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Speaker 1: Stone's Touring Party is a production of iHeartRadio Welcome to Boston.

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Speaker 1: It's July eighteenth, nineteen seventy two. The cities and Flames

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Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones were due on stage and the garden

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Speaker 1: hours ago. Those two facts aren't related, at least not yet,

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Speaker 1: but if they don't arrive soon, the eighteen thousand pissed

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Speaker 1: off Stones fans are liable to smash the venue into

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Speaker 1: firewood and stage a mass bonfire to compete with the

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Speaker 1: unrelated riot in Southeast. The only two men who can

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Speaker 1: prevent this, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, are currently in

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Speaker 1: jail an hour away in Rhode Island. Keith got nabbed

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Speaker 1: earlier that evening for taking a swing and a photographer

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Speaker 1: who dared to pop a flashballb in his face when

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Speaker 1: he was trying to take a nap. According to the

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Speaker 1: rules of the rock and roll road, this is a

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Speaker 1: perfectly acceptable response, but the Warwick, Rhode Island police felt differently.

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Speaker 1: Mick tried to back him up and got dragged along too,

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Speaker 1: along with several other members of their entourage. The comps

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Speaker 1: were taking it pretty seriously for such a ridiculous offense.

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Speaker 1: Keith couldn't help the chuckle when he was told to

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Speaker 1: remove his ties, shoes and belt at booking, as if

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Speaker 1: one of the rolling Stones would hang himself for telling

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Speaker 1: a pesky paparazzo where he could shove his lens cap.

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Speaker 1: Each of them not so guilty party were placed in small,

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Speaker 1: dark four by six cells and there on a hard

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Speaker 1: slat bench, while an adoring crowd calls their name. Some

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Speaker 1: fifty miles away, they sit criminals, desperadoes? Is this where

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Speaker 1: the road has brought them? Is this how America treats

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Speaker 1: its visiting Rock Royalty with the chain and the padlock

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Speaker 1: and the mugsheet?

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Speaker 2: Is it.

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Speaker 1: Unsure? What else to do? They start conversation, say bro.

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Speaker 1: One of the entourage calls to a neighboring cellmate, what

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Speaker 1: are you in for? Hey? It always worked in the movies.

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Speaker 1: They say, I killed the chick. Everyone gets quiet. She

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Speaker 1: wanted some smacks, so I gave it to her. I

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Speaker 1: didn't tell her how much to take O D eighth

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Speaker 1: My fault? Christ? Did you hear that?

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Speaker 2: Mick?

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Speaker 1: Mick, Mick? Who? Man, Jagger? You kidding me? The guy's

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Speaker 1: almost afraid to believe it. Mick Jagger ain't here? Is

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Speaker 1: he just a few doors down. Hey, Mick, say hello

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Speaker 1: to this guy. Uh yeah, Hey, how you doing? Man,

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Speaker 1: Jagger says from the shadows of his cell, Jesus, I

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Speaker 1: can't believe it. It is Mick Jagger. Honis to christ

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Speaker 1: Me and Mick in the same jail, say do you

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Speaker 1: think I could have your autograph? When they're sprung. Later

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Speaker 1: that night, Nick obliges prisons no place to make enemies

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Speaker 1: after all. Under arrest. As recently as an hour ago,

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Speaker 1: the newly released Mack and Keith receive a police escort

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Speaker 1: to Boston. They sweep into the city like a conquering army,

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Speaker 1: and the cities and ruins. Out of the right hand windows,

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Speaker 1: all they can see is an orange glow.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Everyone thinks the kids have gotten so pissed off with

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Speaker 1: waiting that they've finally done it. They've taken a torch

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Speaker 1: to the home of the Bruins, Celtics and various ice

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Speaker 1: shows and turned it into a raging inferno. And now

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Speaker 1: it's burning like the Reichstag. A radio dj agrees and

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Speaker 1: plays a German oohbah March, He's a dark joke. Limos

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Speaker 1: speeding through the hot, humid city streets as a Puerto

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Speaker 1: Rican neighborhood goes up in flames with German martial music

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Speaker 1: blaring from the radio. It's too outrageous to be real.

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Speaker 1: That description comes courtesy of Robert Greenfield, the legendary rock

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Speaker 1: journalist who served as Rolling Stone Magazines dedicated Stones Corresponded

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Speaker 1: as a twenty something in the early seventies. After accompanying

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Speaker 1: the band on the road, he chronicled their arrest in

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Speaker 1: his groundbreaking nineteen seventy four book stp The Journey through

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Speaker 1: America with the Rolling Stones. In a sense, the bus

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Speaker 1: couldn't become at a better time, just when it seemed

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Speaker 1: like the band were getting a little too cozy with

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Speaker 1: the establishment. A reminder of their inherent rebel nature was

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Speaker 1: almost helpful, except for the part where a risked burning

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Speaker 1: down a major city. In addition to Greenfield and has

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Speaker 1: never before heard tate archive of the Stones and their

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Speaker 1: exile on Main Street, Raic Glory will also be joined

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Speaker 1: by his friend and tor mate, Gary Stromberg, a rock

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Speaker 1: pr supremo who's represented a whole jukebox of the twentieth

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Speaker 1: century's greatest artists. He was there with the Stones in

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Speaker 1: jail on the day Boston flames. My name's Jordan Runtog,

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Speaker 1: and this is the Stone's touring party. The vibes in

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Speaker 1: the Rolling Stones private jet are bad. Are at least

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Speaker 1: as bad as vibes in a private jet could possibly be.

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Speaker 1: A technical problem is causing some kind of important looking

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Speaker 1: liquid to leak onto the wing. A plane is taxied

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Speaker 1: up and down the runway at Montreal's Airport twice before

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Speaker 1: the brakes are slammed and everything comes to a screeching, jarring,

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Speaker 1: swerving halt. Some get mad, but Mick Jagger, he gets terrified.

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Speaker 1: At this stage, air travel still outranks od's as the

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Speaker 1: number one fatal rock and roll hazard, and Mick repeatedly

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Speaker 1: reminds everyone in earshot that take off is the most

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Speaker 1: dangerous part of any flight. Their entire weekend in Canada

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Speaker 1: is just as stressful. On Saturday, they played Toronto's Maple

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Speaker 1: Leaf Gardens, where the police came out in undue force.

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Speaker 1: The band arrived at their dressing room only to find

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Speaker 1: hundreds of yards worth of cops sitting at picnic tables

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Speaker 1: three rows deep munching chicken dinners. Jagger's displeased. What are

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Speaker 1: all those pigs doing out there? He yells the tour manager,

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Speaker 1: Peter Rudge, loud enough for the cops to hear. Mick,

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Speaker 1: it must be said, doesn't take kindly to cops. The

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Speaker 1: next few days would only reinforce this feeling.

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Speaker 3: I'd be testing.

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Speaker 4: You know, I really hate cops, you were. There's so

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Speaker 4: many cops on this too, aren't. I mean, you got

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Speaker 4: to see the cream of Emericus police force.

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Speaker 3: I'm right, I just I can't.

