Is Everybody Ready For The Next Band? is an oral history of The Rolling Stones' 1969 tour told in the words of fans.

 

In November 1969 the Rolling Stones toured the United States for the first time in three years. Gone was founder member Brian Jones, replaced by Mick Taylor from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Gone too were the Top Ten-laden 30-minute sets played over inadequate PA systems to crowds of screaming, gawping teenagers. In their place was a fully-fledged 75-minute rock show drawing heavily on the albums Beggar’s Banquet and Let It Bleed, using lighting and theatrics rock audiences had never witnessed before.

 

Led by the Glimmer Twins - Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - the Rolling Stones rocked across America with a tour whose essence is captured in the live album Get Yet Ya-Ya’s Out, heralded by many as the finest live rock album of all time.

 

Taking its title from Chip Monck’s nightly stage introduction, Is Everybody Ready For The Next Band? mixes contemporaneous press reports with previously unpublished first-hand accounts of the Rolling Stones on their 24-date US tour that has gone down in history as the template that others then followed.

 

From an unpublicised opening night in Fort Collins, Colorado through to the tragic events at Altamont, California a month later, this is the story of one of the most infamous rock tours of all time in the words of more than 130 people who were there.

 

192 page hardback (includes 40 images).