Mick Jagger 1988 Australian Tour
Sydney Entertainment Centre,
Sydney NSW Australia 21st October 1988
Alternate Source & Upgrade From Mr Wilson's Master Recording

Transfer: Master tapes > CDR > iZotope RX 10 / ozone 9 (mastered) > xACT 2.59 > FLAC

01. Richard Wilkins Introduction
02. Deep Down Under Instrumental > Mick Jagger Introduction > Just Another Night
03. Throwaway
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. Little Red Rooster
16. Band Introductions
17. One Hit Too The Body > Foxy Lady
18. Party Doll
19. Wild Colonial Boy
20. Get Off Of My Cloud
21. Bitch
22. Simon Phillips Drum Solo
23. Joe Satriani Midnight Guitar Solo
24. Gimme Shelter
25. Start Me Up
26. Brown Sugar
27. It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll
28. Jumping Jack Flash
29. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Bonus Tracks
Sydney 26th September 1988
30. What Kind Of World Is This?
31. Sympathy For The Devil

Sydney 27th September 1988
32. Lonely At The Top
33. Rip This Joint

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

This alternate source was recorded by another now departed friend Mr Wilson, his recording is different to my Jagger Sydney 21st October 1988 torrent which only recently dropped off of DIME
as his has portions of the show that my recording didn't have which are

A. The full Richard Wilkins pre-show introduction
B. Simon Phillips Drum solo
C. Joe Satriani’s guitar solo
D. The songs Gimme Shelter & Start Me Up are complete.

Micks final Sydney concert kicked off differently than the previous 5 Sydney shows, shortly before Mick came on a well-known local um celebrity Richard Wilkins’s (affectionally known by his nick name Dickie)
strolled onto the stage, he’s an Australian TV host / presenter who also at that time conducted celebrity interviews for MTV Australia, one of his MTV Jagger 1988 Sydney interviews was a bonus track on my
Mick Jagger 27th September 1988 torrent.

From centre stage Dickie treated us to a spoken introduction which served two reasons, first up he told the audience that ushers / security staff were about to distribute to the audience red noses
(with a string attached so one could wear it over one’s real nose) telling us they’re left over noses from Red Nose Day that was held for the first time here in February 1988.
I’m under the impression that Red Nose Day is held internationally, but if one is unfamiliar with Red Nose Day it’s held once a year, the money raised from selling these red noses goes towards children’s charities
including research into SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).

Dickie went on to say that we were to put on the plastic noses when we heard the opening bars of Satisfaction, to make sure we knew the song he performed a thankfully brief rendition of the Satisfaction riff,
he tells us that Mick is totally unaware of this jolly jape. 37 years on I cannot remember if I put on my red nose when Satisfaction started, probably not as I guess I was too busy looking to see if others did so.
The 2nd reason was Richard telling us that we were the first people to hear about the upcoming Mick Jagger TV Special "Deep Down Under" which was going to be shown on the Channel 9 network next Saturday the 29th October.
This TV special had been filmed in Melbourne on the 16th & 18th October.

Many are unaware that one of the earlier Sydney Jagger concerts was also filmed for a later broadcast, however the head honcho at CH 9 deemed that it was not fit for Australian TV viewers as on the night of
filming Mick wore a T-Shirt that on the front had a picture of a South Pacific male fertility figure with a huge erect penis. Mick is pictured wearing this very T-shirt on the front cover artwork.
With the Sydney show footage canned Ch 9 decided to film one of the Melbourne shows instead for the broadcast, so unless its been wiped somewhere in Ch 9 vaults is a full Sydney Jagger 1988 concert.

Back to Dickie, he encouraged us to welcome Mick when he arrived on stage with a Mexican wave, going as far to describe to us how to perform a Mexican wave in case we didn’t know what one was,
then he made us do one which quickly fell apart, Dickie then toddled offstage, to this very day he can occasionally be seen on Australian TV.

While waiting for Mick we were treated to a number of songs over the P.A, the last song played was the Sex Pistols "Anarchy In The UK " which strangely was also the last song played over the PA before
the Stones came onstage at the gigs I saw at Wembley Stadium, London in June 1999. Could this Sex Pistols song be a guilty pleasure of Mick’s? BTW I taped the 2nd Wembley gig the 12th June 1999.

The stage set up for the Jagger tour was stark & simple but rather effective. The house lights light go off, 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 around with other bits & pieces, the stage floor was awash with countless newspapers.
The sound of wind filled the venue accompanied by hidden wind machines which 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.

Once the cleaning folk depart the curtains are pulled back they revealed a stage set with raised platforms with elevated ramps with steps on each side, a ramp in the middle leading down to the stage, the still unreleased
Jagger instrumental “Deep Down Under” was played through the PA, as soon as that ends the band start up the first number coinciding with the spoken introduction “Ladies & Gentlemen, Mick Jagger” who then came running
down the middle ramp to the front of the stage to much applause.

A nice touch during the show after the drum & guitar solos is when Gimme Shelter kicks off however Mick isn't on stage, a spotlight picks him out out on a stairwell further out from the stage among the audience where
he starts his vocals, then he makes his way down among the audience on the floor (with security guys around him) continuing his way until he's back on stage in time to do the rape & murder part with one of the girl singers.
I attended four of the six Sydney shows, Mick delivered entertaining shows that were well recieved by audiences plus also he gathered good press for these shows, except probably by Reebok who sponorsed the shows
as Mick was always seen out and about wearing Nike trainers!

If there was downside to these shows apart from the over long drum solo it was having to watch the Keith look alike Jimmy Ripp (or Jimmy Ripp Off as he was dubbed here) posturing’s. He even dressed Keith like,
from further back he might have been mistaken for him, I wonder if Mick talked Ripp into dressing similar to Keith to piss Keith off as 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 perform more songs from his two solo albums
as I expected a higher ratio of solo material than what was offered.

In a way the 1988 Australian Tour was a sort of dress rehearsal for next years US Steel Wheels tour.

The bonus tracks are songs performed at previous Sydney shows but not on the final night, on the 26th & 27th September we got a double encore of Sympathy For The Devil followed by Satisfaction, Sympathy wasn't
played at the remaining 4 Sydney shows.

The artwork included in this torrent has been made for a 3CD jewel case, so if burning to CD-R use the track listing on the artwork.

I've traded this alternate Sydney 21st October 1988 recording over the years but this 2025 version will make all previous versions null & void.

Thanks to Mr Wilson, Big Knob for the Sydney photos & as always to mjk5510 for his remastering
For WD, DH & NZ

Enjoy,
Waz

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