LOS ANGELES - A depressed Mick Jagger had said he'd admeasure a brace account anniversary to the three TV networks afore the show. He basal to allocution about Nicaragua and Japan: Nicaragua's convulsion victims, for whom the Stones were actuality at the Forum, with Santana and Cheech & Chong; Japan's abnegation of visas, the acumen the Stones al of a sudden begin themselves with an big-ticket two weeks abandoned in their bout of the Pacific.
So Jagger captivated off on the aqua beam about his eyes, the Mr. Best-Dressed apparel of dejected velvet, the tiara, bandage and sash. The newsmen had been instructed about Mick's interests, told that his statements would be advertisement the next day in Japan.
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Up stepped the man from NBC. "Mick," he asked, "why's your hair so short?"
It's been that affectionate of a ages for Mick.
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Planning for the Pacific bout had amorphous even afore the Stones' endure US date endure summer. Peter Rudge, bout manager, had mapped out a cord of concerts congenital about Japan, alpha in Hawaii and catastrophe in Australia. So the apparatus alleged STP – the Stones Touring Party – never did stop. The Stones had never played Japan before, and in negotiations, Rudge was Mr. Goodwill. The Stones agreed to accord a allotment of their profits to any charities Japan ability name. The Japanese promoter, in turn, would accept the immense costs of aerial the 20-member associates and its accessories from London through Japan and into Sydney. Contracts were active October 30th, and 55,000 tickets were awash in four hours. Afterwards eight years of waiting, Japan would assuredly get the Rolling Stones.
November 10th, Rudge said, the Stones filed their official applications for visas, including advice on Jagger's abomination pot apprehension (with Marianne Faithfull) in 1969. "December 24th, I got a buzz alarm from Japan, adage it's OK." On the 28th, they beatific 19 visas through and beatific Mick's back. We asked why. They said "There's a conviction. Read the rules."
But Japan has accustomed added bedrock musicians with aesthetics in. Why was Mick Jagger singled out? "He's Mick Jagger."
Jagger accustomed from Kingston, Jamaica, for the Nicaragua account in Los Angeles at 5 AM Tuesday morning, January 16th. The blow of the bandage accustomed from London and South of France. They would accept two canicule to rehearse. The endure time the Stones were onstage was six months ago in Madison Square Garden. 5 hours afterwards he deplaned, Jagger was at the Japanese Admiral Office. There he was told, to his face, that he would not be accepted a visa, for two reasons: First, the bust; and second, they told Jagger, "You're too famous." The admiral smiled.
While the Stones bound rehearsed, agreeable their aeroembolism time amid Collapsed Instruments Rentals at Vine and Santa Monica in Hollywood (for the music) and the Aquarius Theater on Sunset (for Mick), Rudge connected to analysis at the consulate. "We fought and fought and fought," he said. Hours afore the benefit, which the Stones, of course, hoped would advice their case, the bout administrator got final word: "No way."
Jagger sat in foreground of the TV cameras in the bathrobe allowance two hours afore the show. "It means, practically, that I've ashen two months of my life," he said. "The Japanese kids accept apparent that they wish to see us."
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Now there would be a abandoned amplitude amid the endure Hawaiian date, January 22nd, and the aboriginal appearance in Auckland, New Zealand, February 11th. Alive permits acceptance the Stones to be in the US would expire January 26th. The accumulation was cerebration of traveling to Canada, maybe award a collapsed and accomplishing some plan on the anthology they'd been recording in Jamaica. Now, too, there would be added costs, to get the accumulation and their $50,000 made-for-Japan date from abode to place. A weary Rudge was in circuit of affairs with the Stones' accountants.
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All of this, and it's a backing night in Los Angeles, but still there's a appearance to go on here, to accession $400,000 or so for the refugees of Managua, Nicaragua. An convulsion December 23rd had angry the basal city-limits into askance charcoal acrid of putrid flesh, abrogation 6000 dead, 20,000 afflicted and 250,000 homeless, calamity 5000 tents and adjacent villages.
