Growing up in the 1960's it easy to say The Rolling Stones had a huge influence on me, & when I first started DJing there was a lot of rock in my sets, including The Rolling Stones. In the end of the 60's & early 70's I went to a lot of legendary top rock performances at places like the Fillmore East, Madison Sq Garden, & even Central Park. But I never got tickets to see the Stones live, as their US performances were expensive, & difficult to see.

I lived in Greenwich Village, & as fate would have it, one slightly rainy Thursday, May 1, 1975, I just happened to be walking down 5th Ave, about a block from my house at 12th St. when I heard the music of the Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar", outside on the street. It was strikingly louder than a boom box or car stereo, so I started to walk towards where I thought it was coming from, it was moving, so I had to walk faster. When I finally caught up to it, it was the actual Rolling Stones in person, performing live on the back of a flatbed truck to a small crowd of a couple hundred people, basically while the truck was moving, so just people that kept up walking along. It also seemed very clear that this was impromptu & unadvertised... a complete surprise to most everyone there, including me.

As I told friends what I saw later that day, they all basically said... "Get outta here!" I kind of expected no one would believe me... until it was mentioned on the news the next day. That was the only time I actually caught them live, but they still occasionally came out with some cool jams I could play in the club. Just a few years later they came out with one of their most popular club tracks "Miss You". In 2002 Dr. Dre did a Remix for Austin Powers's Goldmember movie. I did an edit of it back then that I just released yesterday on https://editsbymrk.com, enjoy 🙂 Danny