Oh man the energy that comes from this band even when their not playing is amazing. You can feel that their enjoying themselves while waiting to get on stage.

How they managed to stay alive mostly still together still touring is simply amazing.

Just imagine the great times you could have being a rockstar in those days. This is awesome!

George Thurogood , Ian Stewart, Ian Maclagan , nice mix of old faces(pun intended - some, will get that), friends who've passed etc.... Truly a charmed life to be/have been a Rolling Stone.

These guys were at this night and day for decades. What a bunch!

I love how these guys can't get enough music. They're always jamming.

Damn i miss the 80's, life was easy, people were free and easy, happy times playing in bands and constantly on the road making memories to remember and cherish for the rest of my life, great times! 🤘🏻🎸

I could only imagine what it would be like to party backstage with the greatest rock band in the world 🌎. It would be a memory of a lifetime. It would be absolutely phenomenal and priceless experience 🎉🎉

Amazing! The girl at the urinal, Mick opens the Gatorade for Keith, and the roadie lighting a cig for Ron! Thanks!

I saw this tour I was 17 and a senior in high school. Man those were the best times. I had my whole life ahead of me and didn't have a freaking clue.

Richards just oozes coolness. Love that man, my idol. I advise you to read his autobioigraphy, he was the stones really!

wow that nervous energy backstage even with Giants of Rock N roll.!! Cool to see so much love and Family orientation. Keith is hugging his kids before going onstage very sweet-

The reason I love this video clip so much is to see George Thorogood getting so much respect from Keith Richards and Ron Wood. I remember how the Rolling Stone Record Guide just ripped Thorogood to shreds. Dave Marsh and his elitist assholes said he was a fraudulent white blues performer even though so many of the classic black blues performers respected him. George has always done his own thing. He's a had a few massive hits, but he primarily just makes a living out of playing the music he deeply loves. What's not to like?

So cool hearing George Thorogood blasting away out there. I saw the Stones in Philadelphia that year

This might be the best thing on KZfaq.

This should be titled: People standing around backstage with the Rolling Stones in 1981.

Ah yes a fresh faced Keith Richards back when he was only about 142 years old

I worked the steel wheels tour 1989 in miami,saw both shows from row 10,and had the time of my life

Bill Graham💐. What a time to love music. Ty.

I saw them at Candlestick Park October 18, 1981. What a show. The greatest rock band ever.

I have an original VHS tape of this show recorded when I was 15 back in '81. I'm gonna get it digitized. Great show!

“Quick! Hide the coke!” Keef: “Done, mate.”

It's crazy that after al these decades that there are only 2 SUPER(ROCK)Bands in this world. The Beatles and the Stones! Mick can't walk through central park and Paul acsactly the same! And they are very old, but for me and all their fans we are so gratefull;that Charlie, Ron, Keith, Mick, Paul and Ringo.(Richard St.) are still with us,! Because when we (all their fans) see and when we are Lucky hear them playing their songs. At that moment i'm back 10 14 or even 55 years back in time! Only very great musicians can do that. Thank you for your music guys!

I want Keith's doctor.

Britains finest and bravest getting ready for yet another night in the service of the muse. Ahh, man.. those were the days! Still that magic in the air. The magic that picked us up on the first step of the stairwell, and never even once dropped us. And after all this time, we still get just as blown away by it. Rock and Roll delivers a message of freedom, and is in itself at the same time that very freedom it speaks of. So look no further, brethren. Just turn it up.

...love the build up backstage as they warm up to go out. The band is just as primed as the audience for a great show.. and to give it 100%!!

These band members have a life where I can only imagine/Dream of,Must come with some hassle alot. I've always envied but most importantly I can sit back and enjoy the Fantastic Music.

Awesome footage! Thanks so much for sharing. ❤❤❤❤❤ I've only seen a snippet of this before and was unable to find it in its entirety--till now. Thank you KZfaq, as always. 👍👌👏 Stones RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULE!!!! 💋💋💋💋💋

Mick Jagger takes this very seriously. True professional

funny how people think they’re all drugged to the gills in this video. they might’ve had a pop or two, but they’re 100% ready to rock & roll.

