Gazza
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They only played it at the Marquee in 1971, after the tour ended. It was never played again until Hartford in 1999.
Quite a few songs were only tried once or twice in 1971 before being dropped.
The thing to remember though is that in 1971 they were only playing for about an hour and were mostly playing songs from several albums that they hadnt played before in the UK. This was the first time theyd played UK dates outside London for five years (Hyde Park plus a couple of dates in London ballrooms at Christmas '69 being their only UK dates in that time) and 'Sticky Fingers' didnt even come out until about a month after the tour had ended.
If you were a UK fan, unless you'd seen the Stones in Hyde Park in 1969, the only song you'd probably seen them play live before that was in their 1971 set was 'Satisfaction'. So they didnt really feel the need to rehearse or perform that many of the new songs.
It was excellent in 1999. I was at that Hartford show and it was an unforgettable moment. Saw them do it again at Shepherds Bush about ten weeks later - I think that was the last performance of it until the Fonda Theatre club show last month.
I think they'll do all the SF songs on the stadium tour eventually. Cant be too many left now that they havent tried yet.
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