1964 - Rolling Stones Play Milwaukee

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On November 11th, the Rolling Stones first performed in Wisconsin, to a crowd of 1,274 fans at Milwaukee Auditorium. Although Brian Jones remained in a Chicago hospital with a high fever, the rest of the band performed. According to a dubious reporter for the Milwaukee Journal, "Chances are, few in the audience missed his [Jones'] wailing harmonica. Screams from a thousand throats drowned out all but the most insistent electronic cacaphony and the two-fisted smashes of drummer Charlie Watts." The reporter continued, "Unless someone teaches guitar chords to chimpanzees, the visual ultimate has been reached in the Rolling Stones. With shoulder length hair and high heeled boots, they seemed more feminine than their fans. The Stones make the Beatles look like clean cut kids. You think it must be some kind of parody - but the little girls in front paid $5.50 a seat." [Source: Milwaukee Journal November 12, 1964, p.14]

(From the Wisconsin Historical Society website)

Comments

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

that's really funny

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd enjoy it.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I still have trouble with the concept that the Beatles, in 1964, were not clean-cut guys. I mean, come on, they had short hair!

[heartwork.livejournal.com]

i love reading old newsy stuff like that.

[i.livejournal.com]

the equivalent of $37.83 today. what a ganga!