David777
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As noted I did attend yet another RS concert on July 17 this summer with a brother where I had most highly craved for field level GA standing room zone tickets in the back of the sound board and chairs. That is the only area one could easily dance at with a view of the stage though not for watching musicians that I normally don't go to concerts for. In this era if one wants to watch famous musicians close-up without paying $$$, far easier to simply watch YouTube videos.
My first RS concert was June 1972 at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. I have 17 of their songs on my MP3 players out of 214 total Classic Rock songs. In that era a lot of people actually danced at concerts but except for Grateful Dead concerts, that ended after the rise of hated Disco.
Each item in the below tour list has a sub-page of city dates.
List of the Rolling Stones concert tours - Wikipedia
There are some web links linking Mick's dancing style to Tina Turner but that wasn't true as he never answered that clearly. But an old story had leaked out from a family member during the early era:
https://www.grunge.com/149025/the-untold-truth-of-mick-jagger/
...Mick Jagger comes from a family that's pretty much the opposite of today's entertainment royalty. His father, Basil Jagger, was a phys-ed teacher, and his mother, Eva, was also a teacher. He was born in 1943 — and yes, the infamous "crossfire hurricane" is a reference to the Luftwaffe bombers that were strafing England at the time, notes the Irish Independent.
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And as Jagger himself notes, this was a time when his family didn't have phones or televisions and needed to make their own entertainment. Family members would take turns dancing, playing instruments, or — in his case — doing impressions and song-and-dance routines.
He started there, and by the time he was 14, he was sneaking out of the house to hang out with local bands and learn what he could. "It was like fun. ... I could see I got a good reaction."
It all took off from there, even though he says his parents weren't happy when he told them he was giving up his spot at the London School of Economics for a career in music. But much, much later, he would also credit his parents with giving him a "centered upbringing" that kept him from descending completely into the self-destructive behavior that takes so many musicians. He told The Talks, "When you are young and you have a sort of close family life and stuff, it helps you to be centered for later."
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Jagger like others from that era tended to dance after consuming specific drugs and MJ has done at lot of that with like others. Until about 1975, there were several rock frontmen that danced in front of audiences. He liked getting a concert going with Jumping Jack Flash.
My first RS concert was June 1972 at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. I have 17 of their songs on my MP3 players out of 214 total Classic Rock songs. In that era a lot of people actually danced at concerts but except for Grateful Dead concerts, that ended after the rise of hated Disco.
Each item in the below tour list has a sub-page of city dates.
List of the Rolling Stones concert tours - Wikipedia
There are some web links linking Mick's dancing style to Tina Turner but that wasn't true as he never answered that clearly. But an old story had leaked out from a family member during the early era:
https://www.grunge.com/149025/the-untold-truth-of-mick-jagger/
...Mick Jagger comes from a family that's pretty much the opposite of today's entertainment royalty. His father, Basil Jagger, was a phys-ed teacher, and his mother, Eva, was also a teacher. He was born in 1943 — and yes, the infamous "crossfire hurricane" is a reference to the Luftwaffe bombers that were strafing England at the time, notes the Irish Independent.
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And as Jagger himself notes, this was a time when his family didn't have phones or televisions and needed to make their own entertainment. Family members would take turns dancing, playing instruments, or — in his case — doing impressions and song-and-dance routines.
He started there, and by the time he was 14, he was sneaking out of the house to hang out with local bands and learn what he could. "It was like fun. ... I could see I got a good reaction."
It all took off from there, even though he says his parents weren't happy when he told them he was giving up his spot at the London School of Economics for a career in music. But much, much later, he would also credit his parents with giving him a "centered upbringing" that kept him from descending completely into the self-destructive behavior that takes so many musicians. He told The Talks, "When you are young and you have a sort of close family life and stuff, it helps you to be centered for later."
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Jagger like others from that era tended to dance after consuming specific drugs and MJ has done at lot of that with like others. Until about 1975, there were several rock frontmen that danced in front of audiences. He liked getting a concert going with Jumping Jack Flash.
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