The Rolling Stones Live at the Madison Square Garden [27-6-1975] - Full Show 

I was at the June 25th show. It was my first concert. I was 15. It was the greatest show. Starting from Honky Tonk Women. Ronnie Wood joined the band. I was also a big Mick Taylor fan. Ronnie held his own. I also remember Billy Preston played with them and blew the house down. They are truly the Greatest Rock and Roll band in the world.

I was there June 25- 14 years old and it blew my mind and changed my life.

I saw them in Dallas Texas the next month on July 6th 1975 and they were fantastic at that show..everyone was energized...they played a long set list too. The Eagles had been onstage before them...so Mick and Keith came out swinging

I was there a the Garden in the Big Apple as I lived on the West bank of the Hudson River in the 6th borough of Jersey City, New Jersey. It was the first time I ever saw the Rolling Stones live. I was mesmerized..but I was frightened when Mick Jagger jumped on this rope with no net or safety guard of any kind and suddenly grabbed this long rope hanging from the ceiling about 500 feet high & zoom he took off and flew well over a hundred feet over the crowd on the floor. I was sitting above the mezzanine and he went way above us. The speed and suddenness of this unexpected stunt made my heart skip a beat. Clearly Jagger isn't afraid of heights at all. I never realized that he was a crazy daredevil. It wasn't until 20 years or more later when I read a book about the Stones that I found out that he worked out exercising under his father's supervision who was like the foremost Physical Education Instructor in Great Britain. He had to do this with his brother Chris at least an hour every day & unsurprisingly was quite an athlete excelling in Basketball, soccer, cricket, rock climbing & more. No wonder this guy can move around like he does, even to this day. And people thought he was a hedonistic drug addict who didn't take care of himself. WRONG!!! BTW...The Rolling Stones were great & still are.

THANK You kindly for posting this. I really loved hearing it for the first time. A real plus for me is I really love the set list for this tour. I think that it's not up to the Rolling stones high standards for sound quality but to hear what they sounded like with out mixing and post production is a real treat.I along with many many stones fan's appreciate your efforts and thanks for posting the set list with it. On the first time that I listened I was very curious what songs they had played so the set list came in real handy. The first time that I heard them live was in Philadelphia Pa in 1981 and it was the opening of the world tour and I thought that they sounded terrible. I couldn't believe how far they had fallen from the greatest rock and roll band. The next day they played again and the scalpers couldn't give the tickets away. Greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey U S A! Semper Fi!

This was Micks funk phase where he emulated singing with a growl like old bluesman. With the sped up pacing and the violent ferocity of clashing guitars Micks voice worked. Mick moved so amazing on stage during this tour..just totally raw natural moves not precherographed! Wish Mick could go back to these stage moves!

hard to believe but I think this is the first time Johnny Rotton refered to these guys as "boring old farts" and this was 40 years ago and wheres Johnny???

Thank you for posting this.. This is great.. I saw The Stones live only once.. Boston Garden June '75.. It's still my fave Rock 'n' Roll show ever, and I've been to hundreds of shows.. Yes, I thought Ronnie was so good that night, that I just had to see The Faces at the same place a few months later.

in the mid 70's the Stones have had the best sound of their career in my opinion ; very raw and wild until the 78 tour incl.

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I think the 75 tour was great. Far more energetic than previous tours. They played some interesting stuff . From Black & Blue hand of fate crazy mama. The you cant rock me- Get off my cloud was classic stones swing!! Jaggar was sloppy drunk & coked out. By the time I saw them in Los Angeles with that folding stage. Best opening I've seen with Honky Tonk woman.blasting as Jaggar tried to jump to get it to unfold. Keef was a mess this tour. His addictions got progressively worse! He was a shade of purple when he rolled into the forum. They played 5 nights, all shows were attended by the Hollywood elite..A giant party this tour was. Wood added some needed playfulness MT couldnt. What's sad is RW was about to get that Keef influence himself. His own addictions blossomed into full fledged addiction to crack cocaine...Billy Preston and Keef had problems with Keef actually pulling a knife on him. All over Billy's piano style. Great tour! MT better technically of course. RW held his own. He was supposed to be on loan from thE FACES. He had just left their 75 tour of america..Give him his due. He filled in nicely.....

THANK you For Streaming, Great!!!

I saw them twice during this MSG run, including this show with Carlos and I own this CD...

