8.Īs far as an initiation for Ron Wood, it couldn’t have been more of a success. In the end, after 46 shows, the final curtain fell at Rich Stadium in Buffalo on Aug. Plans to take the show down south to Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela were eventually scrapped due to an amalgamation of security concerns and unstable currency exchanges.
and into Canada, anchoring the tour with dual five night residencies at Madison Square Garden in New York City in June and at the Forum in Los Angeles in July.
Richards later relived the entire episode in the extended opening of his autobiography Life.įor the next two months the Rolling Stones wound their way across the U.S. They simply had to pay a small fine for misdemeanor reckless driving charges. They were eventually released when the authorities failed to produce any of the drugs in question or show probable cause for pulling them over in the first place. Along with a new guitar player, the band also decided to step things up a notch: They updated the stage presentation and debuted a number of new props, including the now-infamous giant inflatable penis that many took to calling the “tired grandfather."įor all the careful planning that went into it, however, the road trip was nearly derailed before it really got underway when Richards and Wood were arrested in Fordyce, Ark., for suspicion of carrying narcotics. They began with two warm-up shows on June 1, at the LSU Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La., before getting an official start two nights later in San Antonio. So, on May 1, 1975, they announced a gigantic new tour of North and South America by performing “Brown Sugar” on the back of a moving flatbed truck on 5th Avenue in New York City. The Rolling Stones had a new record, It’s Only Rock 'N Roll, on the shelves and had to get out to promote it. Wood didn’t have a lot of time to find his bearings in his new group before he was forced to hit the road. “I was always confident I would end up in this band,” he said, “and a few years later I did.” To Wood, who’d long been a friend of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it all just made sense.
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