Norfolk
Wednesday, July 5
The tour’s second Southern escapade,
crashing Norfolk, Charlotte, and Knoxville on consecutive nights, received
virtually no national press coverage at the time. Exiled and absent during most of July, Greenfield eventually
dispatched this “really-on-the-road” leg with a few intriguing yet hearsay
statements about the fluid, magical quality of the playing. Reconstructing events from post-tour
interviews, he wrote in STP:
As the
sine curve of offstage life reaches its low point, the music on stage peaks.
In Norfolk
and Charlotte and Nashville, the set seems to fly from beginning to end, the
musicians
completely locked into one another and on time, like a championship team in its
finest,
most fluid moments. But only people who listen, like Ian Stewart, and the
Stones
themselves
and their supporting musicians, are aware of the magic that’s going down.
Beyond those lines,
three impressionistic sentences from Terry Southern complete the entire
national-level nachlass on Norfolk, Charlotte, and Knoxville.
Fortunately, all three shows are preserved
on tape, and so the multiple local newspaper reports in Norfolk end up adding
zero to our knowledge of the concert set.
However, the “shiny green jacket” and “green coat” visuals here may be
minor revelations, photography-wise.
Unless both reviewers were misled by color stage lights playing upon a
dark leather jacket, Norfolk now emerges as one of the very few STP sites to
get this rare wardrobe item, which can be seen in the distinctive concert shot
of Jagger that adorns the cover of the famous
Dell/Lyrical Image, Inc. tour commemorative.
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Virginian-Pilot |
Richmond Times-Dispatch |
Newport News Times-Herald |
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Brown Sugar |
Brown Sugar |
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songs mentioned |
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Bitch |
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Rocks Off |
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Gimme Shelter |
Gimme Shelter |
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Happy |
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Tumbling Dice |
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Love In Vain |
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Sweet Virginia |
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YCAGWYW |
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Midnight Rambler |
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“Johnny B. Goode = BBJ |
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Rip This Joint |
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JJF |
JJF |
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SFM |
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Opening: Stevie Wonder |
Jagger: “a green coat and the ‘holey’ jump suit
that has been the trademark of this tour” Opening: Stevie Wonder |
Jagger: ”clingy purple jumpsuit with pink sash and
shiny green jacket” Opening: Stevie Wonder |
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Terry Southern, Saturday Review:
“SLOW SWEEP PAN of four enchanted front-row (Norfolk, Va.) teenies in T-shirts
(braless though pert) lettered: Mick Taylor – We Love You! And when he gave
them his smile (boss charm, boss humility), they squirmed and squealed, and
(or so it seemed) tingled all over.” Virginian-Pilot:
“Momentarily, Jagger donned his famous mock Uncle Sam hat to shake his bony
hips in a dance of free emotionalism.” Richmond Times-Dispatch:
“Jagger was really loose, now, and his harp announced Midnight Rambler.
He put his stars-and-stripes hat on and took part of his sash off.” Newport News Times-Herald:
“’Baby, baby, baby,’ Jagger screamed, his skinny form hunched over the
footlights, moving to and fro in that slow, prancing dancers step and a
ludicrous Uncle Sam hat a fan tossed him.” Newport News Daily Press:
“An ecstatic Dee Ann Price of Newport News was the lucky recipient of what
was left of a red, white and blue Uncle Sam hat that Mick Jagger wore during
a number and then threw to the audience. Needless to say, a number of people
fought over it.” |
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