1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Stone's Touring Party is a production of iHeartRadio. 2 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 2: Welcome Back to San Francisco. It's June nineteen seventy two. 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: The Rolling Stones have just touched down to perform the 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 2: first gigs there in three years. The city had been 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: the American epicenter of all that was vibrant and hopeful 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: in the sixties, drawing the young and adventurous to its 7 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 2: streets with the promise of a new way of living, 8 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: a more compassionate way, a more humane way, a better way. 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 2: Music played an integral part in this consciousness shift. Everyone 10 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 2: who was there knew it, and if you weren't there, man, 11 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 2: you should have been. There was still magic at the 12 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 2: edge of the Western world. Then a good concert would 13 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 2: get people out of their cubbies, where they'd been holed 14 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: up for days watching that record go round, getting off 15 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 2: on love or the airplane or the Dead, so very 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: high that it took a full day to get it 17 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 2: together enough to actually venture out into the city, where 18 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 2: you had to deal with concrete realities like traffic lights 19 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 2: and telephone poles. Freaks didn't known TVs then they collected albums. 20 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 2: If you close your eyes behind Steve Winwood singing forty 21 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 2: thousand head Men or David Crosby's Gwenevere. You could see 22 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 2: all the pictures you wanted. So it was worth all 23 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 2: the paranoia associated with going into the city on the 24 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 2: off chance that it would come together at the concert, 25 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: because if it did and the band was right and 26 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 2: the floor wasn't too crowded, there was room inside the 27 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 2: music for everyone, enough space between each bending, soaring electric 28 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 2: note for the whole audience to get together. Even though 29 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: you were doing no more than dancing in front of 30 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 2: the amps or passing a joint to a guy next 31 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 2: to you whom you've never seen before, you were part 32 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: of the feeling. No one was there just to see 33 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 2: the band. The stage was merely a convenience for those 34 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 2: who were interested in watching. Everyone was there to be 35 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 2: with everyone else, the great Us, all right there, just 36 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: hanging out. Incredible things happened, as a matter of course, 37 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 2: and all of it had to do with the mystical 38 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 2: electric energy that the band on stage was pouring out 39 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: and that the audience was feeding back. Those words come 40 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 2: courtesy of Robert Greenfield, the legendary rock journalist, served as 41 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: the dedicated Stones correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine as a 42 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: twenty something in the early seventies. He was there with 43 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: the band when they touched down in San Francisco in 44 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy two. By then, the sixties were well and 45 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 2: truly over, both literally and figuratively. It had been five 46 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 2: years since the Summer of Love, that semi mythical micro 47 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: era that stretched well beyond a season. No one could 48 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: be sure when it began, but most agreed that it ended. 49 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: On December sixth, nineteen sixty nine. This was the last 50 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 2: time the Rolling Stones played in the Bay Area, at 51 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 2: a speedway called Altamont. The concert left countless injured and 52 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 2: four people dead, including a young man named Meredith Hunter, 53 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: who was stabbed to death by members of the Hell's 54 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: Angels motorcycle club. It went down just feet from the 55 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: stage while the band played on. Now three years later, 56 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 2: the Stones intended to make it up to San Franciscan's 57 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: for the death and destruction they had left in their wake, 58 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: but the Hell's Angels were less likely to forgive. They 59 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 2: blamed the Stones for the disaster at Altamont and the 60 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 2: lengthy legal fallout that followed. Word on the street was 61 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: the Angels aimed to take their revenge in the form 62 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: of Mick Jagger's head. No one was sure if the 63 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 2: rumors were true, but the Stones arrived in the city 64 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 2: scared for their lives. They said as much in interviews 65 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 2: with Robert Greenfield. Now, for the first time, he's sharing 66 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 2: his tape archive, allowing us to sit in on intimate 67 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: chats with the Stones in their prime. These tapes have 68 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: gone unheard for half a century. Greenfield will also be 69 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 2: joined by his friend and fellow STP tour mate Gary Stromberg, 70 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 2: the Stones pr Suprimo. Who's represented a whole jukebox of 71 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 2: the twentieth century's greatest artists. My name's Jordan Runtog and 72 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 2: this is the Stones touring Party. After touching down in 73 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 2: San Francisco, the Rolling Stones and the assorted cast of 74 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: thousands check in at the Miaco, a beautiful boutique hotel 75 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,559 Speaker 2: a short drive from the concert venue, boasting green tile 76 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 2: bath tubs with packets of crystals that turn the water 77 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 2: different colors. It's definitely a step up from the previous 78 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 2: hotels on the tour. The elegant lobby is crammed with 79 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 2: endless suitcases and trunks, each with a unique number affixed 80 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: to the side with the yellow tape to identify the owner. 81 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 2: But the man with suitcase number one, Mick Jagger, has 82 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 2: a problem. He doesn't like the accommodations. It's dreary, he 83 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: tells the STP Tactical Squad. He doesn't look mad, just disappointed. 84 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 2: You can't open a window, he moans, it's suffocating. This 85 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 2: was partially by design for safety reasons. The Stones are 86 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 2: sequestered in their own building, a long and low barracks 87 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 2: like structure with all kinds of separate entrances that lock. 88 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 2: It's perfect for security, but the views leave something to 89 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 2: be desired. Jagger misses that essential vista the bridge, the bay, 90 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 2: the sails, and the sky. For the STP tax squad, 91 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 2: this is a full scale disaster, and they run in 92 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 2: circles to make it right. Some plays frantic calls to 93 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 2: Marin County real estate agents in search of rapid rentals. 