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Speaker 5: I just can't bring myself to I mean, I'm prepared

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Speaker 5: to believe there's nice people at the cops, and you

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Speaker 5: know there's nice people that are murderers too, you know,

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Speaker 5: so I like cops.

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Speaker 4: Peter up with a lot of kids.

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Speaker 5: You know, so I I did, you know? I mean,

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Speaker 5: And I couldn't do nothing about it, Man, I was nice,

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Speaker 5: I could do.

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Speaker 1: Morale continued to plummet once the concert began. The heat

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Speaker 1: from the fifteen hundred watt spotlights, which kept the stage

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Speaker 1: at an unseasonably warm one hundred and forty something degrees,

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Speaker 1: finally became too much for Keith Richards, the man who

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Speaker 1: subjected himself to all manner of bodily punishment daily, became

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Speaker 1: overcome with heat exhaustion. He lumbered off stage, took three

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Speaker 1: steps towards the dressing room, and fainted dead away. Most

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Speaker 1: of the crew laughed, they assume as a prank, He's

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Speaker 1: kept an extra night in Toronto while the rest of

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Speaker 1: the band move on to their next port of call, Montreal.

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Speaker 1: They arrived with a sense of relief. The European style

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Speaker 1: city was comforting to the stones and their English compliment.

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Speaker 1: The hotel was top notch, and they spent a rare

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Speaker 1: day off lounging around in altered states of consciousness, thumbing

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Speaker 1: through the Gideon's Bibles and their nightstands, and sampling the

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Speaker 1: ribs with brown gravy from room service. Then, just after

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Speaker 1: three am it happened. Gary Stromberg gets the call from

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Speaker 1: tour manager Peter Rudge, who delivers the news in his

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Speaker 1: inimitable rapid fire cambridge an accent. Gary rudgo here, this

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Speaker 1: is rather important. Could you come down the hall? We've

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Speaker 1: been bombed.

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Speaker 6: I love him calling you and saying Gary, can you

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Speaker 6: come down here? We've been bombed? Like what is Gary

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Speaker 6: going to do? Clean up the shrapnel?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 7: And he would not have said it as calmly as

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Speaker 7: you just saw.

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Speaker 4: He was yelling.

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Speaker 6: He screamed, screaming, where are you?

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Speaker 1: Why didn't you stop this?

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Speaker 6: Why didn't you throw your body on that bomb? Your job,

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Speaker 6: that was Rudge's deal, was you jumped on the grenade.

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Speaker 6: If you were on this tour, your job was to protect.

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Speaker 7: Anything that went wrong with somebody's fault. And it wasn't

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Speaker 7: that there were outside elements that were out of our control.

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Speaker 6: And this is something somebody who was on the edge

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Speaker 6: of obsessive compulso in terms of every possible thing. But

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Speaker 6: nobody could have anticipated this.

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Speaker 1: Persons unknown of placed dynamite underneath one of the Stone's

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Speaker 1: equipment trucks parked outside the Montreal Forum. Fortunately no one's hurt.

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Speaker 1: The driver, who usually sleeps in the rig, is off somewhere,

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Speaker 1: which saves him from a nasty surprise, if not actual death.

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Speaker 1: The damage is minimal. All it does is destroy a

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Speaker 1: loading ramp, blow a four x eight hole in the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the truck, disintegrate all the cones and the

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Speaker 1: speaker cabinets, and shatter rows of windows in nearby apartment buildings.

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Speaker 1: But still it's a bomb, which is very unsettling, to

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Speaker 1: say the least. Even more troubling, no one sure who

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Speaker 1: did it and why. When Mick Jagger has woken up

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Speaker 1: and told of the attack, one of the first things

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Speaker 1: he says is why the hell didn't they leave a note.

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Speaker 7: I remember saying something to the effect that this was

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Speaker 7: the dumbest bomber ever because he put the bomb underneath

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Speaker 7: the ramp, underneath the truck, and we didn't understand the

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Speaker 7: motivation at all for why these guys were doing it.

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Speaker 7: Were they after the stones or were they after you

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Speaker 7: know what?

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Speaker 1: Were they after?

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Speaker 7: These were separatists secting.

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Speaker 1: Most in the SDP organization assumed this was the work

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Speaker 1: of the notoriously militant French Canadian separatists, activists fighting to

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Speaker 1: Commonwealth and form an independent nation. But the local law

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Speaker 1: enforcement take offense when Peter Rudge dares to suggest this theory,

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Speaker 1: Oh no monsieur, he replies with classic Gallic outrage, say

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Speaker 1: what American draft algai? They are all over the place.

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Speaker 1: They come up here with impunity. Chaos had become so

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Speaker 1: as a serious threat for basis. Bill Wyman was merely

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Speaker 1: an inconvenience. Here he is talking to Robert Greenfield back

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy two. Courtesy of the Northwestern University Archives.

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Speaker 8: I was a bit surprised that they when they came

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Speaker 8: in and said the bomb went off.

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Speaker 1: Under the track.

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Speaker 3: Who I could think about was the guitars, all right?

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Speaker 3: And then amplifies it. It must get smashed.

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Speaker 8: So I was thinking, wow, And then half an hour

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Speaker 8: later I sort of started thinking, you know, Bob bomb

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Speaker 8: went off in the truck, don't. I mean, you're always

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Speaker 8: open to being shot on todays, you're always aware of that.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you're so you don't think about it, but

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Speaker 8: anybody with any sense that told you to think there's

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Speaker 1: Before the end of the day, Montreal radio stations and

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Speaker 1: claiming credit. One said that the truck bomb was the

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Speaker 1: first of four time to go off at intervals during

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Speaker 1: the day. The Stone show was delayed by nearly an

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Speaker 1: hour while bomb squad searched the place inside and out

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Speaker 1: multiple times. Though it had been gradually pushed to the

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Speaker 1: back of the stp tours, collective mind. As the trek

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Speaker 1: wore on, the danger from the Hell's Angels hadn't diminished.

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Speaker 1: The Motorcycle Gang felt that the Stones had let them

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Speaker 1: take the fall for the deadly outcome at the Altamont

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Speaker 1: concert during their last US trip in nineteen sixty nine,

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Speaker 1: and ever since it threatened retribution in the form of

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Speaker 1: Mick Jagger's head. Rumors flooded the underground that they planned

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Speaker 1: to kidnap the singer or worse. Needless to say, the

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Speaker 1: bombing brought these fears back to the forefront, at least

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Speaker 1: for Mick. He mentioned it constantly during the day, worried

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Speaker 1: that the Angels or at least someone planned the wage

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Speaker 1: and attack during the concert.

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Speaker 2: In Montreal.

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Speaker 7: Everybody was tired and kind of foul moods, and part

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Speaker 11: We don't want him around, right, that's it forget you

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Speaker 11: He doesn't want photo, wants an incident with photos, and

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Speaker 4: He came for there the.

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Speaker 11: He's like, have you ever been to grown proper us?

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Speaker 11: That's what he wants. Yeah, anything you know. I mean

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Speaker 4: While going a quote in his story to get especially.