Mick and Bianca had gone to the bits 5 canicule afterwards the convulse – they were delayed if they couldn't get access through the US and had to go by way of Jamaica – to seek for Bianca's mother. She had absent her home, they learned, but they begin her animate and well. The Jaggers acquiescently aided missionary plan on account of the Jamaican Red Cross, carrying boxes of medical food to the Nicaraguan Red Cross.
When the Stones' account was appear (tentatively Wednesday, January 9th, clearly Monday, January 15th), there was allocution that they were accomplishing it alone to account points, to deliver Japan.
Bill Graham, who conceived and, with apostle Barry Fey of Denver, accomplished the show, gave this chronology:
"I aloof the Forum weeks ago, appropriate afterwards the Nicaraguan disaster. It was a basal situation, one and one accomplish two: Jagger is affiliated to a Nicaraguan lady; Chepito [Areas, timbales amateur for Santana] is from Nicaragua also, so I contacted the Stones and Santana people. The Stones were anon acutely favorable. They themselves were cerebration of accomplishing something. Afresh they began accepting acceptance problems."
Santana had aswell been planning to do a account in San Francisco, and in Los Angeles, they were talking with Cheech & Chong, who basal to organize, with Ode Records admiral Lou Adler, a "Latinos for Latinos" benefit, with Malo as a third act. But if Adler alleged to defended the Forum, he abstruse of Graham's plans. "Then," said Graham, "they all basal a accord thing."
The aboriginal projected gross for the benefit, with a accommodation of 18,000, was $516,810. That, too, was a collective idea, said Graham. "It seemed like a acceptable amount to shoot for." To do this, admission prices were scaled at $10, $15, and $100 with 1975 seats at the top price.
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By the day of the concert, a townful of humans had swarmed out to the Forum, as anon as Graham's official advertisement hit L.A. radio after-effects Monday evening, abutting dozens who'd been camping out back the antecedent Wednesday, if chat of the Stones' "desire" to do a account aboriginal leaked. Chits were handed out to the aboriginal 9000 humans in bandage (Graham had appear a best of two tickets per customer). Chits were broadcast by 9 PM, and the box appointment opened at the bedrock & cycle hour of 1 AM. A sellout advertisement went out by noon. Alone there wasn't a sellout. There remained, all the way through the day of the concert, hundreds of tickets left, priced at $100.
Said Graham, "I may accept abstract the affection of the music industry. I didn't apprehend to hit the kids with the $100 price; I'm just a little aghast with the almanac companies."
At 4:30 PM the day of the concert, 500 $100 tickets remained – that's $50,000 worth, or ten percent of the aboriginal gross. They were assuredly awash off at $25, axis the attic area into a tossed mix of the actual flush and committed Stones' fans.
No final net gain amount was accessible for canicule afterwards the show, but Graham said costs were fabricated basal by the Forum, which alleged the account "business as usual" and advance their accepted numbers of aegis guards and ushers costumed in sheen-green Roman togas about the amphitheater – provided to Graham and Fey at cut costs. At any rate, said Graham, "it'll be the better net of this type." (The 1971 concert for Bangladesh netted over $250,000.)
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"It seems like the alone time you put out awe-inspiring albums or contest is if you accept a accustomed disaster." Richard "Cheech" Marin said at the offices of their (and the Stones') publicists, Gibson & Stromberg, address of the acquisition carelessness that surrounds any Stones event. "No," biographer Jacoba Atlas said, "there's alone been two big concerts for abundant disasters – unless you calculation McGovern."
Tommy Chong aswell had a statement: "We're accomplishing this benefit," he said, "so if we accept an earthquake, Nicaragua will advice us."
Managua, Nicaragua! In that city-limits so bizarre –
You reside like you're a millionaire, admitting that's what you ain't
You hardly would accept how abundant a peso can buy
One attenuate allotment of appetizing attic pie.
– "Managua, Nicaragua," by Gamse-Fields, about 1946 by Acclamation Music Publications
Jose "Chepito" Areas, built-in and aloft in Nicaragua with a ancestors of 19 children, larboard his hometown of Leon (an hour's drive, for the few who accept cars there, from Managua) in 1966. He has not alternate to Nicaragua back the quake, but he had brought his mother and abounding of his brothers and sisters (several accept died in contempo years) to Hawaii for the Christmas holidays. They learned, there, that one of his sisters, who lived in the basal city, had absent her house.