94 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: Others make quick inspections of more regal hotels downtown. All 95 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 2: this angst in activity results from the whims of one man. 96 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 2: It reminded Robert Greenfield of a highly influential magazine profile 97 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 2: a fellow writer. 98 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 3: Gay Talise, great journalist. His iconic piece about Frank Sinatra 99 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 3: and Esquire, which was mind blowing. The lead is Frank 100 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 3: Sinatra has a cold, and you see that lead all 101 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 3: the time now, But it's about how Frank Mick, same guy, right, 102 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 3: having a cold impacted all of these people. It's the 103 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 3: imperial command that we are not amused. I mean, anything 104 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 3: you say will be taken to task. 105 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 2: Lest you think he's a total diva. It's important to 106 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 2: say that Mick was very aware of his outsized role 107 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 2: in the STP hierarchy and his effect on people in general. 108 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 2: By his mere presence, he changes any event that he's 109 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 2: involved in. It isn't always fun. In fact, it rarely is. 110 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 2: It's deeply unnatural to have your every desire often muttered 111 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 2: in the moment as a passing thought. Take it as 112 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 2: a direct order by a crew of producers. It might 113 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 2: sound awesome, but in practice the responsibility can be crushing. 114 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 2: As a result, Nick took an almost paternal perspective during 115 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 2: the STP tour. Here he is talking about it in 116 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy two, courtesy of our friends at the Northwestern 117 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 2: University Archives. 118 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 4: I mean a couse. Once on the road and being 119 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 4: in the band was responsible to the band, which is really, really. 120 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 5: Really limiting as well. 121 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 6: Then you're married to them all. 122 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 4: And responsible for them all as well, their health well being. 123 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 2: What you do affects them. 124 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 4: If you step off the line and it affects everyone else. 125 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 4: If you decide to take a year off, it affects 126 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 4: everyone else. If you decide to take three months off, 127 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 4: it affects everyone else. In your conscious side, yeah, I am. 128 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 2: Once Mick realizes the stress storm he's unleashed among the 129 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: STP tactical squad, he immediately begins to walk it back. 130 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 2: Let's stay. He says, it's not so bad as all that. 131 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 2: Greenfield and Gary Stromberg in sys that Mick wasn't unreasonable. 132 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 2: Despite his vaulted status. 133 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 3: Jagger could always rein himself in. He was not imperious, 134 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 3: He was never over the top. He wasn't that difficult. 135 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 3: Considering the level of fame, talent, and stardom. He was 136 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 3: not difficult. 137 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 7: He didn't make any mistakes. He was always in control, 138 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 7: never made mistakes. Keith Wood was walking, yeah, he was 139 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 7: just a walking blunder. But Jagger was always in control. 140 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 7: Even when he was loaded, he was always in control. 141 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 7: He wouldn't make a mistake. 142 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 2: As they settled in the rooms, the Stones were visited 143 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 2: by promoter extraordinaire Bill Graham, godfather of the San Francisco 144 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 2: music scene. Bill had Laspin heard from publicly calling Mick 145 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 2: the Sea word in the pages of Rolling Stone Magazine 146 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 2: following the fallout at Altamont and a less than smooth 147 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 2: gig they'd played for him in Oakland around that same time. 148 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 2: Unpleasantries have been exchanged on both sides, but now that 149 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: they were again bonded by business interests, it was time 150 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 2: to bury the hatchet. Mick walks straight up to Bill, 151 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 2: extends a hand and greets him warmly. Bill accepts this 152 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: as a tacit apology and responds in kind, After all, 153 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 2: he hadn't exactly been mister congeniality. Bill Graham is often 154 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 2: the first to admit that sometimes there's no bigger jerk 155 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 2: than Bill Graham, and the Stones also know they weren't faultless. 156 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 2: The nineteen sixty nine tor had been their first trek 157 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 2: across America since the mid sixties. The live music game 158 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 2: had advanced by light years in that period, and the 159 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 2: Stones's logistics were a shambles. Altamot was just the most 160 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 2: obvious result of that, as far as Keith Richards was concerned, 161 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 2: no wonder they pissed off Bill Graham. 162 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 8: I mean, he's got on very well with him as 163 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 8: he works as are, and he knows we do, you know, 164 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 8: and he knows that we were that much more vulnerable 165 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 8: in sixty nine because such crappy organization, you know, our 166 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 8: fault really, I mean basically because it was our organization, 167 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 8: you know. But we hadn't toured since the semi buffered this, 168 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 8: you know, and things have changed a lot in those 169 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 8: three years, and we had to find out, you know, 170 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:17,079 Speaker 8: And there's only one way to do it, and that 171 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 8: was the way you went in the first way. You 172 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 8: just have to go there and do it and find out, 173 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 8: you know. 174 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,599 Speaker 2: More importantly, Bill Graham is one of the few trustworthy 175 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 2: figures in an industry filled with hustlers and charlatan's. As 176 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 2: the Stones basis, Bill Wyman was quick to point out 177 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 2: the band knew a thing or two about those. 178 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 9: They don't play fair, they don't play straight, and there's 179 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 9: very few people that are fairing straight in the music 180 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 9: industry that can get on very well have a good name. 181 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 2: They all screw you. 182 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 9: Everybody they all screw you for the extra ten dollars, 183 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 9: the extra fifty dollars, which fucked up their whole scene 184 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 9: with that artist and gives them a bad name. And 185 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 9: then somebody else comes along and just joined up for them, 186 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:57,839 Speaker 9: and it goes on from there, and it happens all 187 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 9: the time, and I just can't understand it. 188 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 2: In addition to being honest, he treated bands with respect. 189 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: That alone made him a unicorn in music circles. Besides, 190 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 2: the guy had class. The shows he produced had an 191 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 2: unparalleled sense of style and gravitas. He made rock and 192 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 2: roll professional. And that's not an insult. 