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Speaker 4: He couldn't take pictures or shouldn't be doing it, explained,

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Speaker 4: And then I couldn't take pictures them It was from

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Speaker 12: Law or that.

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Speaker 4: They tried to stop me at various whens and they

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Speaker 1: In fact, Dickerman doubled down by dragging over a nearby

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Speaker 4: to get one or two decent pictures, and I had

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00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 4: shot many pictures up till then without one good picture,

437
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 4: and with one or two good pictures, I would have done.

438
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 4: And I had work to do that much stay around.

439
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 4: I don't get the thrill of being here important people

440
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 4: or other people, and just having so often in my job,

441
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,199
Speaker 4: it doesn't mean very much to me. They're just people,

442
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 4: and actually off when I'm covering stently. When I'm working,

443
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 4: I tend to be clase, just to for theomn anybody

444
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 4: who is.

445
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: Important sensing that this man is beyond all reason. The

446
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: stones and age and an antagonistic game of hide and

447
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: seek on the tarmac, The band members do everything they

448
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 1: can the foil the photographer by hiding their faces or

449
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: ducking behind other members of the crew. At one point,

450
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: Mick creeps up behind him and sticks his tongue out,

451
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: but he's gone before Dickerman can raise his camera. Gary

452
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: Stromberg and the SDP security team swarmed the guy like

453
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: a collapsing zone defense on a basketball court. To the

454
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: even keeled Bill Wyman, it's all become a little farcical.

455
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 3: The police said, you can't stop him taking pictures, So

456
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 3: we said, all right, let him take his pictures.

457
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 8: And we just all turned our backs every time he

458
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 8: came near us, and stand.

459
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 9: More and Lee Ry and a.

460
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 3: Few other people just stood in front of him wherever

461
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 3: he went.

462
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 8: They stood in front of him, and he was still

463
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 8: trying to flash off shots between their.

464
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 3: Legs and round.

465
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 8: You know, he'd run to the right and take a

466
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 8: quick flash at the back of mixed head and things

467
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 8: like that, and This went on and on for twenty minutes.

468
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 3: I mean, this wasn't one incident. This on and on

469
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 3: and on.

470
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 8: He started getting very impatient, called the cops, and the

471
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 8: cops started to remove the people away from him, saying

472
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 8: that you cannot stop him, so how people had to

473
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 8: move away. Then he started coming outing, but we were

474
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 8: still turning on the heads, which they can't step for

475
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 8: you doing.

476
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 3: Then he saw Keith sitting over by a fire engine

477
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 3: right way away.

478
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 8: I mean he was forty yards away, sitting on the

479
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,719
Speaker 8: fire engine sit you know, quite tired and on his

480
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 8: own over.

481
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 3: He went straight up to Keith and flashed this camera

482
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 3: in his face.

483
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: The photographer has poked the bear. Keith was reclining calmly

484
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: on the bumper of a fire truck, taking in some

485
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: chemically assisted rest before the gig. Needless to say, he

486
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: didn't take kindly to a flashbulb exploding a foot in

487
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: front of his face.

488
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 10: Suddenly, this was so forget approaching me after he had

489
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 10: already been sort of piss off for you because doing

490
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 10: one of these pictures taking particularly up by him at

491
00:26:54,560 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 10: that particular moment, and his flash shrink and end that

492
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 10: scarf that I was always wearing, and I had a

493
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 10: bag in my other and there was.

494
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: A belt, home had a couple of other things. But

495
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't just the belt, you know.

496
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 10: It wasn't I swung everything. I just had everything at

497
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 10: when I just went as I had my back to him,

498
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 10: I had no idea exactly how close he was. And

499
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 10: I mean, really it was just a gesture for which

500
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 10: I was promptly arrested.

501
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: The photographer made a lot of noise the Keith Richards

502
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: had assaulted him and possibly broken his camera with his belt,

503
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: but Bill Wyman strenuously denied it when speaking to Robert

504
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: Greenfield shortly after the fact.

505
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 3: He took his belt off and he swung it around

506
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 3: his legs.

507
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 8: It went around his legs, and he didn't do it

508
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 8: back on end first or anything. He just swung it

509
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 8: around his legs and probably atted a few curses. I

510
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 8: was too far away and said, well, don't you you

511
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 8: know or whatever.

512
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: Charlie Watts deny the charge.

513
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 11: He didn't get in if he didn't know, he just

514
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,360
Speaker 11: called him. If he'd got it, he wouldn't have got

515
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 11: up and we'd have taken him out, do you know

516
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 11: what I mean? And put him on his car own

517
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 11: and it's not been very violent, and I don't think

518
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 11: he'll need to be.

519
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: But he was just that's what he wanted, whatever the case.

520
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: The nearby policeman have had enough of this nonsense. That's it,

521
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: the disgusted sergeant says, put that man under arrest. Two

522
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 1: cops bend Keith's arms behind his back, slap on a

523
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: pair of cuffs, and frog march him towards a police

524
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: fan parked in front of the airport. In an instant

525
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: it becomes clear to one and all that this is

526
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: no longer a game. Mick follows in hot pursuit, but

527
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: his diplomatic skills have deserted him in this crucial moment.

528
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: All that remained was his blind hatred of cops.

529
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 5: Oh you know, be mad because they weren't big cops.

530
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 5: If they hadn't had no guns enough and.

531
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 4: I would have just had really had a guy.

532
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 5: Merod tried to stop me because he felt they was going.

533
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 4: To club me. I think they felt it well.

534
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 7: They would have it.

535
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: Keith, in a rare position, is the sensible one of

536
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: the two. Here's the commotion from inside the police fan.

537
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 3: I hear him.

538
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 10: Mick suddenly raising his voice outside saying you study, you know,

539
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 10: don't you know what you're doing there and you're making

540
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 10: things Really you're.

541
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 2: Is screwing things up. You know you're supposed to help,

542
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 2: you know, not.

543
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 10: Right under arrest and suddenly micked beside me.

544
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 2: In the paddy rag and room.

545
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 5: I tried to say the copy that it was very

546
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 5: silly that you know they were going to rest you

547
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 5: know that they they should really not rest him.

548
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 3: They want to charge him, they should charge him, and

549
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 3: they shouldn't have rest.

550
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 5: And physic him because it was only going to make

551
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 5: a big hats off. I mean, they wouldn't listen, so

552
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 5: then they just jumped from me.

553
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: All hell breaks loose when Jagger gets arrested. Gary Stromberg

554
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: and tour manager Peter Rudge are yelling and gesticulating. Tour

555
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: documentarian Robert Frank is filming and his crew is running

556
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: around with Mike's getting sound rolling Stones Records. Chief Marshall

557
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: Chess marches up to the cops and bellows, you stupid assholes.

558
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: This seemed like an invitation to the boys in Blue,

559
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: and they oblige him with a pair of cuffs. They

560
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: also scoop up Stan Moore part of the Stone's security team.

561
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: The arrests seem almost random.

562
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 10: The rest of the Stones all starting, but they're talking,

563
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 10: you know, loud and over mad, you know, trying to

564
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 10: reason with the cat as well at that time.

