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Rip This Joint: The Rolling Stones' 1977 Secret Show Released on "Live at the El Mocambo"

March 28, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Rolling Stones El Mocambo

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A surprise gig for The Rolling Stones is now yielding a surprise release.  Back in March, 1977, two concerts were announced to take place at the small, roughly 300-capacity Toronto club El Mocambo.  Canadian rock band April Wine was confirmed as the headliner; the support act was an unknown band called The Cockroaches.  Tickets were distributed via a radio contest on CHUM-FM.  It wasn't until the contest winners were being transported to the club on a chartered bus that radio station officials informed them The Cockroaches - in actuality, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts, and special guest Billy Preston - would be taking the stage that night as headliners.  April Wine was relegated to opening status.  Attendees still recall their surprise when Charlie Watts took the stage to adjust his kit before his bandmates entered.  On May 13, UMe will issue Live at the El Mocambo for the very first time in 2-CD, 4-LP black vinyl, 4-LP neon vinyl, and digital formats.

Live at the El Mocambo features the Stones' full set from March 5 (the second and final show), plus three bonus tracks from March 4, all newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Four of the live performances appeared on the September 1977 release of Love You Live, but this release marks the premiere of a complete El Mocambo set.  "It's Only Rock 'N' Roll" and "Rip This Joint" are both streaming now.  (April Wine's own Live at the El Mocambo LP arrived in 1977, too, preserving the band's fiery set opening for the Stones.)

Jagger, Richards, and co. channeled their early club days for the wide-ranging set which featured blues staples including Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy," Bo Diddley's "Crackin' Up," Big Maceo's "Worried Life Blues," and Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster" alongside Glimmer Twins hits such as "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Tumbling Dice," "Honky Tonk Women," "Brown Sugar," and "Jumpin' Jack Flash."  The Stones' most recent album, 1976's Black and Blue, yielded "Fool to Cry," "Hot Stuff," "Hand of Fate," "Melody," and "Crazy Mama."  The gigs also saw the debut of "Worried About You" which wouldn't appear on an album until 1981's Tattoo You.

Live at the El Mocambo is due from UMe on May 13.  You'll find the track listing and pre-order links below.

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP Neon Vinyl: Rolling Stones Online Shop

The Rolling Stones, Live at the El Mocambo (UMe, 2022)

  1. Honky Tonk Women
  2. All Down the Line
  3. Hand Of Fate
  4. Route 66
  5. Fool To Cry
  6. Crazy Mama
  7. Mannish Boy
  8. Crackin' Up
  9. Dance Little Sister
  10. Around And Around
  11. Tumbling Dice
  12. Hot Stuff
  13. Star Star
  14. Let's Spend the Night Together
  15. Worried Life Blues
  16. Little Red Rooster
  17. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I Like It)
  18. Rip This Joint
  19. Brown Sugar
  20. Jumpin' Jack Flash
  21. Melody
  22. Luxury
  23. Worried About You

Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Philip Ellison says

    March 28, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    You may be thinking, "Oh, what the world needs now...yet another "live" set from the Stones..." But wait, there appear to be a goodly number of tunes here which were either rarely performed - certainly not in the last 40 years - or previously not included in their discography! Good news indeed!

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    • gradese says

      March 28, 2022 at 4:07 pm

      I agree. It looks like a nice little set. I certainly wouldn't shell out for the vinyl set, but the CDs I will certainly get

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  2. zally says

    April 7, 2022 at 7:27 am

    here we go again, another cut and paste release. both shows should be released. i am tired of the tongue logo as a front cover. look at the blues cover AGH AGH. vinyl OVER PRICED !!!!!!!! who is behind these releases ?

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