"The Rolling Stones" Thread

[Satan]

Looks good. The only thing that could make it better is if they finally released all of the "stripped" audio tracks from the tour. They actually had a full album's worth of these, and another more conventional live album ready to go, but decided to go with a one disc hybrid of the two. Though the remaining tracks eventually surfaced... some as "b" sides from Stripped singles and the rest in bootlegs with titles like "Stripped Companion"

[Satan]

Can't believe they left this one off the original album. Even bluesier than the original 1965 version....

[Satan]

No I didn't send Brian Jones up there for the session. It just sounds like it.....

[Satan]

[Satan]

[twonabomber]

I have More Stripped, which looks like some older tracks added on to the original CD, and then Unplugged, which is "acoustic and acoustic flavored outtakes from 1968 to 1971." You Got The Silver with Jagger on vocals, and Wild Horses with ram Parker on slide guitar.

[twonabomber]

Went over to Shidoobee earlier to see if there was any talk of a new Stones album and got fed up trying to find it. That site is so fucked up. I did see someone speculate on a fall tour, saying "they don't fire up the engine" (something Keith likes to say) for just one show.

[Satan]

...and Wild Horses with ram Parker on slide guitar.

Gram Parsons, you mean??

Though this is in dispute.... seems more likely the steel guitar was not Parsons himself, but a guy named "Sneaky Pete" who was a member of Parsons' band The Flying Burrito Brothers.

Regardless, they really should have left it in the song, for Sticky Fingers. Maybe they thought it sounded "too country", since they already had Dead Flowers on the same record?

[twonabomber]

Yeah, Parsons. I had the back cover of the bootleg up and still typed the wrong name.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

6 days on the road, that was a cool song.

[twonabomber]

So there's the Desert Trip show, and now the Stones have announced a date in Las Vegas, October 19th.

Will there be a full arena tour? As someone at Shidoobee said, they don't fire up the engine for just a couple shows.

Partway through More Stripped, so far it's really good. Haven't gotten into the book yet, but the expanded documentary and the L'Olympia show are great.

[Igosplut]

If ya want to see 'em. Do it now. They've gone on forever, but nothings forever. A day coming soon one is gonna be gone, and that will be that. Glad i saw them in the ninety's.....

[twonabomber]

I fully expected this

http://teamrock.com/news/2016-09-28/rolling-stones-line-up-havana-moon-release

Rolling Stones line up Havana Moon release

The Rolling Stones will release their set recorded in Havana, Cuba, on multiple formats in November

The Rolling Stones are to release a live package showcasing their historic live set in Havana, Cuba, later this year.

The veteran rock outfit performed in front of 1.2 million fans there in March – setting the record as the first open-air concert in the country to feature a UK rock band.

The film hit cinemas for one night only last week – and now fans will get the chance to own the package when Havana Moon is released on on DVD, Blu-ray, DVD/2CD, DVD/3LP, Digital Video, Digital Audio plus special Deluxe Edition on November 11.

The film was directed by Paul Dugdale and recorded at the end of the band's America Latina Ole Tour.

A statement reads: “As the Stones took to the stage under a perfect Havana Moon for a show that will forever go down in history books as a life-changing moment for a country on the brink of change, there was nothing that was going to come between the band and their fans including the Vatican in Rome who had objected to rock'n'roll in Havana on Good Friday.”

Pre-orders for the live package are now open, with the Deluxe Edition containing the DVD, Blu-ray along with 2CDs in a 60 page hardback photobook.

Watch a video trailer below.

[twonabomber]

And later, this pic on Jagger's FB page:



captioned "Watch this space #playingtheblues"

And this pic shows up a day later



So is the album of blues covers finally happening? Don Was says yes

Don Was Confirms ‘Crude, Authentic’ Rolling Stones Blues Album

Mick Jagger has sent out a tweet that suggested that the Rolling Stones were planning to release an album of blues covers. Since then, we’ve uncovered a few clues, including some quotes from producer Don Was, who says that it might be out in time for Christmas and features guitar work from Eric Clapton on a pair of songs.

Jagger’s tweet featured a picture of a harmonica case that had a few Stones guitar picks thrown in. “Watch this space #playingtheblues,” he wrote.

Watch this space #playingtheblues pic.twitter.com/INra1Yu9iR

— Mick Jagger (@MickJagger) September 29, 2016

Word that they had returned to their blues roots first surfaced in April, when Ron Wood leaked the news. “We went in to cut some new songs, which we did, but we got on a blues streak,” he said. “We cut 11 blues in two days. They are extremely great cover versions of Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walter, among other blues people. But they really sound authentic. When we heard them back after not hearing them for a couple of months, we were, ‘Who’s that? It’s you.’ It sounded so authentic.”

A few weeks later, Don Was gave a little bit more information on the project. He said that, in order to loosen up the band, Keith Richards suggested playing Little Walter’s “Blue and Lonesome.” “It was just magnificent,” Was told Australia’s RRR (the interview begins at roughly the 1:54:00 mark). “When they play that music, they become something very true to who they are and something really unique as well. …It’s really good.”

But he also noted that they weren’t sure when it would see the light of day, because they were committed to writing new songs.

Today, French outlet Le Figaro published an interview with Was. We used Google’s translator to determine what he said. “The album consists of covers of blues songs of Chicago,” he began. “It was recorded live in the studio in just three days, with the musicians in a circle around the microphones. There was no retouching on the pieces. Means the battery of Charlie Watts through the microphone of Mick Jagger [Editor’s note: this could be saying that the drums were bleeding into the vocal mic]. The record sounds very crude, very authentic. It captures the essence of what they are.”

Was, who added that it was scheduled for a December release, also said that Clapton sat in on the sessions. “He was recording his own album in the studio next door,” he continued. “He had only to cross the hall to join! Hearing them play in the studio, he had also gasped. … He was still a teenager when he saw them in the clubs of Richmond in their infancy, as a fan. He borrowed one of Keith’s guitars and started playing two songs. It was exceptional enough to see.”

Finally, two weeks ago, Wood again spoke about it on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he and Richards were on hand to premiere Havana Moon, their documentary about their trip to Cuba. “It’s gonna be great,” he said in the video above. “You’re gonna love it. That’s what the Stones are: a blues band. Yeah!”

[FORD]

Of course.... what would the Xmas shopping season be without a new Stones archive release

I get the historical significance of playing Cuba and all, but I really wish they would start releasing some older stuff again.