The Rolling Stones' 1972 tour is the subject of a new podcast series on iHeartRadio.
‘Stones Touring Party’ is based on the book ‘S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with The Rolling Stones’ from former Rolling Stone magazine writer Robert Greenfield. He was on the road with The Stones at that time and did more than 60 hours of interviews, highlights of which you'll hear.
The podcast is described as “an all-access pass to the sights, sounds, riots, bombings, drug busts, death threats and other assorted mayhem” of the 1972 tour. The first episode focuses on the horrific events of their December 6th, 1969 show at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California.
At that show 18-year-old fan Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by members of Hell’s Angels, who had been hired as “security.”
Guitarist Mick Taylor recalls that show in the first episode, saying, "I think it affected all of us very profoundly. The only thing we were very upset about was being accused and held responsible for what happened, and you can’t really blame anybody in that kind of mass hysteria.”
The Rolling Stones did not let the events of that day stop them from performing. Mick Jagger says, "Either I stopped touring or I didn’t. It was as simple as that. A few people said don’t go — friends of mine … I said, ‘Well, it’s more or less what I do, so I gotta do it.
“There was a few places that it did get scary and there was a lot of guns confiscated and stuff like that … I was scared...”
Episode One is available now at iHeart.com/Podcast.
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