Mick Jagger Sydney, Australia 27th September 1988 Incomplete Show Upgrade From Waz From Oz Cassette Master


Mick Jagger
1988 Australian Tour
Sydney Entertainment Centre
Sydney, NSW
Australia
27th September 1988

01. Introduction > Throwaway
02. Just Another Night
03. Lonely At The Top
04. Honky Tonk Women
05. Miss You
06. Tumbling Dice
07. Radio Control
08. Ruby Tuesday
09. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
10. Harlem Shuffle
11. Lucky In Love
12. Primitive Cool
13. War Baby
14. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
15. Band Introductions
16. One Hit Too The Body >
17. Foxy Lady
18. Party Doll
19. Wild Colonial Boy
20. Bitch
21. Rip This Joint
(tape cuts)

Bonus Tracks
22. Ch 9 News 12th July 1988
I’m A King Bee

23. Ch 9 MTV Australia 17th September 1988
Mick Jagger Interview By Richard Wilkins

Missing from recording are:
- Simon Phillips Drum Solo / Joe Satriani Guitar Solo and
- Gimme Shelter / Start Me Up / Brown Sugar / It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll / Jumping Jack Flash / Satisfaction / Sympathy For The Devil.

Sydney Photos By Big Knob / Tape By Waz From Oz & KN

Artwork By Waz From Oz
2022 Remaster By audiowhore.

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Band Members
Mick Jagger - Vocals, Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica
Joe Satriani - Guitar
Jimmy Rip - Guitar
Doug Wimbish - Bass Guitar
Simon Philips - Drums
Susie Davis – Keyboards & Backing Vocals
Phil Ashley - Keyboards
Backing Vocals
Bernard Fowler / Carol Kenyon / Jenny Douglas/ Valerie Scott

Australian Tour Dates...
Surprise Small Gig - Kardomah Café, Sydney NSW 17th September
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane - 22nd September - Taped
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane - 23rd September - Taped
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney - 26th September - Taped
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney - 27th September - Taped
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney - 29th September - Taped
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney - 1st October
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney - 2nd October
National Tennis Centre, Melbourne - 6th October - Taped
National Tennis Centre, Melbourne - 7th October - Taped
Burswood Superdome, Perth - 10th October
National Tennis Centre, Melbourne - 14th October - Taped
National Tennis Centre, Melbourne - 15th October - Taped
National Tennis Centre, Melbourne - 16th October - Taped
Surprise Small Gig - Richmond Hotel, Melbourne - 19th October - Taped
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney - 21st October - Taped x 2
Thebarton Oval, Adelaide - 23rd October

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The first the Australian public knew of an upcoming Jagger solo tour was on the 12th July 1988 when Sydney TV Stations broadcast from London a live satellite Mick Jagger interview informing Australian viewers that
he would be touring Australia / New Zealand & Indonesia during September / October.
The interview was accompanied by a partial live rehearsal of I’m A King Bee (which is included here as a bonus track).
Sadly, I’m A King Bee wouldn’t be played at any of the concerts on the tour.

Not long after he landed in Sydney Mick on the 17th September played a surprise gig at the Kardomah Café in Sydney’s King X.
He & the band were billed as The Johnny’s but were introduced onstage as The Brothers Of Sodom.
The Kardomah Café was situated halfway between where I lived & worked at the time, I could walk to the cafe in under 10 minutes.

On the 17th I had a 10:00 PM to 8:00 AM shift at the local hospital.
When I woke up early evening I couldn’t be arsed cooking at home so I decided instead to have a feed at a pub near the hospital then go onto work.
Arriving home the next morning I saw my answering machine blinking.
It was a message from a record industry mate telling me to get myself down to the Kardomah Café ASAP as he had 100% confirmation of the Jagger surprise gig.
He’d phoned me 20 minutes after I had left home. If I’d decided to eat at home I would been there for his call, bolted down to the Kardomah to catch the show.
If only we had mobile / cell phones back then.
You can imagine how brassed off, pissed off, cheesed off, fucked off I was to have missed that surprise gig.

