Happy Birthday MICK JAGGER!

[Bennyboy]

Micks birthday 78. Some Girls Tour at the Oakland Coll, with Peter Tosh and Santana.

We all loaded into my van and head off. We get to Vacaville and the fucking van breaks down. Just stops running. In the middle of the night. My G/F decides fuck it, she is going home so she starts walking towards the bus station. Me and the rest of the crew are like, lets find a ride so we go to the all night restaurant, find people with Stones shirts on and get a ride right away.

We got there really early and got right up front. Riding the rail. Peter Tosh comes out and kills. At the end of his set he throws spliffs out into the crowd. I make like Bill Russell, and jump up and grab the spliff right out of the grasp of a thousand others. Big old fatty. I stick that fucker in my pocket for later.

Somewhere along the line I drop a couple of hits of windowpane and I am grooving. Right before Santana comes on I decide I have had enough of the front for now so I head for the top of the stadium. I am really starting to get off good now, so I find a seat by myself at the very top of the stadium and kick back. I bust out the joint and puff it down. Couple of hits here and a couple of hits there. All the while Santana is onstage. By the time they finish I am fucking flying. Tripping balls.

I head back up front but try to keep the stage in view. As I reached the floor, there was a tightrope walker walking a wire between the scoreboards. One of those thing you don't want to see, but can't take you eyes off of. Really windy too.

I make my way to my friends, who have moved back a ways from the rail. Once the tightrope guy gets about halfway 6 large helicopters lift off from backstage and begin circling the stadium. Everyone thinks it is the band. When the tightrope walker gets to the other side, about 20 trapeze artists appear on stage. And the helicopters open their doors and bazillions of multi-colored ping pong balls pour down on the crowd, at the same time a bazillion multi colored ballooons stationed all over the venue are unleashed. FUCKING INCREDIBLE. I was peaking out huge.

the best five minutes ever. The Stones kicked some serious ass that day too.

But nothing will ever come close to that balloon drop.

[redwitch]

1. Jeebus I thought Mick Jagger was younger than 78.

:P

[Bennyboy]

2. He is 65....I should have been a little clearer on the that.......

The story is about 1978 tour.

[GCP]

4. LOL, that's what I thought

He moves pretty well for a 78 year old! :P

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. dude

good story :smoke:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. I was BAWN...in a cross fah hurh CAYYYYYYYN...

...lather, rinse, repeat.

"J.J.F." was one of those life-changing songs for me...it was the moment when the Stones stepped out of the shadow of Chess Studios and came up with something of their own that was terrifying and so new that I listened to it about a million times to make sure it was real. It was.

This is a scan from my picture sleeve of the original 45, buried somewhere in my boxes of unpacked stuff from moves in recent years:



:toast:

ON EDIT: The "B" side, "Child Of The Moon," is a certified lost classic. It appeared on "Hot Rocks 2 (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)" and the London singles box set, and that's it. I'll never understand why it wasn't a hit on its own. It was like an early version of the tracks that would end up on "Sticky Fingers" like "Wild Horses" and "Dead Flowers"...just with a little less Gram Parsons influence.

[redwitch]

6. The Stones were incredible. They were so BAD, ya know?

I saw the 1972 Exile on Main Street show in Philly. Brother and I were reminiscing about it tonight. Quite a show!

And I love "Child of the Moon"! :hi:

1972 was 36 years ago. Holy shit. I was 15. Sigh.

[Bennyboy]

8. I saw "Exile" tour at Winterland

And I was at Altamont, And "It's Only Rock and Roll" (Jagger on a huge flying dildo over the crowd to enter) and every other tour. Not my favorite band, but they always brought it every time.

I f I could be anyone for a while I think I would like to be Mick. He hangs with Kings and Queens, and gutter bums, and Starfuckers all at the same time.

[Danger Mouse]

9. Jumpin' Jack Flash...one of their best songs.

[kwassa]

7. I saw the Stones on that tour in Masonic Hall in Detroit

July 6, 1978

They did small unannounced concerts, until the day of the ticket sale. Masonic Hall only held about 5,000, small for the Stones.

I got front row balcony seats in the hall for $10 a ticket. This was like an opera house, with balconies close to the stage.

The Stones came out full tilt, and were amazing.

now, acid is another subject altogether .....