1988
Can you break the spell?
1988
Can you break the spell?
January 1 & 3, 1988: Ron Wood performs more solo
concerts at his restaurant/nightclub
Woody's On The Beach in
Miami, Florida.
January 7-8, 1988: Ron Wood joins Mick Taylor onstage at
Woody's On The
Beach in Miami.
| Ron Wood
(1994): Playing with Taylor again
He hasn't changed that much. A few years ago when I had Woody's On The Beach in Miami, a club where I got to play with all my favorites - you know, Buddy Guy, and all those - I had Mick Taylor's blues band there. I got up and played with him, and then when it came to doing an encore, he said, I can't go on. You do it. It was exactly the same as the old days! I said, Mick, what the hell is going on? |
January 8, 1988: Keith Richards leaves New York City for
Antigua.
January 10-15, 1988: Ron Wood joins Spice Roots, Billy
Preston and Big
Bang onstage at Woody's On The Beach.
January 16, 1988: Ron Wood returns to England.
January 18, 1988: Mick
Jagger
calls Bill Wyman and asks if he is interested in touring
again.
January 20, 1988: Mick Jagger inducts The Beatles at the
3rd annual Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame Awards at the
Waldorf Astoria in New York City. At the end of the
evening, he jams onstage
with Bruce Springsteen, George
Harrison, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Jeff Beck, Neil Young and
others, performing
Satisfaction
among
other songs.
Meanwhile Keith Richards returns to New York City from
Antigua.
January 21, 1988: Keith Richards watches Billy Preston
perform at The Bottom
Line in New York City.
January 22, 1988: Keith Richards resumes mixing for Talk
Is Cheap in New
York, with Tom Waits attending. Also in
New York, Mick Jagger catches Dr. John at the Lone Star.
January 26, 1988: Mick Jagger joins guitarist Joe Satriani
onstage at The
Bottom Line in New York City, performing
Jimi Hendrix's Red House. He hires Satriani to join his
solo band.
January 30-31, 1988: Mick Jagger visits Jerry Hall's
family in Mesquite,
Texas.
Early February-February 27, 1988: Mick Jagger and his solo
band, including
Joe Satriani, hold tour rehearsals at
S.I.R. Studios in New York City.
Early February 1988: Charlie Watts performs a concert with
Rocket 88 in
London, England.
February 5-7, 1988: Keith Richards is in Memphis,
recording horns with
Al Green producer Willie Mitchell for the
song Make No Mistake.
February 7-8, 1988: Keith Richards flies from Memphis to
Miami, then returns
to Antigua.
February 9, 1988: Jerry Call calls Mick Jagger live on
American television
on the set of Late Night with David
Letterman.
February 14, 1988: Ron Wood joins the band Tottas
Bluesband onstage in
Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mid-to-late February 1988: Charlie Watts safaries in
Kenya.
February 19, 1988: Ron Wood is back at Woody's On The
Beach in Miami, guesting
with Johnny Copeland onstage.
February 20, 1988: Bill Wyman organizes a charity concert
at the Royal
Albert Hall in London, England, which he
headlines, with Ron Wood, Phil Collins, Kenney Jones and
Terence Trent
D'Arby joining in.
February 24, 1988: Keith Richards returns to New York City
and resumes
work on Talk Is Cheap.
February 28-March 5, 1988: Mick Jagger and band continue
rehearsing at
Silvercup Studio in Queens, New York.
February 29, 1988: Ron Wood leaves England for Japan.
March 1988: Charlie Watts
calls
Bill Wyman and enquires as to the likelihood of the Stones
touring.
March 1, 1988: Ron Wood holds a press conference in Tokyo,
Japan, for The
Gunslingers' tour of Japan with Bo
Diddley.
March 2-4, 1988: Ron Wood & Bo Diddley open their
Japanese tour with
concerts in Tokyo and Sapporo.
March 3, 1988: Bono visits Keith Richards at his mixing
sessions for Talk
Is Cheap in New York City.
March 6, 1988: Mick Jagger flies from New York City to
Japan.
March 6-8, 1988: Ron Wood & Bo Diddley perform more
concerts in Tokyo.