193 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 10: I've used a very simple knowledge of many years in 194 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 10: my relationship. 195 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 11: To an artist. 196 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 10: You get two filets the exact same way, season, the 197 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 10: same way. You put one on a picker plate with 198 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 10: plastic book and the other one a piece of china 199 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 10: with my silver, the same piece of stake. Somehow, Basico, 200 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 10: I made it a point to always be friendly with 201 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 10: all of them, but never to say, never to give 202 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 10: them the feeling that I thought, well, I'm the producer, 203 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 10: I have a right to thread red with you. I'm 204 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 10: the producer. I have a right to coming addressing Hey, 205 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 10: I know I'm Bill Ram but I know they're rolling stones. 206 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 10: I don't know what that means to anybody else. It 207 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 10: does because I have self respect and I think we're 208 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 10: good at what we do. 209 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 2: With a handshake, the bad blood's gone, the past is erased. 210 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 2: Now there's only the future. Like what to do that night? Bill, 211 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 2: what's going on in town? Mick asks him. So, there's 212 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 2: some good soul music on somewhere, but Bill's got bad news. 213 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 2: It's Monday. The town's dead. Come on, Bill, Mick teases, 214 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 2: this is your town. Let's get out and do something. 215 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 2: Finding himself in the unenviable position of being put on 216 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 2: the spot by his headliner, Bill places a quick call 217 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 2: to Frank Werber. Frank runs The Trident, a sacelito hotspot 218 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 2: famed for innovative, gustatorial offerings like sashimi, espresso and a 219 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 2: full juice bar, and its staff were just as famous. 220 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 3: The tried and had the most beautiful waitresses and a planet. 221 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 3: Frank Werber, the former manager of the Kingston Trio, also 222 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 3: was a marijuana smuggler. 223 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 5: He ran it. 224 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 3: It was the hippest place to eat in marin He 225 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 3: knew how to cater to a vand like no one. 226 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 2: Like the rest of the city, the Tridents traditionally closed on. 227 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 2: Further complicating matters is the fact that Werber's currently serving 228 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 2: a prison sentence for a potbust, but he's out on 229 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 2: furlough and willing to do everything he can to open 230 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 2: his restaurant just for Bill and the Boys. And so 231 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 2: it's settled. The Rolling Stones are going to dinner. But 232 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: this isn't like any dinner you've ever been to. You 233 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 2: better get ready. A private dinner for the Rolling Stones 234 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,120 Speaker 2: at the Bay Area's best restaurant may sound ideal, but 235 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 2: it provides a unique set of emotional stressors for the 236 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 2: SDP support staff. To understand, you have to consider the 237 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 2: unique politics of being around the band. If you yourself 238 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 2: aren't famous, competition to get close to them is fierce, 239 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 2: and to stay close is even fiercer. It's like a 240 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: gabe of musical chairs with junkie level intensity. Proximity to 241 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 2: the Stones. This is a drug, and the drug is 242 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 2: in short supply. If you don't move fast, you'll lose out. 243 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 2: As Robert Greenfield writes in STP, getting close to the 244 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 2: Stones is like getting to see God and sleep with 245 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 2: your favorite movie star At the same time, a milage 246 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: of nervous emotions, both sacred and profane. There's no sure 247 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 2: sign that your STP credits slipped than getting shut out 248 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 2: of a limo with one of the principal players. Hey man, 249 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: try the next car down. We're full up. Yeah, I'm 250 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 2: sure there's room back there. Devastating high paranoia time, lots 251 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 2: of eye games. People are so intent on maintaining their 252 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: own position close to the action that they're afraid to 253 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 2: look at untouchable in the face for fear of contagion. 254 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 2: Greenfield discussed this phenomenon with Charlie Watts back in nineteen 255 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 2: seventy two. Here he is courtesy of the Northwestern University Archives. 256 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 5: There's a competition to be with the guys who are 257 00:14:58,760 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 5: in the band? 258 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 12: Is it feeling that I like, if i'm if we 259 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 12: go out to eat, you know, what did you do? 260 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 2: I went out there with Charlie. 261 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 5: Oh you know, you did something, whereas it. 262 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 11: We went out to eat with any next toys. 263 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 3: Wouldn't be the same, Yeah, you know, which I thought 264 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 3: was really strange. 265 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 2: You know, like if I ride with Keith in the 266 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 2: first limousine and so oh far out, you know, if 267 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 2: I who sits next to who in the plane, And 268 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 2: it's something I always felt. There wasn't like just people 269 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 2: sitting with each other. 270 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 10: There was always always never coach a. 271 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 2: Lot of games. 272 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 11: I just played a lot as always there's always games. 273 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 11: He's been up with the Rolling Stone though, Fish, I 274 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 11: mean the magazine. You know, there's always games, and I say, 275 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 11: you say you're gonna play them or what you're gonna 276 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 11: do to them? 277 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 2: Like a royal court. The pecking order was constantly shifting. 278 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 2: Eventually you just learned to live with it and take 279 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 2: it day by day. 280 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 5: It kind of sorted itself out. 281 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 3: Keith and Mick always were separate, you know, and there 282 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 3: were the little subgroups, like if we were in a limo, 283 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 3: would I'd be with Gary Chris O'Dell and Joe Bergman. 284 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 5: We were in the support group. 285 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 7: The artists to seem to know who they wanted to 286 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 7: hang out with. I think was whoever you were with 287 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 7: in the moment, especially with Keith. I think anybody that 288 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 7: you if you weren't getting high with Keith that day 289 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 7: you were you were in the limo with him. 290 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 5: It was also how amusing you were. 291 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 3: I was always conscious to this, if you were funny 292 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 3: and if you made Keith laugh then he would want 293 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,119 Speaker 3: to hang out. 294 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 2: In the moment. 295 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, I always in the moment. 296 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 7: Whatever was worked in the moment. 297 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 5: But you didn't have to get high to be with Keith. 298 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 3: Just like if you hit it with a funny line 299 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 3: or said so, you could say anything to him like 300 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 3: what are you what the fuck are you doing? 301 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 5: And he got it. You know, he thought that was cool. Right. 302 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 5: They wouldn't say that to Mick. So never. 303 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 2: Spending extended periods around a famous person is a funny thing. 304 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 2: After a while, they stopped being walking magazines or breathing 305 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 2: album covers and just become another person. When or if 306 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 2: this happens depends on the celebrity. But Gary Stromberg was 307 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 2: surprised at how quickly the Rolling Stones became just the 308 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 2: guys for me. 309 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 7: At first, I was very tent about my place and 310 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 7: this thing. But they were very easy for me to 311 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 7: deal with, especially Keith. Keith just you know, if you 312 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 7: like Bob said you said something funny, he was you 313 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 7: were in. And if he liked you, you were in. 314 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 7: I just felt very easy around him. Mick I was 315 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 7: always a little bit cautious about not that he was 316 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 7: moody or anything. But he was just reserved and you 317 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 7: just just felt that there were lines that you didn't 318 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 7: cross with him. 319 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 2: Despite months on the road and untold more working with 320 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 2: him as his pr rep Gary Stromberg never felt like 321 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 2: he truly got to know Mick in the way that 322 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 2: he did Keith and the rest of the band. 323 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 7: Jagger always maintained a distance. You could get only so 324 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,719 Speaker 7: far into who him as his personality and really what 325 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 7: drove him, but no further. He never revealed the real 326 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,959 Speaker 7: personal stuff. He's very guarded. He's just in control. I mean, 327 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 7: he's probably very very good at it to give them 328 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 7: depression that you're seeing the real Jagger, but he'll only 329 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,120 Speaker 7: let you go so far. 330 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 2: Even Charlie Watts, one of just a handful of people 331 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 2: who share the full scope of the Stones experience, would 332 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 2: admit that Mick was sometimes hard to get a handle on. 333 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 11: A bit of an enigma, isn't he? 334 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 5: Heyah, are you sure? 335 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 11: He is an enigmas difficult? And I love him, you know, 336 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 11: I like him an awful lot. I do. I do 337 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 11: like him awful. I respect him a lot of well, 338 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 11: part ben I respect him as far further than being 339 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 11: a performer, and I respect his words. 340 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 6: And I don't think he's written well and talking to aid. 341 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 11: I respect him a great deal. 342 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 7: I do a lot. 343 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 11: But I also know the thing that people go through 344 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 11: when they see him. For some reason, I think I'm 345 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 11: more pressed than he is. 346 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 5: Well, if you understand why it's himin are you? 347 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 2: And why it is that miss a. 348 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 1: Better looking point. 349 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 2: As a fleet of limos took off in the direction 350 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 2: of Sacelito, the weight staff at the trident or ready 351 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,959 Speaker 2: ing the premises, pushing tables together and generally getting loose 352 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 2: so that when the stones arrive it'll. 353 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 5: All be really mellow. 354 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 2: You see, getting loose so that things will be mellow, 355 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: or key concepts in Marin County in nineteen seventy two. 356 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 2: As the evening wears on, the staff start to wonder, Wow, 357 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 2: are they really coming? Will they show? I wonder wow? 358 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 2: Could they? Do you think? By the time the lights 359 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 2: of the small fleet of limos appear on the bridgeway 360 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 2: and turn down the hill in the Saucelito, the expectation 361 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 2: in the room is nyon mannic. Then suddenly a voice 362 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 2: cries out, it's them, They're coming, and everyone freezes right 363 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 2: where they are Luckily they shake themselves out of it. 364 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 2: By the time the Stones enter, Jagger surveys the scene 365 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 2: and grins. He knows it's going to be one of 366 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 2: those nights. San Francisco as a reputation for loose, laid 367 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 2: back mellow, and it was all for him, recall the 368 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 2: mere hours before They'll tried. It was scheduled to be 369 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 2: closed this night. But as it's been well established, the 370 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 2: universe bends around the Stones. No matter what they did, 371 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 2: they played by their own unique set of rules, even 372 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,439 Speaker 2: something as simple as going out to dinner. It's a 373 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 2: completely different experience to anything a normal human would recognize. 374 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 3: Much like the Queen. You do not carry any money 375 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 3: or need any money. You never have money. You don't 376 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 3: have a wallet, you don't have a driver's license. I 377 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 3: don't know if you pack your own bag. 378 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 7: No, you don't do any of that stuff. 379 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 2: I never saw it. 380 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 7: You never seen any of the Stones with money at all, 381 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 7: because they never needed money. 382 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 3: We would go into restaurants and I'd be sitting at 383 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 3: the same table with Charlie and Mick, and they a human, 384 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 3: they got to eat. They never ordered anything that was 385 00:20:59,400 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 3: on the menu. 386 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:00,639 Speaker 5: Way do it? 387 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 3: Come over and Charles say, ah, could you make me? 388 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 3: And they would come up like could you have tomato 389 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 3: with uh? 390 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 5: Maybe? 391 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 3: And there was they knew who the Stones were, and 392 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 3: the guy be writing like a maniac, you know, and 393 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,199 Speaker 3: I thought, whoa, this is the way to you, just 394 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 3: whatever you think. And they bring it out and will 395 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 3: hope you like it, you know, like guys in the 396 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 3: kitchen and saying, oh god, man, I never made one 397 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 3: of these before. They didn't have they weren't constrained by 398 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 3: the menu. Okay, so this reminded me. We went to 399 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 3: dinner in Saint Louis. I don't know why I remember this, 400 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 3: but there was a dinner party was thrown for the 401 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 3: Stones in Saint Louis by some promoter or some big shot, 402 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 3: and we had a private dining room and it was 403 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 3: really elegant, and elegant is not Stones. 404 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 7: And they sent over the wine what do you call 405 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 7: theer with And he brings a presentation of this exclusive 406 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 7: bottle of wine and he shows it to Keith, and 407 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 7: Keith asks for the bottle and he takes the bottle 408 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 7: and he starts drinking out of the bottle and the 409 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 7: sumner almost fainted when he'said it. 410 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 5: Was Keith say a few like don't show me the label, 411 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 5: show me. I don't care what it is. 412 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 7: Or is here to drink, not to look at. 413 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 5: No glass, no true glass. 414 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 7: Yeah, I know how to drink this stuff makes. 415 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 5: Why no total? Why know stuff? 416 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 2: Alcohol? 417 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 7: Was there to be drunk. 418 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 3: He was also taking the piss that's the English expression, 419 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 3: like let me see what I can do in this 420 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 3: situation to make it. 421 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 2: Absurd, making this formal. 422 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 7: And we don't need all of that stuff. I don't 423 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 7: need a guy in tuxedo showing me a bottle and 424 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 7: wanting me to look at the label. 425 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 2: If you're not going to pour it, I'll drink it nice. 426 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 5: Yeah. 427 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,360 Speaker 2: And speaking of alcohol, Boo's history was made this night, 428 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,719 Speaker 2: June fifth, nineteen seventy two. For it was there at 429 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 2: the tried It and sauclid, looking out at the same 430 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 2: view that had inspired Otis Redding to write, sitting on 431 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 2: the dock of the bay that the Rolling Stones discovered 432 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 2: the tequila sunrise. This potent mix of orange juice, tequila, 433 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 2: and grenadine became the official beverage of The Stones nineteen 434 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 2: seventy two Johns across America. According to lore, the SDP 435 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 2: entourage passed the recipe along to every bartender they met 436 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 2: while on the road. Like Tipsy Johnny Appleseed's, they allowed 437 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 2: the drink to flourish across the United States. Hey, this 438 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 2: was at least a year before the Eagles song. In 439 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 2: his twenty ten memoir Life, Keith renamed the seventy two 440 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 2: Trek the Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise Tour Hassver He's honest 441 00:23:46,520 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 2: to a fault. The sidewalk outside San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom 442 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,439 Speaker 2: is choked with kids swaddled in sleeping bags and ponchos, 443 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 2: thumbing through underground zines as they wait to see the Stones. 444 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 2: One guy I've and builds a crude lean to shed 445 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 2: against the wall of the venue. Bill Graham, as usual 446 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 2: as the consummate curmudgeon host, standing at the side door, 447 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 2: shouting at guests, who do you think you are? Johnny 448 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,399 Speaker 2: Superstar front door? Do you understand English? Front Door? Like 449 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 2: everyone else. Despite the damage that Altamont had done to 450 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 2: the band's reputation among locals, San Francisco still adored the Stones. 451 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 2: The radio network Cason, whose air waves had previously hosted 452 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 2: the president of the Oakland Hell's Angels slagging off Mick 453 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 2: Jagger in the wake of the murder ran a ticket 454 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 2: giveaway for their concert at Winterland. The prize went to 455 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 2: the most imaginative answer to the question what would you 456 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 2: do to get a pair of Rolling Stones tickets? The 457 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 2: gentleman who won said, shave off all the hair on 458 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 2: my body and smoke it. Ticket demands being it was 459 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,719 Speaker 2: the Stones could have easily filled the venue three times 460 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 2: the size of Winterland. In fact, the last time they 461 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 2: came through the Bay Area they did. But now they 462 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: opted for intimacy over avidity. 463 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 3: They played two shows a day at Winterland, an afternoon 464 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: show and then a show at night. Okay, and this 465 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 3: is the greatness of Keith and Mick. Their thing was 466 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 3: always to go from big to small. That's what Keith 467 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 3: called it. So in La they played the Palladium, credible gig. 468 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 3: Winterland was small. Wasn't Madison Square Garden. It wasn't that, 469 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 3: you know, eighteen thousand, wasn't Seattle, Vancouver, these horrible arenas. Cold, 470 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,399 Speaker 3: sound was spotty, as good as you try to make it. 471 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 3: They loved playing smaller venues always. Winterland was an incredible 472 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 3: place to see a band. There was no seating on 473 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 3: the floor, but there were balconies that went there a lot. 474 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 3: So Winterland was a former ice skating arena that Bill 475 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 3: Graham brilliantly inveigled his way into. Pete Townsend said it 476 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 3: was the perfect venue, the size, the sound, five thousand people, 477 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 3: although Bill could put a lot more in despite the fire. 478 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 5: Marshals, Okay, the. 479 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 3: Great story about the Dead, Rock Scully is not with 480 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 3: us anymore. The Dead played two nights. They played one 481 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 3: night and Rock had his people outside with clickers, counting 482 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 3: how many people were coming because they knew Bill was 483 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 3: not giving them an honest account. Then the next night 484 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 3: they were like, so many more people and Rock set 485 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 3: to Bill, Bill, what are you doing minutes? So many 486 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 3: more people? He said no, He said, what are you 487 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 3: talking about now? He said, last night everybody was fat. 488 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 3: Tonight they're thin. 489 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 2: The choice of venue was also an important gesture. Playing Winterlands, 490 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 2: rather than a gargantuan, antiseptic arena like the Oakland Colisseum, 491 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,200 Speaker 2: was a small form of penance for the disaster at Altamont. 492 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 2: Though they lost money, it telegraphed San Francisco music fans, look, 493 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 2: we're here to do the city right but the atmosphere 494 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 2: backstage is tense, and not just because of steamed Peers 495 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 2: like Neil Young, Jerry Garcia and the Jefferson Airplane were 496 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 2: in the house. Rumors of retaliation from the Hell's Angels 497 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 2: have reverberated throughout the STP echo chamber for weeks, if 498 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 2: not months. No one's sure what's real and what isn't, 499 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 2: But as bassist Bill Wyman told Robert Greenfield, it was 500 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 2: never far from their minds. Oh where were you of 501 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 2: the angels thin equipments? 502 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 11: They had ever been explained to you. 503 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 9: I'd heard rumors. I hadn't been sort of personally talked 504 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 9: about it. I'm sure mckhay. I heard rumors that there's 505 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 9: a bit of travel from the angels and net to 506 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 9: minded all the all the money for the wires, and 507 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 9: it was. 508 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 2: Or where it came from. 509 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 9: I don't know that, but I just overheard things like that. 510 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 9: I never got involved in the discussions about it. 511 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 2: Even the unflappable Charlie Watts was concerned. 512 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 6: I never ever the thought of the angels, and there's 513 00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 6: never been a big thing in my life. 514 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 7: But no fear that might come at you on this too. 515 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, man, I'll tell you why. You know, 516 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 6: I'll tell you why because I had thoughts about it, 517 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 6: but I mean, oh yeah, I'll worry. 518 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 1: Man, I don't don't. 519 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 6: Fucking blown up is so much, so don't any better. 520 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,919 Speaker 6: I'm one of those in the booths off, you know. 521 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,879 Speaker 7: I think that we were aware of the potential for 522 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 7: disruption on this tour, that things could happen. But I 523 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 7: think they were as well prepared as you could be 524 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 7: for the eventualities that would occur in terms of security. 525 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 2: Despite this, everyone has their own particular paranoia. Mick Taylor 526 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 2: was worried that hysteria sparked by just one or two 527 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 2: people even would sweep through the crowd like wildfire. 528 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 12: I was a bit worried about it, you know, because 529 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 12: of what had happened before. But I felt I felt 530 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 12: confident that we've done our best to ensure them nothing 531 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 12: like that would ever happened again. You stayed because you 532 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 12: can be sure. 533 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,959 Speaker 3: And things like that. 534 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 12: You can't control situations like that. 535 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 13: When he needs a. 536 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 12: Few crazy people in an audience to trigger off a 537 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 12: bit of panic, and it's just sprands, Dan bushfying. 538 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 2: Bill Graham has spent tens of thousands of dollars on 539 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 2: dozens of extra private cops and explicitly barred bikers from 540 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 2: entering his hall. He was more concerned with what would 541 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 2: happen after the show. 542 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 10: What I did theorize is that they are bright enough 543 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 10: not they just storm the front. But I also theorized 544 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 10: that that once they got inside, they could not show 545 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 10: themselves or their colors, because there's enough security around. My 546 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 10: feeling was in a truck with circle of block, and 547 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 10: as the Stones left, somehow three or four of them 548 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 10: would get backstage. Another way would be done. It would 549 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 10: be done like a bank robbery, or a train robbery, 550 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 10: or a heist of some sort. I had this. I 551 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 10: thought maybe they would kidnap one of them or get 552 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 10: And this sounds crazy, but I did think about these things. 553 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 2: Rumors that the Stones would get kidnapped, like a perfectly 554 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 2: planned bank job in some foreign suspense movie seemed a 555 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 2: lot more likely than the rumors of them getting assassinated. 556 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 2: After all, Mick Jagger was worth a lot more alive. 557 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 2: The Hell's Angels had made it clear soon after Altamont 558 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 2: that a little cash would have sufficed in lieu of 559 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 2: an apology. Call it a contribution to their legal defense fund. 560 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 2: After all, one of their brothers, Alan Pissarro, was taken 561 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 2: a trial for the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter. Sure 562 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 2: he was acquitted, but hey, that didn't come cheap. Wasn't 563 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 2: it the Stones fault that they were in this jam 564 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 2: in the first place? And if the band wouldn't fork 565 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 2: over the cash, perhaps they could play some sort of 566 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 2: fundraiser with a necessary coercion. These kidnapping threats, as well 567 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 2: as threats of lawsuits, were taken so seriously that STP 568 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 2: tour manager Peter flew halfway across the country mid tour 569 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 2: in order to meet with Hell's Angels representatives in New 570 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 2: York City. Rather than a serious attempt to broke her peace, 571 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 2: it was mostly just an attempt to appease the gang 572 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 2: and buy time until the tour was over. 573 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 5: There was no deal going to be made with the 574 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 5: Hell's angel They wanted money, yeah, they want It was 575 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 5: a shakedown. 576 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 3: It was a shakedown, and Peter knew that. He knew 577 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 3: the litigation had no chance. It was just a hassle. 578 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 7: I wish I could have seen that, though I would 579 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 7: have loved to see. I'm sure interaction. 580 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 3: I'm sure the Angels couldn't understand half of what Peter 581 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 3: was saying, not because they're stupid, but his accent. How 582 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 3: rapidly he spoke, he must have confused them. 583 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 2: I mean speaking to an alien. 