I have never missed seeing the Rolling Stones play Boston since my first show in '69. It's awesome to hear this concert from Madison Square Garden. Many thanks for sharing!

Nothing better than get Yer ya yas out- but this was the first concert I ever went to and i thought it was amazing. I was 15 and now I'm 55 and still love it!

George, a belated THANKS for posting this! Interesting all the flack you've gotten over the years for your fair and accurate critique. I was there. Fourth row, directly in front of Bill Wyman. Expecting a reprise of their already iconic '72 MSG performances, I couldn't have been more excited as the lights dimmed. And I just sat/stood there after the epic lotus-petal unfolded into HTW wondering, where's the magic? Why aren't I feeling anything? Where's that jolt of electricity I felt 3 years earlier in D.C.? The Stones are sufficiently gifted and professional to get "the job" done despite going through the motions. Sadly, a shorter, better paced, tighter set would have done them (and us) a world of good. (They were a different -- and far superior -- band 3 years later at a small club show!)

Ups and Downs, magic and malaise, such is life itself. Jagger even attempts to explain a bit what's going on at 50:15... The important part in all this is that the history of the band is preserved by recordings/postings of the shows. My extreme gratitude goes out to all those wonderful tapers who's material continues to be shared even now. This show in particular has a brave performance of Cherry Oh Baby, and the Sympathy for The Devil with Carlos Santana. Like them or not, thankfully they were preserved via magical magnetic tape, otherwise it would be lost in the second after the notes were played.

Man, I love Jagger's singing in '75 for the most part. If you can't Rock Me, Gimme Shelter, All Down The Line, Starfucker... all fab great vocally. And the LA 75 from the vault release is an even greater example of this. That said, both the 72 and 78 tour are better in general IMO. Still, apart from that, the 75 tour is more satisfying than any tour since. Yes!

Hi George, thank you so much for doing this work. May the good Keith shine a light on you... Best regards Arnd

I was at a Spectrum show earlier in the month by a few days and was a blast...but sounds on this recording they bumped it up a bunch. Great post. Thanks for uploading.

Once again thanks a lot for sharing this !... And your comments are excellent, George !

Great to hear the instigator of Its Only Rock'n'roll getting to enjoy playing it live !! ..and as for Woodys contribution solo to Can't Always Get You Want...MAGNIFICENT!!

Super ! Ten thousand thanks for uploading this. Will play on my channel right now!

Favorite thing a bout the stones no computer generated sounds lots of lead guitar awesome sax love it

the rolling stones saved my life literally.

as a drummer I feel for Charlie Watts, having to keep good timing when you got a slurring singer, and everyone else on stage taking different drugs with different timing and reactions

Thanks....I was at this concert and have nothing but great memories. Back then, there was nothing to compare...originality ruled....no matter what. Mick could come out and pick his nose and sing and it would have made history regardless. Everyone gets weary from time to time....2020 SUCKS...hg

For the people that always complain about Ronnie,they can see how excellent player is,riffs,solo,slide whatever you want

i saw them in Chicago in 75 and it was a great show to me! times were different then, you just went to party and listen to jam sessions type of feel concerts. they were as stoned as everybody else!

06/27/75: With Mars conjunct Chiron, in opposition and the Sun 45* to Venus, they did quite well.

Ronnies solo on 'you cant always get what you want'!! Wow

Thanks for this amazing uploading ! Love the version of "Cherry Oh Baby" here ! ;-))

Oh my, thanks dear for your support! :DDD

Wow... Love this show. Thanks George.

So yeah, late to the party here. I also saw this show. I hate to say it, but I recall thinking even that night how sloppy and lazy they were. How they didn't seem to be doing anything but trying to get off the stage as quickly as possible and how Mick was just shouting through the songs. Like they had a taxi with a meter running outside. So, no. It's not just poor quality audio or lack of context without visuals. And nope, it's not the "live isn't a record" thing. I saw them at MSG (my very first concert) a few years earlier with Mick Taylor and they were AMAZING. No comparison in the quality of the playing or the performance in general. They just didn't care in 75 and you can hear it.

thx for posting!!!!!

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Great stuff ! Thanks a lot George !

