Fact #102998
When:
Short story:
The Rolling Stones, The Chiffons, Bobby Vee, Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Comstock play in The Music Hall, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, USA.
Full article:
Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : In Omaha, I remember about six hundred people in a fifteen-thousand-seat auditorium.
It was the days of Scotch and Coke, if anybody can remember back that far. A couple of the Stones, I dunno who, were drinking whisky and Coke, and I was drinking just Coke. A cop looked in the dressing room, saw the whisky bottle and told them to pour their drinks down the bog. I refused to pour mine down. I said, "Why the fuck is an American cop telling me to pour the national drink down the bog?" Cop pulled a gun on me. Very strange scene to me, a cop ordering me at gunpoint to pour a Coke down the John.
After Satisfaction, the arenas filled up, but those empty towns, that's where you learn your craft - how to put on a show when there's a hundred people in a place that seats five thousand. You play to those few and the joint's rocking, and everybody has forgotten about all these empty seats, this vast cavern that we can see as we're looking at this wedding party down front. You manage to create this whole new environment.
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It was the days of Scotch and Coke, if anybody can remember back that far. A couple of the Stones, I dunno who, were drinking whisky and Coke, and I was drinking just Coke. A cop looked in the dressing room, saw the whisky bottle and told them to pour their drinks down the bog. I refused to pour mine down. I said, "Why the fuck is an American cop telling me to pour the national drink down the bog?" Cop pulled a gun on me. Very strange scene to me, a cop ordering me at gunpoint to pour a Coke down the John.
After Satisfaction, the arenas filled up, but those empty towns, that's where you learn your craft - how to put on a show when there's a hundred people in a place that seats five thousand. You play to those few and the joint's rocking, and everybody has forgotten about all these empty seats, this vast cavern that we can see as we're looking at this wedding party down front. You manage to create this whole new environment.
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