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The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, also known as the "Stones Touring Party", shortened to S.T.P., was a much-publicized and much-written-about concert tour of the United States and Canada in June and July 1972 by the Rolling Stones. Constituting the band's first performances in the United States following the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969, critic Dave Marsh would later write that the tour was "part of rock and roll legend" and one of the "benchmarks of an era."BOOK, Dave Marsh, Marsh, Dave, Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s,weblink registration, Pantheon Books, 1987, 0-394-54668-7, p. 15

Tour and difficulties

File:Jagger-Richards.jpg|thumb|right|Mick Jagger and Keith Richards share a microphone during the June 1972 Winterland shows]]The tour in part supported the group's Exile on Main St. album, which was released a few weeks earlier on 12 May. It was also part of a tour-America-every-three-years rotation that the group established in 1969 and maintained through 1981.On the first show of the tour, 3 June in Vancouver, British Columbia, 31 policemen were treated for injuries when more than 2,000 fans attempted to crash the Pacific Coliseum.NEWS,weblink Rolling through scandal, The Vancouver Sun, 2008-04-02, 2013-12-02, In San Diego on 13 June, there were 60 arrests and 15 injured during disturbances. In Tucson, Arizona on 14 June, an attempt by 300 youths to storm the gates led to police using tear gas.WEB,weblink 50 Greatest Concerts in San Diego History 1917 - 2005 | San Diego Reader, Sandiegoreader.com, 3 May 2022, On 16 June, after the Denver shows, in a hotel suite, Stephen Stills and Keith Richards drew knives in an argument.WEB,weblink Chronicle 1972, Timeisonourside.com, 2019-11-12, While in Chicago for three appearances on 19 and 20 June, the group stayed at Hugh Hefner's original Playboy Mansion in the Gold Coast district.WEB,weblink The Rolling Stones Go South, Robert, Greenfield, Rollingstone.com, 3 August 1972, 3 May 2022, Eighty-one people were arrested at the two sellout Houston shows on 25 June, mostly for marijuana possession and other minor drug offences.WEB,weblink By popular demand: The 1972 Rolling Stones concert, J. R. Gonzales, 13 April 2013, Bayou City History, 3 May 2022, There were 61 arrests in the large crowd at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., on the Fourth of July.WEB,weblink Goodbye, RFK - Raw Fisher, 3 December 2013, 5 December 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131205032058weblink">weblink dead, On 13 July police had to block 2,000 ticket-less fans from trying to gain access to the show in Detroit.WEB,weblink Rolling Stones Bring Havoc to Cobo, Stoneslib7.homestead.com, 3 May 2022, On 17 July at the Montreal Forum a bomb blew up in the Stones' equipment van, and replacement gear had to be flown in; then it was discovered that 3,000 forged tickets had been sold, causing a fan riot and a late start to the concert. The next day, 18 July, the Stones' entourage got into a fight with photographer Andy Dickerman in Rhode Island, and Jagger and Richards landed in jail, imperilling that night's show at the Boston Garden. Boston Mayor Kevin White, fearful of a riot if the show were cancelled, intervened to bail them out; the show went on, albeit with another late start. Dickerman would later file a £22,230 lawsuit against the band.Stones Tour: All Ends Well Despite Bust, Bomb, Rolling Stone The tour ended with four shows over three consecutive nights at New York City's Madison Square Garden, the first night of which saw 10 arrests and two policemen injured,WEB,weblink Memorable Performances from Madison Square Garden « WCBS-FM 101.1, 3 December 2013, 27 August 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170827215041weblink">weblink dead, and the last leading to confrontations between the crowd outside Madison Square Garden and the police. The last show on 26 July, Jagger's 29th birthday, had balloons and confetti falling from Madison Square Garden's ceiling and Jagger blowing the candles off a huge cake. Pies were also wheeled in, leading to a pie fight between the Rolling Stones and the audience.WEB,weblink The Sun - Google News Archive Search, News.google.com, 3 May 2022, Following the final performance, a party was held in Jagger's honor by Ahmet Ertegun at the St. Regis New York. Guests included Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Andy Warhol, the Capote entourage, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, while the Count Basie Orchestra provided musical entertainment. At the event, Dylan characterized the tour as "encompassing" and "the beginning of cosmic consciousness."BOOK,weblink Stones Touring Party: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones, 9781781311998, Greenfield, Robert, 8 July 2013, Rock critic Robert Christgau reported that the mood of the shows was friendly, with Jagger "undercut[ting] his fabled demonism by playing the clown, the village idiot, the marionette."Robert Christgau, "The Rolling Stones", entry in The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, Random House, 1980. p. 200

