The Rolling Stones US Tour 1978
Tour by The Rolling Stones | |
Start date | 10 June 1978 |
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End date | 26 July 1978 |
Legs | 1 |
No. of shows | 25 |
The Rolling Stones concert chronology |
The Rolling Stones' US Tour 1978 was a concert tour of the United States that took place during June and July 1978, immediately following the release of the group's 1978 album Some Girls. Like the 1972 and 1975 U.S. tours, Bill Graham was the tour promoter. This was the first tour in which singer Mick Jagger sometimes played electric guitar on stage. The opening act was Peter Tosh, who was sometimes joined by Jagger for their duet "Don't Look Back".
History
The tour used a stripped back, minimal stage show compared to the previous Tour of the Americas '75 and Tour of Europe '76. Possibly due to the emergence of the punk rock scene with its emphasis solely on music and attitude rather than presenting a grandiose stage extravaganza.
Continuing a schedule started in 1966 of touring the United States exactly every three years, the Stones played in a mixture of theatres, sometimes under a pseudonym, arenas, and stadiums, a practice that they would follow for many of their future tours as well.
However, this US tour did not carry on into Europe in 1979, breaking the group's similar schedule of performing in Europe every three years, which had started in 1967. This gap-year from touring prompted Keith Richards to join Ronnie Wood on his 1979 US solo tour, to promote his then-album Gimme Some Neck, in the process forming the band The New Barbarians.
Reception
While the tour was commercially successful, it was dogged by drunken, sloppy performances. Tour photographer Lynn Goldsmith later compared it to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 1978 Tour, which she had also covered: "With Bruce, it was no drugs, no drinking, [long] sound checks and [long] shows. With the Stones, it was no sound check, lots of parties and running off-stage as quickly as possible to catch the private plane."[citation needed]
Guest artists that played with the Stones during individual shows included Linda Ronstadt, Sugar Blue, Doug Kershaw, Bobby Keys, and Nicky Hopkins.
Band members
Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger - vocals, guitar
- Keith Richards - guitar, vocals
- Ron Wood - guitar
- Bill Wyman - bass guitar
- Charlie Watts - drums
Additional musicians
- Ian Stewart - piano
- Ian McLagan - keyboards
Set list
A typical set list for the tour, with minor variations involving one or two of the numbers being omitted:
- Let it Rock
- All Down the Line
- Honky Tonk Women
- Star Star
- When the Whip Comes Down
- Beast of Burden
- Lies
- Miss You
- Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
- Shattered
- Respectable
- Far Away Eyes
- Love in Vain
- Tumbling Dice
- Happy
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Brown Sugar
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
- Encore: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Street Fighting Man (some shows had no encore).
Cities
- June 10 Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
- June 12 Fox Theater, Atlanta, Georgia
- June 14 Capitol Theater, Passaic, New Jersey
- June 15 Warner Theater, Washington DC
- June 17 JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- June 19 Palladium, New York City, New York
- June 21 Hampton Roads Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia
- June 22 Convention Center, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- June 26 War Memorial Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina
- June 28 Mid South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee
- June 29 Rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky
- July 01 Municipal Stadium, Cleveland,Ohio
- July 04 Rich Stadium, Buffalo, New York
- July 06 Masonic Hall, Detroit, Michigan
- July 08 Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
- July 10 Civic Center, St. Paul, Minnesota
- July 11 Checkerdome, St. Louis, Missouri
- July 13 Super Dome, New Orleans, Louisiana
- July 16 Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado
- July 18 Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas
- July 19 Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, Texas
- July 21 Community Center, Tucson, Arizona
- July 23 Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, California
- July 24 Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, California
- July 26 Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California