March 8, 1988: Mick Jagger holds a press conference in
Tokyo, Japan, to
present his upcoming tour. In New York
City, Keith Richards and Steve Jordan watch Kodo perform,
drummers from
Japan.
March 10-11, 1988: The Gunslingers perform in Nagoya and
Osaka.
March 10-17, 1988: Keith Richards and Steve Jordan hold
recording sessions
in Bermuda, to primarily rework
the vocals.
| Waddy Wachtel
(1997): Keith's art
They'd sounded like Stones songs when I left and when I came back there were melodies on there that the Stones could never have done. That's where the liberation came in for Keith. I looked at Steve and said, Did you do this? And he goes, Not me, man, I didn't make one change. Keith wanted it to be anti-formula, anti-commercial. He wanted it to be Art |
March 11-12, 1988: Ron Wood hangs out with Mick Jagger in
Osaka.
March 12-14, 1988: Mick Jagger and band hold final
rehearsals in Osaka,
Japan.
March 13-15, 1988: Ron Wood and Bo Diddley end their tour
of Japan with
more concerts in Tokyo.
March 15-18, 1988: Mick Jagger opens his first ever solo
tour, his first
ever performances in Japan and his first full
concerts since 1982, with three shows at Osaka's Castle
Hall in Osaka,
Japan. The concert material is mostly
made up of Rolling Stones songs, including songs not
performed for a long
time, including Bitch, Gimmie Shelter,
Ruby Tuesday and Sympathy for the Devil. The
Jimi Hendrix song
Foxy
Lady is also performed. The shows also
feature background singers for the first time in Mick
Jagger/Rolling Stones
concerts, including Bernard Fowler
and Lisa Fischer. Tina Turner make a guest star appearance
on the 16th.
| Keith Richards
(August 1988): Mick in Japan
I thought it was very sad that a high percentage of his show was Rolling Stones songs. If you're going to do something on your own, do stuff off the two albums you did. Don't pretend you're a solo artist and have two chicks prancing around doing Tumbling Dice, do you know what I mean? That severely pisses me off. |
March 16, 1988: Ron Wood and Bo Diddley leave Japan for
the United States.
March 17, 1988: Keith Richards is back in New York City
and celebrates
his wife's birthday.
Mid-March-early April 1988: Keith Richards does more work
in New York on
Talk Is Cheap.
March 18, 1988: Ron Wood and Bo Diddley start a tour of
the U.S. West Coast
with a concert in Los Angeles.
March 19, 1988: Mick Jagger's fourth scheduled concert in
Osaka is postponed
because of illness.
March 22, 1988: The Gunslingers perform in
Pheonix, Arizona.
March 22-23, 1988: Mick Jagger performs two concerts in
Tokyo Dome.
March 25-26, 1988: Mick Jagger performs two shows in
Nagoya, Japan. Ron
Wood and Bo Diddley end their U.S. tour
with concerts in San Franciso and Los Angeles. John Lee
Hooker joins in
on the San Francisco show.
March 27, 1988: Mick Jagger joins Tina Turner onstage in
Osaka, Japan.
March 28, 1988: Mick Jagger concludes his solo tour of
Japan with the postponed
concert at Osaka's Castle Hall.
March 30-31, 1988: Ron Wood and Buddy Guy perform together
at Woody's On
The Beach in Miami, Florida.
| Ron Wood
(1988): Playing with Buddy
I played with Buddy Guy recently, and I went in and said I know it's a stupid question, Buddy, but are we going to rehearse at all? He said Hey Ronnie, we both love Muddy, don't we? And I said Yes, so he said Well, what do you want to rehearse for? I said, Yeah, I knew it was a stupid question! Just before we went on, I said I tell you what, I'll be Elmore James and you be Buddy Guy, and he said, All right then, so I basically played the whole show on slide. |
April 6-7, 1988: Ron Wood performs solo sets at Woody's On
The Beach.
April 9, 1988: Keith Richards catches the play Burn
This at the
Plymouth Theatre in New York City.
April 11, 1988: Ron Wood returns home to Wimbledon,
England.
