Rolling Stones - 1972-06-27 Mobile AL

Rolling Stones 1972-06-27 Mobile AL 0:00 Brown Sugar 4:05 Bitch 8:43 Rocks Off 13:33 Gimme Shelter 18:40 Happy 21:55 Tumbling Dice 26:39 Love In Vain 33:03 Sweet Virginia 37:51 You Can't Always Get What You Want 45:34 All Down The Line 50:27 Midnight Rambler 1:01:45 Band Introductions 1:02:57 Bye Bye Johnny 1:06:14 Rip This Joint 1:08:26 Jumpin' Jack Flash 1:12:00 Street Fighting Man This is a good show. There are some problems, some missed cues, but overall a rocking performance. Various press coverage of the Mobile show, courtesy of stoneslib.homestead.com. Edited by Flip. Elman, Uptight With The Stones: “The crowd seemed as anxious to please the Stones as a bride preparing her first meal at home. They whooped it up from the first note, threw frisbies, exploded green stink bombs, were on their feet long before Midnight Rambler, bobbed and weaved slowly with Love In Vain, and by the time the Stones were closing on Street Fighting Man they had successfully resolved all existing scientific doubts about the possibility of the vaginal, as well as the clitoral, orgasm.” Rolling Stone: “On stage, the Stones kick into Jumpin’ Jack Flash and someone explodes a smoke bomb down in front. A cloud of green smoke comes floating towards the amps.” Mobile Register: “The crowd was standing as soon as Mick Jagger appeared in his purple jumpsuit, pink sash and purple silk jockey's cap. Jagger strutted with guitarist Keith Richards during the first number, Brown Sugar. And Bobby Keys started off what would be a great, although somewhat frustrating, night of sax playing. Again, it took a couple of numbers to warm up, but in both cases that ca be overlooked due to cold starts. The Stones moved quickly through their set, playing new and old songs with equal proficiency and temerity. Mick Taylor and Richards displayed a tightness when playing guitar together, and Taylor was superb on his solos. Jim Price is always good on trumpet and trombone and Nicky Hopkins on piano was great, when you could hear him. The sound levels and mixing were raunchy, which was disappointing. Keys and Price were continually frustrated by mikes and monitors which they couldn’t hear. Jagger’s voice sometimes was fading and then got too loud. Hopkins was rarely heard. A pity, actually. The entire concert was sensational but could have been better.” Truman Capote, Rolling Stone: “There was this thing about the Stones that I hated. Which was...that...the kids would be staying there – they’d end the performance...Chip Monck would say, ‘Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones – .‘ And the lights would go up – or had been up, actually – and the kids are standing there and they’re just – breaking their hearts applauding...And there they are in this dreary Mobile, Alabama, ghastly, - Fort Worth, Texas. I mean, they waited months and months for this thing. They wanted it, you know...for such a long time. And then, the Rolling Stones – Not only have they left, not only have they no intention of giving an encore, they are already on their airplane up in the sky while the kids are down there applauding and applauding and pleading, saying, ‘Please come back, please come back!” and everybody knowing that they’ve long since gone their way...Twice I didn’t go on the plane because I wanted to watch this phenomenon. It was heartbreaking. I mean, they would stay for half an hour, and nobody would come out and tell them that they aren’t going to come back. And then they would finally drift out.” Elman, Uptight With The Stones: “Afterwards Mick Taylor said he felt the Stones had performed poorly, and Jagger remarked they had sounded ‘a bit too countryish, you know, hick.’” Excerpt from Mobile Press, 1972-06-28, by Natalie Crozier. Edited by Flip. "Contrary to popular belief, Mick Jagger does not undress during his performance. Instead he struts, postures, dances, wiggles, waves, shakes, crawls, and bellows out his songs with a gutsy earthiness that had the audience giving a standing ovation at the end of each song. Rainbow lighting accompanied the heavy driving beat while the audience riveted its collective attention on the slender, waif-like Jagger's antics. Chairs really proved unnecessary. Everybody stood clapping and stamping along with the beat and enjoying the performance. A tremendous attempt by the audience to bring the Stones back for an encore by sheer force of will proved unsuccessful. But the musicians looked bushed and they deserved a rest after more than an hour of driving themselves to their physical limit. The Stones were given honorary citizenships to Mobile by Commissioner Robert P. Doyle Jr. in pre-show ceremonies. Jagger closed the concert by throwing kisses to the thousands of worshippers and tossing huge handfuls of red and yellow rose petals to those nearest the stage."