584 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 3: Can I say, even now as I sit here, the 585 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 3: concept of the Rolling Stones doing a benefit angels? I mean, 586 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 3: what are we raising money for so you can buy 587 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 3: more drugs in motorcycles? 588 00:31:58,920 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 5: You know. 589 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 2: Keith Richards was less rattled by the whole thing. He 590 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 2: was embarrassed by the bodyguards who accompanied them everywhere they went, 591 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 2: as far as he was concerned a kidnapping attempt would 592 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 2: be a rookie move during the tour. 593 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 11: Before the tour, you were aware of any specific Cus 594 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 11: angel thinking about they're. 595 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 10: Going to come out to the band. 596 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 13: Of I had I heard about it in Texas? 597 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 2: Suit I don't. 598 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 13: I don't see you don't by the fact, for I 599 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 13: think that it was just an amateur dramatics. 600 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 4: So a lot of people, for Graham was they expected, 601 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 4: you know, had this fantasy of them coming. 602 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 10: At you know, at winter Land. Obviously some people thought 603 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 10: it was very real and. 604 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 13: There's too many cups around for those house angels to 605 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 13: walk into something like you know, I mean every two 606 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 13: and has got his The Riots Bros. Was stationed outside 607 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 13: of the Buck the auditorium, and so they know, no 608 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 13: fucking game work. It's thought it's going to walk into something. 609 00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 12: Like that, you know. 610 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 2: According to Mick, the vibes were bad even with the 611 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,120 Speaker 2: absence of any specific threats. 612 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 4: I was scared in San Francisco the. 613 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 12: Angels, who were. 614 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 4: Not specifically no, no, I'm not the Eye Jews, but 615 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 4: we're just we were just kind of scared. 616 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 2: Assassins are no assassins. There was a show to do 617 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 2: to in fact, that day. Once they go on stage, 618 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 2: the Stones are bulletproof. The band slashes into Brown Sugar 619 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 2: in the Bitch, with the bass and drums coming together 620 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 2: like a sledgehammer. The volume is so loud that it 621 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 2: makes the crowd's breastbones vibrate like tuning forks, so that 622 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 2: they feel it as much as they hear it and 623 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 2: have to dance. Sparkles rain down off Jagger's face and hair, 624 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 2: and the bells on his shoes tinkles. He leaps up 625 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 2: and down. The set accelerates as soon as the Stones 626 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 2: go in The Midnight Rambler with Jagger the actor portraying Jagger. 627 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 2: The singer and the band providing background music for the psychodrama. 628 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 2: By the end of the set, jaggers clinging to the 629 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 2: tops of the amps and screaming as Keith rocks and 630 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 2: stumbles through by by Johnny ripping away to his guitar 631 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 2: with his arm fully extended. It's a move that Pete 632 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 2: Townsend of The Hoo first saw him do in nineteen 633 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,360 Speaker 2: sixty four and promptly stole, turning it into his trademark windmill. 634 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 2: As they shift into their closer street fighting man, Mick 635 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 2: brings a box of rose petals on stage, kisses them, 636 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,800 Speaker 2: and sprinkles them into the crowd, who show their thanks 637 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 2: by throwing joints right back. With that, Nick whirls around, 638 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:49,840 Speaker 2: jumps and vanishes amid a solid wall of applause. The 639 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 2: crowd kicks and howls and whales and stomps on the floor, 640 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 2: demanding an encore. That the band's already gone. They felt good. 641 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,880 Speaker 2: Mick Taylor, the new guy. 642 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 10: In the band. 643 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 2: The last time the Stones hit San Francisco, knew they 644 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 2: nailed it. I was sixty nine. It was literally a 645 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 2: new band. 646 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 5: None of us have played together, and. 647 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 12: We were all a bit sort of timid, and we 648 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 12: were feeling our way, whereas on the book, as reason 649 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 12: to everybody was much looser. 650 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:23,680 Speaker 9: More of trump. 651 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,479 Speaker 12: I always I thought the music was much better. 652 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 2: One show down and three more to go. In San Francisco, 653 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 2: word on the street is no longer that the stones 654 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 2: might get killed, but that the stones already killed, and 655 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,720 Speaker 2: the scalpers' prices rise accordingly. Even Bill Graham is happy. 656 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 2: He bestows upon them the highest honorific in his vocabulary, professionals, 657 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 2: and those are few and far between in the laid 658 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 2: back Bay area music scene. Here he is talking to 659 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 2: Robert Greenfield in nineteen seventy two courtesy of the Northwestern 660 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 2: University Archive, and the Stone's One time. 661 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 10: Where the heroes of the revolutionary era, they are now 662 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 10: the heroes of people who appreciate entertainment. The point I've 663 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,760 Speaker 10: harped on one way or another few years and years. 664 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 14: Is there aren't enough professionals in that business. There isn't 665 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 14: enough for a professional attitude in our business that when 666 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 14: the public plays to see you, don't tell me you're 667 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:17,920 Speaker 14: just doing your thing. Don't tell me it's like being 668 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 14: in your living mean, not in the living room. 669 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,000 Speaker 10: You at the avalon you at Economy Hall. If you 670 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 10: walk on a stage and there's somebody out there you. 671 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:25,880 Speaker 5: Are paid to entertain. 672 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:27,839 Speaker 10: You may not like the title. One of the things 673 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 10: that you are is that you're a professional entertainer and you, oh, 674 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:36,120 Speaker 10: you can't say like too many musicians' attitude is hey man, 675 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 10: you caught me on a bed like like diggot, What. 676 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:38,760 Speaker 2: Do you mean, biggot? 677 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 10: I've saved eight dollars on a part time job or 678 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 10: sunny hair show or whatever to come to see you, 679 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 10: and I want to be entertained. 680 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:46,879 Speaker 7: That's what's part of life. 681 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,319 Speaker 10: There's an exchange there. And I don't want to watch 682 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,400 Speaker 10: you knitting in your living room. Jagie. You want to 683 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 10: look at Garcia. There isn't a nicer person in rock 684 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,439 Speaker 10: and roll. But hey, I don't want to look at Jerry. 