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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

Lakeland, Fl

Atlanta, Ga

Passaic, NJ

Washington, DC

Philadelphia, Pa

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Brown Sugar

 

Brown Sugar

17

18

 

 

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

 

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

18

19

 

 

Street Fighting Man

 

 

19

 

 

 

 

 

Live debuts for songs 5-9 and 11

Live debuts for songs 5 & 9.

Song 14 last performed in 1963, although

 

 

Secret warm-up gig, with the Stones being

Secret warm-up gig, with the Stones being

this is the first performance where audio

 

 

billed as “The Great South-East Stoned-Out

billed as “The Cockroaches”

exists of it

 

 

Wrestling Champions”

 

 

 

 

19-Jun

21-Jun

22-Jun

26-Jun

28-Jun

New York City, NY

Hampton Roads, Va

Myrtle Beach, SC

Greensboro, NC

Memphis, Tn

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Brown Sugar

18

19

 

 

 

 

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

19

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

radio broadcasts taken from the tour.

 

 

 

 

 

29-Jun

1-Jul

4-Jul

6-Jul

8-Jul

Lexington, Ky

Cleveland, Ohio

Buffalo, NY

Detroit, Mi

Chicago, Il

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Satisfaction

19

 

 

 

 

 

Songs 6-12 and 17-19 aired on various KBFH

 

 

Song 5 released (in edited form) on

 

FM radio broadcasts taken from the tour.

 

 

“Sucking In The Seventies” in March 1981.

 

With special guest Eddie Money (sax) on

 

 

Songs 1,5,7,9,13-15 aired on various KBFH

 

song 6.

 

 

FM radio broadcasts taken from the tour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

10-Jul

11-Jul

13-Jul

16-Jul

18-Jul

St. Paul, Mn

St Louis, Mo

New Orleans, La

Boulder, Co

Fort Worth, Tx

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

18

19

 

 

Street Fighting Man

Satisfaction

 

19

 

 

 

 

 

Probable setlist. Circulating recordings

Probable setlist. Circulating recordings

 

Probable setlist. Circulating recordings

with special guest Doug Kershaw (fiddle)

only include songs 1-17

only includes songs 1-14.

 

only includes songs 6-19

on song 11

Mick Jagger also guested on ‘Don’t Look

Mick Jagger also guested on ‘Don’t Look

 

 

Full show released on “Some Girls Live

Back’ on opening act Peter Tosh’s set

Back’ on opening act Peter Tosh’s set

 

 

In Texas” movie, October 2011 and then on

 

 

 

 

“Some Girls Live In Texas ‘78” DVD & CD,

 

 

 

 

nov 2011

 

 

 

 

 

19-Jul

21-Jul

23-Jul

24-Jul

26-Jul

Houston, Tx.

Tucson, Az.

Anaheim, Ca.

Anaheim, Ca.

Oakland, Ca.

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Satisfaction

19

 

 

 

 

 

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)

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

Mick Jagger also guested on ‘Don’t Look

Circulating recordings only include songs

 

 

 

Back’ on opening act Peter Tosh’s set

1-17

 

 

 

 

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