Robert Greenfield

“For the Stones were taking a definite chance. Despite the overwhelming ticket demand and the avalanche of media interest in them, they were going on the road with essentially the same kind of show they had done in 1969. What nobody could forecast was how the kids would react to it. The Stones would do a classic rock and roll set, composed of twelve or fifteen separate and distinct numbers, each with a beginning, middle, and an end, starting out hard and fast, calming in the middle, then all-out rocking at the end designed to leave the audience up and dancing when it was over. When the set ended, so did the show. The Stones rarely did encores. They worked like stars . . . come out, hit ‘em hard, zonk ‘em, then run to the limos before the cheering stops, out of the building and on to the plane. Strictly 1966 Beatles-type stuff that made the distance between the musician and the customer unbridgeable. In the spirit of P. T. Barnum, the Stones always left ‘em wanting more. But”
― Robert Greenfield, S.t.p.: A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones