Stones Touring Party

Anyone who has followed the Stones would know the story behind their legendary 1972 American tour (probably the greatest tour ever). Apart from the debauchery, it was also about great music (Exile was being promoted), Truman Capote getting bored and that infamous documentary called Cocksucker Blues (anyone seen it?).
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Shot cinema verite, docurocku style, Cocksucker Blues is a pinball machine of images -- soft, warm, harsh, exploitive, funny, sad, boring, stupid and smart, jammed with images of excessive hard drug taking, nodding-off Stones, roadies fucking groupies, backstage parties, naked women, heroin shoot-ups, and, yes, some great concert footage.

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After-effects of the tour

Singer-songwriter Gram Parsons was excommunicated from the group's social circle after demanding all of the cocaine in the Denver hospitality suite; he would die a year later. Publicity coordinator Gary Stromberg, "one hundred percent fucked up" as per Greenfield's account at the conclusion of the New York run, was left on a boat off Fire Island to clean up; a "thirty percent fucked up" Stromberg would replicate his duties for T.Rex's first tour of America.
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After a lot of effort (and a little help from a friend), I was finally able to find fantastic bootlegs (seven discs/500 minutes of live Stones) of some shows from the aforementioned tour (The boots are called the Stones Touring Party). The sound quality is so good it feels just like official live recordings. And the motherfuckers play it very loud and very fast (especially the 1st Fort Worth, TX show). But the best thing about these shows is that you get to hear songs like Dead Flowers, Torn and Frayed (they never play this live), Ventilator Blues and Sweet Virginia live. If I am not wrong, the Stone have rarely played these songs live after 1975. These boots are a must have (at least a few shows because the set list was more or less the same for the whole tour).