“Hampton Coliseum – Live In 1981” is the first title in this series.
The Rolling Stones American Tour in 1981 was the most successful tour of that year taking a then record $50 million dollars in ticket sales.
The tour was in support of the critically and commercially successful “Tattoo You” album.
There were fifty dates on the tour which ran from Philadelphia at the end of September through to Hampton, Virginia on the 18th and 19th of December.The show on December 18th, which was also Keith Richards’ birthday, was the first ever music concert to be broadcast on television as a pay-per-view event.The footage has now been carefully restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.
“L.A. Forum – Live In 1975” is the second title in this series. The Rolling Stones’ “Tour Of The Americas ‘75” was the band’s first tour with new guitarist Ronnie Wood.Even before the dates started there were dramatic scenes in New York City at the official tour announcement when the band unexpectedly turned up on a flatbed truck to play “Brown Sugar”.After a couple of low key warm-up shows in Louisiana the tour took in 44 dates between the 3rd June and the 8th August 1975.They settled into the L.A. Forum for a five night stint from July 9th to 13th and this concert film features the show from July 12th.The footage has now been carefully restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.
The Fat Angel Sings 