium |
21 |
19-Jul |
Houston |
Texas |
Sam Houston Coliseum |
22 |
21-Jul |
Tucson |
Arizona |
Community Center |
23 |
23-Jul |
Anaheim |
California |
Anaheim Stadium |
24 |
24-Jul |
Anaheim |
California |
Anaheim Stadium |
25 |
26-Jul |
Oakland |
California |
Alameda County Coliseum |
SETLISTS
10-Jun |
12-Jun |
14-Jun |
15-Jun |
17-Jun |
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Lakeland, Fl |
Atlanta, Ga |
Passaic, NJ |
Washington, DC |
Philadelphia, Pa |
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1 |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
1 |
2 |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
2 |
3 |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
3 |
4 |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
4 |
5 |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
Lies |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
5 |
6 |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Just My Imagination |
Miss You |
6 |
7 |
Beast Of Burden |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
Just My Imagination |
Miss You |
Just My Imagination |
7 |
8 |
Respectable |
Beast Of Burden |
Lies |
Respectable |
Respectable |
8 |
9 |
Far Away Eyes |
Just My Imagination |
Beast Of Burden |
Far Away Eyes |
Beast Of Burden |
9 |
10 |
Love In Vain |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Love In Vain |
Far Away Eyes |
10 |
11 |
Shattered |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Shattered |
Love In Vain |
11 |
12 |
Tumbling Dice |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Shattered |
12 |
13 |
Happy |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Tumbling Dice |
Satisfaction |
13 |
14 |
Brown Sugar |
Tumbling Dice |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Happy |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
14 |
15 |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Happy |
Tumbling Dice |
Brown Sugar |
Tumbling Dice |
15 |
16 |
Street Fighting Man |
Brown Sugar |
Happy |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Happy |
16 |
17 |
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Brown Sugar |
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Brown Sugar |
17 |
18 |
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
18 |
19 |
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Street Fighting Man |
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19 |
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Live debuts
for songs 5-9 and 11 |
Live debuts for songs 5 & 9. |
Song 14
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Secret
warm-up gig, with the Stones being |
Secret
warm-up gig, with the Stones being |
this is the
first performance where audio |
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billed as
“The Great South-East Stoned-Out |
billed as “The Cockroaches” |
exists of it |
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Wrestling Champions” |
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19-Jun |
21-Jun |
22-Jun |
26-Jun |
28-Jun |
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New York City, NY |
Hampton Roads, Va |
Myrtle Beach, SC |
Greensboro, NC |
Memphis, Tn |
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1 |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
1 |
2 |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
2 |
3 |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
3 |
4 |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
4 |
5 |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
Lies |
Lies |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
5 |
6 |
Respectable |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
6 |
7 |
Miss You |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
Lies |
Lies |
7 |
8 |
Just My Imagination |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
8 |
9 |
Far Away Eyes |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
9 |
10 |
Love In Vain |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
10 |
11 |
Beast Of Burden |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
11 |
12 |
Shattered |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
12 |
13 |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Shattered |
13 |
14 |
Tumbling Dice |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Hound Dog |
14 |
15 |
Happy |
Tumbling Dice |
Happy |
Happy |
Tumbling Dice |
15 |
16 |
Brown Sugar |
Happy |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Happy |
16 |
17 |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
17 |
18 |
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Brown Sugar |
18 |
19 |
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
19 |
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Mick Jagger
also guested on ‘Don’t Look |
Mick Jagger
also guested on ‘Don’t Look |
Mick Jagger
also guested on ‘Don’t Look |
Circulating
recording does not include |
Live debut for song 14 |
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Back’ on
opening act Peter Tosh’s set |
Back’ on
opening act Peter Tosh’s set |
Back’ on
opening act Peter Tosh’s set |
songs 1-2. |
Songs 13 &
14 aired on various KBFH FM |
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29-Jun |
1-Jul |
4-Jul |
6-Jul |
8-Jul |
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Lexington, Ky |
Cleveland, Ohio |
Buffalo, NY |
Detroit, Mi |
Chicago, Il |
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1 |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
1 |
2 |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
2 |
3 |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
3 |
4 |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
4 |
5 |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
5 |
6 |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Lies |
Lies |
Lies |
6 |
7 |
Lies |
Lies |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
7 |
8 |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
8 |
9 |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
9 |
10 |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Shattered |
10 |
11 |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