685 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 10: You know for more than ten to fifteen minutes. 686 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 2: He ain't pretty. 687 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,480 Speaker 10: He's a great guitar player. As a dance how many 688 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,080 Speaker 10: bands are greedy? 689 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 7: Entertained? 690 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,799 Speaker 14: And know how? Know how? 691 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:06,920 Speaker 4: I don't say. 692 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:07,640 Speaker 14: Just as a producer. 693 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,520 Speaker 10: I were a fan and I went to a pound 694 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 10: to see the Rolling Stones. I said, holy shit, that's 695 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 10: a special Joyce location. 696 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 4: I thought it was. 697 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 2: The next three shows were the same story. They were 698 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 2: so hot that somebody called the fire department to say 699 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:28,400 Speaker 2: that Winterland was going up in flames. Five engines arrived 700 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 2: with screaming sirens and flashing lights, which no doubt did 701 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 2: wonders for those under the influence of hallucinogenics. The Stones 702 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,239 Speaker 2: had done what they'd set out to do, returned to 703 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 2: San Francisco as champions, and went over the populace. They're 704 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 2: whereabouts inevitably get around, and soon the lobby of the 705 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,320 Speaker 2: Miaco Hotel is packed with friends, fans, and well wishers. 706 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,359 Speaker 2: Bluesman John Lee Hooker even paid them a visit backstage, 707 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,320 Speaker 2: singing along the Stones boogie while Keith filled in on guitar. 708 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,800 Speaker 2: Bill throws them a party at his favorite French restaurant, 709 00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,480 Speaker 2: All gold and burgundy silks gathered at the ceiling and 710 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,480 Speaker 2: mirrors on the wall, chilled white wine, s cargo guilt 711 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:17,520 Speaker 2: and continental service the best. They're still riding high when 712 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 2: they climb aboard their private jet due for their next 713 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 2: porter call, Los Angeles. As they took their seats, a 714 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,560 Speaker 2: beautiful woman in hot pants talks her way to the 715 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,880 Speaker 2: cabin door for probably not the first time nor the 716 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,879 Speaker 2: last time on this door. Gee, she says sweetly, could 717 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,439 Speaker 2: I ask the band for an autograph for my daughter? 718 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 2: She loves them, so the woman oozes, sunny California goodness. 719 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,319 Speaker 2: How could they resist? They invite her aboard. She makes 720 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 2: a bee line for the obvious choice. Are you Mick Jagger? 721 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 2: She asks breathily. He nods yes with a grin. Then 722 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 2: her smile falls. She pulls a stack of papers out 723 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,160 Speaker 2: of her back and shoves them under his nose. I'm 724 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 2: here by serving you, Michael Phillip Jagger with the following. 725 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,040 Speaker 3: He thought she was coming on to him or something, 726 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 3: and then she hit him with the subpoenas having to 727 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,560 Speaker 3: do with the Hell's Angels litigation against Jagger for Altamont, 728 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 3: And that was a shock that somebody could get access 729 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,239 Speaker 3: to serve him. I just have this memory of when 730 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,240 Speaker 3: he got served. It was a sheaf of legal papers 731 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 3: and I remember them blowing out of his hand and 732 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,960 Speaker 3: flying all over the airport because he couldn't care less. 733 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 2: The sweet lady is instantly ejected from the aircraft, rocketing 734 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 2: unsteadily down the stairs with cries of he hit me, 735 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,360 Speaker 2: he hit me. The son of a bitch hit me. 736 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,480 Speaker 2: Keith follows behind her, standing in the doorway with a 737 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,640 Speaker 2: stack of legal summons, which he scatters along the tarmac 738 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,800 Speaker 2: with a wave of his hand. This is problem solving 739 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:59,400 Speaker 2: rolling Stone style. Alan Passaro, the Hell's Angel acquitted for 740 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,560 Speaker 2: the murder of Meredith Hunter at Altamont, was found dead 741 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,720 Speaker 2: in a California reservoir in nineteen eighty five. His pockets 742 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,520 Speaker 2: were filled with ten thousand dollars in cash. Because of 743 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:14,759 Speaker 2: death was suspicious, but the case was never solved. Interestingly, 744 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,360 Speaker 2: just a few years before, in nineteen seventy nine, the 745 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,880 Speaker 2: Angels finally mounted their decade delayed attempt to assassinate Mick Jagger. 746 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,439 Speaker 2: It failed spectacularly. The plan was to attack Mike while 747 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,960 Speaker 2: he vacationed in Montauk Long Island, where he was staying 748 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 2: in a rented beach house belonging to Andy Warhol. The 749 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,320 Speaker 2: plot involved assembling a death squad, hiring a boat, and 750 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,400 Speaker 2: invading from the water like Navy seals. They would then 751 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,400 Speaker 2: detonate bombs they'd set around the perimeter of the house. 752 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,640 Speaker 2: The scheme was doomed from the outset when their boat 753 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,160 Speaker 2: got caught in a storm and capsized. The water logged 754 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,960 Speaker 2: angels barely made it back to shore without drowning. After that, 755 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,279 Speaker 2: they gave up on the whole rev mission against Mick 756 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 2: and vowed not to speak of it again. Mick himself 757 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,319 Speaker 2: didn't find out about this attempt until almost thirty years later, 758 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight. It was a strange, albeit 759 00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,920 Speaker 2: valuable lesson for the Stones and their associates. Escaping the 760 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:39,280 Speaker 2: past would never be easy. Stone's Touring Party was written 761 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:40,520 Speaker 2: and hosted by Jordan. 762 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,680 Speaker 1: Runtalk Co Executive produced by Noel Brown and Jordan Runtime, 763 00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,040 Speaker 1: edited in sound design by Noel Brown and Michael Alder June. 764 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,719 Speaker 1: Original music composed and performed by Michael Alder June and 765 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,279 Speaker 1: Noel Brown, with additional instrument performed by Chris Suarez, Nick 766 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,680 Speaker 1: Johns Cooper, and Josh Thain. 767 00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:57,960 Speaker 2: Vintage Rolling Stones audio. 768 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,880 Speaker 1: Courtesy of the Robert Greenfield Archives, the Charles during McCormick Library, 769 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,920 Speaker 1: and special collections in Northwestern University Libraries. Stone Sturing Times 770 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:19,600 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 771 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,600 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your 772 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:23,320 Speaker 1: favorite shows.