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Excerpts from “ Making the Least of Paradise” By Ben Fong-Torres circa ’73.

 “The Rolling Stones are in Hawaii
Mick Jagger hoist his first glass of 1957 Chateau Margaux’ to a table of 29. “ To the shortest American tour in history,” he says The RS, the heart of their Pacific tour cut out when MJ was refused a Japanese visa because of his 1966 marijuana conviction. By the time dinner breaks up at 4 AM, the Stones will have rug up a bill of $1700, mostly because Mick cleaned out all the ’57 Chateau Marguax left in the cellar here at Nick’s Fish Market, something like 16 bottles at $85 a bottle plus other spirits and plenty of continental seafood, and yet it was kind of a high pointless night,


front of them Keith and Mick sitting together nearby almost formal in their quiet. Keith looked wasted; he still had some Charlie Watts and Mick Taylor smoking and drinking and chatting, ignoring the silver platters of hors d’oeuvres spread out in of his nasty, pasty dead-eye make-up on Mick’s was washed off, and he looked older, more fragile than he does on onstage.
  When he smiles he puts his whole face into the effort, teeth bursting up front over the famous labial lookalike lips, something a hand moving up to cover the throaty laughter while the eyes close or glisten child like. But here at 1:30 AM, he is yawning the hand keeps moving up.” At wo o’clock Tuesday he has finally awakend, and we’re about to kill tow birds ; let Mick have a good time and do a photo session. Jagger has been invited to take a crise on “The Flying Cloud” an 82 foot, restored 1929 schooner owned by George Walker, who came in fro Kona, 100 miles away to acocommodat Mick. Now the captain of the ship meets the RS. George prceeds to fill Mick on all the Hawwaiian legends…about Captain Cook and the Forbidden Isalnd of Niihau, and Mick takes it all in . Six miles out, Walker turns the Flying Cloud around and offers the wheel to Mick.


"The first leg Los Angeles and Hawaii shows got a greater variety than this, however, with "Dead Flowers" and "It's All Over Now" appearing in each show (the latter representing a rare Stones playing of an oldie in this era) and "Beggars Banquet" nuggets "No Expectations" and "Stray Cat Blues" making the odd face as well."
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