I was listening to this old head who used to follow the stones and others for years scalping tickets while doing other shit for promoters, getting weed for roadies, and stuff. He explained that during this time but especially earlier in the 70s the debauchery was usually pretty contained. He said that basically a concert like this was like a bureaucratic organism. You had 2 central nuclei: the creative (the band + its inner circle) being one, and the business (bands management) was the other. Then there was the larger organism of the venue, promoters, etc anyone of power outside the bands circle. Most bands were at the mercy of venues and the larger stakeholders involved with these tours. In the case of a Zepp or Stones this bureaucratic organism was FAR bigger. In that case you'd have the central nuclei enveloped in a layer of high calibur roadies, ex-police and military bodyguards and multiple lawyers. There were three layers of lawyers and business people that communicated in a particular way that depended on the year. In the mid to late 70s and up to about the mid to late 80s there was a high powered legal/business team who were in direct contact with the band and bands management. These guys were highly adept lawyers and business people who were soberer than sober, they were shrewd as fuck, and most importantly- they could understand people on drugs. These guys were the unsung heroes of these tours. They communicated with the next layer of lawyers and businessmen who generally were on coke or speed and booze. These guys were given orders by the sober legal/business team and dealt the outside business of the venues and larger stakeholders. The point was to have the coked out legal/business team be given plans made by the sober ones. The coked out team got the venues and related stakeholders to do absolutely anything by their sheer force of just-got-pussy ego, testosterone bravado, quaalude confidence, and cocainr speechcraft, and due to the fact that the coked out team was given instructions by the shrewd sober team. The drugs allowed them to be absolutely ruthless in their business and legal maneuvering but they could not be relied on to actually devise the maneuvers. There was another entourage of highly trust adept individuals of a sort of black ops orientation which dealt with undercover agents and officers, as well as ensuring the inner circle of the band got essentially anything they wanted. These guys operate outside of the boundaries of normal law and only communicated with the highest ranking management and lawyers. You never saw these guys but their presence was implied. According to legend it was the Altamont show that convinced the Stones entourage that something like this was necessary. Originally these guys did a lot more business and roadie work, but eventually as shit got crazier with drug laws the original veterans were eventually brought into doing these so-called black ops tasks.

Nothing says Christmas like the Rolling Stones... Backstage-good time-Freak Show-extravaganza... George Thorogood Delaware destroyers freaking outstanding

I was in High School in Hampton in 81 - one day an art teacher walks into our class and says if we make some banners we could see the Stones concert at the coliseum - 2 days later I'm standing behind the stage watching the world's greatest rock n roll band - with all our paper banners ringing the mezzanine- for free. True

I was there Hampton coliseum driving all the way from Virginia Beach hard to believe they're still doing this today

Keith Richards, I love you! I'm from São Paulo, Brazil. You are very important to me. Love. ❤🇧🇷

That's still on my bucket list! Getting to hang with KEITH while GEORGE THOROGOOD is jamming on stage in the background!

Best rock band ever. And they have the good taste to play Telecasters! Lol

This is fun to watch them all have a good time back stage!

Very cool to look at some backstage stones footage thanks for posting.👍

This is really great, thanks for posting.

f**king great! It's not a band, it's a hell of a band! Love from Holland!

I had the honor of meeting Bill Graham in 1988 at the Luntfontaine Theater in NYC at a Garcia solo show. As busy as the man was, he gave me 2-3 minutes.

Was at that show for my 22nd bday. Thanks for sharing! Great Show!

So much for that "Jagger & Richards don't get along backstage" thing!

1981 was a different world. Ladies and Gentlemen, these are the Rolling Stones. Leave your 2021 sensibilities and judgements elsewhere. This was not unusual at all for the greatest rock and roll band - who had not yet hit their prime. Great tour.

I was backstage on this tour for the San Fran leg... Tooooo super!! Met all the guys

Bobby freaking Keys whiskey and cigarettes, what a legend . RIP buddy .

Awesome.....nice to see such lovely people!

I saw them in (Sep I believe) 1981 at Syracuse Carrier Dome. It looks like George Thorogood was opening at this concert, I wish he was opening in Syracuse (it was Molly Hatchet). The Stones came out and kicked ass and took names, they were awesome, Best concert I have seen period, BAM!

Can just imagine how much rare Footage The Stones have 😁✌

As a kid, I got the live pay-per-view of this. I had a few friends over and my parents got us all pizzas. I only knew a handful of their songs at the time but got sucked in right away by this backstage segment. Something about it seemed dangerous, scary, and exciting all at once. Legends.

So, a woman standing at a urinal peeing, next to a boa constrictor, with goats and chickens showering with men and women...Definitely not a Bieber concert.

Keef was always the coolest cat!

Mick looking out after Keith. Opens a Gator aide bottle and hands to him , Keith puts the whisky down.

I had the moment in 1973 To be present at The rehearsing/recordings in Rotterdam-DeDoelen. It was very secret. My late father involved in supplying P.A. picked Me up fm school ,instructing Me,not to talk about it! Very special memories meeting Them.