565
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 7: You know, are you saying anything?

566
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 10: Are you saying a thing? I've got a cuff, so

567
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 10: there's no point in me saying cock when you know,

568
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 10: right anybody opened their mouth was under arrest.

569
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 2: Doesn't all of us to.

570
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 10: You know, it was just didn't matter what they said

571
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 10: out or anything, it was just under a rest.

572
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: STP crew are getting collared left and right. Suddenly it

573
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: becomes almost a badge of honor to get arrested. Sax

574
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: player Bobby Keys, Keith's frequent co conspirator on the road,

575
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: actively tries to get himself hauled away. Hey, there's an

576
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: authentic jail house rock scene going down with his buddies,

577
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: and he's determined to be a part of it. You

578
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: all better take me and now, he tells the cop,

579
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: because as soon as you leave, I'm a bust that

580
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: little guy round the mouth. So save yourself a trip

581
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: and take me now. To Bobby's immense anger, they ignore him.

582
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: They're too focused on Robert Frank, the man with the

583
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: camera best to take him into just to cover themselves

584
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: and then pound that camera as evidence.

585
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 10: Then just as they were about to leave, you suddenly

586
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 10: realized that they would be able to to this whole affair,

587
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,719
Speaker 10: you know, because they both jumped and Robert fring him

588
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 10: and they were unnecessarily rough with Robert, you know, and

589
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 10: they started pushing him up the steps to the paddy

590
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 10: wagon and he fell over, and they called him up

591
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 10: and pushed him.

592
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 2: In again, you know, and he fell over again.

593
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 10: It was their technique, you know, so they could say

594
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 10: that you built, you know, makeing a scuffle, causing a disturbance.

595
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: The remaining Stones in their entourage watched the bewilderments the

596
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: police fan pulls away from the airport. It was a

597
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: nightmare worse than anything the stp Tax Squad has ever

598
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: dreamed of. The band were do on stage in Boston

599
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: an hour ago. Now they were fifty miles away with

600
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,959
Speaker 1: no transport, and their twin front men had just been

601
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: hauled off to jail bomber stage managers at the Boston Gardener,

602
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: facing the quintessential show business crisis, a packed house and

603
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: no act. Mick Jagger Keith Richards and assorted members of

604
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: the Stones entourage have just been booked at a police

605
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: station an hour away in Warwick, Rhode Island. Charges range

606
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: from assault, obstructing a police officer and assaulting a police

607
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: officer a felony. This might take a while. According to Keith,

608
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: there were genuine concerns that for only the second time

609
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: in their career they'd miss the gig.

610
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 10: When we first got it, it was very, very casual

611
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 10: and unshot. He's sort of saying, well, you know, you

612
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 10: won't get out tonight. Nobody's ever got out of this

613
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 10: joke at after eight o'clock in the evening, you know,

614
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 10: because Judge Stows are always you know, we're always doing

615
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 10: this on Friday or whatever night.

616
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 2: It was new and so we were sort of thinking

617
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 2: we maybe we'll get.

618
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 10: Out, you know, And that was a real drag, you know,

619
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 10: I mean, really we were more interested in trying to

620
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 10: get that across studies clubs in his tone, you know,

621
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 10: and I been trying to tell them, you know, it's

622
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 10: seventeen thousand evil waivers.

623
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 1: Chipmunk, the Stone stage manager, is desperately stalling for time.

624
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: He begs Stevie Wonder the opening act to go back

625
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: out there for an extended encore. He plays a little

626
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: bit more, but it's obvious that the crowd isn't there

627
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: to see him, so he leaves. Chip is forced to

628
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: bluffet ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for Stevie Wonder,

629
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 1: that's all he's got. He does three or four of these,

630
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: aware that now he has no one to bring on.

631
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: For the first time in nearly two months, there are

632
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: no five rolling stones in the dressing room warming up.

633
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: But Chip's confident. After all, as the MC at Woodstock,

634
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,439
Speaker 1: he led four hundred thousand people through rainstorms and bad

635
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 1: acid trips. Surely eighteen thousand will be a piece of cake.

636
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure what else to do? He does what many

637
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: great have done in times of trouble. He lies, Please

638
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: be advised. He tells the crowd that we've got an

639
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: equipment failure that'll take at least thirty minutes of work.

640
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: We apologize for the inconvenience. It's received about as well

641
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: as he could hope. Lots of booze and off color

642
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: suggestions for now eighteen thousand expected rock fans toss frisbees

643
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 1: back and forth, suck on joints, read comic books, drink wine,

644
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 1: drop reds, and eat candy. At the moment, they're merely bored,

645
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: but this will soon curdle into annoyance, which then begets

646
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: rage and ultimately violence. This is something that Boston Mayor

647
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: Kevin White is desperate to avoid. It hasn't been a

648
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: good week for the forty one year old politician. Days earlier,

649
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: Kevin waited by his phone for presidential candidate George McGovern

650
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: to call and confirm his status as his vice presidential

651
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: running mate. When the call came, Kevin learned he didn't

652
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: get the gig. Damn politics. Three days later, in Boston's

653
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: South End, cops bust up a Puerto Rican Day celebration

654
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: after the revelry gets a little too rowdy. The arrests

655
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: are handled in short poorly, and the crowd takes to

656
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: the streets. The tactical police force is called in, resulting

657
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: in thirty five arrests, twenty seven injuries, and one flaming

658
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: police car. Rumors spread like well wildfire throughout the South

659
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: End's Puerto Rican community, stories of cops hurling racial slurs

660
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,399
Speaker 1: at kids or beating old men with soda bottles until

661
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: their faces were masks of blood. It's the classic vicious

662
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: cycle of urban riots. The Knight's Flames are fans by

663
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: rumors from earlier in the day. When the sun goes down,

664
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: the crowd gathers again, they firebomb and loop two stores,

665
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: and when fire engines roll up to fight the blaze,

666
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: they fling rocks and bottles at the firemen, mayor white heads.

667
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: The southea himself strolling the neighborhood in his shirt sleeves

668
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: and hoping in vain that he can help quell the

669
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: violence personally by hearing people out. But it's no use.

670
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: Advisors inform them that there's a new outbreak of trouble

671
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: down on Brookline in Washington Streets, and oh yeah, the

672
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: Rolling Stones are under arrest and Rhode Island and eighteen

673
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: thousand surly kids are getting antsy at the garden. He

674
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: truly doesn't need this right now, sitting in their jail

675
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: cell and the next state over. The Stones also feel

676
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 1: unjustly attacked and persecuted, albeit in a very different way

677
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: and on a completely different scale than the Puerto Rican

678
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: inhabitants of South Boston. From the moment they emerged as

679
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: public figures, in the mid sixties, the Stones were tagged

680
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: as punks. Certainly some of this was their own doing,

681
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: a dude like Keith Richards would have it no other way,

682
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: but much of it was the press, desperate to find

683
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: someone to wear the black hat against England's favorite songs,

684
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: the Beatles, and some of it also came down the

685
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: good old fashioned prejudice. The hair alone instantly singled them

686
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: out as undesirables. Remember this was a time when long

687
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: walks on men appeared to signal the total breakdown of

688
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: law and order and possibly the end of Western civilization

689
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: as we know it. It was enough to get you

690
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 1: spat on or even worse. The Beatles, pudding Bass and

691
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: hairdos were amusing a little more than a novelty, really,

692
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: but the Stones, even shaggier mobs were grotesque. A young

693
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,479
Speaker 1: David Bowie would vividly remember going to see one early

694
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: Stones gig, which was momentarily derailed by a heckler. Hey you,

695
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: the disgruntled man yelled at Mick, why don't you get

696
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: your hair cut? Mix stared him down, and oh so

697
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: coolly replied, well look like you. As Bill Wyman recalled,

698
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: the battle lines were drawn from the earliest days of

699
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: their career.