The first two Sydney concerts on the 26th & 27th of September sold out straight away.
Then a third for the 29th was added, another two more shows went on sale for the 1st & 2nd October quickly followed by a sixth & final concert on the 21st of October.
I suspect the high demand for tickets was due to the fact that the Stones had not played Sydney since February 1973 so a Jagger tour was the next best thing.
I attended the 26th, 27th, 29th September & the 21st October shows, with my mate KN.
We shared taping duties recording the 27th Sept & 21st October shows.

At the 26th show from our halfway back floor section seats we observed when the lights turned off the audience en-masse rushed down to the front of stage.
So many that security didn’t make much of an attempt to stop them once there.
After that show we discussed that for the second show we'd also do the stage rush, except this time we’d have KN's old cassette recorder with us.

The stage for the Jagger tour was stark & simple but rather effective.
The house lights light go off and the stage is bathed in blue light.
The scene in front of the side to side curtains appears to be a dump of some kind decorated with corrugated tin sheets.
There’s some netting, petrol pumps, tree branches, assorted boxes strewn along with other bits & pieces.
The stage floor was awash with countless newspapers and the sound of wind filled the venue.
Wind machines blew the newspapers all over the stage.
People then came on stage with brooms to sweep up all the aforementioned rubbish off of the floor so it was all spick n span for Mick to sing & dance on.
When the curtains were pulled back, they revealed a stage set with raised platforms and elevated ramps with steps on each side.
A ramp in the middle lead down to the stage. Once the cleaning folk depart the still unreleased Jagger instrumental “Deep Down Under” was played through the PA.
As soon as that ended, the band start up the first number coinciding with “Ladies & Gentlemen, Mick Jagger” who then came running down the middle ramp
to the front of the stage to much applause.

Our second night seats were a few rows nearer than the previous night.
When we heard the instrumental start we made the dash to front of stage.
Those in front of us also had the same idea so by the time we arrived security had already started blocking off the main aisle so we didn’t get as near to the front as we wanted to.
We stayed put in the aisle roughly about 20 rows back from the lip of the stage - it was a dead set crush, and we were squashed like 2 day old road kill.
The cassette recorder was turned on after the Jagger Instrumental “Deep Down Under” finished.
The recording starts just before the first song “Throwaway” gets underway.
We both took turns holding the recorder / mic during the show. KN & myself aren’t the tallest of blokes, some in front were taller therefore shielding us from the security guys & possibly blocking the sound somewhat.

The show was top heavy with Rolling Stones numbers much to the audience’s enjoyment.
Plus we were treated to eight solo numbers from his two solo albums.
The video screens were turned on for the first time for the 7th song "Radio Control" when Jagger asked someone named Chris to turn the TV on (in the TV special "Deep Down Under" he does this himself, must have been Chris’ day off).
For this song the screens showed a mix of real life & cartoon footage.
Next up was a real surprise "Ruby Tuesday" which the singers’ other band hadn’t performed live since 1967.
A standout for me at Jagger's Sydney shows was the inclusion of a Stones favourite that I never expected to ever hear live - "Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” with Jagger’s harmonica taking the place of Bobby Keyes sax.

War Baby was accompanied by a video mixture of real & cartoon war scenes.
After the song Jagger says welcome to all the sailors, the US Fleet was in town that week and the audience was peppered with American sailors in full uniform.
Another highlight for me was the medley of "One Hit To The Body” & Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady".
During the latter song, Mick draped himself over Suzy Davis (one of the two keyboard players) and both of them engaged in some consensual steamy frottage.

