On Sunday my Stones tribute band is hosting a charity event in conjunction with the release of the remastered Exile On Main Street to raise funds for the Fred Hollows Foundation. There are a number of cool aspects of this gig -
1. We're playing the 1972 US tour set list in full
2. Universal Music have donated 4 copies of the Exile CD as raffle prizes
3. Ampeg is providing the backline - three SVT-VR heads and SVT-VR 810 cabs
and the big one .....
4. Sam Cutler will be present, to talk about his book "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and take questions from the audience in between the support bands, plus donate 2 signed copies of the book as raffle prizes. Sam lives in Australia these days, and was tour manager for the Stones and the Grateful Dead. He was the main organiser for the free concert in Hyde Park just after Brian Jones died (Mick Taylor's first gig), was one of the organisers for the Altamont concert, and arranged the involvement of the Grateful Dead on the Festival Express tour (among other things).
I just hope he has enough brain cells left to be able to share his memories of those times with us!
