San Diego

Tuesday, June 13

San Diego is our first blank slate, a venue with no circulating tape and no song cites from Greenfield. In other words, we have an ideal scenario for using the local men and women of the Fourth Estate as our set list informants. Do their contributions to the STP paper trail offer any help?

Yes, the press-as-proxy technique brings excellent results in San Diego, but it does so thanks to the straight scribes rather than the longhairs. Two underground weeklies devoted their coverage solely to the big fracas outside the arena, but both establishment dailies ran competent reviews of the concert itself, complete with multiple references to songs played. Once brought together for analysis, their independent tallies provide an almost complete reconstruction of the evening’s musical fare, which included a surprise dessert of sorts for the audience. The rare Honky Tonk Women encore here, mentioned quite clearly by both reviewers, was long forgotten in fan circles and totally unacknowledged in Karnbach’s set list inventory. For readers keeping a running corrigendum, we now have three confirmed performances of this song not credited in It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll: San Francisco (June 8, evening show), Hollywood, and San Diego.

Here’s a final San Diego tidbit: check out the early backstage scene in CS Blues where Jagger tops his dark (purple) jumpsuit with a plain denim jacket rather than a glitzy silver coat, remarking, “I don’t care - it’s only San Diego.” Apparently, the audience that evening changed his outlook sufficiently to get rewarded with the last known encore of Honky Tonk Women before Boston.

*San Diego Union*	*Evening Tribune*	COMPOSITE SET
Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar
	Bitch	Bitch

Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter
	Happy	Happy
Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice
	Love In Vain	Love In Vain
Sweet Virginia		Sweet Virginia
	YCAGWYW	YCAGWYW

Midnight Rambler		Midnight Rambler


JJF		JJF
	SFM	SFM
Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women
Jagger: “plush purple jumpsuit with silver studs, a blue denim jacket with a scarf at the neck and multiples of jewelry” show was broadcast inside on a monitor television HTW “formed the Stones final encore”	Jagger: “He was flashy in appearance, wearing a purple jump suit with a gold belt, purple sash and tie. His shoes were white, his wrap was a blue denim jacket – which he later shed, along with the tie – and his wrists were adorned with, what looked like, diamonds.” HTW “they did as an encore” Opening: Stevie Wonder
*Washington Post: “Jagger appears, from the dressing room. He is wearing the same purple silk jumpsuit, only this time he has a blue denim jacket over it. Around his neck is a blue scarf, around his waist is a red sash. He has rhinestone bracelets on either wrist.” Evening Tribune: “Jagger’s flamboyant purple pajama-like trousers and denim jacket were drenched with perspiration, evidence of a hard day’s night, but the head Stone seemed to glow in the aftermath. ‘San Diego’s a groove, they’re hip here,’ he said to guitarist Mick Taylor as the van sped off, bringing San Diego’s concert of the year to a peaceful conclusion.” Evening Tribune*: “Also, members in the audience who couldn’t see too well because of their seat locations, were aided by closed circuit television which beamed the action on stage, in black and white, to two giant screens.”

Selected Press Clippings

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Evening Tribune1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8

Ocean Beach Rag

San Diego Union1 * 2 * 3 * 4

Washington Post1 * 2