Wednesday, ;tune 4, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Wensdy- un_.195TE IHIA AIYPgeFv Jagger still the no. 1 performer as Stones make US, summer tour By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeature Writer For the upcoming three-month sum- mer tour by the Rolling Stones - 42 concerts in the United States and Cana- da and 16 in Mexico and South America - lead singer Mick Jagger got an idea for a roof for the outdoor concerts. "I found this beautiful book of ten- sile structures. So I designed one. They said it would cost $300,000. We're doing seven outdoor shows I think. They said, then what was I going to do with it? Nothing. So I couldn't have it. I could put it out in a field and live in it. It's still expensive, even as a house. "I said maybe we could afford it; we could take it to Australia next fall. Then fou have to pay to take it. It has to go by sea. "You have to start compromising. You have to. There'll be a roof, but it won't be the one I imagined." Ask Jagger whether ie's interested in the mones side of the music business and he explains. "I'm interested in earn- ing money. I don't want to work for 20 years and have nothing." But he doesn't sit around all day counting his money and he has no investments other than some shares received as a gift. "I'm interested in touring. Apart from performing, I'm interested in the way the tour is promoted, the stage, the transortation, personnel - all those things. I like to go through those details. Money comes into that. Every time I wanta stage that measures X by X they say it'll cost $150,000 to build and $20,000 a night to move. You have to get in- volved in money. Charlie Watts, the drummer, has got- ten really involved in design, lights, art work, everything like that. We were here two months working on the tour before we came in this time to rehearse the music. "Charlie, me and Christian Piper, a German artist, worked ot the noster for the tour - an eagle and a jet plane. At first we couldn't find an eagle pic- ture to draw from. We were in Ger- many - we found some on the money. We were recording in Munich. Charlie can draw. I'm telling him, 'Do it this way, do it that way."' An album, "Made in the Shade," on Rolling Stones Records, distributed by Atlantic, is coming out at the start of the tour. It's 10 hits by the group from Lps of the last four years. "Brown Sug- ar" an album of new music, will come out in September. The Rolling Stones toured the United States last in 1972. In Europe the last tour was in 1973. There have been rumors that the 1975 tour will be the last but Jagger says, "The 1972 tour was sup- posed to be the last one; I read a lot about that. I don't plan this one to be. "After a layoff, you get a feeling of wanting to tour again." - When he isn't touring or recording, Jagger says, "I'm always thinking about working for a start. I don't ever really go and not think about it. I always car- ry a-guitar and tape recorder and book. I write words down. I'm always listen- ing to things we've done - records that are in the middle of being done." Also, Jagger says, he reads a lot, history and other kinds of books, and likes to travel. While in South America, there will be enough time between some dates for Jagger to "do a bit more ex- ploring." le and his wife Bianca are sometimes photographed, beautifully dressed, at fes- tive occasions. "Social life is not for me a full-time activity," Jagger says. "I like to see all kinds of people. When I go to the gutter, I don't get photographed. I don't like going to movie openings. I have to be dragged. Sometimes it's by my wife and sometimes the people do- ing the movie. "I don't like being called a jet setter. It's boring. Which doesn't mean I don't like to see the motor racing in Monte Carlo. I like motor racing. Then I get called a jet setter. I go to a party in Paris and that photograph goes round and rsond. It looks like the only places I was ever at. The rest of the time you're sitting on somebody else's floor or out dancing or walking around." Being labeled a jet setter is far dif- ferent from being labeled the scruffy epitome of the anti-estabsihment as the Rolling Stones were first known. "What's the establishment? In England the es- tablishment means the monarchy which includes the aristocracy, the church and the government. As far as England is concerned, those institutions are in a state of abject spiritual decay. If that makes me anti-establishment . . . But it doesn't mean anything, anyway; it's just a term." Whether the Stones have mellowed over the years since their formation in 1962, Jagger says is in the mind of the person writing a story about them on anP particular day. "It's a group of five people. How can they be the same? Sometimes we feel very mellow. The sun is shining. The next day, everything goes wrong and we want to shoot holes through the hotel wall. "I don't think I'm very moody at all. I try to maintain an equilibrium. But each persons has many sides." And whether he's the best-known, No. 1 rock star in the world, Jagger, now 31, says is impossible to measure. "The No. 1 band in England today is the Bay City Rollers. So what? I like them, ac- tually. There are a few bands that have very good track records. They've been play- ing a long while with more or less the same people and done well on tour, which is good. It's a bit awful to be the only band. There was sort of a vacuum for a period when we felt we were kind of lost. The Beatles broke up and Dylan didn't tour. No one was really doing any- thing. Now some are. You need all that; you need competition." High points in the Rolling Stones' 13 years, Jagger lists as ''when our first, record got on the charts in England. 'Come On' I think got to like 32. That was a great thing. Our first big hit in America was 'I Think Time Is on my Side' in 1964. We got really well known here in 1965 with 'Satisfaction.' "It's the most well-known song. Not that we play it any more. We havn't played it in years." AP Photo Jagger Slash in arts fund may hit area events By CATHERINE REUTTER grants in the past, including the Ars Mu- A $625,010 budget cut proposed by a sica and Art Worlds. House subcommittee for the state's arts University groups like the Professional budget could hurt theater and perform- Theater Program and the University ing arts in the Ann Arbor area. Theater Program have also received grants in the past. Reactions to the 25 per cent cut "ts in that vary from arts groups around town. "I ",The people that it will hurt are the think it could have devastating conse- young groups who need seed money," quences for the arts in Michigan," says says Secil Taylor of Art Worlds, which Edward Szabo, Ann Arbor Symphony has received a minigrant for its the- Eodatrd San AbrSypoy ater project. conductor. "Many groups are in a per- "WE'REtNOT directly affected," says iod of transition and growth now." The Bret Waller, University art museum symphony has applied for $5,000 to con- director, although the Detroit Institute duct children's concerts and hire a sec- of Arts has had to close for a month. retary. "Everyone's expecting some belt-tight- "I DON'T THINK the cut will go ening," Waller comments, "but this cut through as large as it is," Joe Wilson seems a bit drastic." of the Ann Arbor Council for the Per- The proposed cut was provoked by the forming Arts (AACPA) says hopefully. current recession. During the last De- "We are enormously concerned about pression, the movie businesshboomed the budget cut," says Jean Gaisfo, also because of the many people who sought of the AACPA. "We've been delighted escape from reality. "Today, a lot of by the current year's budget appropria- people have free time," says Taylor. tions." "It's possible that people are frustrated, The size of the budget, Galan believes, so they go out to be entertained." could be the second largest state bud- Szabo emphasizes "the importance of get in the nation, second only to New the quality of life. The arts are a neces- York's. sity. They have to do with the spirit of "THE BUDGET CUT would be a set- man." Yet, Wilson says, "the first place beck, but not a serious one," says Wil- the government turns to when it needs son. The AACPA has never received a to make budget cuts is to the arts." grant from the Michigan Council for GALAN says, "Finances are difficult the Arts, the group which administers for everyone, however, the spirit needs the state budget. a little encouragement, too." She adds, The Ann Arbor group has applied, how- "There were threats of this kind of ever, for a grant to help the stage they thing last year. Many of -the euts pro- set up at the Anil Arbor Art Fair on posed last year were eventually rein- South University. Many of the AACPA's. stated because enough people got in member organizations have received touch with their congressmen."