Rolling Stones - 1981-11-23 - Chicago, IL (SBD)

Rolling Stones

1981-11-23

Rosemont Horizon

Chicago, IL

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

CD 1:

01. Under My Thumb

02. When The Whip Comes Down

03. Let's Spend The Night Together

04. Shattered

05. Neighbours

06. Black Limousine

07. Just My Imagination

08. Twenty Flight Rock

09. Going To A Go Go

10. Let Me Go

11. Time Is On My Side

12. Beast Of Burden

13. Waiting On A Friend

14. Let It Bleed

CD 2:

01. You Can't Always Get What You Want

02. Band Introduction

03. Little T&A

04. Tumbling Dice

05. he's So Cold

06. Hang Fire

07. Miss You

08. Honky Tonk Women

09. Brown Sugar

10. Start Me Up

11. Jumping Jack Flash

12. Satisfaction 

13. Star-Spangled Banner

Rolling Stones - 1981-11-23 - Chicago, IL (SBD)

Rolling Stones Back To Back 1981 - #1: When the Rolling Stones went on tour of the US in 1981 in support of their soon to be number #1 album Tattoo You, Mick Jagger wasn’t completely in favor of hitting the concert trail once again. That didn’t stop Jagger or the band from finding ways to make plenty of money. Ticket sales for the 50 date itinerary grossed over $50 million, at an average ticket price of $16. The Stones garnered another $1 million from Jovan Musk, who in return were allowed to print their name on each and every ticket sold. It was quite ironic that the Stones, with their bad boy image, who had railed against advertising in the lyrics to Satisfaction, would be one of the first groups to engage a corporate sponsor. More cash rolled in on December 18, as the Stones’ show from Hampton VA, the next to last performance of the tour, became the first concert by any band to be broadcast on pay per view (the Grateful Dead had used closed circuit TV for their October 31, 1980 broadcast from Radio City). The end of the tour the next night didn’t mean the end of the financial windfall for the Stones. In June 1982, the band released the live album, Still Life, featuring highlights from the 1981 tour, which went to number 5 on the Billboard charts, selling over 1 million copies despite less than stellar reviews. In 1983, the Stones released the concert film, Let’s Spend The Night Together, showcasing songs from their 1981 shows on November 5th in New Jersey and December 13th in Tempe. The film grossed another $50 million for the band. All that money making did have one residual benefit for fans of the Stones. The band taped almost every show of the tour to amass material for the live album and movie. As such, over 30 soundboards from the 1981 tour are in circulation. This one captures the Stones on November 23, 1981, 40 years ago today, in Chicago. Download this one, the come back tomorrow and the next days for nights 2 and 3 in the Windy City.