April 11-28, 1988: Keith Richards holds the last recording
sessions for
Talk Is Cheap at Air Studios in Montserrat in
the Virgin Islands.
April 18-25, 1988: Two years after the suit is filed, Mick
Jagger attends
court proceedings in New York for allegedly
plagiarizing the song Just Another Night. He
testifies and plays
demo tapes of his recordings of the song.
April 26, 1988: The jury dismisses finds Mick Jagger not
guilty of plagiarism.
April 27, 1988: Ron Wood starts a tour of Scandinavia in
Malmo, Sweden,
with the band Tottas Bluesband.
Late April 1988: Mick Jagger returns to England.
April 28-30, 1988: Ron Wood and Tottas Bluesband perform
in Gothenburg,
Jonkopping and Salen in Sweden.
May 1988: Keith Richards and Steve Jordan mix the album
Talk Is Cheap at
The Hit Factory and Atlantic Studios in
New York City.
May 2-6, 1988: Ron Wood and Tottas Bluesband perform more
concerts in Sweden,
in Norköping, Örebrö, Stockholm
and Uppsala.
May 8-10, 1988: Ron Wood and Tottas Bluesband perform in
Trondheim and
Oslo in Norway.
May 11, 1988: Ron Wood ends his Scandinavian tour with
another concert
in Stockholm, Sweden.
May 18, 1988: The Rolling
Stones
gather for the first time in exactly two years, holding a
meeting at the
Savoy
Hotel
in London, England, to discuss their future. Mick Jagger
proposes they
tour, and Keith
Richards gets
angry because he is in the midst of his own solo work. They
agree in principle
to work
again
together
in the near future.
| Keith Richards
(1988): The meeting
Mick suddenly called up, and the rest of the them: Let's put the Stones back together. I'm thinking, JUST as I'm in the middle of an album. Now what are you trying to do , screw me up? Just NOW you want to talk about putting it back together? But we talked about it. I went to London, and we had a meeting. I think you'll find a new album and a tour next year from the Stones. |
June 1988: The Ron Wood & Bo Diddley album Live At The
Ritz is released.
June-August 1988: Keith Richards is in New York City,
preparing for the
release of Talk Is Cheap.
June 1, 1988: Bill Wyman attends Ron Wood's birthday party
in London, England.
June 13, 1988: Keith and Patti Richards attend a reception
at a club in
New York for a model's book on AIDS.
June 21-22, 1988: Ron Wood and Bo Diddley perform at
Woody's On The Beach
in Miami, Florida.
June 28, 1988: Ron Wood and Bo Diddley open a European
tour at London,
England's Hammersmith Odeon.
June 30-July 2, 1988: The Gunslingers continue their
European tour with
Italian concerts in Milan, Pistoia and Rome.
July 8-10, 1988: Ron Wood and Bo Diddley perform in
Wiesen, Austria; Nuremberg,
West Germany; and Frauenfeld,
Switzerland.
July 11, 1988: Mick Jagger shoots a promotional film clip
for the song
Primitive
Cool in London, England, and starts
rehearsals for his fall Australian tour.
July 15-16, 1988: Ron Wood and Bo Diddley conclude their
European tour
with concerts in Madris, Spain, and
Giessen, West Germany.
| Ron Wood
(1988): On the road
(I don't) really (get tired), because when you know you've got to go onstage, everything is geared to that. With Bo it was great - we actually did a couple of shows in Europe, at midday actually onstage at 12. Disorientating, but it worked. You'd get there going Arrgh, but get onstage and bang: Ah, I feel quite good actually. When you get in front of an audience it does the whole trick. |
July 26, 1988: Back in New York City, on his 45th birthday
Mick Jagger
watches Jerry Hall make her debut in the play
Bustop at a theater in New Jersey.
August 1, 1988: Ron Wood jams with Prince at a private
party in London,
England.
| Keith Richards
(August 1988): Woody's the man
Ronnie's a great mixture of talent and bullshit. He's the person I communicate most with in the Stones. He called me about getting up with the Midget, Prince, the other night. He fucked up the ending of Miss You. Yeah, that's Ron. But he's a great family man and I admire that. I do love Ronald. |
Early August 1988: Mick Jagger returns to Europe from New
York City.
