Fact #101325
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Short story:
At the State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, The Rolling Stones start their first tour for three years. Also on the bill are B.B. King and Terry Reid.
Full article:
Charlie Watts (drummer, Rolling Stones) : People didn't scream anymore. The music was taken seriously. In '69 you had proper amplification. Suddenly you could hear everybody. Nobody had heard DRUMS before. We must have sounded a joke before. But in '69 you really had to be on top of it to play. That's how Hendrix and bands like Led Zeppelin came about.
I call that tour the Led Zeppelin tour, because it was the first time we had to go on and play for an hour-and-a-half. I blame it on Jimmy Page. Led Zeppelin had come to the States, and they would do a twenty-minute drum solo and endless guitar solos.
Ethan Russel (official tour photographer) : I was scared of him (Keith Richards]. I was shy and Keith has his own version of shyness. Put the two together and we just didn't get there.
(Source : interview with Mel Bradman, Sunday Times, May 18, 2008)
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I call that tour the Led Zeppelin tour, because it was the first time we had to go on and play for an hour-and-a-half. I blame it on Jimmy Page. Led Zeppelin had come to the States, and they would do a twenty-minute drum solo and endless guitar solos.
Ethan Russel (official tour photographer) : I was scared of him (Keith Richards]. I was shy and Keith has his own version of shyness. Put the two together and we just didn't get there.
(Source : interview with Mel Bradman, Sunday Times, May 18, 2008)