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The Rolling Stones play at The Civic Auditorium, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by The Byrds. On the same day, The Stones also record an appearance on tv show Shivaree. This is also the first day on which Stones' guitarist Brian Jones takes LSD, at the urging of acid-evangelist Ken Kesey and his group, The Merry Pranksters.Full article:
Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : We tried to get out (after the Long Beach show) through a narrow passage. But the kids roared down on us. Without exaggeration there must have been a hundred piled on top of the car and we could hear the roof creaking and cracking. Inside, panicking like mad, we stood up and tried to hold up the roof. But the kids were everywhere. Outside, trying to force the door handles, trying to smash in the windows. We couldn't get moving, otherwise someone would have been killed. It was definitely the most frightening thing of my whole life.
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Bill Wyman (bassist, Rolling Stones) : Back in Los Angeles, unbelievably, we went straight to work in the evening, probably good therapy. We filmed four songs for a television show, and Brian and I later felt fresh enough to go out to The Action Club, where Brian eventually got up on stage and sat in with the band, playing harmonica. Brian’s behavior was bizarre that night and Kathy (West) Townsend, a girlfriend of mine at the time, recalls that he had been ‘dropping acid, running all over the Ambassador Hotel, jumping over (imaginary) snakes.’ I, too, remember Brian walking from the car to the entrance of the Action Club, saying the ground was covered with snakes; he proceeded to jump over the imaginary reptiles.
(Source : from the book Stone Alone, by Bill Wyman)
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Bill Wyman (bassist, Rolling Stones) : Back in Los Angeles, unbelievably, we went straight to work in the evening, probably good therapy. We filmed four songs for a television show, and Brian and I later felt fresh enough to go out to The Action Club, where Brian eventually got up on stage and sat in with the band, playing harmonica. Brian’s behavior was bizarre that night and Kathy (West) Townsend, a girlfriend of mine at the time, recalls that he had been ‘dropping acid, running all over the Ambassador Hotel, jumping over (imaginary) snakes.’ I, too, remember Brian walking from the car to the entrance of the Action Club, saying the ground was covered with snakes; he proceeded to jump over the imaginary reptiles.
(Source : from the book Stone Alone, by Bill Wyman)