A glimpse of the Soul of The Stones, IAN STEWART, at ~ 11:55

Just another mad mad day on the road

It would have been cool as hell to hang out with these guys on the road.

I remember when Keith looked old in 1981. Now he looks young with a full head of black hair.

I was there at that concert. Everyone said the sound was really bad in that venue. I was so happy when Under My Thumb was released live from Hampton on their next album! It was great! I spent months trying to get tickets that year by the way. Finally scored at Hampton!

I remember playing the album tattoo you in my room ❤️. I loved end of 70s early 80s.

I feel like the sheep characters were introduced, but given no resolution.

I remember watching this in the Jurassic...great circus. Huge Tour!!

This was on Keith's birthday. His son Marlon hanging around backstage. He was his dad's manager in a way.

boy, the stones really had that sid vicious look down at the time.....haha. saw this tour in frisco that year, had no idea they were showering with sheep and chickens though. thank for getting this up. :-)

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Thanks for posting!

It’s amazing to think about the “machine “the Stones had become. After all ‘it’s only rock n roll’...

I saw them on that tour at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida two months before this gig on October 24, 1981. Van Halen and the Outlaws were the opening acts.

You realise how great Spinal Tap is when you watch behind the scenes of real bands.

I remember watching this as a ppv back in the day.

I saw this Tattoo You Tour at the Hartford Civic Center. I was 18 yrs old at that time. Friggin awesome! Of course had to go see the Steel Wheels Tour 1989 at the old Foxboro Stadium, which was replaced by Gillette Stadium.

What's crazy is people were calling them old back then

Back when Gatorade had just one flavor!

Great footage!

Jimmy Reed & Slim Harpo was jamming with Keith & Lonesome George backstage that day in 1981. Cool footage !

That reminded me, I must watch Spinal Tap again.

I believe the act that went on before The Stones was George Thorogood. I saw him live in a small 300 capacity club in 1978.

I was at the Phoenix concert, which was just before this one. Party time with the roadies the night before the show.george thurogood was great best times

Man, even the cleaner with his mop at 3-00mins looks funky !!...

Jo and Ronnie Wood looking like a pair of Ringwraiths from Lord of the Rings, Bobby "It's 5 o'clock everywhere" Keys, and Keith being semi-cogent on his diet of 7up and Rebel Yell. I love how Bill and Charlie look like a pair of British accountants ready for a bachelor party.

Great footage

I was there…backstage. George Thorooughgood opened for them. The little boy is Jamie Wood, Ronnie’s wife Jo …little Leah Wood was about 2, KR was hanging with Patti and Mick gave Jerry an full length cobalt blue sable mink coat….a lot of fun…after show party KR a played reel to reel tapes he’d done in Jamaica with his reggae buddies… this is before KR quit doing heroin …. Alan Rogan was his guitar tech ..a lot of people ther have passed away now. I was 18….Christmas ! Around Keefs birthday!!

I was at this show. It was where they recorded the live album for this tour.

Great backstage footage and interaction with George Thorogood.

This is more Spinal Tap than Spinal Tap.

A good friend of mine, Sandy Prudden (RIP, Brother), was the Stage Manager for this show. Unfortunately, I didn't see him anywhere in the clip - knowing him, he was working too hard. That was an excellent performance!

Saw George Thorogood last year. Still kicks assssssss.

Amazing footage! Thanx for posting! George Thorogood and the Stones jamming! Wow!

Wood is higher than a kite

I saw them at The Astrodome on this tour. I was 16. I remember the weed being passed on every row. Damn, a lot has changed.

Gimme Shelter...In my top 10 of all time songs...With Beatles , Beethoven Op. 73 Adagio Un Poco Mosso , Vivaldi Winter 2nd movement, Dylan Visions of Johanna , Bach, Costello, Elvis, Sabbath War Pigs....At 54 I still return to these...no matter what I hear over the years...Maybe some early Ok computer chucked in...60's Stones are in there...

Keith is the coolest guy in the room wherever he goes.

In the very beginning, Keith was about to go into the opening riff of midnight rambler 0:43

The tone on that amp!👍

keef sounds great on guitar

Love the dynamic of all this. Everyone is boozing it up for a pregame, except for Mick who is warming up like Dak Prescott before a Dallas Cowboys game.

Yo estuve allí fue un concierto espectacular ¡!

Ian MacLagan of The Faces!!!

The "most played" section of this is a split second gaze on Jerry Hall! haha love it