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Rolling Stones US Tour 1978
Tour by The Rolling Stones
Start date10 June 1978
End date26 July 1978
Legs1
No. of shows25
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

Additional musicians

Set list

A typical set list for the tour, with minor variations involving one or two of the numbers being omitted:

  1. Let it Rock
  2. All Down the Line
  3. Honky Tonk Women
  4. Star Star
  5. When the Whip Comes Down
  6. Beast of Burden
  7. Lies
  8. Miss You
  9. Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
  10. Shattered
  11. Respectable
  12. Far Away Eyes
  13. Love in Vain
  14. Tumbling Dice
  15. Happy
  16. Sweet Little Sixteen
  17. Brown Sugar
  18. Jumpin' Jack Flash
  19. Encore: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Street Fighting Man (some shows had no encore).

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