The 1973 Pacific Tour was a very interesting snapshot of the band near their peak. It was so short that they barely had time to shake the rust off before it was suddenly over. Listen carefully to the Hawaii and Australian live tracks… they sound almost human. – Emperor of Oldies

“What It Looked Like”

The Rolling Stones’ vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, drummer Charlie Watts, bassist Bill Wyman and lead guitarist Mick Taylor conquered Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand in their widely acclaimed 1973 Pacific Tour.

Also included are the benefit concerts on Jan. 18, 1973, when the Rolling Stones performed to aid the earthquake victims of Nicaragua at the Forum in Los Angeles. A month earlier, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua was rocked by a quake that killed more than 4,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. The concerts were deeply personal ones for Mick Jagger and then-wife Bianca, the former Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias, a Nicaraguan human rights advocate and a former actress, who was born in Nicaragua,

The Rolling Stones flew relief supplies to the disaster zone shortly after the quake. The concert at the Forum in Los Angeles raised more than $350,000 for the ravaged country, the highest-grossing rock benefit at the time. Today, Jagger has dual nationality, as a naturalised British citizen and citizen of Nicaragua.

The personnel also included sidemen Bobby Keys on Saxophone, Jim Price on Trumpet and Trombone,  Nicky Hopkins on Piano, along with occasional piano chords by former co-founding member, Ian Stewart, who had transitioned from the group as the Stones’ road manager.

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