Mick added a dash of Australiana to the show by performing Wild Colonial Boy, a well-known Australian folk song that featured in the film “Ned Kelly”.
For reasons unknown, Mick's choice of this song wasn’t appreciated by some chaps in the audience as just after it kicks off shouts of “Fuck off”, “Play Undercover you cunt, yeah ya cunt” can be heard.
However, the rest of us enjoyed the song.
Another Aussie wag yells out "C'mon Rubber Lips".
Throughout the show there were shout outs for Stones songs such as Undercover, Sweet Virginia, Satisfaction, Sympathy For The Devil.
Two of these requests were granted.

After "Rip This Joint" Mick & the band left the stage leaving Simon Phillips to bore us to death with IMHO an overlong drum solo.
Thankfully not as long as John Bonham’s tortuous mind-numbing live renditions of “Moby Dick” though.
When Phillips thankfully stopped, it was now Joe Satriani’s turn to have a solo spot in which he performed an instrumental called "Midnight".
When this solo segment finished the house lights in the auditorium dimmed.
Mick reappeared & from here on in the show became an early prototype of the now well-known Stones warhorse song end the show section.

Unfortunately, “Rip This Joint’” is where this recording ends. Unknown to us at the time, the cassette recorder had started throwing a wobbly by increasing the recording speed.
This started just during “Wild Colonial Boy” then “Bitch” continuing into “Rip This Joint”.
The latter song which is already an up tempo number became so sped up that Jagger sounded like Alvin from the Chipmunks on the original tape.
(This pitch/speed issue has been corrected for this torrent as best as possible).
As Simon Phillips started his yawn inducing drum solo the recorder completely died, rendering this recording incomplete.
A shame as this was the last concert on the tour where two encores were performed.
From memory it was also the last Sympathy For The Devil of the tour.
Nevertheless, the circumstances this was recorded under the result turned out better than we expected, some chit-chat can be heard, a few bumps & occasionally at times by KN who forgot we were taping.

IMHO the Australian 1988 solo tour apart for Mick to earn some extra pocket money (A$1,000,000 per show was rumoured) was a rehearsal of sorts for the next year's Stones Steel Wheels comeback Tour.
A percentage of the songs performed plus similar arrangements on this solo tour featured on the 1989 Stones tour.
The Australian tour also gave Mick a chance to dip his toes back in the touring arena as he hadn’t toured with the Stones since the 1982 European tour.

I attended four of the six Sydney shows, naturally I would have preferred that these were Stones gigs but nevertheless Mick with an excellent band delivered well received entertaining shows.
If there was downside to these shows apart from the drum solo it was having to watch the Keith look alike Jimmy Ripp (or Jimmy Ripp Off as he was dubbed here) posturings.
He even dressed Keith-like, from further back he could have been mistaken for him.
I wonder if Mick talked Ripp into dressing similar to Keith to piss Keith off.
The Glimmer Twins were far from besties during this period, Keith’s thoughts on Jagger’s back-up band were well known as in the press he’d referred to Jagger’s musicians as a “Jerk Off Band”.
Another small disappointment for me was Mick’s reluctance to do a bigger selection of songs from his two solo albums.
I expected a higher ratio of solo material than what was offered.

Australian TV station, Channel 9 filmed one of the Sydney shows for broadcast, however, the powers that be at Channel 9 deemed it unfit for screening because Mick wore a T-shirt which sported on the front a picture of a South Pacific male fertility
figure with an erect penis. Mick's t-shirt can be seen on the front & back cover artwork.
Channel 9 later filmed & broadcast a Melbourne show entitled "Deep Down Under" with no Jagger "Dick Pic" t-shirt to be seen!

A note for Jagger solo show collectors - the recording circulating as a complete 27th September 1988 is not.
It’s a combination of a very high generation copy of my recording minus 3 songs plus songs, rounded out by songs from other nights.
So far a complete 27th September 1988 recording has not surfaced.

Thanks again to audiowhore who spent considerable time mixing and correcting the faults on this recording.
Enjoy,
Waz


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