Was the tour (not this one, the 76 European tour, the Paris concert) when I discovered the Stones.. A Bang & Olofsen store near by home, in Lisboa, a friend passed by, VHS tape on color TV.. Told us great concert on the store.. Day after him, me and a few.. A week after a lot of kids... The man in the store was OK.. Do you want louder?... Yes, OK please... Then we all started buying records, my first I remember was Get Yer, This one Love you live, Black and blue, Some Girls ( Great gig disco and punk album).. We all became great fans, first concert in Madrid 7 July 1982 with 48 degrees and a thunderstorm when they go to stage play Under my thumb.. World soccer 1982 and lot of Italian girls..! Then they became angry each other and bought Keith with the X Pensive Winos record... Never bought Mick albums, but some good songs.. In 1990 (or 1989 in USA) they make the peace after the war, great tour.. And the rest of the story was go, We all go I suppose, to see all of them several times.. My friends and me were the third generation I think to know the Stones.. In 77, 1978.. Know almost everything.. The "Who's the Stones best times, álbuns, Mick Taylor was fabulous, Ron Wood don't know what.. Etc.. They adapt to times, even in songs, great guitar with Taylor, but late 70's don't fit, Ronnie Wood was a good choice, between the Punk and New Wave, this one with a lot of Great Bands, and Clash and Ramones much better than Pistols.. Stones still Rock and Roll, more straight to the point, etc.. OK etc.. Got to stop.. Regards to all

This RS's tour (75) should be labeled THE JET SET TOUR...cause that was what they were and who they partied with. Long gone were the days of being socially relevant artists who played on the edge, that met the asphalt when they ran into the Hells Angels at Altamont back in 69. Now it was all a self indulgent drug induced party down high followed by Disco at Studio 54 in 78.

They sound good for touring for so long. And the heavy drug use. I couldn't do it. You either. Very tired band but still The Best. Don't cut them down. Love you live Mick And company. Rock on.

It was this Show (MSG ,NYC) where I Witnessed my 1st "STONES" Concert (of 4 Show). Every Happy W/ the Set List of This Show for sure and Kind Of Surprised that Billy Preston was also part of there Troupe. He was also part of George Harrison's Band that I saw @ the Spectrum Phila PA on 12/17/74. Must have been Pretty busy in '74/'75. PS: I got to see Zeppelin (x 2), the Stones and the WHO all Live in '75!! I bet didn't Happen Much but sure Happen in 1975!!!

i saw this show at the capitol center in landover when i was stationed in DC. i was not a huge stones fan and was drug kicking and screaming to see the concert and it changed my life.

Went to two shows at MSG that tour. Loved it then. Agree that '72 killed it but still the Stones. Awesome

I'm really enjoying this! Yeah jagger is shouting a bit but the vocals are fun and o.t.t.... The band esp ronnie and keith are off the charts!!

Love the stone always have always will no bullshit just pure rock and roll

I went to one of these shows..Mick had a bottle of Jack Daniels on stage..full one. By the time the show was over..the bottle was empty. Different world back then. Everyone..performers..audience..and I'm sure the security guys were stoned out of their minds.

France after they exiled from the U.K.I saw the same show in Boston. I totally disagree with the what was published on May 6-27-75. I have yet to see a concert to even come close. Billy Preston was a great acquisition for the tour. What the publisher is failing to recognize is Black & Blue had just been released. The Stones were a heavy weight band with Mick Taylor. Sure they got a knock out punch when Mick T decided to part ways and declare his individuality from Jagger & Richards. Taylor admitted "I didn't like the person I was becoming" When your a hired gun for Mick & Keith it's their way or the highway. They wrote ventilator blues in Keith's mansion in South of France after they exiled from the U.K. That was the only number Taylor got any credit in writing on the LP. But like a heavyweight fighter. They got up off the mat, saved by the bell and continued to write some incredible compositions. Okay, I'll admit. The Taylor years was my favorite line up. How can you compare the Jones years to Woody or Taylor. You can't!. Each line up had it's own individuality. All three separate bands had their own body of work & could easily be in the H.O.F. in Cleveland. Black &^ Blue was and will be forever a great LP. Memory motel, Fool to cry, Hand of fate? I need say no more about the LP. Back to this concert. Woody was on his debut tour with the band. Like any band with a new guitarist. He needed to get tight with the rest of the ensemble. The Stones in the 70's played their best music live. After the untimely death of Jones. The concert in Hyde Park Taylor had to go through the same thing Woody went through on this tour. To say Jagger was going though the motions & Greedy is unfair & a very poor statement. The band pours their heart & soul in every live performance. Lay off the greatest Rock &^ Roll band to ever graze the stage. And let Keith on heroin go. come on man. He paid the price and hasn't touched it since? well that's his business. He is an all time great composer & will be emulated for centuries to come just like Beethoven.Bach, & of coarse Lennon & McCartney...