700
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, there were always everybody tried to get us. The

701
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 8: papers always tried to get us every country. As I

702
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 8: said it, when we first went anywhere, that was the scene.

703
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,479
Speaker 8: We were all free because we were all more uns

704
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 8: and really needed teaching a lesson. That was the general

705
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 8: idea from every source, you know, every policeman, every hotel manager,

706
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 8: because they bunch everybody together, you know, And it's always happens.

707
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 8: It happens with homosexual always happens with everything. They're all

708
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:37,760
Speaker 8: bunched together. No, there's no special reasons on no individuality

709
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 8: at all.

710
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 2: You're black.

711
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 3: You're black. There's no good ones, they're all bad.

712
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 9: It's still there all the time.

713
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 8: You're still aware of it. That two people over on

714
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 8: that table, they were whispering about you, saying, look at

715
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 8: that idiot, when they have never said a word to you.

716
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: Bill's hair indirectly caused one of the band's earliest legal hassles.

717
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: It occurred on March eighteenth, nineteen sixty five, when the

718
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: Stones were driving home after a London concert. Nature was

719
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: calling and Bill insisted they stop at a gas station.

720
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: The attendant, not liking the cut of Bill's jib, or,

721
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: more likely the cut of his hair. Claimed there was

722
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: no bathroom. Bill found this hard to believe. The building

723
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: was huge, there was really no bathroom. He returned with

724
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: his bandmates for backup and politely restated his request. This

725
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: time the attendant screamed at them to leave. By this

726
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: point Bill was bursting, so he relieved himself on the

727
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: side of the building. His fellow Stones joined him in

728
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: solidarity amid chance of we'll piss anywhere man, harmless hijinks really,

729
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: but hostilities were so high that the station attendant actually

730
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: called the police and the Stones were found guilty of

731
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: that most British of offenses, insulting the Suddenly the Stones

732
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: had a bonafide criminal record and the illegal peeing was

733
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: splashed metaphorically speaking, all across the British tabloids. From then on,

734
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: the press and the authorities were resolutely against them, and

735
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: in fact conspiring against them. It came to a head

736
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: on February twelfth, nineteen sixty seven, when a squad of

737
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: nineteen British police raided Keith Richard's country home, Redlands, where

738
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: a small gathering was taking place. It's believe the cops

739
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: were tipped off by the News of the World, a tabloid.

740
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 1: Mick was suing for libel at the time for printing

741
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: stories claiming that he hosted wild drug parties. Clearly the

742
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: idea was to catch him in the act at a

743
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: wild drug party. Though it was a party that day

744
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: at Redlands and there were drugs, it wasn't especially wild.

745
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: The group were lounging around the living room when the

746
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: police arrived, coming down from a day long hour acid trip.

747
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: Keith would remember it as a lovely day and a

748
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: really unpleasant evening. He was still a little high when

749
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: the knock came. The failings of cops looked like a

750
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: group of dwarves to him. They turned the place upside

751
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: down looking for illicit substances, confiscating incense and little bars

752
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: of hotel. So the contraband they came up with was

753
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: fairly minimal. Some old marijuana roaches, a handful of amphetamine

754
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: pills legally obtained in Italy, and some heroin found in

755
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: the pocket of a non Stone, but the legal repercussions

756
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: were big. The press predictably had a field day. The

757
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: drug score was a little underwhelming, so they played up

758
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: the fact that Mick's then girlfriend Mary Anne Faithful had

759
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: just taken a bath and was found by cops wrapped

760
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: in a fur rug as a towel. For some reason,

761
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 1: this morphed into a truly obscene story, now part of

762
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 1: rock Myth, involving a candy bar used as a sex toy.

763
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: Even in the midst of national humiliation and the full

764
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: weight of the English justice system against them, the Stones

765
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: remained unrepentant.

766
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 6: Keith and Mick get busted at Redlands. They're all on

767
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 6: acid with Mary and Faithful, And no, there was no

768
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 6: mars bar soaked with LSD in a place I will

769
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 6: not mention having to do with Marianne, a sweet, lovely

770
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 6: girl that she was, you know. So it's and then

771
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 6: the Stones, you know, when they're on trial, are so defiant,

772
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 6: you know. When he's being cross examined by the Queen's Council,

773
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 6: Keith says, we are not old men. We do not

774
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 6: concern ourselves with petty morrils. Oh my god, you said

775
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 6: this in London and old Bailey like dude, they didn't

776
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 6: take it, you know. And then the portrait Gary and

777
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 6: I are both painting today is really it's a rebel band,

778
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 6: outlaw punk up your unil and they didn't fake it.

779
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 6: Mick came to the attitude. I don't know based on

780
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 6: his background. I get it with Keith didn't know his father.

781
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 6: Father disappeared, you know, but he grew up okay, you know,

782
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 6: he was an art college. He wasn't sleeping rough on

783
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 6: the streets. They were pissed off, and that attitude characterizes

784
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 6: the music. You know, hey, you get off of my cloud.

785
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 6: And satisfaction the ultimate anthem of we're not happy, we

786
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 6: don't know why we don't like you. I'm talking about

787
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 6: another generation. That's what satisfaction is about. It's like, why

788
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 6: don't I feel good about what I have? You know,

789
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 6: it's the ultimate teenage. Really still, it's aged, it's weathered,

790
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 6: but the point is it hasn't vanished. By seventy two,

791
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 6: they are the sum total of all their experience. Again,

792
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 6: you can't look at seventy two without looking at sixty five,

793
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 6: sixty six, what came before and what came after. This

794
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 6: is all circular and all of one piece. So on

795
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,959
Speaker 6: that Redlands bus they got hit with cent six months

796
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 6: or a year in jail for Keith and Mick right,

797
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 6: and they took Keith to Wormwood scrubs, which is no joke,

798
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 6: my friend.

799
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: Okay.

800
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 6: One of my other favorite great quotes is Keith starts screaming,

801
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 6: I got bail, you bastards, let me out.

802
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 1: Okay.

803
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 6: So no jail could hold Keith Richards basically.

804
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: And the point is it.

