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The Rolling Stones at the New Orleans Superdome in 1981.

The Rolling Stonnes American Tour In 1981 Set A Record That Would Stand For 33 Years

The Rolling Stones American Tour In 1981 Set A Record That Would Stand For 33 Years.

This historic concert took place at the Superdome in New Orleans LA on December 5, 1981.

See news and articles from Pat Adams rode trip to see the Rolling Stones.

Pat Adams is editor of this TennesseeConcerts website.

This OffBeat article mentions Pat Adams & TennesseeConcerts

The Rolling Stones American Tour In 1981 Set A Record That Would Stand For 33 Years 

June 26, 2019 from OffBeat Magazine in New Orleans Louisiana.


Sitting in his office in California, legendary concert promoter Bill Graham
searches for the answer as he puts together The Rolling Stones American Tour
1981.

“New Orleans was a tough one because I had to make a decision as to whether we
should play there or go to Baton Rouge to the university stadium,” Graham said
in his 1990 auto-biography My Life Inside Rock and Roll. “The history of rock
and roll shows in New Orleans was not all that great. I decided to go for it
and do the Superdome.” It’s a gamble that would pay historic dividends.

Over in Tennessee, Pat Adams and his friend hear that the Stones will be
playing at the Superdome in New Orleans and purchase a pair of tickets at a
Nashville record store for the princely sum of $18.50 each. They start up the
car for the all-night drive to the Crescent City. “We made it to New Orleans
the next morning. We checked into the hotel, rested up a bit and headed to the
concert. We got there early and were among the first people to get into the
Superdome,” Adams writes on his website www.tennesseeconcerts.com. “We
enjoyed walking up the ramps and checking out this massive venue, eventually
ending up on the floor level when the concert began.”

The larger-than-life stage was the handiwork of Japanese designer Kazuhide
Yamazaki. “We had the bright, bright primary colors and we had these enormous
images of a guitar, a car and a record (and an American flag),” Mick Jagger
recalled in a 2003 interview.

Back then, there was no reserved seating. It was all general admission seating—
first come, first served. If you secured a spot near the front of the stage,
you could not leave to go to concession stands because you would never get
your place back. The Neville Brothers opened the show followed by George
Thorogood & The Destroyers. “Both acts were great. They flashed up a sign that
the concert had set a record for the largest indoor concert ever held with
87,500 people,” remembers Pat Adams.

Then, it was time for the main event. Jagger gyrated onstage clad in a red
Hawaiian shirt and yellow football pants. They opened with the 1960’s hit
“Under My Thumb” as the crowd rocked back and forth and the force of it
separated friends in the front rows as the pandemonium unfolded. An anonymous
fan said, “Standing on the Superdome floor front and center five rows back,
the sound was incredible. With all of the crowding and pushing, I had long
been separated from my brother and sister. During ‘Under My Thumb,’ my sister
was on the front row being forced against the plywood barricade. She remembers
looking at Keith Richards who was standing 15 feet from her. The Stones
security guards thought she was going to pass out, so they pulled her over the
barricade and threw her under the stage. They then threw her back into the
audience.”

The Stones would proceed to play for two and a half hours. “First time I heard
them play ‘Let It Bleed’ live,” remembers a fan. “They played many songs from
their 1981 album Tattoo You and the 1978 album Some Girls. Before ‘You Can’t
Always Get What You Want,’ Jagger yelled, ‘We’re going to need your help on
this next song. New Orleans, can you sing?’ At the end, all of the lights came
on and they blew the lid off the Dome.

Bill Graham’s gamble on New Orleans had paid off.

“We went into the record books for doing the biggest balloon drop in the
history of an indoor closed stadium,” remembered the late Graham. “Since we
had a few days off, I decided New Orleans was the ideal spot to throw a middle-
of-the-tour crew party. We got Paul Prudhomme, the great Cajun chef, to cater a
party for us on this beautiful paddlewheel steamer (SS President). I invited
all the local musicians—the Meters and Allen Toussaint and Professor Longhair
and a lot of local Cajun musicians. Nine hundred people on the boat and we
danced all night and it was a great party.” 


Link to the original OffBeat Magazine article: https://www.offbeat.com/articles/rolling-stones-american-tour-1981-set-record-stand-33-years/?fbclid=IwAR0h_83Z-avia4zH1WuUn6r3LehLGBc_sFe2jq81IC8oSuLreMkzJMq74Gs#.XRv-GMZZIGM.facebook


Link to Rolling Stones Data website (including the article), 

featuring this 1981 concert, including the above article. 

LINK: https://rollingstonesdata.com/flashback/live-new-orleans-1981/

December 5, 1981: The Rolling Stones at the Superdome in New Orleans

The Superdome & Pat Adams (from this website) shown at the bottom

We are mentioned in this article from NOLA

NOLA mentioning TennesseeConcerts & editor Pat Adams in their article.
The original NOLA article is

NOLA mentioning TennesseeConcerts & editor Pat Adams in their article.

The original NOLA article is from June 23, 2016 and updated in January16, 2022

NOLA Article Link: https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_74f1e90e-8d98-53ab-80ab-219f92c09c56.html

My story from My Road Trip To The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones on December 5, 1981

MY FIRST CONCERT ROAD TRIP,  SEEING  
THE ROLLING STONES IN NEW ORLEANS
by Pat Adams from Tennessee Concerts (written on January 4, 2015)

In 1981, it was announced that the The Rolling Stones were playing
two shows at the New Orleans Superdome in Louisiana on December
5th and 6th. Tickets were being sold in my home town of Nashville
Tennessee. A friend of mine and myself decided we would make that
trip to New Orleans to see the Stones. After all, I had seen them back
in 1972 at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, which by the way was
the best concert that I had ever attended at that time.  
We purchased our tickets for $18.50 at a Nashville record store for
the December 5th show. We left Nashville late the night before the
concert, planning to arrive the next morning in time to check into our
hotel room. We made it into New Orleans the next morning. We
checked into the hotel, rested up a bit and headed to the concert.
We got there early and was among the first people to get in the
Superdome. We enjoyed walking and up and down the ramps
checking out this massive venue, eventually ending up on the floor
level when the concert began.
The opening bands were the Neville Brothers, followed by George
Thorogood & The Destroyers. Both acts were good. They flashed up
on the sign that the concert had set a record for the largest indoor
concert ever held with 87,500 people, a record that stayed put until
recently. At one point they brought out a water hose and sprayed the
crowd from the stage, possibly to back people off away from the stage
or to cool the crowd up front. Then came time for The Rolling Stones
to come on. They came out and opened the show with the 60’s hit
Under My Thumb. They went on to perform songs including Shattered,
Time Is On My Side, and Beast Of Burden, before dedicating Waiting
On A Friend to John Lennon who had been murdered the year before.
They went on to play Miss You, Start Me Up, Honky Tonk Women,
Brown Sugar, Jumpin' Jack Flash, and others followed by the classic
Satisfaction as the encore. What a show!
I think most the crowd ended up in the French Quarter after the
concert, making it the most people the French Quarter had ever seen
at one time. It was wall to wall people, while many of them were yelling
“Rolling Stones“. We had some drinks, shrimp-on-a-stick, and bought
some souvenirs, before heading back to the hotel. We got some sleep
and made the trip back to Nashville the next day.
A very memorable trip. 

December 5, 1981: The Rolling Stones Setlist from the "Tatoo You" Tour

Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA, USA

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