Full Description
In November 1969
the Rolling Stones toured the United States for the first time in three years.
Gone from the band was founder member Brian Jones, replaced by Mick Taylor from
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Gone too were the Top Ten-laden 30-minute sets played
over inadequate PA systems to crowds of screaming, gawping teenagers. In their
place was a fully-fledged 75-minute rock show drawing heavily on the new Stones
albums Beggar's Banquet and Let It Bleed, utilising innovative lighting and
staging. Led by the Glimmer Twins - Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - the
Rolling Stones rocked across America on a 24-date tour whose essence is
captured in the live album Get Yet Ya-Ya's Out, heralded by many as the finest
live rock album of all time.
From an
unpublicised opening night in Fort Collins, Colorado through to the tragic
events at Altamont, California a month later, Everybody Seems To Be Ready
(taking its title from Chip Monck's nightly stage introduction for the band)
mixes contemporaneous press reports with previously unpublished first-hand
accounts to present the story of a tour that has gone down in history as the
first rock tour of the modern era in the words of the people who were there.