805
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 6: Wasn't just bravado, it wasn't just on stage stuff. They

806
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 6: were punished, they were on trial, they were sent to prison,

807
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 6: they defied the law in court and after it didn't

808
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 6: serve anything. They didn't even serve a day. It's just

809
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 6: interesting to me, you know what I mean that they

810
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 6: put the money where their mouth was and they had

811
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 6: real life experience that not that many bands, not that

812
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 6: everybody should have this, but if you play this game,

813
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 6: you're going to pay the price, and they did.

814
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: Mick and Keith went free on appeal for the nineteen

815
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: sixty seven Redlands bust, but not before the British establishment

816
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: made a very public example of them. In the end,

817
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: it meant that the whole band, and especially Keith would

818
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: be constantly scrutinized by the police and press under the microscope.

819
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: Was no way for Keith Richards a rebel, and it

820
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: must be said, an addict to live Consequently, he was

821
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: arrested frequently, often for victimless crimes. As he'd later say,

822
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: the cops turned me into a criminal.

823
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 6: It's a band with a legal record here, you know,

824
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 6: bad bust. You got busted in Chelsea, for this is

825
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 6: the great one where the cops broke in the constable

826
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 6: and Keith had these spoons that were crusted with heroin

827
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 6: outside of the bed, and it was a cold cup

828
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 6: of coffee, and he started stirring the coffee to get

829
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 6: the heroin off the spoon. And the detective said, don't

830
00:46:55,560 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 6: bother Keith. We've already got more than enough to us

831
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 6: With firearms. In England, he had a rifle and a sword.

832
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: These repeated arrests piled up, compounding one another. Before long,

833
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: his reputation began to precede him, making his right to

834
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: a fair trial and fair treatment all but impossible. It

835
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: also had the unfortunate effect of rubbing off on the

836
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: rest of the band.

837
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 10: It is practically impossible for the Rolling Stones to be

838
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 10: judged through the usual channels of.

839
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 2: Justice or whatever you want to call it. I mean, really,

840
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 2: the press and to a certain extent, the public could have.

841
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 10: Made the Rolling Stones outside of the law, not above it.

842
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: But outside of it.

843
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 10: For you to be a special thing in somebody's head,

844
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 10: you know, it makes it impossible for.

845
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 2: You to really be treating fairly. You know.

846
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 10: Of course, especially when they started issuing warrants and the

847
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 10: press are really I've got to take a fair low

848
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 10: of that.

849
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 2: You know, for their way of handling things and their greed.

850
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: As far as Bill Wyman was concerned, the Rhode Island

851
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: the rest was just another example of the reputation preceding them.

852
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: Everyone always assumed they must be in the wrong. After all,

853
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: they are those nasty rolling stones.

854
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 3: That is a typical example of that.

855
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 8: I mean, sometimes we're so innocent, it's believed I'm not

856
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 8: for no bullshit, mem it's so innocent.

857
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 3: We've done nothing.

858
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 8: We know what happens in these situations, and we purposely

859
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 8: keep aside. We don't cause problems, you know, We're not

860
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 8: those kind of people. And they know what anybody believes

861
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 8: some people in the music business are they supposed to

862
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 8: go out to cause problems and to get that's a

863
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,800
Speaker 8: big ride. Absolutely, it always happens to us. We always

864
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 8: get involved in these things, not through our own choosing.

865
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: Make Keith and the rest of the STP criminals were

866
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: booked at Warwick Police Station, where they sat for their

867
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: mugshots and pressed three sets of prints local, state and federal.

868
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,840
Speaker 2: I mean then the cups and station. I said, but

869
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 2: you know, there's nothing to do with me.

870
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 9: I just got a book and they took our shoes

871
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 9: off and their deltop and pause of individual cells.

872
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 4: There's still those guys across the road, right who I mean,

873
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 4: there's something that was something and murted his wife or

874
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:32,320
Speaker 4: something on these guys.

875
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 9: Yeah, but you can't actually see him. You can only

876
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 9: hear you know, who the fuck you?

877
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 2: What they got you for?

878
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 9: Really upset he was at the time. Yeah, but I

879
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 9: mean you quickly regained I mean in the jailor we

880
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 9: haven't managed to call his name. I couldn't find space

881
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 9: in my colored it really.

882
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: On the other side of the bars, Stone's tour manager

883
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,879
Speaker 1: Peter Rudge is in his element. He secretly loves when

884
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: things go wrong. This is when he comes alive. It's

885
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: battlefield conditions. He's working three phones, arranging lawyers to free

886
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: the Stones, relaying information to Chipmunk at the garden, and

887
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: combing through the yellow pages to book a rickety old

888
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: school bus to schlept the non jail birds up to Boston.

889
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: Sax player Bobby Keys won't go. He's still trying to

890
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 1: get arrested. Hey, you pigs, I'm still waiting, Bobby, Rudge says,

891
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: the bus, Please, the bus. I ain't going nowhere? Are

892
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: that my buddies. After about five minutes of arguing, cajoling,

893
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,359
Speaker 1: and pleading, Rudge manages to pack Keys on the bus,

894
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,919
Speaker 1: which rolls out for Boston. Then in the police station,

895
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: the phone rings. Is there a mister Peter Rudge here,

896
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: someone calls out. Rudge warily raises his hand. Uh, mister Rudge,

897
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:06,760
Speaker 1: it's the Mayor of Boston, sir, A reverend. Silence spreads

898
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: throughout the station. As Rudge goes to the phone to

899
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: speak with Mayor White, the sergeant who hauled everyone in

900
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: at the airport looks on with regret. He doesn't say

901
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: another word the rest of the night.

902
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 14: Rogia, yes, sir, yes, yes, sir, I understand that, sir,

903
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 14: we do, sir, No, Sir, I promise we can get

904
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 14: them there, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir.

905
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 6: Hear me call me.

906
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: Back here, so, yes, sir. He then passes the phone

907
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: to the chief of police. Mayor White explains that he

908
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: wants them to release the stones so that they can

909
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: play in Boston. It's a matter of public safety. And

910
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: can you give them a police escort too, he asks,

911
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: as though it were normal for police to give motor

912
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: cakes to people they've just arrested. A pair of limousines

913
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: are obtained, quite possibly the last ones in all of

914
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: Rhode Island. Word is spread about war works, very important prisoners,

915
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 1: and the crowd outside the station has reached Beatlemania levels.

916
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: Everyone piles into the limos and they're off, flanked by

917
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: motorcycles and cruisers with flashing lights like a presidential procession.

918
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: Everyone has their eye on the clock. It's pushing midnight.

919
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 1: These kids have been in the hall for over five hours.

920
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: How long could they reasonably be expected to wait?

921
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 10: We didn't really know if we were gonna make it

922
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 10: or not, because the time has really slipped by, you know, and.

923
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 2: By the time he got out of the police station

924
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 2: it was midnight.

925
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 10: The station rights nobody could take it seriously, you know,

926
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 10: I mean, even the arrest was so closest, seeing the

927
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 10: keystone cups so seen, and really, you know, really arresting, arresting.

928
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 1: The whole experience left Mick royally pissed off. It was

929
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: just stupid.

