Rolling Stones US Tour 1978

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Rolling Stones US Tour 1978

Tour by The Rolling Stones
Start date	10 June 1978
End date	26 July 1978
Legs	1
Shows	25
The Rolling Stones tour chronology
Tour of Europe '76	US Tour 1978	American Tour 1981

The Rolling Stones' US Tour 1978 was a concert tour of the United States that took place during June and July 1978, immediately following the release of the group's seminal late-1970s album Some Girls.

1 History
2 Band members
- 2.1 Rolling Stones
- 2.2 Additional musicians
3 Set list
4 External links

[edit] History

This tour contained minimal theatrics, compared to the Stones' previous Tour of the Americas '75 and Tour of Europe '76, due to the emergence of the punk rock scene with its emphasis solely on music and attitude rather than presenting a grandiose stage extravaganza.

Continuing a schedule started in 1966 of touring the U.S. exactly every three years, the Stones played in a mixture of theatres (sometimes under a pseudonym), arenas, and stadiums, an unusual practice that they would follow for many of their future tours as well.

This was the first tour in which singer Mick Jagger sometimes played electric guitar on stage.

While the tour was commercially successful, it was dogged by drunken, sloppy performances. Tour photographer Lynn Goldsmith later compared it to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 1978 Tour, which she had also covered: "With Bruce, it was no drugs, no drinking, [long] sound checks and [long] shows. With the Stones, it was no sound check, lots of parties and running off-stage as quickly as possible to catch the private plane."

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Guest artists that played with the Stones during individual shows included Linda Ronstadt, Sugar Blue, Doug Kershaw, Bobby Keys, and Nicky Hopkins.

The opening act was Peter Tosh, who was sometimes joined by Jagger for their duet "Don't Look Back".

However, this US tour did not carry on into Europe in 1979, breaking the group's similar schedule of performing in Europe every three years, which had started in 1967. (This gap-year from touring prompted Keith Richards to join Ronnie Wood on his 1979 US solo tour, to promote his then-album Gimme Some Neck, in the process forming the band The New Barbarians.)