August 12, 1988: Keith Richards watches INXS perform at
Madison Square
Garden in New York City.
| Keith Richards
(August 1988): Getting offered drugs
Sure. It happens all the time. (Adopts New York hustler voice) Here man, you gotta try this shit. It's real good... Even in London. They think it's going to impress you. But I never take it. Come on, I'm a connoisseur! That's why I'm still alive. I wouldn't take stuff off the street. Are you kidding me? It's rubbish. It's been stomped on a million times, it's got strychnine in it. No way. I'll sometimes take it off them just to be polite but I throw it as soon as they've gone. And Ecstasy. Anything with a name like that I wouldn't touch! I never went in for those fancy-named drugs. They were invariably useless. I went for the basics. I had my smoke, my dope because I needed it at the time, and cocaine. Those where the three that I knew... The terrible thing about drugs is people get hung up on them. The drugs themselves are benign. It's the dealers now, the guys that hang around outside the shcool gates waiting to turn on a little kid. That to me is despicable. I'd shoot the motherfucker if I caught him. That disgusts me. It's unforgivable... I've never recommended drugs or turned anyone on to drugs prsonally. Even way back, if I had some good dope, I kept it all to myself. I'm selfish, man! |
Late August-early September 1988: Ron Wood holidays in
Antigua.
Mid-August 1988: Charlie
Watts
and Ron Wood join Mick Jagger at his castle in France's
Loire Valley to
work on
demos
for the Rolling Stones. Much of these recordings will
instead serve the basis for Mick
Jagger's 1993 Wandering Spirit solo
album.
August 19, 1988: Mick
Jagger visits
Ron Wood in London, England, to continue work on demos.
| Ron Wood
(September1988): The Stones back on track
Mick came over with about twelve new songs the other day and I must admit it's sounding much more healthy now, more like the Let It Bleed and Sticky Fingers time. Much more rock, Rip This Joint-type of stuff, which is great, 'cause I was a bit worried that he'd gone off at a tangent. But he's really still there, still with Muddy and Howlin' Wolf, Slim Harpo and all that. I've got 20 or 30 songs, and at least ten of them are geared towards the Stones. I know Keith's been writing, apart from his own album, and he's got lots of other songs. We're just dying to weld them all together somehow... (W)e have tentative starting dates for the studio early next year. |
Late August-early September 1988: Ron Wood holidays in
Antigua.
August 22, 1988: Mick Jagger leaves London for New York
City.
August 23, 1988: Mick
Jagger and
Keith Richards meet and talk at manager Jane Rose's office
in New
York
City.
Keith Richards plays Mick Jagger his solo album.
| Keith Richards
(September 1988): Mick listens to Talk Is Cheap
I played him the album, but he talked all the way through it. The only time I got any insight from him was when I went to take a pee. I come out of the john and he's dancing around the room. For a minute I watch him, and he's just enjoying it. So I went back into the john and slammed the door and walked out again, and he's just sitting on the couch. But that's Mick. I know the bloke. I guess I saw him liking it when he didn't know I was looking. So that's cool. |
| Keith Richards
(September 1988): A little yelling
Well, I yelled at Mick a couple weeks ago, but I was stick at the time and I did apologize to him. Yelling wasn't necessary. But he still makes me mad, his attitude. The Stones spend a lot of time building up integrity, as much as you can get in the music industry. And I got the very definite impression that the way Mick handled (his solo career) really jeopardized all that. But if the Stones get back together, I think that can be rectified, for want of a better word. |
| Keith Richards
(August 1988): A better Rolling Stone
Well, I've always been (a Rolling Stone), from the start of... if you want to call it my professional career. And I never wanted to be anything else. For the last couple of years I've had to deal with NOT being one. At first it almost broke my heart. What I've learned from not being a Rolling Stone for two years probably will help me be, if the Stones come back together, which they will, will help me be... what can I say - a better Rolling Stone? (laughs) Or make the Rolling Stones better. I have a little more confidence in myself, by myself. I found that I can, if I have to, live without the Rolling Stones. And that my only job isn't desperately trying to keep a band together that maybe needed a break. |
| Keith Richards
(August 1988): Bill and Charlie, get working!
