Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988

Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988
Live album by Keith Richards and The X-Pensive Winos
Released	10 December 1991
Recorded	15 December 1988, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California, United States
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	67:30
Language	English
Label	Virgin
Producer	Keith Richards, Steve Jordan, and Don Smith
Keith Richards chronology
Talk Is Cheap (1988) Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988 (1991) Main Offender (1992)

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Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988 is a live album by Keith Richards and was released on 10 December 1991, in the United States and 24 February 1992, in the United Kingdom. Recorded during the brief American tour, the only leg of the shows, in support of Talk Is Cheap in late 1988, Richards is supported by a set of musicians and friends dubbed "The X-Pensive Winos". The Winos included Richards, Waddy Wachtel, Steve Jordan, Charley Drayton, Ivan Neville, and Sarah Dash. Longtime Rolling Stones contributor Bobby Keys also plays saxophone. The Hollywood Palladium was the same Sunset Strip theatre Richards was thrown off the stage of, in 1972, when he tried to join his idol Chuck Berry.

While Richards' set during the tour was composed primarily of material from his solo debut album- he played ten of the eleven songs from the record- he did include many of his Rolling Stones vocal highlights. Although "Happy", "Connection" and "Too Rude" appear on the official release, "Before They Make Me Run" and "Little T&A" were part of the shows and are present on popular bootlegs like L.A. Connection. While Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988 does not include the full concert captured that evening, it does present "Time Is on My Side" sung by Sarah Dash. Unavailable is the Richards sung "I Wanna Be Your Man"- two unmistakable nods to the early days of the band he helped found in 1962.

Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988 was recorded, videotaped and ultimately released at the strong suggestion of Jane Rose, Richards tenured manager. She is officially credited as Executive Producer, and encouraged Richards to consider the official release after showing the reluctant star bootlegs of inferior audio quality. The record dropped in North America for the Christmas buying season, in the wake of the Stones comeback Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour, and well into pre-production for his second studio album Main Offender. Although it failed to chart, the album has sold over 100,000 copies in the United States alone.

The album includes several Rolling Stones songs, including "Too Rude" (from Dirty Work), "Time Is on My Side", "Happy" (from Exile on Main St.), and "Connection" (from Between the Buttons.)

Track listing

All songs by Keith Richards and Steve Jordan, except where noted.

1. "Take It So Hard" – 4:27
2. "How I Wish" – 4:05
3. "I Could Have Stood You Up" – 4:30
4. "Too Rude" (Lydon Roberts, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare) – 7:46
5. "Make No Mistake" – 6:30
6. "Time Is on My Side" (Norman Meade) – 4:32
7. "Big Enough" – 3:46
8. "Whip It Up" – 5:35
9. "Locked Away" – 5:49
10. "Struggle" – 4:35
11. "Happy" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 7:08
12. "Connection" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 2:33
13. "Rockawhile" – 6:16

Personnel

• Sarah Dash – backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "Time Is On My Side", and duet on "Make No Mistake"
• Charley Drayton – bass guitar, backing vocals, and drums on "Take It So Hard" and "I Could Have Stood You Up"
• Steve Jordan – drums, backing vocals, bass guitar on "Take It So Hard", and keyboards on "I Could Have Stood You Up"
• Bobby Keys – saxophone
• Ivan Neville – keyboards, backing vocals, guitar on "Happy", and bass guitar on "I Could Have Stood You Up"
• Keith Richards – guitar and lead vocals
• Waddy Wachtel – guitar and backing vocals