Ian Billen wrote on May 18
th, 2008 at 6:07am:
I have an interesting question that may even be a bit of trivia. Of all the shows Stones have performed over the years was there ever a concert in which they had to stop performing for whatever reason and actually stop the show permanently? Such as say sudden illness or technical issues which prevented the show from going on any further?
We all know at Altmont this happend....and we all know what happened there.... Yikes! But was there ever another show in which they actually had to pull-out after actually hitting the stage and starting their set for one reason or another? Or was Altmont the single, only one in which such a scenario occurred?
I have no recollection of any other show this happened.
Ian
As Jizzy said, they finished the show at Altamont. In fact, aside from the interruptions, it was a longer show than what they normally played on that tour. They never even left the stage, but two songs were restarted.
Plenty of shows in the mid 60's were abandoned. Several of them very famous ones, and some of them have been filmed.
The most obvious one I can think of from 1964 was the infamous Kurhaus show at Scheveningen near The Hague (their first show overseas) on 8.8.64. There's plenty of riot footage of that one. It lasted about 4 songs.
Similarly the show in Blackpool on 25.7.64 saw the Stones run for their lives after the crowd rioted (not helped by Keith kicking one of them in the face for spitting at Brian) and a show here in Belfast six days later which ended after 4 songs when the police ordered the Stones to stop as the crowd's behaviour was out of control. Several girls were carried out of the Ulster hall in straightjackets. Yet, the Stones played a show 30 miles north in Ballymena later the same evening which passed off without incident.
The 1966 Royal Albert Hall show was also abandoned after about 20 minutes due to a riot (immortalised in the 'Have You Seen your Mother' promo video), - for some reason the 'Got Live if you want it' LP was trumpeted by Decca as having been taken from that show, which wasnt the case for the most part. The RAH banned rock concerts for a very long time after that incident.