The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, August 20, 1975, Page page 8, Image 8

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    Wednesday, august 20, 1975
daily nebraskan
page 8
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Story by
Deb Gray
Photos by
Kevin Higley
Stones show
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It was the summer that Joan Baez went
commercial, Alice Cooper welcomed
people to his nightmare and Cher divorced,
married, then filed for divorce again.
And, of course," there were the Rolling
.Stones, entrenching their status as the
world's top rock and roll band. The third
stop of their 1975 Tour of the Americas
was in Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium.
It was there that 1 brushed with
martyrdom to see a living legend in action."
All those $40 adjectives used to describe
the indescribable were true-devastating,
electrifying, mind-blowing. . .all of it. But
there's something about the whole Stones
concert experience that transcends
anything as two-dimensional as print on
PS1IBut, like fame or a stable human
relationship, there were sacrifices to be
made. The day was a constant series of
challenges. Around noon, my friends and J
were caught in the opening barrage of rabid
Stones freaks going through the gates.
During this crunch my roommate
almost got her face trampled while
retrieving her purse. Then she was vomited
uoon.
And, after we got inside, it was three
hours until the music began. The heat was
cerebrum shriveling-130-degrees of
it-according to the Kansas City Star,
during the Rufus and Eagles performances.
Apparently, many neorasxans mauo uic
journey-our position on the playing field
was surrounded by people from the state.
They were quite a cross-section: one group
smoked opium while a man from another
group read a Bible.
The other within-driving-distance
performance of the Stones was in Fort
Collins, Colo. July 20. And, according to
Rolling Stone magazine, the Stones
probably wouldn't have minded shooting
Elton John, even if he is only a piano
player.
the magazine said John dropped by
from Caribou recording studios near
Denver, supposedly only to play the
opening number, Honky-Tonk Women. But
he stayed on through much of the set, and
his improvising reportedly hampered the
Stones' performance.
A friend who attended the Fort Collins
concert said John was not announced to
the audience, and he wasn't aware of
John's presence until he read of the
incident in Rolling Stone. He said he
noticed a different person in Billy Preston's
place at the keyboards-someone with a
cowboy hat and no glasscs-but even
through binoculars, hs said he couldn't
identify John.
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