Charlie wants to work. He hasn't played for a year. I'm trying to get the boys to practice if they're serious about next year. Maybe I could use this to transmit the message once again about how important it is that, BILL AND CHARLIE START PLAYING NOW! Because it'll be so much easier next year if they start practicing now. They've heard this speech before, and they'll hear it again. I've got Ronnie working them, if he can just pull the moral weight to get them together and start juicing them up. |
August 24, 1988: Mick Jagger leaves New York City for San
Francisco.
August 25-September 8, 1988: Mick Jagger resumes solo tour
rehearsals at
Skywalker Ranch in San Francisco,
California
August 29, 1988: Keith Richards leaves New York City for
Los Angeles.
August 31, 1988: Keith Richards shoots a videoclip for Take
It So Hard
in Los Angeles, California.
Early September 1988: Bill Wyman holds recording sessions
in London, England,
for an unreleased solo album.
September 7-9, 1988: Keith Richards returns to New York
City, where he
attends the U.S. Tennis Open and hangs
out with winner Mats Wilander.
September 9, 1988: Mick Jagger leaves San Francisco for
Australia.
September 13, 1988: Mick Jagger holds a press conference
in Sydney, Australia,
to announce his solo tour. Keith
Richards holds a listening party for Talk Is Cheap at the
Acme Bar &
Grill in New York City. Iggy Pop drops in.
September 13-16, 1988: Mick Jagger and band hold more
rehearsals in Sydney,
Australia.
September 15, 1988: Keith Richards holds another listening
party for Talk
Is Cheap at The Whiskey in Los Angeles,
with Tom Waits, Bon Jovi and Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton
of U2 dropping
by.
| Keith Richards
(September 1988): Reconciliation on the horizon
I was trying to keep the band together, but now maybe I do feel that this breathing space is a good thing for the Stones. A little ventilation... (M)aybe the Stones needed a little fresh air. I still have lots of reservations about Mick, but I think that 's something natural we all go through as people. Eventually we'll work it out and I have no doubt we can work together. I've known him for 40 years and our fights are on many different levels, not just about who runs the Stones blah, blah, blah. It's more to do with knowing somebody for so long, and you get to a point where you think a mate of yours is screwing up and you try to tell him because that's what friends are for. 'Cause everybody else has said, Yes, Mick, yes, Mick so many times. It's the LV (lead vocalist) syndrome. It goes with the job. You think you're semi-devine out there, semi-divine when you come offstage, and in the limousine, and on the plane. Eventually, you think you're semi-divine, period. So that's one of the things we have to get through. Having the Stones work again next year will probably solve the problems between Mick and myself. Mick has always perceived this thing as a power struggle between us, but it's not like that. Yet it's very hard to convince somebody there isn't a power struggle if they perceive there is one. It only takes one person to perceive something as a power struggle, and then it is one, and people are forced to take sides. It's not a good feeling. So I'm hoping that these two years have cleared the air and that nobody has to worry about that anymore. |
September 17, 1988: Mick Jagger and band, including again
Joe Satriani
and Bernard Fowler, perform a surprise,
warm-up concert at the Kardomah Café in Sydney, Australia.
September 18-27, 1988: Keith Richards travels through
Europe, including
England, France and West Germany, to
promote Talk Is Cheap.
September 20, 1988: Mick Jagger and band rehearse in
Brisbane, Australia.
September 22-23, 1988: Mick Jagger officially kicks off
his Australasian
tour, his first performing visit to the country
in 15 years, with two concerts at Brisbane's Boondal
Entertainment Center.
