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KEITH RICHARDS, MICK TAYLOR, and MICK JAGGER performing at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, December 14, 1981

“I stepped through the door of a modern house into a large high-ceilinged room, unfurnished except for a P.A, amps, drum kit and a Hammond organ. Mick Taylor saw me as I walked in, and beamed as he stepped around the cables that were all over the floor. I hadn’t realised he’d played on Bob Dylan’s new album, Infidels, so I was pleasantly surprised to see him there. He told me Bob was getting a band together to promote his new album in Europe, and the tour was due to start in ten days time.

Now I was really excited. I hadn’t seen Mick since he sat in with the Stones in Kansas City in 1981. They’d plugged his guitar cord into an amp directly behind me that night, but as he was at least thirty feet away at the front of the stage, he could hardly hear it, so he cranked the volume all the way up. I’ve never heard anything louder than the sound that came from that amp in my whole life and I ran from the stage to protect my ears and wouldn’t go back on until he left the stage.

That aside, I’d always liked Mick. He’s an affable, unpretentious soul without a bad bone in his body.”