11 |
12 |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
12 |
13 |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
13 |
14 |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
14 |
15 |
Happy |
Happy |
Happy |
Happy |
Happy |
15 |
16 |
Hound Dog |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
16 |
17 |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
17 |
18 |
Brown Sugar |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
18 |
19 |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
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Satisfaction |
19 |
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Songs 6-12
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Song 5
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broadcasts taken from the tour. |
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“Sucking In
The Seventies” in March 1981. |
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With
special guest Eddie Money (sax) on |
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1,5,7,9,13-15 aired on various KBFH |
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song 6. |
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10-Jul |
11-Jul |
13-Jul |
16-Jul |
18-Jul |
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St. Paul, Mn |
St Louis, Mo |
New Orleans, La |
Boulder, Co |
Fort Worth, Tx |
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1 |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
1 |
2 |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
2 |
3 |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
3 |
4 |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
4 |
5 |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
5 |
6 |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
6 |
7 |
Lies |
Lies |
Lies |
Lies |
Miss You |
7 |
8 |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Just My Imagination |
8 |
9 |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Shattered |
9 |
10 |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Respectable |
10 |
11 |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Far Away Eyes |
11 |
12 |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Love In Vain |
12 |
13 |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Tumbling Dice |
13 |
14 |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Happy |
14 |
15 |
Happy |
Happy |
Happy |
Happy |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
15 |
16 |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Brown Sugar |
16 |
17 |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
17 |
18 |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
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19 |
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Street Fighting Man |
Satisfaction |
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Probable setlist. Circulating recordings |
Probable setlist. Circulating recordings |
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Probable setlist. Circulating recordings |
with
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only includes songs 1-14. |
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on song 11 |
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Mick Jagger
also guested on ‘Don’t Look |
Mick Jagger
also guested on ‘Don’t Look |
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Full show
released on “Some Girls Live |
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Back’ on
opening act Peter Tosh’s set |
Back’ on
opening act Peter Tosh’s set |
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In Texas”
movie, October 2011 and then on |
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19-Jul |
21-Jul |
23-Jul |
24-Jul |
26-Jul |
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Houston, Tx. |
Tucson, Az. |
Anaheim, Ca. |
Anaheim, Ca. |
Oakland, Ca. |
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1 |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
Let It Rock |
1 |
2 |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
All Down The Line |
2 |
3 |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
Honky Tonk Women |
3 |
4 |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
Star Star |
4 |
5 |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
When The
Whip Comes Down |
5 |
6 |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
Beast Of Burden |
6 |
7 |
Lies |
Lies |
Lies |
Lies |
Lies |
7 |
8 |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
Miss You |
8 |
9 |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
Just My Imagination |
9 |
10 |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Shattered |
Shattered |
10 |
11 |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
Respectable |
11 |
12 |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
Far Away Eyes |
12 |
13 |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
Love In Vain |
13 |
14 |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
Tumbling Dice |
14 |
15 |
Happy |
Happy |
Happy |
Happy |
Happy |
15 |
16 |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
Sweet Little Sixteen |
16 |
17 |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
17 |
18 |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash |
18 |
19 |
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Satisfaction |
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Songs 2-4, 6-7, 11, 14-18 aired on various |
with
special guest Linda Ronstadt (vocals) |
with
special guests Nicky Hopkins (piano) |
with
special guests Nicky Hopkins (piano) |
with
special guests Bobby Keys (sax) |
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KBFH FM
radio broadcasts taken from the tour. |
on song 14. |
on songs 8 & 18. |
and Bobby
Keys (sax) on songs 8 & 18. |
on songs 6 & 8 |
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Mick Jagger
also guested on ‘Don’t Look |
Circulating
recordings only include songs |
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Back’ on
opening act Peter Tosh’s set |
1-17 |
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