The concerts again predominantly
feature Rolling Stones songs, including Can't You Hear
Me Knocking?
and Dirty Work's Harlem Shuffle and One
Hit (to the Body), as well Ned Kelly's The
Wild Colonial
Boy and a new song, What Kind of World Is This?.
| Mick Jagger
(September 1988): Resuming a performing career
When you leave something alone for such a long time, you get out of touch with yourself as a singer and performer. So I decided to see what I could do, and it's worked out quite well. It was pretty hairy in Japan for a moment. I don't really want to talk about Keith's problems. I'm afraid life isn't quite (as) simple (as me breaking up the Stones). I wanted to take the Stones on the road this year. Keith was too busy, and we talked about doing it next year. That's sort of up in the air for the moment. If the Stones go on stuttering and not really starting, then obviously I'll have to (continue by myself)... Now that I've got the taste of playing onstage again, I'll carry on doing it. If the Stones start up again and everything is a great, fun, pleasurable success, then I won't do so much of it. Who knows? |
| Keith Richards
(1988): Mick in Australia
Great. Go to Australia in their midwinter. Go on. I've got other things to do. Go there. Go there with your jerk-off band. He knows how I feel about it. Whether he'll ever admit it to himself, I don't know. I mean, I'll be totally honest: I LOVE Mick. Most of my efforts with Mick go to trying to open his eyes: You don't need to do this. You have no problem. All you've got to do is just grow up with it. And that's what he should be doing... And I don't him reading this shit, because this is part of, as far as I'm concerned, my attempt to help him along. |
September 23, 1988: Ron Wood guests onstage with Toots
& the Maytals
at Woody's On The Beach in Miami.
September 26-October 2, 1988: Mick Jagger performs five
concerts at the
Entertainment Center in Sydney, Australia.
September 28, 1988: Keith Richards returns to New York
City.
September 29, 1988: Ron Wood attends a party in London for
the British
publication of his book The Works.
October 3, 1988: Keith Richards' first solo album, Talk
Is Cheap, is released.
October 4, 1988: In New York City, Keith Richards and Tom
Hanks tape a
promotional segment for the upcoming
episode of Saturday Night Live.
October 5-7, 1988: Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos
rehearse at American
Sound Studio in New York City.
October 6-7, 1988: Mick Jagger performs two concerts at
Melbourne, Australia's
International Tennis Center.
October 8, 1988: Keith Richards performs live on U.S. TV's
Saturday
Night Live, ten years to the month after the
Rolling Stones' appearance.
October 10-11, 1988: Mick Jagger performs two concerts at
Perth, Australia's
Burswood Superdome.
October 14-17, 1988: Mick Jagger performs three more shows
at Melbourne's
International Tennis Center.
October 16, 1988: Keith Richards joins U2 onstage at
London, England's
Dominion Theatre for a Jamaica benefit
concert.
October 17, 1988: Keith Richards starts a new round of
European promotion
for Talk Is Cheap, giving a press
conference in Madrid, Spain.
October 19, 1988: Mick Jagger performs a small-scale,
impromptu concert
at Melbourne's Richmond Corner Hotel.
Keith Richards gives a press conference in Rome, Italy.
October 21, 1988: Mick Jagger performs another concert at
Sydney's Entertainment
Center.
October 22, 1988: Keith Richards holds a press conference
in Oslo, Norway.
October 23, 1988: Mick Jagger performs the last Australian
concert of his
solo tour at Adelaide's Thebarton Oval.
October 24, 1988: Keith Richards returns to New York City.
October 28, 1988: Keith Richards announces his upcoming
U.S. tour on the
radio in New York City.
October 30, 1988: Mick Jagger performs in Indonesia for
the first time
in his career, at Jakarta's Stadion Utama
Senayan.
November 2, 1988: Ron Wood performs a solo set at Woody's
On The Beach
in Miami, Florida.
November 3, 1988: Keith Richards, along with Don Covay,
attends a party
in New York City for the tenth anniversary
of Bill German's Rolling Stones fanzine Beggars
Banquet. In Miami,
Ron Wood guests with Ray Charles at
Woody's On The Beach.
November 3-9, 1988: Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos
start tour rehearsals
in New York City.
November 4, 1988: Keith Richards and family attend the
circus in New York.
November 5, 1988: Mick Jagger ends his Australasian solo
tour with a concert
in Auckland, New Zealand.
November 6, 1988: Mick Jagger returns to England.
November 8-10, 1988: Ron Wood guests at shows by Jerry Lee
Lewis and Willie
Dixon at Woody's On The Beach
in Miami.