OMG! The guitar-work (and all) is AMAZING! And hear "You can't always..." ... - shame to folks who say Ronnie is just a substitute to MT. Rubbish! Ronnie is great and you can HEAR it here what Keith means 'bout "wieving".

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I saw the first MSG show that week, along with the third show. The sound was very distorted but it was still a trip seeing the Stones for the first time. The guest guitarist that first night was Eric Clapton (who was hard to recognize with a full length beard and beret) and Keith played bass on Sympathy for the Devil. I suspect Keith is on bass here for Sympathy as it is a different playing style than Bill W. I had a ticket for this show but gave it my younger sister (under the threat of bodily harm from mom, who didn't take no shit from no one whatsoever).

theres no good or bad singer, or whatever version...coz youre ina motherfuckin Rolling Stones world.... .---thats why they still making shows.... please, reconsider your positive critics.

Was at this show and can verify this recording as same. At 1:06, firecrackers go off and Jagger warns the crowd about not blowing off any girls' asses. Keith chimes in with, "If you're gonna fuck 'em, fuck 'em!". I distinctly recall this "incident", which cracked me up in real time. Of course, I wasn't yet a legal adult. But this is that show. No doubt.

STONED FOREVER :-P

NYC in the late 60's & 70's had sooo many venues, MSG, Felt Forum, Academy of Music, the Beacon, Avery Fisher hall, Radio City music (Bowie did a week there) the Filmore East, plus all the cool clubs. And the best part was the variety from Punk & Glitter to Classic R&R, Country rock, it was playing and $12.50 a seat, imaging seeing Roxy Music 3rd row for 15 bucks. Great music at fun times !

Ron Woods guitar was singing on You can't always get what you want.....he used to be so jazzy and inventive....it's a pity he plays sound bites now. But in 75 76 in my opinion he topped Mick Taylor on many songs.....

George mate, thanks for uploading. But any real Stones fan could tell you that they peaked in 1972 on the American tour.

"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" nice one !

MICK TAYLOR WE MISS YOU

I was about 16 when they played at this show. I did not go but some of my older friends did. I remember them saying it was the worst concert they ever saw.

Love all the Stones Live But I do have a thing of the Stones In the '70s. :)

I WAS HERE,UNFREAKINBELIEVABLE,they played a flatbead truck goin down I think it was 5th AV. while tickets were ready 2 go on sale at M.S.G...WOW,BEAUTIFUL ALWAYS...STICK,back then I think U could only buy 15 tix at a time,saw them 1ST. N LAST NIGHTS,WELL ALRIGHT!!

Compared to late '70's shows such as on the SOME GIRLS tour, Mick's voice actually doesn't sound so bad here, and it tends to vary. The LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER movie from the '81 tour has parts such as "Shattered" where Mick's voice is absolutely shot, and rigorous touring will do that. (Do you think that human vocal cords are made of iron?) Regarding Mick Taylor, my understanding is that he resigned just before the '74 tour was about to begin (much to the dismay of the band) and that's when Ronnie Wood was recruited for the tour before becoming officially inducted as a Stone for the BLACK AND BLUE album in '76, and Ronnie had to crash course to learn his guitar parts basically on the fly and he did an admirable job. (BTW, Mick Taylor's post-Stones career never amounted to anything, really.)

Amem! Thanks Arnd

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i just love the drugged out quality of this tour.. the stones were still huge but they were coasting. i like billy prestons set

Keith is playing bass on this version of Sympathy. Woody switched over to bass on Fingerprint File at every show of this tour.

Tengo un Bootleg d este show ' Hold on tight', y se escucha Fenomenal ( son 3 lp's).

the very best group in the world

The Stones were at their peak during the Mick Taylor years.

Nice job Capt Acid!!

I actually quite enjoyed this show...George: can i get a copy of this show at all from you?

Totally disagree with your take on the Stones, but thanks for the upload...