930
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 5: It was all just a waste of time, and it

931
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 5: was all so petty.

932
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 3: It just shows you, though, how they asked you, how

933
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 3: it is. You know why he shouldn't be either.

934
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: Keith was a little more zen about it all if

935
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't.

936
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 2: On the road unto who got me mad and got

937
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 2: me in. But I didn't accept those things and they are.

938
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 9: Just part of the game. To anything that turns up

939
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 9: as just part of the script, and you just write.

940
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: Andy Dickerman, the photographer who was just having a quiet

941
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: night in this photo lab before this all began, has

942
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: been watching all this unfold and horror. He assumed the

943
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: cops would let the Stones go. He had no idea

944
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: that he just single handedly created a news story on

945
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: his own, one that threatened to burn Boston to the ground.

946
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 1: It feels bad, and so does the fallout. He becomes

947
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: authentically gun shy for a time when it comes to

948
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: matters of the camp and he takes down the poster

949
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,240
Speaker 1: of the Stones that had held a spot of honor

950
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: in his dining room.

951
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 4: Well, this whole thing was happening. I felt so bad

952
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 4: about it because and I still do. I didn't want

953
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 4: to hurt the Stone. I didn't want to give him

954
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 4: any trouble. But you want to take picture it was

955
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 4: I was torn between I wanted to leave them alone

956
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 4: because I wanted to let blown and and doing what

957
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 4: I know and what I knew should be done. It

958
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 4: was really a nightmare of experience, especially since then. And

959
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:32,759
Speaker 4: I hate mail and every whole calls and and and

960
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 4: I like to see you after we fet well, you know,

961
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 4: just scattered around and or want one was a threatening

962
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 4: what I gave to the at the Really what did

963
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 4: it say?

964
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 2: It was?

965
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 4: It was it threatened me to kill you? Uh, I

966
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 4: think it. It didn't say that outrighter. I think it

967
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 4: touched across and phone calls to this house. So yeah,

968
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 4: a lot also by the news media and by by

969
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 4: other people and relatives and friends who I hadn't heard

970
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:02,280
Speaker 4: from the years. And I'm used to giving the boy

971
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 4: to other people into having myself, and or I was

972
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 4: accused of warranting. It's definitely not the case. I didn't

973
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 4: want did not want it.

974
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: The only person in a tougher spot than Andy Dickerman

975
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: was Boston Mayor Kevin White. Springing the Stones from an

976
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: out of state jail was just the first item on

977
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: his unenviable to do list.

978
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 6: So Boston's on fire and all the fire guys are

979
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 6: deployed and Kevin White, who I interviewed classic right out

980
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 6: of the movie Black and White movie, Irish Frank Skeffington,

981
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 6: kind of guy you know, has the accent, grew up

982
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 6: in dot chest, you know, clueless, clueless, but seizing the

983
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 6: moment of publicity. What has happened now the MTA has

984
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 6: shut down. This means that none of these drunk, belligerent

985
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 6: rolling Stones, if it's Ionado, can get home. Owned by

986
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 6: public transport. Okay, this is the old days. The tea Nah,

987
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:07,399
Speaker 6: you can put eighteen thousand people in a cab.

988
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: Mayor White activates an emergency protocol to keep the public

989
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: transport system open. A few hours later, then he heads

990
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: to the garden. Stone stage manager Chipmunk is grateful to

991
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,760
Speaker 1: see him. He's been forbidden from telling the crowd anything

992
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 1: about the arrest. Everyone's afraid the kids will rip the

993
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: garden into splinters and sawdust if they hear the Stones

994
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: are in jail. To kill time, Chip has been reduced

995
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: to reading novels aloud over the PA. It's getting desperate now.

996
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 6: Boston Garden eighteen thousand, we come to the venerable Chipmunk. Okay,

997
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 6: Monk is charged with keeping eighteen thousand drunk stoned, progressively

998
00:56:55,360 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 6: angrier white Bostonians occupied and listen credit to Chip, God

999
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 6: love him. His pre show music was drop dead. It

1000
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,200
Speaker 6: was mega hip, you know, it was like listening to

1001
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 6: a great DJ. He had great musical taste. Chip has

1002
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 6: now played every fucking song he's ever had on any cassette, tape, recorder,

1003
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 6: any device that he's got, and he's accessing stuff. He's ship,

1004
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 6: he's wired in and he's coming out okay, and this

1005
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 6: is great. It's kind of like Bill Graham's stuff about

1006
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 6: how to manage a crowd. He's coming out like the

1007
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 6: fairy Godmother and he's lying through his teeth. You know, hey, listen,

1008
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 6: we've had some troubles, you know, but we need you

1009
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 6: to help us that you always bring them in like

1010
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 6: we are not messing with you.

1011
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 1: We love you.

1012
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 6: With stones are on and he's making it up. Is

1013
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 6: he getting phone calls? It took forever to get for

1014
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 6: the lawyer to get him out. Now they're in the

1015
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:01,439
Speaker 6: damn limos. Okay, what has happened now? Chip looks, here's

1016
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 6: the mayor.

1017
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: Okay.

1018
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:02,919
Speaker 4: Great.

1019
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: Sensing the crowd may respond positively to a fresh face,

1020
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: Chip suggests Mayor White go out and level with his constituency.

1021
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:16,479
Speaker 1: Everyone knows it's a risky move. Sending the city's number

1022
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: one authority figure out there to tell eighteen thousand people

1023
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: that their idols have been arrested could be a disaster

1024
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: all the way around. If he blows it, the kids

1025
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: might sweep over the stage, tear off his tie box,

1026
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: his ears, and set fire to his suit and then

1027
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: the rest of Boston. But they've tried everything else, Why

1028
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: not the truth?

1029
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 6: Chip with the great voice. You know, ladies and gentlemen,

1030
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 6: may I present to you not the Rolling Stones. They didn't, gentlemen,

1031
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 6: the Mayor of Boston, Kevin White.

1032
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: Crowd goes grew ray, Fuck you, Kevin, fuck you.

1033
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 12: They're screaming. I don't know if they're throwing shit. They

1034
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 12: don't want to see Kevin White. They want to see

1035
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 12: Mick jagger Man. I'm Kevin White. To his great credit,

1036
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 12: he was no small guy. He was really good at this.

1037
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 12: Needs your help, same thing. Picks it right up without

1038
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 12: having heard Chip say this, They're on their way. If

1039
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 12: you see, if you'll be good Bury godfather, you just

1040
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 12: hang with it. You will get to see the Rolling

1041
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 12: Stones tonight and walks off to Covin.

1042
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, man, like just also while we are here, our

1043
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 7: city is burning down correct, Our city is burning down there,

1044
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 7: and they need me and I need to leave here.

1045
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 7: But I promise you that if you obey and be

1046
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 7: calm here, I will bring the Rolling Stones here. You

1047
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 7: will have your show.

1048
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 6: He has created an action movie. It's like, you know,

1049
00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 6: Guardians of the Galaxy.

1050
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: I have to go jet off.

