Rolling Stones - 1973-09-19 Birmingham 1st show (Speed corrected)

Rolling Stones 1973-09-19 Birmingham 1st show 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Brown Sugar 4:23 Gimme Shelter 9:40 Happy 12:51 Tumbling Dice 17:15 Star Star 21:29 Dancing With Mr. D 26:05 Angie 31:17 You Can't Always Get What You Want 39:58 Midnight Rambler 51:16 Honky Tonk Women 54:29 All Down The Line 58:34 Rip This Joint 1:00:37 Jumpin' Jack Flash 1:03:54 Street Fighting Man The previous version of this I posted was a semitone slow. That has been corrected here. Notes on 1973 European Tour from The Rolling Stones Chronicle. Mick Jagger on the 73 tour: I know when I've given a lousy performance and I know when I'm great. I've worked myself into a state where I know I'd never ever give a very, very bad performance, but concerts vary and I think it's amusing that most writers can never really distinguish between a mediocre gig and a great one. Like those Wembley concerts, where I just wasn't on form - almost everyone said how great I was when I knew I wasn't doing my best. I mean, the first show there was horrible! But then there were concerts like the first show at Birmingham - were you there? - now that was a great one, because the audience just stayed rigid in their seats and I found myself playing to the air which was beautiful in a way. I perform for anyone who's putting out some kind of reaction, and if there's no perceivable reaction I'll perform to the air. And that's sometimes when my finest moments happen. Keith Richards on the 73 tour: Right now, I'm sticking pretty much to playing rhythm onstage. It depends on the number actually, but since Brian died, I've had to pay more attention to rhythm guitar anyway. I move more now simply because back when we were playing old halls I had to stand next to Charlie's drums in order to catch the beat, the sound was always so bad. I like numbers to be organized - my thing is organization, I suppose - kicking the number off, pacing it and ending it. Either I fuck it up completely or it really comes together. Charlie Watts on the 73 tour: It's hardly a financially successful operation. The last time we toured Europe we actually lost money. Can you imagine that? Having to slave around playing all these places and then finding out you've lost money. This might just be the first European tour we make any money on, though I don't know. Really, I'll be the last one of all to know about it. Notes on the 1973 European Tour from Wikipedia. The tour followed the release of the group's album Goats Head Soup on 31 August. It began at the Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria on 1 September. It then saw, in large halls to mid-sized arenas, West Germany, England (including four shows at the Empire Pool in London), Scotland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Belgium, finishing on 19 October with the band's fourth entry into and thirteenth show in West Germany, at the Deutschlandhalle in West Berlin, which would turn out to be Mick Taylor's last live performance with the Stones as a member of the band. Altogether 42 shows were played in 22 cities, with two shows in a day a commonplace. This was the Stones' first trip to Europe since the European Tour 1970, and was part of parallel three-year cycles of touring the United States and Europe. Without all the ballyhoo, media attention, and jet set hangers-on of the group's 1972 American Tour, the 1973 European Tour was seen as having less drama — the biggest pending issue was the resolution of Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg's 25 June drugs and weapons bust, which hung over them until a 24 October £205 fine from the Great Marlborough Street Magistrates Court resolved it — while showcasing consistently good musicianship. Songs like "Brown Sugar" and "Gimme Shelter" were well received and Billy Preston's organ and clavinet added a contemporary and funky edge to the "classic" Stones sound, although the tour's relatively conventional delineation between rhythm (primarily Richards) and lead guitar (primarily Taylor) parts were later criticized by Richards. By the time of the group's following Tour of the Americas '75, Ron Wood would be in the band and Richards' preferred interweaved approach would be restored. Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica; Keith Richards – rhythm guitar, vocals; Mick Taylor – lead guitar; Bill Wyman – bass guitar; Charlie Watts – drums Support musicians: Billy Preston – piano, organ, clavinet, backing vocals; Steve Madaio – trumpet, flugelhorn; Bobby Keys – saxophone (until 30 September 1973); Trevor Lawrence – saxophone; Manuel Kellough – percussion (some dates); Marshall Chess – trumpet on "Street Fighting Man" (some dates). Bobby Keys left the tour after the Frankfurt dates. In his memoir, he states that he left to clean up from drink and drugs to save his life. [Flip note: After Mick Taylor left, he gave the same reason.]