Long Beach
Saturday, June 10
The clippings here bring no new set
details, but the independent costuming descriptions are certainly colorful and
consistent. We also find a reference to
closed-circuit broadcast of the stage action, something that will be reported
again in Los Angeles and San Diego.
Were these live arena television feeds also taped by the operators? If so, do the recordings remain preserved
somewhere, perhaps in the promoter’s private cache?
LA Times |
Washington Post |
Long Beach Press-Telegram |
Disc |
Daily Bruin |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
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Brown Sugar |
Bitch |
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Bitch |
Rocks Off |
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Rocks Off |
Gimme Shelter |
Gimme Shelter |
Gimme Shelter |
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Gimme Shelter |
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Happy |
Tumbling Dice |
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Tumbling Dice |
Love In Vain |
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Love In Vain |
Sweet Virginia |
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Sweet Virginia |
YCAGWYW |
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YCAGWYW |
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YCAGWYW |
All Down The Line |
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All Down The Line |
Midnight Rambler |
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Midnight Rambler |
Midnight Rambler |
Bye Bye Johnny |
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“Turd On The Run” = BBJ |
Rip This Joint |
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Rip This Joint |
JJF |
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JJF |
SFM |
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SFM |
SFM |
Jagger: “For one thing, Jagger, who had
been wearing a blue work shirt or other modest apparel, switched in Long
Beach to a flashy silver-lame tuxedo jacket, and seemed to gain a greater air
of theatricality from the move.” |
Jagger: “a vision in purple-sequined,
one-piece, membrane-thin silk jumpsuit, spangled and jangled, with red
glitter eye makeup, with sashes and scarves and a white satin cutaway” |
Jagger: “wearing what looked like a
silver, sequined suit” Opening: Stevie Wonder |
Jagger: “hip-length
purple-sequined coat” and “white body-suit” |
Jagger: “pink
lame jacket trimmed and bound in black” and “platinum-white lame jersey
jumpsuit” with “a gold neck scarf, a pale violet sash, and
a gold leather cumberbund/belt, which appeared to be encrusted with sets and shiny
stones” |
Melody Maker: “Mick dressed to kill this time
in his satin and sheen.” Charles Bukowski, LA Free Press:
“Here he was, Mick Jagger. A little blue star pasted near each eye. An outfit
on like your hip spade dude would be wearing tomorrow morning. His joint was
showing through his tight hot jism pants, and he was dressed to fuck the
world, but basically he had style, the style that comes with champions. I
liked him right off and at the same time I thought, why does he have to fuck
himself up like that?” Daily Bruin: “Under the jumpsuit was a mysterious protrusion that was too
jiggley to be a codpiece but too pronounced to be a cock. Maybe it was a new English
invention for pop stars to invest in instead of stuffing socks.” Long Beach Press-Telegram: “A rotating light reflector hung
suspended from the ceiling below what seemed like a two-story-tall hanging of
the Stones’ famous ‘tongue poster,’ flanked on either side by closed-circuit
screens to benefit those who were unable to see the stage (practically
everyone).” |
Selected
Press Clippings
Long Beach
Press-Telegram1 * 2