![]() The band was nervous, and it wasn’t all that clear whether or not they were going to make it this time. They put the weight on Mick, and he was carrying it. Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, even Mick Taylor, they all looked like Rolling Stones but they weren’t stepping out. Black tight pants with silver studs up the side a black blouse with a beige horseshoe on it, special astrology for the warlock’s tour an Uncle Sam hat out of Ginsberg and a red scarf that might have been ten feet long. Jagger was dressed right out of Sympathy for the Devil, but for me the costume didn’t take hold until near the end of the show, when it no longer seemed like a costume. But that’s a long way from the House of Wax. His features were no longer supple and loose they were hard and thick, like the marble ridges of a statue. It seemed to have fallen into place for good. The Sixties are over – the first thing that hit you when the Stones came out on stage was the evidence of the years in Mick Jagger‘s face. OAKLAND, California-We flooded into the Oakland Coliseum in 1969 with memories of the Cow Palace in 1966 – but this time there weren’t any twelve-year-old kids kicking over the seats and wetting their pants.
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