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June 6, 1964: ‘San Antonio Teen Fair’, Joe Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, TX, USA (2 shows) A stage set, a fair buzzing, and a British invasion underway. But instead of swooning fans, The Stones were met with a cold front of disapproval at the Joe Freeman Coliseum. It was an event wrapped in multiple names over the years — the San Antonio State Fair, the Teen Fair — but one thing remained certain: that night, Texas wasn’t feeling the Stones. The low-energy reception reportedly turned downright hostile. One newspaper review — unearthed years later on San Antonio drummer John Gates’ website — didn’t hold back: “Rolling Stones Flop in Texas” Far from the adoring chaos they were used to, the band faced boos instead of applause. The night hit its surreal peak when, according to a slim but colorful news report, they exited the stage amid jeers — and were replaced not by another band, but by a troupe of performing monkeys. Yes, monkeys. For one strange night in San Antonio, the Stones couldn’t compete with primates in costumes.
Bill Wyman on his book Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band: “On the bill with us were George Jones, the great country singer, and singer Bobby Vee. Here we first met Bobby Keys, who was playing sax with Vee’s band. Keys was born in Lubbock, Texas (the same town as Buddy Holly) on the same day as Keith, which practically made them blood-brothers. The concert was in the open air and everyone got a poor reception from a mixed crowd of cowboys and kids. We had to go on after some performing monkeys. What the hell were we doing here? People didn’t know whether to take us seriously or as a joke!…
…What had we let ourselves in for? Crowds were great to us at airports and hotels but these two shows set us back years!… The next day while we were sunbathing around the hotel pool in a temperature of 95°, a young waiter who was serving us drinks said that a guest had complained to the hotel that girls were at the pool, swimming and sunbathing topless — that was us!”
Keith Richards on his book Life (2010): “On to Texas and more freak show appearances, in one case with a pool of performing seals between us and the audience at the San Antonio Texas State Fair. That was where I first met Bobby Keys, the great saxophone player, my closest pal. … The other guy on that gig was George Jones. They trailed in with tumbleweed following them, as if tumbleweed was their pet. Dust all over the place, a bunch of cowboys. But when George got up, we went whoa, there’s a master up there.”
June 6, 1975: Release of the Metamorphosis album (Decca SKL 5212) SIDE A: 1. Out Of Time/ 2. Don’t Lie To Me/ 3. Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind/ 4. Each And Every Day Of The Year/ 5. Heart Of Stone/ 6. I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys/ 7. Sleepy City/ 8. We’re Wastin’ Time/ 9. Try A Little Harder SIDE B: 1. I Don’t Know Why/ 2. If You Let Me/ 3. Jiving Sister Fanny/ 4. Downtown Suzie/ 5. Family/ 6. Memo From Turner/ 7. I’m Going Down
June 6, 1976: Pavillon De Paris (Les Abattoirs), Paris, France Honky Tonk Women/If You Can’t Rock Me-Get Off Of My Cloud/Hand Of Fate/Hey Negrita/Ain’t Too Proud To Beg/Fool To Cry/Hot Stuff/Star Star/Angie/You Gotta Move/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band introduction/Happy/Tumbling Dice/Nothing From Nothing/Outa Space/Midnight Rambler/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Street Fighting Man
June 6, 1982: Niedersachsenstadion, Hannover, West Germany Under My Thumb/When The Whip Comes Down/Let’s Spend The Night Together/ Shattered/Neighbours/ Black Limousine/Just My Imagination/Twenty Flight Rock/Going To A Go Go/Chantilly Lace/Let Me Go/Time Is On My Side/Beast Of Burden/Let It Bleed/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Band introduction/Little T & A/Tumbling Dice/She’s So Cold/Hang Fire/Miss You/Honky Tonk Women/Brown Sugar/Start Me Up/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction
June 6, 1986: Keith joins Chuck Berry onstage at the Annual Blues Festival in Chicago on 4 songs: Johnny B. Goode/ It Hurts Me Too/ Instrumental jam/ Reelin’ And Rockin’
June 6, 1990: Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany Start Me Up/Sad Sad Sad/Harlem Shuffle/Tumbling Dice/Miss You/Almost Hear You Sigh/Ruby Tuesday/Angie/Rock And A Hard Place/Mixed Emotions/Honky Tonk Women/Midnight Rambler/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Can’t Be Seen/Happy/Paint It Black/2000 Light Years From Home/Sympathy For The Devil/Street Fighting Man/Gimme Shelter/Band introduction/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction
June 6, 1995: Olympiastadion, Helsinki, Finland Not Fade Away/Tumbling Dice/You Got Me Rocking/Rocks Off/Live With Me/Sparks Will Fly/Satisfaction/Beast Of Burden/Wild Horses/Like A Rolling Stone/Rock And A Hard Place/I Go Wild/Miss You/Band introduction/Honky Tonk Women/Before They Make Me Run/Slipping Away/Sympathy For The Devil/Gimme Shelter/Street Fighting Man/Start Me Up/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Brown Sugar/Jumpin’ Jack Flash
June 6, 1999: Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, England Jumpin’ Jack Flash/You Got Me Rocking/Live With Me/Respectable/GimmeShelter/Ruby Tuesday/Honky Tonk Women/Saint Of Me/Out Of Control/Paint It Black/Band introduction/Before They Make Me Run/You Don’t Have To Mean It/Route 66/Like A Rolling Stone/Midnight Rambler/Sympathy For The Devil/Tumbling Dice/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Start Me Up/Brown Sugar/ Satisfaction
June 6, 2003: Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany Brown Sugar/You Got Me Rocking/Start Me Up/Don’t Stop/Rocks Off/ Wild Horses/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Bitch/Tumbling Dice/ Band introduction/Slipping Away/Happy/Sympathy For The Devil/Little Red Rooster/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Midnight Rambler/Gimme Shelter/Honky Tonk Women/Street Fighting Man/Satisfaction/Jumpin’ Jack Flash
June 6, 2006: Death of legendary keyboardist, talented musician and Stones sideman Billy Preston.
June 6, 2013: Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada Get Off Of My Cloud/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Paint It Black/Gimme Shelter/Worried About You /Rocks Off/Emotional Rescue/Doom And Gloom/One More Shot/Can’t You Hear Me Knocking/Honky Tonk Women/Band introduction/You Got The Silver/Before They Make Me Run/Midnight Rambler/Miss You/Start Me Up/Tumbling Dice/Brown Sugar/Sympathy For The Devil/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Satisfaction *With special guests the Cawthra Park Chamber Choir on You Can’t Always Get What You Want
June 6, 2015: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX, USA Jumpin’ Jack Flash/It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll/Let’s Spend The Night Together/Tumbling Dice/Doom And Gloom/Bitch/Moonlight Mile/Rocks Off/Honky Tonk Women/Band introduction/Before They Make Me Run/Happy/Midnight Rambler/Miss You/Gimme Shelter/Start Me Up/Sympathy For The Devil/Brown Sugar/You Can’t Always Get What You Want/Satisfaction *With special guests the UTA A Capella Choir on You Can’t Always Get What You Want
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