Rolling Stones - 1972-06-15 Albuquerque v1

Rolling Stones

1972-06-15 Albuquerque

0:00 Introduction by Chip Monck
0:41 Brown Sugar
4:26 Bitch
9:19 Rocks Off
13:46 Gimme Shelter
19:29 Happy
23:05 Tumbling Dice
28:29 Love In Vain
35:03 Sweet Virginia
40:32 You Can't Always Get What You Want
48:21 All Down The Line
52:45 Midnight Rambler
1:04:09 Band introductions
1:05:12 Bye Bye Johnny
1:08:34 Rip This Joint
1:11:09 Jumpin' Jack Flash
1:14:49 Street Fighting Man

Hard to hear the band on this one. Jagger comes through more clearly, and Mick Taylor is close to the edge of intelligibility. It's much better when the audience isn't clapping along, but this one may be for us completists. The Stones (or ABKCO?) won't be releasing this anytime soon, but the band is rocking...

Notes from stoneslib.homestead.com. Edited by Flip.

Mick Jagger interview backstage before Albuquerque show, Washington Post, 1972-06-22, Leroy Aarons. [The promoter is nervous because Stevie Wonder is already on and the Stones haven't arrived yet]

"The Stones arrive finally, in an anonymous-type vehicle [a motor home], and tumble quickly into the dressing room. The dressing room is a cornucopia of food, soda and liquor. Jagger, between sips of Jose Cuervo tequila, agrees to talk briefly.

What is your sense of American audiences so far this year?

"They don't seem to be quite so stoned as they were... I think they're more straight. Possibly younger."

I'm talking about crowd psychology.

"Every crowd is different... They are different every year, every crowd, every town, every audience, every one, first show, second show, [illegible], same as it was three years ago. These aren't the same kids that came three tears ago."

Were you at all concerned about the possibility of another Altamont?

"Well we're not giving a free concert this time. We had a very good tour for the most part last time. All these concerts are controlled by the promoters. We're just a band. If a policeman runs out there and kills some kid outside, I'm afraid there's not much I can do about it... While we do everything to make sure, as far as we can, there's no guarantee that nothing's going to happen."

You once said that you thought your lyrics were "crap." Do you still feel that way?

"Yeah, I'm not a very good lyric writer..."

What about "You Can't Always Get What You Want?"

"It's a nice song, but I don't think it stands up as verse. It stands up because I can sing it... If you can get into 'em singing and then you can make it, even if it's just mediocre. The way you do it, you know, can make it sound better than it really is..."

But it is time to go on. The crowd is hot, but so is the unairconditioned arena. The acoustics are poor, and there was no way to mount the huge reflecting mirror... a Chip Monck innovation that bounces light onto the stage."

[After the show] AIRBORNE TO DENVER-Jagger is in a post-concert funk. He moves restlessly up and down the aisle of the Electra Turboprop charter the Stones rented from the McCulloch Oil people. "It wasn't so good tonight," he mumbles to anyone who will hear it. "It wasn't so awful, but it wasn't so good." It's a rainy night, and the pilot-who is used to ferrying middle-classed retirees to Lake Havasu - announces there might be turbulence. Jagger blanches. "He's very nervous about planes," Jo Bergman says." Notes from The Tribal Messenger (underground paper), 1972-07-15, Ted "There have been two occasions in my life when I was absolutely mystically high. Now there have been three. ... the occasions were the first times I saw the Jefferson Airplane and The Byrds. (separately) Besides the flawless technical performance they gave, simply the fact that the Stones themselves were there was enough to put you in the twilight zone. The original English bad-kids, from the days when the local greasers down the street kicked your ass cause you wore your hair like a Beatle, from the days of when your parents told you, "Couldn't you at least look like the Beatles, at least they're neat?" from out of those days come the band that stuck through it all - Jesus. I'm getting spaced just remembering it. I've had my rush for the summer. I have seen the Rolling Stones."

Notes continued in comments section.