The Rolling Stones - Some Girls, Live in Texas 78 (2011)
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The Rolling Stones 1978 tour of the USA in support of that year’s “Some Girls” album is considered by fans to be one of their very best. The tour followed immediately on the release of the “Some Girls” album and by the time the band arrived in Texas in mid-July the album had hit the No.1 spot on the US charts. The tour took a “back to basics” approach, with the band and their music very much at the forefront and little or no elaborate staging.
Recorded at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on 18 July 1978, this concert is typical of the tour with the Rolling Stones delivering a raw, energetic performance in front of a crowd who are clearly loving the show. Many of the tracks from “Some Girls” are included in the live set with a sprinkling of Stones classics from earlier albums. Originally shot on 16mm film, the footage has been carefully restored and the sound remixed and remastered by Bob Clearmountain from the original multitrack tapes.
The Rolling Stones were losing their edge. By the late ‘70s, amid the throes of punk's rebellious angst and disco's ribald decadence, the Stones—who had long personified both such distinctions—seemed atypically tame.
It had been a long six years since the band’s last really big deal, Exile on Main Street, and even that wasn’t considered the classic then that it generally is today. Critics had begun to dismiss the Stones as obsolete, a relic of a bygone age. If they failed to harness their collective talent, stave off their detractors, and deliver the goods with their next album, the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band stood to get knocked off its proverbial cloud.
Some Girls, released in June 1978, heralded the Stones’ brazen return to form and, moreover, to artistic relevance. Simmering with loose groove and swagger, the album seethed with all the spunk and splendor of New York’s urban jungle.
By the time the Stones rolled into the Lone Star State the following month on a tour stop in Fort Worth, Some Girls was the number one album in America. Their performance at the Will Rogers Memorial Centre, captured in the concert film, Some Girls - Live in Texas '78, reveals just how hard they were pushing to stay on top.
Watching them here, not so much playing but working—the band performs seven of the new album’s 10 tracks in one block, bookended by a smattering of older hits and favorites—is riveting.
Mick Jagger prowls the stage with a feral, no-bounds libido—during “Tumbling Dice” he cops a feel of guitarist Ronnie Wood’s crotch—and striking, in-the-moment conviction. Fronting the band with impassioned, soulful urgency one moment (“Beast of Burden”) and savage ferocity the next (“Shattered,” “When The Whip Comes Down”), he rules the roost throughout this stunning performance.
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Tracklist:
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01. Let It Rock
02. All Down the Line
03. Honky Tonk Women
04. Star Star
05. When the Whip Comes Down
06. Beast of Burden
07. Miss You
08. Imagination
09. Shattered
10. Respectable
11. Far Away Eyes
12. Love in Vain
13. Tumbling Dice
14. Happy
15. Sweet Little 16
16. Brown Sugar
17. Jumpin' Jack Flash
*2011 Eagle Rock / Promotone | EV303959
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