Rev 20 Redlights
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1) do i have any way of ascertaining which of the four MSG shows was the best? or the craziest? Nope. I have no idea what boots exist, and don't care
2) I do know that bianca and woody allen were talking about my show, the afternoon show
3) From my small hometown in NJ, twenty of us attended. We each had promised to send in 20 postcards. there were 2 million postcards sent in for 80,000 tickets, 4 tiks per winner, 20 thousand winners, about a 1% chance, so our 5 winners was only slightly better than chance. The only slightly strange thing was that all our 5 winners got the afternoon show. But this was fortunate since all 20 of us got to go, nobody could try to go to two shows
4) what do i remember about the music? two things: how incredibly tight the band was, and how mick taylor just soared over everything. it blew my mind how creative and melodic he could be in the middle of the maelstrom. (for the record, i've since changed my mind quite a bit, and now much prefer ronnie's integral approach. but on that day in July 72...)
5) when the Stones finished, the crowd stomped and cheered and begged for an encore for a good 15 minutes. the lights were up, guys with brooms were onstage sweeping up the rose petals, and still we cheered ourselves hoarse. and even though we didnt get an encore, NOBODY felt cheated. even after we gave up, many of us still sat there, trying to absorb the experience, before slowly filing out, shaking our heads in awe.
6) and it was that way at a party that night, where we who attended the show were about half the partiers. Just shaking our heads and laughing.
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