The Rolling Stones: From the Vault – L.A. Forum – Live in 1975

I was at three of the five shows at the Forum that June. Started with $10 and no tickets and by the end of the first day working the Forum parking lot I had 3 — Wednesday, Friday and Saturday! All the shows were sold out and the Stones were in top form for a major stand in one of their fav cities. With Billy Preston on stage to assist on keyboards and who led the Stones through his "Will it Go Round in Circles" and "Space Race", the inflatable Honky Tonk Women and the Gigantic Phalus erupting during "StarF*cker" it turned heads and got our feet moving! Next weekend three of us piled into my friends MGB and headed up to the Cow Palace in San Francisco to see them again! No tickets when we left but we were all in to see the show with only two hours to work the crowd!

I got Love You Live Album when I was ten years old! I loved it! Would play it over and over! This concert captures that tour! Yes they might be a tad sloppy but it is an awesome concert! The thing that is amazing is Mick ! He doesn’t stop! He gives it his all ! For over two hours and around 30 songs! It is so different from other Stones tours is the reason I like it so much! They have Ollie Brown playing percussion behind Charlie Watts! They let Billy Preston sing two songs and he is amazing! They look like they are having a great time! I have never seen Charlie Watts so active and smiling and having a great time! He even lets Ollie play his drums and he plays the percussion’s on a couple of songs! This also captured the 70’s in all its glory! I know they have sounded better on other tours but it could be there best one The Tour Of America’s ! Watch it and you will see what I mean! They play a lot of those middle 70’s albums songs as well!! Which I love ! I’m talking Goatsheads and Black and Blue and Its Only Rock n Roll Albums! Awesome! Great in its on way! Keep on Rolling Boys!

A wonderful document of the lascivious and languid 70's. The Stones are drunk, sloppy, coked and wonderfully debauched in this LA concert from 1975. Great tunes, intoxicated performance-but solid…a tad self-indulgent, but hey man, that was the 70's. For Stones diehards only, I would say. But this was back when the Stones were second only to Zeppelin in popularity. The "from the vault" series is a great way to "see what all the fuss" was about. Three and a half stars.

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