Naming

The official name of the tour was 'American Tour 1972'. The tour is also known as the "Stones Touring Party", shortened to S.T.P.,BOOK,weblink S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones, Robert Greenfield, Hachette Books, 28 April 2009, 9780786730803, derived from the laminates handed out by the management to crew, family, friends and press, granting access to the various areas at the concert venues and hotels.{{fact|date=June 2020}} In 2015 Jose Cuervo in association with the Rolling Stones launched a brand of tequila with a marketing campaign based on one of the nicknames of the American Tour being the "Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise tour".WEB,weblink Everything wrong with Jose Cuervo's new Rolling Stones ad, Douglas Quenqua, September 15, 2015, Campaign (magazine), Campaign Live,

Coverage

File:Jagger-early Stones.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Mick Jagger at Winterland BallroomWinterland BallroomSeveral writers were assigned to cover the tour. Truman Capote was commissioned to write a travelogue for Rolling Stone. Accompanied by prominent New York socialites Lee Radziwill and Peter Beard, Capote did not mesh well with the group; he and his entourage abandoned the tour in New Orleans, before resurfacing for the final shows at Madison Square Garden.BOOK,weblink Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones, 9780767909563, Davis, Stephen, 11 December 2001, Having struggled with writer's block since the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, he failed to complete his feature, tentatively titled "It Will Soon Be Here." Rolling Stone ultimately recouped its stake by assigning Andy Warhol to interview Capote about the tour in 1973. In the interview, Capote alleged that tour doctor Laurence Badgley (a 1968 graduate of the Yale School of Medicine who was later retained by Led Zeppelin for their 1977 North American tour)WEB,weblink Laurence Badgley, M.D. : Medical Director at Natural Rx, Linkedin.com, 3 May 2022, had a "super-Lolita complex" and initiated the statutory rape of a high school student (also filmed by Robert Frank) on the band's business jet during a flight to Washington, D.C.BOOK,weblink The Rolling Stone Interviews, 9780316023139, Wenner, Jann S., November 2007, Terry Southern, a close friend of Keith Richards since the late 1960s, wrote about the tour for Saturday Review in what proved to be one of his last major journalistic assignments. Southern and Beard developed a friendship on the tour and collaborated intermittently on The End of the Game (an unfilmed screenplay) for over two decades.Robert Greenfield's S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones (derived from his tour reportage for Rolling Stone) was published in 1974. Greenfield had already covered the band's 1971 British Tour for Rolling Stone and was granted unlimited access to the band's affairs. Although Greenfield was initially assigned as the magazine's sole correspondent for the tour before a last-minute deal was reached with Capote, he was permitted to continue in his assignment, paralleling Hunter S. Thompson and Timothy Crouse's two-pronged coverage of the contemporaneous 1972 United States presidential election for the magazine.Dick Cavett hosted a one-hour special shot before the concluding New York engagement of performances. Capote appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and several other talk shows, talking about his experiences on the tour. New York radio host Alex Bennett reported on the first Madison Square Garden show as soon as he got back from it.

Filming

No live album was released from the tour at the time, although one was planned as far as having a front and back cover designed and studio touch-ups being made on several recorded tracks. Eventually, the album was shelved due to contractual disputes with Allen Klein.Two films of the tour were produced. The concert film (Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones)! only saw a limited theatrical release in 1974. Aside from an Australian VHS release in the early 1980s, it was not officially available on home video until 2010. The film's complete soundtrack was released as an album by Eagle Records/Universal in 2017.Robert Frank's Cocksucker Blues is a documentary shot in cinéma vérité style; several cameras were available for anyone in the entourage to pick up and start shooting backstage parties, drug use,WEB, The Trouble With 'Cocksucker Blues', Rolling Stone Magazine, 3 November 1977,weblink 2 June 2012, and roadie and groupie antics,WEB, Fricke, David, The Greatest Rolling Stones Movie You've Never Seen: 'Cocksucker Blues', Rolling Stone Magazine, 20 November 2012,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121127083417weblink">weblink dead, 27 November 2012, 2 June 2012, including a groupie in a hotel room injecting heroin.WEB, Doyle, Patrick, Rolling Stones' Controversial Tour Documentary "Cocksucker Blues" Screens in New York, Rolling Stone Magazine, 26 October 2009,weblink 2 June 2013, The film came under a court order which forbade it from being shown other than in very restricted circumstances. The film has since surfaced online in various bootlegged versions of varying quality.WEB,weblink The Rolling Stones: Cocksucker Blues (1972), IMDb.com, 3 May 2022,

Personnel

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Additional musicians

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Tour support acts

Stevie Wonder was the support act for the tour. Having released his groundbreaking Music of My Mind album in March 1972, Wonder would go on to release another epochal album (Talking Book) by year's end.MAGAZINE,weblink The 10 Best Opening Acts in Rock History – 9. The Rolling Stones/Stevie Wonder (1972), Rolling Stone, 11 July 2012, This placement, along with his hard-edged hit "Superstition" (released in October 1972), did much to increase Wonder's visibility to rock audiences. He and his band would also sometimes join the Stones at the end of the group's performance for an encore medley of Wonder's 1966 hit "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".