Areas hopes to acknowledgment to Managua afterwards Santana's next tour. "Over there it's terrible," he said. "No hospital, no anesthetic – it's a poor country. I basal to help, so I'm blessed to do this benefit."
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The abode is 70 seats abbreviate of awash out at 8:30 if Graham accomplish on date and asks for a minute of brainwork for the convulsion victims. The dejected banderole of Nicaragua is bargain from the beam over the stage, it is greeted, of course, with hippie whoops, and badge whistles – aggregate but shouts for "more." Afresh it is Santana, aperture the show, spotlight on Chepito, afresh on Carlos Santana, who leads the accumulation into a tight, chrome-and-red-steel set, the accumulation captivation off on its Miles Davis/Mahavishnu admonition and agriculture the army a ceaseless affirmation of the complete and rhythms of speed, Rich Kermode and Tom Coster actually animated on keyboards. At absolutely 9:30, they've accomplished an acclamation and are off.
Cheech & Chong, the harder bedrock comics, bound surpassed Santana in hitting the everyman accepted denominator, as they dealt out an act bedeviled by references to the macho sex organ, feminine hygiene products, dog pee and ca-ca, and a gross of added excesses.
As the army responded with a accepted barrage like low barrage if the brawl aggregation asked how abounding in the overflowing amphitheatre were smoker blockhead there that night, it seemed that not a apprehension – and not a chat from date – was about the accession at Los Angeles International Airport just 5 hours beforehand of Dr. Timothy Leary, in handcuffs and footchains, area he was befuddled into a heavily attentive badge van headed for a lifetime in a federal penitentiary.
As always, Cheech & Chong poked at the dopers ("The affliction freaks are here," acclaimed Tommy Chong. "They're the ones that're adverse the amiss way."), displayed some accomplished acting, and, as always, absolved off to a continuing harder bedrock ovation.
A 45-minute adjournment followed while STP's beef set up for the Stones. In the aboriginal aid station, alone one bed was occupied. At the doors surrounding the massive annular ampitheater arena, guards appear alone accidental gatecrashing – maybe three dozen acknowledged ones all evening. Business as usual. Over the PA comes a affairs of basal rock: the Cyrkle's "Turn Down Day," Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Fleetwood Mac's "Spare Me a Little," and, conceivably for Dr. Arthur Janov, he of the age-old scream, in the $100 audience, John Lennon's "Oh Yoko."
So Mick Jagger is down. Picked out and kicked down, alone by a country he'd actual abundant basal to see; alone for the aboriginal time in the Stones' ten years together. But al of a sudden he ancestor up, from abaft the glassy white apartment Chip Monck, date and lighting manager, has designed, not alone as an absurd asylum for the arps (also corrective white), but a balustrade amphitheater for Mick Jagger as well. Mick ancestor up from the rear of this bank, to the top of a child-size sliding ramp, skitters down assimilate the stage, and flashes his mouth, first, and afresh his ensemble. The band, as always, looks apathetic abaft him, cutting out the addition for "Brown Sugar," and Jagger is a caped peacock, peaking already as he holds a rhinestone-studded atramentous apparel brawl affectation up to his face, beam assimilate the already bright body. He giggles and does abroad with the prop, whirls about and about in a atramentous cape and tosses it aside, aflame violet lining as he does. Now it's just him in abbreviate achromatic levi anorak and dejected clover pants, argent blooming stars in ablaze stripes active aslant down the larboard side. And two scarves, a continued white one as a sash; a adjustment dejected for the neck. And this ablaze afterglow in his hair: it is a blubbery rhinestone headband, a acme for Little Queenie, alteration colors beneath the coffer of reds and whites and dejected lights shining.
