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On October 22, 2006, the Rolling Stones played a historic free-ticketed concert at Zilker Park in Austin, and it was Ian McLagan and his Bump Band who the Stones picked to open the show. It was a fitting bill: McLagan had toured as a sideman with the Stones in 1978 and 1981, and had known Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood since the British Invasion days of the mid-1960s, when the Small Faces ran in the same London circles as the Stones.
McLagan and the Bump Band were also mainstays of the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park, performing there in 2006 as his adopted hometown’s own living link to British rock royalty — a keyboardist confident in his place in rock history, but happiest thumping out pub rockers for a park full of people.