Tour set list

(File:Mick Taylor2.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Taylor playing slide guitar with the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden, 1972)The standard set list for the tour was:
  1. "Brown Sugar"
  2. "Bitch"
  3. "Rocks Off"
  4. "Gimme Shelter"
  5. "Happy"
  6. "Tumbling Dice"
  7. "Love in Vain"
  8. "Sweet Virginia"
  9. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
  10. "All Down the Line"
  11. "Midnight Rambler"
  12. "Bye Bye Johnny"
  13. "Rip This Joint"
  14. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
  15. "Street Fighting Man"
  16. Encore: often none, sometimes "Honky Tonk Women", a few times "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" / "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Additional songs performed: The exact number of setlist variations are subject to ongoing research. Notably absent was anything from before 1968 in the Stones' catalog save for the occasional presence of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". This tour also marked the banishment of "Sympathy for the Devil", which had been wrongly associated with the killing at Altamont, from the band's American performances for much of the 1970s.The tour grossed a then-record of $4 million (US${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|4000000|1972}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars).{{inflation-fn|US}}BOOK, Wyman, Bill, Rolling With the Stones, 2002, Dorling Kindersley, 0-7513-4646-2, 398, Although each band member netted roughly $250,000 (equivalent to $1.4 million today), Jagger was dissatisfied when he learned that Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant had secured a then-unprecedented 90/10 split of gross receipts in the group's favor on its contemporaneous North American tour.BOOK,weblink 9780767909563, Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones, 11 December 2001, Crown,

Tour dates{| class"wikitable" style"text-align:center;"

! width="200"| Date! width="200"| City! width="150"| Country! width="300"| Venue! width="100"| Opening act(s)| 3 June 1972| Vancouver| Canada| Pacific ColiseumStevie Wonder| 4 June 19722 shows| SeattleUnited States| Seattle Center Coliseum| 6 June 19722 showsSan FranciscoWinterland Ballroom| 8 June 19722 shows| 9 June 1972| Los Angeles| Hollywood Palladium| 10 June 1972Long Beach, California>Long Beach| Long Beach Arena| 11 June 19722 showsInglewood, California>InglewoodThe Forum (Inglewood, California)>The Forum| 13 June 1972| San DiegoSan Diego Sports Arena>International Sports Arena| 14 June 1972Tucson, Arizona>Tucson| Tucson Convention Center| 15 June 1972Albuquerque, New Mexico>AlbuquerqueThe Pit (arena)>University Arena| 16 June 19722 shows| Denver| Denver Coliseum| 18 June 1972Bloomington, Minnesota>Bloomington| Metropolitan Sports Center| 19 June 1972ChicagoInternational Amphitheatre| 20 June 19722 shows| 22 June 1972Kansas City, Missouri>Kansas CityMunicipal Auditorium (Kansas City, Missouri)>Municipal Auditorium| 24 June 19722 showsFort Worth, Texas>Fort Worth| Tarrant County Convention Center| 25 June 19722 shows| Houston| Hofheinz Pavilion| 27 June 1972Mobile, Alabama>Mobile| Mobile Civic Center| 28 June 1972Tuscaloosa, Alabama>TuscaloosaColeman Coliseum>Memorial Coliseum| 29 June 1972Nashville, Tennessee>NashvilleNashville Municipal Auditorium>Municipal Auditorium| 4 July 1972| Washington, D.C.| Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium| 5 July 1972Norfolk, Virginia>Norfolk| Norfolk Scope| 6 July 1972Charlotte, North Carolina>CharlotteBojangles' Coliseum>Charlotte Coliseum| 7 July 1972Knoxville, Tennessee>KnoxvilleJames White Civic Coliseum>Civic Arena| 9 July 19722 shows| St. LouisKiel Auditorium>Kiel Convention Hall| 11 July 1972Akron, Ohio>Akron| Rubber Bowl| 12 July 1972| IndianapolisIndiana Convention Center>Indiana Convention-Exposition Center| 13 July 1972DetroitCobo Hall| 14 July 1972| 15 July 19722 shows| TorontoCanada| Maple Leaf Gardens| 17 July 1972| Montreal| Montreal Forum| 18 July 1972BostonUnited StatesBoston Garden| 19 July 1972| 20 July 1972PhiladelphiaThe Spectrum| 21 July 19722 shows| 22 July 1972| PittsburghCivic Arena (Pittsburgh)>Civic Arena| 24 July 1972New York CityMadison Square Garden| 25 July 19722 shows| 26 July 1972

References

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Bibliography

  • Greenfield, Robert. S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones. Reissued Da Capo Press, 2002. {{ISBN|0-306-81199-5}}
  • Carr, Roy. The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record. Harmony Books, 1976. {{ISBN|0-517-52641-7}}

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