Comments on: Lessons in the mud

By: Gypsy

Gypsy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:59:18 +0000

I’m a Floridian that was on the run (still am) from the swamp & its contents during the time of the pot festivals. I happened to be tripping at a pot festival somewhere in the middle of heavily forested area in Louisiana when they were saying things from the stage like “We got some people here you haven’t heard of but, we think they’re pretty far-out. ….some guys called Santana, and It’s a Beautiful Day…have a good weekend.” I think the Who was there……maybe that was the woods in Georgia. Who knows?
It was all wonderful. Hey, Baxter, those Were the Good old Days!!
You hit the nail on the head about the cold and the crazy law in FL., Walston.

By: Billy Mallard

Billy Mallard — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:09:06 +0000

And yet, and yet. Why was it that when Bob Deans covered a Stones concert (was it in Tokyo or before he left Atlanta?), the editor excised his reference to the boys as “without close second the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world”?

By: Tom Baxter

Tom Baxter — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:16:29 +0000

Those kids burning tires to stay warm, a week before Altamont, and the sheriff who took his wife on porn raids… and the sick thing is, we call those the good old days.

By: Gita

Gita — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:52:10 +0000

I feel incredibly lucky to have gone to three Stones concerts in my lifetime and a couple by the Dead. It helps to have those nights in memory as one gets older and body parts complain and one approaches the Medicare years. Coming of age in the 60s – early 70s was a gas gas gas.

By: Charles Walston

Charles Walston — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:14:58 +0000

A couple of things I want to clarify.
1. The picture is not from this show. Even Jagger couldn’t work without a shirt that night. See pictures from this show at the link provided.
2. The source of the information that Nixon was best man at the sheriff’s wedding now tells me it was actually Claude Kirk’s wedding. Same difference as far as I’m concerned. Birds of a feather flock together.

By: Jack Connell

Jack Connell — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:02:42 +0000

The festival was very unique, the Stone didn’t tour with the troupe that was was touring doing Woodstock, Texas Pop, Miami Pop 2, Atlanta ETC. Jimi Hendrix was at most of those events . He didn’t make Palm Beach because of his drug arrest in Canada. Therefore who to headline Like Jimi? Hmm, The Stones, they were paid $100,000 and were not booked until the last minute (2 Weeks before) . It was indead the most important period of The Stones Evolution, Brian Jones had just died Mick Taylor changed there sound , well the rest is history. Yes the festival was great and it really had the best of The Rock Bands at that time, not much Folk Music like Woodstock. It was hard work to play this gig it was in the Everglades basically, with mud and limited access. The bands remember this one!!

By: dina

dina — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:01:09 +0000

An unsentimental view, yet you convey the magic well. You have a natural ear for the melody of language.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:29:22 +0000

Thanks for that revealing flashback. I deeply regret that I didn’t catch the Stones until 20 years later during the Steel Wheels Tour of ‘89. Everything in our worlds had changed by then. Everything except the Stones’ live shows, which remain defining, even life-altering events no matter where they fit in the time capsule. Steel Wheels was a commercial deal, indeed. And how surreal to watch Mick & Co. rocking out on the hallowed college football turf of Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala. A rock ‘n’ roll memory for a lifetime. Just like yours. Just like all of ‘em.

By: Pat Taylor

Pat Taylor — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:23:43 +0000

Saw the Rolling Stones in 1974 in Knoxville, TN and it remains to this day the seminal concert of this old rocker’s lifetime of concerts. There have been a lot of great ones along the way, but there was musical magic that night. The play list was very similar to the one listed above. Get Your Ya-Yas Out ranks among the top two or three live albums ever, even after all these years.

By: Lee Leslie

Lee Leslie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:15:32 +0000

Thanks, I need that to drowned out some of the other echos of the late 60’s.