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24 Aug 05 - 07:45 AM (#1548453) Subject: 1st Rolling Stones US Tour Beyond NY From: Bat Goddess Please help my poor middle-aged brain recover some data. I saw the Rolling Stones perform in either 1964 or 1965 at the Milwaukee Auditorium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was either the Stones' first or second trip to the US -- I think it was the second and they never got out of New York City on their first excursion Stateside. Anyway, Brian Jones did not perform with the band as he was in Chicago in the hospital. There was a very small turnout (especially for a fairly large hall) because few people at that time knew who the Rolling Stones were or had heard their music. Probably less than 200 people, maybe closer to 100. My random access memory is getting more and more random -- and trying to Google the info seems to be hopelessly time consuming no matter what search combination I use. (By the way, I touched the hand that touched the hand of Mick Jagger . . .) Linn |
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24 Aug 05 - 10:15 AM (#1548579) Subject: RE: 1st Rolling Stones US Tour Beyond NY From: GUEST, Bat Goddess at work Somebody, PLEASE come up with an answer! I know it's not folk MUSIC, but maybe it counts as folklore . . . If I didn't keep my present level of insanity,I'd go crazy and I'm going quietly crazy trying to find out whether it was 1964 or 1964. Linn |
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24 Aug 05 - 05:33 PM (#1548915) Subject: RE: 1st Rolling Stones US Tour Beyond NY From: alanabit The Rolling Stones played at the Milwaukee Auditorium on the eleventh of November, 1964. (Source - Bill Wyman's "Rolling With The Stones"). I hope this is of some help to you. |
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24 Aug 05 - 05:36 PM (#1548920) Subject: RE: 1st Rolling Stones US Tour Beyond NY From: alanabit I should add that the first Stones tour (earlier the same year) did indeed take in other sities outside New York, but The Carnegie Hall gigs (evening show and matinee) were the only sell outs. |
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24 Aug 05 - 06:30 PM (#1548950) Subject: RE: 1st Rolling Stones US Tour Beyond NY From: Bat Goddess Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Now I don't have to go crazy (I don't have time, anyway). And my reca-memory actually did place it in November and BEFORE the September 1965 Beatles concert at the Milwaukee Arena. (That one cost me the big bucks -- $5.50.) Do you remember (or does Bill Wyman's book say) why Brian Jones was hospitalized in Chicago? ("Exhaustion"? Drugs?) Ah, youth! (Actually, I'm working on my unauthorized autobiography.) Linn (Thanks again.) |
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24 Aug 05 - 06:40 PM (#1548956) Subject: RE: 1st Rolling Stones US Tour Beyond NY From: Bat Goddess Oops. I just did some more quick research and the Beatles concert was also 1964 -- so I saw them a couple months before I saw the Stones. Ach! Linn |
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06 Aug 08 - 10:40 AM (#2406527) Subject: RE: 1st Rolling Stones US Tour Beyond NY From: GUEST,A lot more than 100-200 fans but still small 1964 - Rolling Stones Play Milwaukee On this date the Rolling Stones first performed in Wisconsin, to a crowd of 1,274 fans at Milwaukee Auditorium. Although Brian Jones remained in a Chicago hospital with a high fever, the rest of the band performed. According to a dubious reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, "Chances are, few in the audience missed his [Jones'] wailing harmonica. Screams from a thousand throats drowned out all but the most insistent electronic cacaphony and the two-fisted smashes of drummer Charlie Watts." The reporter continued, "Unless someone teaches guitar chords to chimpanzees, the visual ultimate has been reached in the Rolling Stones. With shoulder length hair and high heeled boots, they seemed more feminine than their fans. The Stones make the Beatles look like clean cut kids. You think it must be some kind of parody - but the little girls in front paid $5.50 a seat." [Source: Milwaukee Journal November 12, 1964, p.14] |
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06 Aug 08 - 10:55 AM (#2406549) Subject: RE: 1st Rolling Stones US Tour Beyond NY From: bankley they were in Montreal in '64 at the Maurice Richard Arena... in '65 they played the Forum. Brian Jones was in the band... I went.. glad I sat up in the red seats... cuz the show turned into a riot.. cops beating on fans who were beating on cops... all their gear was trashed... Keith's Gibson ripped to splinters... souvenirs for the mob... I had my $5.00 worth of entertainment... never bothered going to see them again.... |