Let It Bleed
Mick Taylor, Keith Richards and band manager Sam Cutler in the kitchen of the Los Angeles home the band rented to stage the planning of their 1969 tour of the United States: Mick Taylor had joined the band as Brian Jones's replacement on guitar earlier that summer.
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, in the backyard of the rented L.A. home, check the proofs of the cover of Let it Bleed. The album was released in the U.S. in December of 1969.
Rehearsing in the basement of Stephen Stills's home in Los Angeles: Mick and Keith lived in Stills's house during preparations for the tour.
Rehearsing in the basement of Stephen Stills's house.
Cathry and Mary, two women the band's manager picked up in an L.A. bar and later hired to serve as drivers for various band members.
Mick and Keith on the lawn of the L.A. house; Mick is holding Charlie Watts's daughter Serafina.
Rehearsing on a Warner Bros. sound stage in Hollywood before the tour: The sound stage was being used at the time to shoot the Sydney Pollack film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The band on the set of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Warming up back stage: Note Charlie Watts in the mirror, keeping time.
The band heads onstage.
Jagger works the crowd.
Between shows at the Los Angeles Forum: The band often performed two shows a night on the 1969 tour.
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger at a card table in the Circus Circus casino in Las Vegas: The band had chartered a plane from L.A. to Phoenix for a show there, and then detoured the plane to Las Vegas on the way back.
Mick Taylor discovers Keith Richards' "medicine bag" back stage.
Mick Taylor jams with Jimi Hendrix backstage at Madison Square Garden.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards performing Midnight Rambler at Madison Square Garden in New York City in November, 1969.
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