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I saw them the first time in June 1978 on the opening date of the "Some Girls" tour at the Lakeland Civic Center in Lakeland Fla.
There was no announcement for the concert. My guitar teacher called me on the phone and told me The Rolling Stones were rehearsing at the Civic Center and would be playing their first show there. He told me to go down to the Civic Center Box Office NOW and get tickets before they were all gone.
So I drove there and paid $10.50 for tickets to "The Great Southeast Stoned Out Wrestling Champions"
Nothing on the ticket said "Rolling Stones" or that it was a concert at all.
A couple of hours later it hit the radio stations...but they were only able to announce that all 15,000 tickets had sold out in an hour via word of mouth only.
My mom was a deputy sheriff in Polk County and scored the gig to work security backstage.
The show was awesome and of course very high energy...This was 35 years ago so you can imagine.
My mom told me after the show that backstage was a fucking disaster! lol
Said the Ron Wood and Mick Jagger were nervous as school kids and snorting more cocaine than anyone had ever seen (and the cops...including my mom, didn't do anything but watch them do it. lol). She said they were chain smoking and drinking Jack Daniels out of the bottle right up to showtime.
She said Keith was rolled in on a fucking stretcher hooked up to oxygen tanks?!?!?!
Don't know what that was all about. But when the band was announced she said his handlers picked him up, strapped his telecaster on him and pushed him out on stage with a lit cigarette in his mouth and he came to life. lol
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