THE ROLLING STONES
JAMMIN’ WITH THE STONES 2
The Lost Sessions Vol 2: The Auction Reels
Track 01. Gimme Shelter 4:30 (Keith Vocal) (6.1MB)
Track 02. You Got The Silver 2:50 (Jagger Vocal) (3.9MB)
Track 03. Sister Morphine 5:33 (7.6MB)
Track 04. Loving Cup 6:37 (9.1MB)
Track 05. Brown Sugar 3:47 (5.2MB)
Track 06. You Gotta Move 2:33 (3.5MB)
Track 07. Dead Flowers 4:05 (5.6MB)
Track 08. Brown Sugar 4:31
Track 09. Winter 5:32 (7.6MB)
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On their second volume, Empress Valley were hard pressed to offer anything “lost”. These are all well-known Stones tracks and in 2005 had been widely available to knowledgeable fans. So the only advantage was the excellent sound quality.
Here was Keith Richards singing Gimme Shelter while Mick Jagger sang You Got The Silver, which was mostly a Keith composition. The version of Loving Cup here has the lead guitar nicely leading the band with a vocal from Jagger that turns rowdy at the end.
Brown Sugar, is that Eric Clapton on guitar? That’s the one most collectors call the “alternate” Brown Sugar. No slide guitar from Clapton or loud backing vocals from Keith marks this as an outtake with a different guitar part instead. In fact, some songs are so familiar, two takes of Sister Morphine, which are identical except perhaps one is slightly louder. They differ from the released version with a punchier bass.
So we come to the “lost” sessions of this volume. The multiple versions of Brown Sugar and Bitch. These are not different takes but “playbacks”. The engineer starts and stops the tracks during playback. Someone is listening. For Empress Valley to list them here, without notation, seems wrong as on first appearance, it’s as if a session is offered. The sound cuts off whenever the tape is stopped. It’s not an error on the disc.
Now who would want a “lost” session like this? You can do this at home with your remote.
The bootleg closes with two songs from Goat’s Head Soup, again filler material but in excellent quality. Winter is raw, slightly out of focus with the keyboards or synths too dominant. The vocals are different.
Empress Valley stopped the series after Volume 2. They continue to put out Led Zeppelin bootlegs for which they are renowned.
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THE ROLLING STONES
I Gave You Diamonds, You Give Me Disease: The Exile Outtakes [Sister Morphine 15, 1CD]
Recorded at Ville Nellcote, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, May to September 1971. Mostly excellent soundboard. Released in 2008.
Track 01. Exile On Main Street Blues (the 1972 NME flexi-disc excerpt) (1.2MB)
Track 02. Get A Line On You (early version of Shine A Light) (6.0MB)
Track 03. Good Time Women (early version of Tumbling Dice) (4.5MB)
Track 04. Shake Your Hips (a Sam Moore aka Slim Harpo composition) (5.8MB)
Track 05. Hillside Blues (outtake, 11min version) (15.8MB )
Track 06. Sweet Virginia (alternate) (5.9MB)
Track 07. Bent Green Needles (early instrumental version of Sweet Black Angel) (4.1MB)
Track 08. Loving Cup (early version, possibly late ’60s) (9.0MB)
Track 09. Ventilator Blues (rehearsal; credited to Mick Taylor as well) (8.1MB)
Track 10. I Ain’t Signifying (outtake) (5.2MB)
Track 11. Let It Loose (instrumental take) (8.0MB)
Track 12. Travelin’ Man (unreleased) (8.1MB)
Track 13. Stop Breaking Down (alternate) (6.2MB)
Track 14. Shine A Light (5.5MB)
Track 15. I’m Going Down (alternate; credited to Mick Taylor as well) (3.7MB)
http://www.link.ge/file/286111/THE-ROLLING-STONES.rar.htmlWith talk of Rolling Stones deluxe editions coming out in 2010, let us all recall what Exile On Main Street’s producer Jimmy Miller said of the Nellcote sessions, that there was enough material to put out two double albums. I Gave You Diamonds collects all the songs associated with Exile that have appeared on various Stones bootlegs onto one disc. With Sister Morphine’s mysterious remasterer, Cool Cool Hand, on the knobs, the healing is done. Absolutely no hiss on almost all tracks and a stereo clarity that’s hard to beat.
When the tax exiles moved to a villa in France at the beckoning of Keith Richards, the villa’s huge basement kitchen was converted into a recording studio where booze and food was in abundance. The relaxed atmosphere helped loosened up the sessions and here and there are long jams dedicated to the muse. Presented here are shambolic early versions of Shine A Light and Tumbling Dice.
These were also the early years of guitarist Mick Taylor’s involvement with the Stones as a recording unit. It seems he was still in awe and the stronger influence was Gram Parsons’ cosmic country music rather that Taylor’s technically awesome solos. The country twang in the guitars, the honkytonk piano of Nicky Hopkins and the demonic rhythm and bass of Wyman and Watts all blend to offer one of the best country rock albums to emerge in 1972. Still it manages to retain the Rolling Stones imprint, mainly for the strong subject matter of waste and being wasted. Or sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.
Sister Morphine is a Stones’ specialist label and you can tell where and how they whip Empress Valley into a distant third. This is probably the best collection of Exile outtakes till an official release.
The Rolling Stones, Classic Rock / Rock / UK