MSG June 27, 1975 was not only the first time I'd ever been to a Stones concert, but it was also the first concert I had ever been to. By then, I was beginning to amass a few bootleg recordings of the band. So, while I loved the show, it definitely was not the European tour of 1973 - or even the American Tour of 1972. I thought Jagger's singing on the '75 TOTA was very contrived/contorted. Thought he might have been protecting his vocal chords due to injury, trying to injure himself, or simply saving his voice to make it through what was scheduled to be a very long tour (which got confined to just North America, when South America got canceled). Whatever his reasons, I didn't like his 'new' sound. But the biggest disappointment from that night was the omission of Jagger/Richards sharing one mic on "Happy". I had already seen "Ladies & Gents..." two/three dozen times at a $1.00 midnight movie house in Boston, and was looking forward to that particular feature at MSG - but it was MIA. The Glimmer Twins seemed to be less than fraternal, imho. Too bad, but not as bad as it would get between the two. Coolest thing about this June 27th show, was when the lotus petal stage rotated during one of the last tunes (SFM or JJF, can't recall which), revealing a perfect profile of Ian Stewart - the Mystery Piano man, live and in color - with his head down, greasy hair shaking, hands banging on the keyboard of a piano. Seeing Stew in action was worth the price of admission alone. According to Rolling Stone magazine, 6/27 was the best of the Stones' 6-show residency at MSG in 1975, some of the others reportedly plagued with sound problems. In summary, it was a great show - but it wasn't 1972 or 1973. I would've traded in my '75 ticket for a chance at either of those tours.

Best live version of u can't always get what u want I've ever heard. I take back what I said b4 Ron wood does jam but I do like the nick Taylor years the best

This is Keith on bass for the encore, not Bill W.

Wow post Mick Taylor ! Ronnie mailing it in again.

Peace and Happiness and Amour!

Keith was off the dope for the tour so??? These guys pour their hearts and soul into every performance back then, shit i'd rather see them then than when I started in 78 - or now.

a solo bass in IORR???? amazing fantastic!!!!!!

my first show . took train to penn station from metuchen and warm blackberry brandy into show.

they played on truck on 6th ave,by radio city!

This is horrible. Loved the Stones before 75. So wished Mick Taylor had not left.

Totally disagree with your assessment of Jagger on this tour.......he sounded great to me....different than the usual fare...loose...staccato...low note growls....moving all over the stage with natural flow.....not the perfectly rehearsed dance steps from 89 on...much better interplay with Woody and Keef....I love 75 and 76 tour the most....thank you for uploading...

They are legends in their own time. Do your own inventory. Are you a legend ?

Charlie saved them mate😎 the best machine

The problem was not Richard heroin addiction, but money problem...for Keith there was blood trasfusion et voila'. M T. was tired to loose one year to make a record....and tired to not have money of his song...there was the fact that boy scout. M.T. look was not good for the two leaders. M.T. knew all that and said goodbye. For me he has been crazy or stupid...R.W. was not an eccetional guitarist, but his imagine was perfect. He carried his sympathy (not for the devil) and PAX between M.J. and K.R. It was not small thing at that time.

Fuck yes! Wicked Heartbreaker here. The band is on fire for that one.

ronnie does a pretty good job here. i was at this one but don't remember missing mt because woody really tried to match some of the mt blues runs, and didn't do bad. but not quite, after all and as time went on he decided instead of playing lead he'd just become the stones' b team rhythm guitarist. and that is the main reason there really wasn't much more to the stones after 1975.

Sounds fucking good to me pal

Great to hear Bill in the mix unlike love you live.....

Keith never again played like this after the El Mocambo shows. The El Mocambo shows have never been released the way the shows were actually performed. The bootlegs only offer overdub sessions "performed" in the studio. Keith's slashing, crashing rhythm chords died in 1977. The 1975 tour was soaked in cocaine and heroin. Those were the only things that kept the shows from being even worse than they sometimes were. The last show of the MSG stand is presented here in what was an extremely good master tape -- this is likely a 2nd generation from master tape used for Capt. Acid's remaster.

Is this available on CD? Couldn't find it on Ebay.

I don't know that I agree, but in any case I think you mean fated to fail, not faded to failure. Jagger's singing is rather sloppy throughout most of the show though.

vite....Nanterre 25 Oct 2017..... I'll be there

Their live performance changed completely after Mick Taylor's departure - everything was sped up & generally butchered Compare it to this for example - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VKBqw2bT63A.html

They usually play better at MSG than other venues

wow, they completely fucked up the intro to sympathy, bill and charlie just couldn't synchronize

Yes, and the whole '73 tour ain't bad either! '75 was a bad tour, '76 too, but not as '75; This period is my least favourite Stones live era, until '81, when they rocked quite a lot with the American tour and in '82 with the European tour; '89/'90 too is one of my favourite tours