Glimmer Gossip (April 99)

Two California newspapers have recently printed reviews of Stones shows:

Rambling Stones Show No Musical Revelation - SF Chronicle (04/22/99)
Lukewarm Stones - San Jose Mercury News (04/21/99)

Wyman Goes Head-To-Head Against Stones Former Rolling Stones

Bill Wyman has announced his first British tour since leaving the band. He will play a string of theatre dates while his ex-group plays the UK's biggest stadiums. Wyman, who is touring with his new band The Rhythm Kings, will play venues in Lowestoft and Fareham as the Stones tour

Source: Press Association

Here's a great article:

From their early stage days in west London's back rooms and bars the Stones have rolled onto bigger and better things.

The Rolling Stones, who first hit the stage in the 1962 as a blues band struggling to make it in a jazz- dominated world, now fill the biggest arenas with their big budget shows. But as frontman Mick Jagger explains, the experience of playing such a huge crowd doesn't get any easier.

"It's pretty intense. There are the odd moments when you think, 'what am I doing up here? This is really tricky,' but it's just what you do, it's your life and I've been doing it for a long time so it's not an alien environment to me. But it is quite strange."

Bandmate Ron Wood uses another tactic to combat his stage fright. "If I haven't got my glasses on I can only see the first couple of rows. I'm waving at these imaginary people."

But the Stones weren't always such a big pull. As Keith Richards remembers, when the band set out it was an uphill struggle. "English theatres were too much, they'd have two speakers, you know about two little ten inch things, and one of them would never work.

"We got used to working even when we can't hear each other, all I had to do is look at Charlie Watts' left hand coming down and I know where to play, even if I can't hear what's going on."

In these early days, in the likes of the Station Hotel in the sleepy London suburb of Richmond, the band were repeatedly mobbed by screaming fans. As Jagger remembers, their live gigs would often turn into riots. "That was a really bad period for us in a lot of ways. I got laughs being pulled out of clubs in Newcastle and being sort of attacked by 12 year olds, but it wasn't very good for our creativity, because we only used to play

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