1051
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 6: I'm going to be putting out that fire myself. But

1052
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 6: you what we're going to do, say hey man, stay

1053
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 6: here like you. He's saving Boston.

1054
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: May Or White be rewarded for his actions this night

1055
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: with an autographed STP tour poster. Before he goes, he

1056
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,160
Speaker 1: makes an appeal to the crowd. I got the Stones

1057
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: out of jail. Now I need you to do something

1058
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: for me. As I stand here half my cities and flames.

1059
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to take some of the police away from

1060
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: here that needed in the South End. I want you

1061
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 1: to do me a favor. Please behave after the concert ends,

1062
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 1: just go home. I appreciate it, thank you, and wouldn't

1063
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,439
Speaker 1: you know it, everybody did just one of the many

1064
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: minor miracles that day. Another miracle was that the Stones

1065
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 1: themselves actually made it. Gary Stromberg was along for the ride.

1066
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 7: We're in a limousine, literally racing because we know that

1067
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 7: this situation that they're holding an audience and that it's

1068
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 7: very late, and that we got to get there and

1069
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 7: do this show. And we are under a police escort,

1070
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 7: a motorcycle escort. We're headed down the freeway. Cars are

1071
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 7: being moved aside. We're going probably one hundred miles an hour,

1072
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 7: sirens the whole presidential escort. And as we're approaching the

1073
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 7: city of Boston, off in the skyline, we see that

1074
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 7: there are orange flames very distinctly, and we think that

1075
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 7: the city is being burned down because we're not there.

1076
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 7: That this is the reaction that they, the city of

1077
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 7: Boston and the fans have had to them being denied

1078
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 7: this concert. And so the initial response was hysteria because

1079
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 7: this is very funny that they would burn a city

1080
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 7: down because they were missing a concert. But we couldn't

1081
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Speaker 7: think of any other explanation and we didn't have a

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Speaker 7: radio or anything that I remember that would explain what

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Speaker 7: was going on. So we were just arriving under the

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Speaker 7: belief that this is what was happening. In addition to

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Speaker 7: being very funny to us, it also caused a lot

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Speaker 7: of anxiety because what were we heading into. I mean,

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Speaker 7: it looked like we're going into a war zone, you know,

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Speaker 7: to go do a concert. It was totally surreal. It

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Speaker 7: was like apocalypse now, you know, we're just we were

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Speaker 7: entering the apocalypse.

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Speaker 1: It became a little more friendly as they're near the

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Speaker 1: Boston Garden. Fans lined the road emitting it almighty. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Limos Pass, it was a sight that Keith Richards

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Speaker 1: would never forget.

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Speaker 3: There was a wholesome coming with kids.

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Speaker 10: So and you came to it all.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, there's thousands of people looking out the windows and

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Speaker 9: sitting on the fire escapes and waiting, and they knew

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Speaker 9: they were coming. They heard that we'd gone out to wait.

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Speaker 9: The whole route was lying.

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Speaker 2: Actually there were kids waiting, amazing weird as well.

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Speaker 6: So Gary, we're talking and I know it's hard to remember,

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Speaker 6: like one of them, Yeah, they're not there yet. It's

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Speaker 6: one one thirty The crowd has been in the house

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Speaker 6: since seven and seven pm. They've been there for five hours.

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Speaker 6: Stevie's been off for three and a half. You may

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Speaker 6: be get to Boston Garden at one o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's when they went on one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Chip Munk has been sharing a blow by blow account

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Speaker 1: of their progress towards the arena. Now it gives them

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Speaker 1: no small pleasure to announce, ladies and gentlemen the Rolling Stones.

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Speaker 1: The place explodes with kids slapping high five and pounding

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Speaker 1: their seats as though this is the greatest thing that

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Speaker 1: has ever happened. Charlie Watts kicks in the downbeat, and

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Speaker 1: an electric rush of compressed energy and anticipation flows across

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Speaker 1: the synapse that separates the stage and the audience. For

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Speaker 1: one long moment, they're all one, all criminals, all outlaws,

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Speaker 1: with the Stones playing music for the very people that

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Speaker 1: treats them. When you went on stage, yeah, it's.

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Speaker 9: Something good to be.

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Speaker 2: That.

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Speaker 9: It was good that would be. I mean, it just

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Speaker 9: felt good to them. We got to the stage after

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Speaker 9: what we wouldn't have made it except that about there

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Speaker 9: was eighteen thousand kids waiting for a season. Other wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we were getting the ship. We'd have stayed in

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Speaker 2: until they stayed.

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Speaker 7: Jagger did a full set with as much energy as

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Speaker 7: he'd ever done, and this was exhausting. The night that

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Speaker 7: we had spent up until this point was pretty tiring

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Speaker 7: in jail and the tension, you know, they're getting out

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Speaker 7: of jail and all of that stuff. So yeah, it

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Speaker 7: was pretty amazing that he was able to do it.

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Speaker 7: He was magnificent that night, as I remember, and from

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Speaker 7: what I could tell with the Stones, they were just

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Speaker 7: working off of adrenaline. They owed this audience something because

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Speaker 7: of you all along they'd been waiting there.

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Speaker 1: People go home home feeling they've done more than just

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Speaker 1: see a concert. They participated in an event happening. It's

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Speaker 1: a throwback to the older days. Remember when the Stones

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Speaker 1: got busted? Yeah, were you there too?

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Speaker 10: Are out?

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Speaker 1: There's an interesting coda that their New England visit. At

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Speaker 1: least according to Bobby Keys, this is what's strange now.

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Speaker 3: It's look at night in Boston. We went to play

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Speaker 3: power Field in Rhode Island and stayed off.

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Speaker 9: Until we finished the set.

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Speaker 2: We finished the set, the power came back around. That's lovely.

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Speaker 1: Moments before showtime at their second and final gig at

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Speaker 1: the Boston Garden, the skies over Rhode Island go from

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Speaker 1: gray to black. Lightning tears through the cloud banks, and

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Speaker 1: the thunder rolls. A full blown summer storm starts, dumping

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Speaker 1: wind and water from Warwick to Wound Socket. The state

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Speaker 1: goes dark, all of it. No TVs, no radios, no

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Speaker 1: record players, nothing. The state of Rhode Island has been

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Speaker 1: plunged into a medieval darkness, and it stays that way

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Speaker 1: until the Stones walk off stage in Boston at eleven thirty.

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Speaker 1: Blame it on.

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Speaker 15: Whoever you like. Stone's Touring Party is written and hosted

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Speaker 15: by Jordan runtaf Co executives, produced by Noel Brown and

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Speaker 15: Jordan Runtalk, Edited in sound design by Noel Brown and

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Speaker 15: Michael Alder June. Original music composed and performed by Michael

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Speaker 15: Alder June and Noel Brown, with additional instruments performed by

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Speaker 15: Chris Suarez, Nick Johns Cooper, and Josh Thain. Vintage Rolling

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Speaker 15: Stones audio courtesy of the Robert Greenfield Archive at the

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Speaker 15: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections in Northwestern University Libraries.

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Speaker 1: Stone's Touring Party is a production of iHeart Radio.

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