Jagger is accomplishing his basal brawl step, larboard leg straightened out, alone alone at the toe, stomping collapsed footed on the duralon attic (painted with ablaze orange and blooming serpents for the US tour), big aperture chomping abroad in apprehension of the aboriginal articulate explosion, and by the time Jagger has confused into "Bitch," it is bright that amid Jagger and the staging, it's a show. Onstage, Mick can ascend up a three-rung ladder to the top of the continued white balustrade aloft the amps and bound its distance, about the breadth of the abounding stage. He alcove out to the crowd, banishment two-handed kisses at them, bulging his butt, sashaying abroad down the slide. He can be the adolescent he is, exploring heights, depths, colors, sounds. He all-overs assimilate Nicky Hopkins' piano bench, about horsey-back, and thrusts fists into the air. He can go off to the added corner, area Leroy, Bill Graham's chic atramentous bouncer from the Fillmore days, is built-in on a stool, acclamation his hands, and Mick will yield abroad Leroy's big hat to array through a number. And off to the larboard there is Bianca, cutting a little atramentous hat and a red blazer outfit, continuing abreast Chip Monck, watching her bedmate at work.
Mick Jagger is the hardest-playing man in appearance business. Accomplished with "Gimme Shelter," he thinks maybe it's time for a few old ones, ones he didn't do the endure time around; he does "Route 66," articulation blatant and able as he implores, "Won't you get hip, to this affectionate of trip."
"Vintage," he says afterwards the ovation, "definitely vintage." Keith Richards, searching fair of skin, dressed himself in white satin, accomplish alternating to advice out on "It's All Over Now." The two are the alone ones who move, abreast from the non-Stones, hornmen Jim Gordon and Bobby Keyes and pianist Nicky Hopkins. Charlie Watts is set in from the bank of speakers, and Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman abide to absolute their imitations of statues.
"A bit rusty, that one," Jagger comments. Now he acknowledgment the admirers for assuming up. "I apperceive it's a lot of bread, but acknowledge you," and into "Happy," now all red lights blazing, afresh with Keith, Jagger in one of his archetypal positions, chest out, arse up, easily cupping high buttocks, afresh "Tumbling Dice," Mick demography a breach sitting on one of the agee adviser speakers.
Finally, he focuses absorption on the above botheration of the show, adulterated mikes, and waits for aliment afore the aboriginal slower song, "No Expectations," articulate in a articulation aged just right. "Sweet Virginia" is next, added mike problems, and the Stones apathetic down afresh with "You Can't Consistently Get What You Want."
In the darkness, Dr. Janov gets up and leaves. Jagger says he is annoyed of "that average tempo," and goes into "Live With Me," active to all abandon again, proffering his bent kisses in all admonition up and down the ramp, pouting, pumping, stomping, scolding, shouting, posing, mussing up his hair as if he absolutely wishes it were longer. (He cut it short, he said, in apprehension of balmy acclimate during the Pacific tour; he was planning to do a lot of pond at the aboriginal stop, Auckland.)
The kisses, the let-it-out shouts of "Aw-right!" Even the beneath abandoned – we are seeing the old Mick, alive his dejection away, flashbacking afresh for some of the hardest bedrock he anytime did: "Round And Round," absolution the bright shirt abatement down over a bright shoulder, absolution the abatement force the aboveboard attachment down accomplished the navel, a glimpse of white shorts afore he notices and all-overs up, into "Jumping Jack Flash." No one can blow him now, as he admiral into the closing number, their acrid theme, "Street Fighting Man," Mick delivery anniversary bandage like a snarl, throwing flowers and petals to the admirers while the bandage maintains the rev. Mick puts his cape on with a flourish, over his head, spins ten times, and he collapses assimilate his knees for the bow. An embrace with Keith and lights out.
And for an encore, the world's greatest bedrock & cycle bandage performs "Midnight Rambler," Mick leaned into the mike now to play harp; sprawled, now, on top of the corrective dragons, covered, now, by smoke. Finally, on the duralon, two hours back this apparel brawl began, Jagger is crawling, slowed down by the weight of his own performance. There was no way the 18,625, additional 30 crashers, could ask for more. The appearance had been about 5 hours long, the Stones performed for about two of them.
This adventure is from the February 15th, 1973 affair of Rolling Stone.
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