Oil Well – RSC 078 CD
1 You Can't Always Get What You Want 7:57
2 All Down The Line 4:01
3 Midnight Rambler 10:08
4 Rip This Joint 2:10
5 Jumping Jack Flash 3:34
6 Street Fighting Man 4:17
7 Tumbling Dice 4:29
8 Bitch 4:29
Note:
All songs by Jagger/Richards unless noted
Track 1 from: 1972-07-21: Spectrum Sports Arena (1st show), Philadelphia, PA
Tracks 2-4-5-6 from: 1972-07-21: Spectrum Sports Arena (2nd show), Philadelphia, PA,
Tracks 3-7 from: 1972-06-24: Tarrant County Convention Center (1st show), Fort Worth, TX,Track 8 from: 1972-06-24: Tarrant County Convention Center (2nd show), Fort Worth, TX
Lineup:
Mick Jagger — vocal, harmonica
Keith Richards — guitar, vocal
Mick Taylor — guitar
Bill Wyman — bass
Charlie Watts — drums
Nicky Hopkins — piano
Bobby Keys — saxophone
Jim Price — trumpet, trombone
This rare album is a copy of CD2 of "Philadelphia Special II" (TSP-CD-060-2) a well known bootleg of the time. This is an excellent soundboard recording from one of the best Stones' tour ever.
Oil Well label re-published all the two parts of Philadelphia Special released in 1990 by The Swingin' Pig label. The quality of the recording is the same.
Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.
On the front cover Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.
Please note that this CD is one of the most rare from this italian bootleg label!
Quality content:
© Official released material:
Track 8 has been released officially on: Ladies & Gentlemen The Rolling Stones - 16 June 2017
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Philadelphia SpecialDocumenting two July Philly gigs from 1972, the bootleg Philadelphia Special is that other Stones recording you could put up there with the Leeds set as being of a piece with any of the band's top records. The Stones are careening awfully close to the edge here, playing faster than they had since the pilled up days of their molten early blues experiments, but now there is dexterity, and a lot of it comes from Mick Taylor. "All Down the Line" torches the Exile version, ditto "Rip This Joint," and "Bye Bye Johnny" is this boot's Chuck Berry valentine to match Leeds' "Let It Rock." Ain't nothing you can bring that you can bring harder than this.
Part of the songs played during the 1st and 2nd show at Tarrant County Convention Center in Forth Worth has been released officially on: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones.
Robert Greenfield summed up the tour best, “The musicians completely locked into one another and on time, like a championship team in its finest most fluid moments. But only the people, who listen, like Ian Stewart, and the Stones themselves and their supporting musicians, are aware of the magic that’s going down. Everyone else is either worrying about logistics or trying to get off.”
–Eli M. Getson
1972 American tourThe Rolling Stones embarked on their 1972 American tour to support the release of Exile on Main Street— which in and of itself was a push into new territory for the band, both musically and commercially. What followed rewrote the game for The Stones and the music industry, and basically set the stage for a decade of big, balls-out tours that went from being simple promotional vehicles the pop culture events. Nothing like this had been done in Rock ‘n’ Roll prior and all subsequent tours would follow the ’72 tour blueprint for scale, attempted musicality, logistics, legal entanglements, drugs, women, hilarity, hangers-on, and general debauchery.
After months in France at the now legendary Villa Nellcote recording Exile on Main Street, Keith Richards (after being thrown out of France for drug charges) went to L.A. and there the album was remixed and completed for release in May of 1972. At this point a tour was in order. The Stones had not toured America since their Altamont disaster in 1969 (which led to heightened security– private planes, limos, and higher stages to reduce public access to the band), and being the biggest band in Rock and needing some cash, they set out to put together a tour like no other. What followed that June and July of ’72 is the stuff of legend. You could make the argument the overused term “party like a rock star” was born here. The private plane with the famous tongue logo, the glamorous celebrity hangers-on, the traveling press corps, the massive amount of drugs, and a much publicized four day orgy at the Chicago Playboy mansion are a few of the legendary tales to come out of the tour. The tour was covered by the press of the day like a Presidential election. What is interesting for me is that at this point the innocence of the 1960s, that somehow rock could change the world, was completely gone. The Stones killed it.
They were now a fully formed massive enterprise with the associated money deals, merchandising, and horde of lawyers, handlers, and spiritual advisors. This tour was not about changing the world– it was about money, fame, cynicism, celebrity and pushing the limits in every way possible. The “Me Decade” had officially begun.
The Stones (& company)The Stones’ STP Tour brought together a blend of high and low society, almost unthinkable in rock music a mere 10 years earlier. Mick Jagger and wife Bianca were members of the global jet set. While there were other famous and glamorous frontmen, Mick was by this point at another level and his ego and paranoia grew along with it.
The tour had a traveling press core– Truman Capote (by this point a total drunk and addicted to tranquilizers), Terry Southern, and Robert Greenfield all covered the tour for various news outlets. Even the Kennedys, who seem to pop up at every moment of cultural importance, followed the tour. Lee Radziwill and her husband, the artist Peter Beard, were after-party regulars. Capote, after focusing on New York society ladies, must have felt he had gone to Mars with this assignment, and left the tour (along with his own entourage) in New Orleans only to reappear at the final shows at Madison Square Garden. Southern, and especially Robert Greenfield, gave a more complete accounting of the tour and wrote some fine stuff.
Every stop on the 1972 tour had its attendant bedlam in the form of crowd riots and arrests. Throw into this bubbling cauldron– Hells Angels putting a bounty on Mick’s ass over the lingering Altamont mess, Keith’s increasingly dark drug use and carrying a gun throughout most of the tour out of fear of the Angels as well, the verbal needling between dueling divas Bianca Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Mick & Keith getting thrown in jail in Rhode Island for getting into a fight with photographer Andie Dickerman– and you have Rock ‘n’ Roll my friends!
Interestingly, The Stones (& company) were probably never better musically– once they all got into their groove. With the swirl around them, they were dialed-in on stage. During the Exile recording The Stones brought in a lot of supporting musicians, and driven by Keith, really stretched themselves musically. The horn player Bobby Keys was the greatest example of a supporting player who would become part of the inner circle and would be a key contributor to The Stones’ sound in the 1970s.
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