November 10-18, 1988: Keith Richards holidays in Antigua.
November 19-23, 1988: Keith Richards and the X-Pensive
Winos continue tour
rehearsals in Atlanta, Georgia.
November 24, 1988: Keith Richards opens his U.S. tour at
Atlanta's Fox
Theater, his first ever full solo concert and
his first complete, paying show in over six years. Bobby
Keys is part of
the X-Pensive Winos onstage.
| Keith Richards
(December 1988): The first show
I was unnaturally calm at the first gig, in Atlanta. Usually I get excited, nerves don't really come into it but I get an Open the cage, let me out, let me at them feeling. But for the first gig I must have numbed myself in some way, because I had this unnatural clarity of what was going on and wasn't actually feeling anything at all until I got into the show. It was after the first show that I realized, Yeah, I can handle this. |
November 25-29, 1988: Keith Richards and the X-Pensive
Winos perform concerts
in Memphis, Washington D.C. and
New York City.
November 30, 1988: Keith Richards signs autographs at
Tower Records in
New York City.
December 1-5, 1988: Keith Richards performs two concerts
each at Philadelphia's
Tower Theater and Boston's
Orpheum Theater.
December 7-10, 1988: Keith Richards and the X-Pensive
Winos perform in
Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago.
| Darryl
Jones (1994): Getting to know Keith
My story, personally, is I met Keith in 1987 when he was working on the Talk Is Cheap record. Some friends of mine, Charley Drayton and Steve Jordan, were working with him, and they introduced me to him in New York. When they toured on the record, I saw the show a few times. After their gig in Chicago, I went back to the hotel with those guys, and Keith called us and invited us down to sit around and talk. It ended up with Keith giving us an alternate guitar tuning lesson. It was the 5-string open G, but he did A LOT of other stuff. There's more, believe me! I liked him, and I really liked that record a lot. It started to pique my interest to play rock & roll. |
December 13-14, 1988: Keith Richards performs concerts in
Oakland and Los
Angeles.
December 15, 1988: Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos
perform a recorded
and filmed concert at the
Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
December 17, 1988: Keith Richards ends his first solo tour
at Brendan Byrne
Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
December 19, 1988: The day following his 45th birthday,
Keith and Patti
Richards host a birthday-wedding
anniversary-tour end party at their house in New York
City.
| Keith Richards
(December 1988): The solo tour
It was absolutely great. At the moment I'm just realizing that it's finished - the body keeps going, Where's the gig? Nine o'clock and my body wants to go onstage and there's no stage to go to anymore. You get a post tour depression. It always sets in. The tour was fantastic, the crowds amazing. For me the whole thing was an experiment, which is why I decided, except for Meadowlands, to do small theatre and stuff where I didn't have to think about the sound and I could figure out where I could carry this thing off or not as a front man. And that worked. I'm very happy. If I had the time, I'd love to take this band everywhere and in due course, hopefully I can. There's no possible way I could have done a world tour at this time given the fact that the Stones are going to be working next year. If I had the time I would have loved to have done that and the band were ready to go. The ideal for me would be to (continue working with both bands). The Stones don't work enough for my liking. To get the best work out of myself I have to work more often than the Stones can possibly work. The machinery is so big in the Stones organization you tour maybe once every two years. The Stones now haven't been on the road for six years, it will be seven if they get on the road next year - which is a long time. And for a musician that's not a good thing. A musician needs fairly regular constant work, practice, to keep your chops together so that it flows out of you naturally. The Stones, when we record or go on tour, I have to knock the rust off the machinery for a couple of months first, and it's a hard grind to get them into top gear. |
| Keith Richards
(December 1988): Missing the Stones
Of course I miss them. I've known Mick for nearly 40 years. Ronnie's a newcomer and he's been with us a mere 15 years or is it 13 years? And the other guys have been together 25 years. You're bound to miss people. I miss them all, they're all great friends of mine. |
December 25, 1988: Keith Richards and family spend the
holidays in Connecticut,
Mick Jagger in Mustique, and Ron
Wood, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts in England.
Late December 1988: Charlie Watts vacations in Italy.