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Kurhaus, Scheveningen, Holland

"Ready steady Stones"

- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/rollingstones-faq/part2/

The Hague, 8/8/64; 4.0 m; "Back to the Hague"
I quote from an Internet review: "To my knowledge the first ever audience tape of the Stones... The concert of the Stones in the Hague at the Kurhaus, the Hague (which was one of the most fancy hotels back then) was the Stones' first ever concert on the European continent. Opening acts were some dreadful Dutch entertainers, which made the crowd riotous. The show started with Walking The Dog and the crowd started to tear down the hall. Jagger lost his mike lead and played maracas on Hi-Heel Sneakers and Susie Q. The Stones ended with Mona (and not Not Fade Away as Karnbach and Bernson state) before the show was cancelled by the police. Never happened something like this before in Holland! Funny enough, the press didn't consider a Stones concert a big thing so didn't send a camera team. Luckily for us now, a young D.J. called Willem van Kooten decided it was important and went to the concert with a camera and a tape recorder. He recorded the complete concert from the side of the stage and even got to ask Jagger (during Susie Q!) if he had ever seen something like this. Jagger responded no, and said the police had to take it easy on the young girls. The tape is of very good quality, all instruments can be heard loud and clear. The tape is especially funny if you understand Dutch, since the reporter is clearly amazed at the sight of 1000 young kids fighting! The tape is on at least on LP (Back to The Hague), on video with the film footage, but not on CD as far as I know." Note: having heard the LP recently, I can say it really isn't that good. The instruments are fairly clear but vocals are totally inaudible. For completists only.