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Get to the top/I’m too tired to rock, sang Mick Jagger in front of a sold-out house as the Rolling Stones 1981 tour hit the West Coast. And while that line from Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock” is a charge many cynics have leveled at the band in recent years, the Stones were anything but weary on their western swing. By all accounts the most professional and calmest of the band’s career, the tour has also produced some of the best music the Stones have played onstage in some time – fiery, two-hour sets that belied early tour reports of shaky performances and, in Seatte at least, blew away the memory of some dull, uninspired shows three years ago. The band did two shows at Seattle Kingdome in front of 71 000 people with the Greg Kihn Band and J. Geils Band as support. The Ocober 14th and 15th of 1981 shows also hosted scores of overdose cases, along with a deeper tragedy. At the second show in Seattle, on October 15th (where this dvd was recorded), a sixteen-year-old girl, Pamela Lynn Melville, died of massive head and back injuries after falling fifty feet from an outside stadium ramp onto the Seattle Kingdome parking lot. At the same show, another woman was arrested when guards outside the stadium overheard her threatening Jagger; she was later released, and no charges were filed. Most fans, and probably the Stones, didn’t learn of Pamela’s death until after the Oct. 15 show. It was the first fatality in the Kingdome’s then-five-year history. The Stones took the stage at 10:55 p.m. and finished about 1 a.m. Wyman said the Stones tinkered with their set after the initial Philadelphia shows, and by the time they hit Seatte, the twenty-six-song program was fixed. “The Philadelphia shows kind of ironed out a couple of duff songs,” he explained. “We dropped things like Bo Diddley’s ‘Mona’ and ‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love’ and ‘Tops,’ because they weren’t right for the outdoor stages. It was conscious thinking that we should put in some old, lesser-known things – album tracks that the young kids who are coming into the shows might not know. We wanted them to be able to hear some of the things we did in the Sixties.” He laughed. “Sounds like a long time ago, doesn’t it? ‘Back in the Sixties . . . ‘” Wyman is so conscious of the older material’s age, in part, because so many of the fans at these shows are young teens. “It always surprises us when this happens,” he said. “The audience is still expanding – we have fourteen- and fifteen- and sixteen-year-old kids down there in the audience and out in front of the hotel.” While the Stones have been whipping up a surprising amount of excitement onstage, offstage the tour is calm and professional, despite clumps of fans in every hotel lobby and a virtual monopoly on the gossip channels of every town the band touches. “The more times you do it, the more professional it gets,” said Wyman“. The irony of it all is that already back in 1981 people who went to the Seattle Kingdome thought it would be the last time they ever would get a chance to see the Stones because they were so old. Looking back now fourty years later we can see that the actually venue, the Kingdome are gone after lasting 24 years, but the Stones still roll on.
Track list:
1. Under My Thumb
2. When The Whip Comes Down
3. Let’s Spend The Night Together
4. Shattered
5. Neighbours
6. Black Limousine
7. Just My Imagination
8. Twenty Flight Rock
9. Let Me Go
10. Time Is On My Side
11. Beast Of Burden
12. Waiting On A Friend
13. Let It Bleed
14. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
15. Little T & A
16. Tumbling Dice
17. Band Introduction
18. She’s So Cold
19. All Down The Line
20. Hang Fire
21. Star Star
22. Miss You
23. Start Me Up
24. Honky Tonk Women
25. Brown Sugar
26. Jumping Jack Flash
27. Satisfaction