This recording is an hour an five minutes long. They also played "Worried about You," a song that wouldn't get officially released until the 1981 album "Tattoo You." While they did play some big hits, they made a point of playing some songs from their early years that they hadn't played since the 1960s. (Four songs were included on the "Love You Live" album, but they're all heavily overdubbed.) This show is great because not only is it a professionally recorded soundboard, with the ambience of a small club, but the band played a very interesting bunch of songs that were quite different from their usual set lists in the late 1970s. Only some of the songs recorded for the second night have made it to this bootleg. (He eventually wiggled out of it.) Also, there were lots of problems with the recording of the show for the live album.
He also had been arrested in Canada a few days earlier for drug possession, and it looked like he could serve a long prison sentence. Keith Richards found out just before going on stage that his two-month old baby had died of natural causes. The first show apparently went pretty badly. If you listen carefully, Mick Jagger mentions Margaret's name at one point in his banter between songs. Then there was a big controversy in Canada, because Margaret Trudeau, the estranged wife of Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Trudeau, went to the shows and apparently was having a fling with one of the band members. When they got there, they were astounded to find that April Wine was the opening act for the Rolling Stones! Somehow, even though they did this two nights in a row, the secret was kept out of the media until after the shows were over. The 300 winners all met in a certain spot, and then were secretly brought by bus to the club. The winners would get to see the popular Canadian band April Wine for free. They had a local radio station run a contest for people to show what die-hard fans they were. They chose the obscure El Mocambo Tavern in Toronto, Canada, for some reason. But they wanted to release a live album (which would eventually come out under the name "Love You Live"), and they decided to include some unusual song choices from an appearance at a small club. By 1977, the Rolling Stones were playing huge stadiums. This was a highly unusual concert, to say the least. This is a "must have" live concert from them, in my opinion. I'm going to try to make up for that by posting a bunch of things in the near future. It occurred to me that it's been a long time since I've posted any music from the Rolling Stones.
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