http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiQSxqXJ49A&feature=related

And Jagger was right. His tour here was massive. I think he did 8 shows in Melbourne alone! At the time, and this was of course at the height of the Jagger/Richards mutual hatred, most of us thought we'd never see the real thing. Jagger, interviewed on our version of MTV was scathing of the Stones and Keith. Very dismissive. It was obvious this was hit "Stones are a millstone around my neck" phase. It was a terrible mistake for the Stones to ignore us for so long. They lost 2-3 generations of potential fans. Not touring here in 81-82 in particular really pissed me off!

Jagger's solo show was great though. I really enjoyed his solo stuff at the time. He brought those songs to life really well. I had great seats too. Simon Phillips is one of my all-time fave drummers and he was bloody fantastic! The terrible part was Jimmy Rip. Man, what a Keith clone! ANd that flat-chested chick with the "keytar" was woeful. The truly odd thing was Joe Satriani didnt impress me at all. His big solo was incredibly lame.

I was so delighted that only 1 year later, all was back to normal. However, i was really, really fucking pissed they didnt tour here with Steel Wheels. A terrible snub i thought. You'd think with the reception solo Jagger got, they'd be keen to come back. They would have broken records, and again, won over a new generation of fans.

Fuckers owe us!!

Gimme Shelter wrote on Aug 19^th, 2009 at 9:18pm:


I seem to recall that, too.

You heard the '88 version of CYHMK?  Try to keep it that way.