RICHARDS, KEITH - CD
THE COMPLETE HONEYMOON TAPES_GOLDPLATE

LABEL:
Goldplate GP 1606 CD 1/2
SOURCE:
Recorded at the apartment of Finisterra Hotel Room, Cabo St.Lucas, Mexico 17th December 1983.
FORMAT:
2 picture cds
RUNNING TIME:
58.17/64.25
SOUND/SOURCE:
Audience mono
PACKAGING:
double slimline jewel case
 


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SOUND 9 / PACKAGING 10 / PERFORMANCE 9.5

 
TRACK LIST:

Disc One 1. Memphis, Tennessee (Chuck Berry), 2. Cathy s Clown (Everly Brothers), 3. All Shook Up (Elvis Presley), 4. Wanna Hold You (Jagger/Richards), 5. So Sad (Everly Brothers), 6. Wild Horses (Jagger/Richards), 7. Blue Moon (Rodgers/Hart), 8. Born To Lose (Ted Daffan),  9. Time Is On My Side (Norman Meade), 10. It s So Easy (Buddy Holly), 11. Oh Boy (Buddy Holly - Petty/Tilghman/West),  12. Crying, Waiting, Hoping (Charles Hardin Holley), 13. I Wonder Who s Kissing Her Now - version 1 (Howard/Adams/Hough), 14. Sing Me Back Home (Merle Haggard), 15. Let s Spend The Night Together (Jagger/Richards), 16. Learning The Game (Buddy Holly), 17. Think It Over (Buddy Holly), 18. All In My Mind (Maxine Brown), 19. Beast Of Burden (Jagger/Richards), 20. You Win Again (Hank Williams), 21. Well All Right (Buddy Holly), 22. Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran), 23. No Expectations (Jagger/Richards), 24. Love Is Strange (Mickey&Sylvia), 25. Tutti Frutti (Little Richard - La Bostrie/Penniman/Lubin), 26. That ll Be The Day ((Buddy Holly).

Disc Two: 1. Donna (Richie Valens), 2. If You See Her, Say Hello (Bob Dylan), 3. Please Please Me (Lennon/McCartney) / Please Stay (Bacharach), 4. 32-20 Blues (Robert Johnson), 5. Devoted To You (Everly Brothers - Bryant), 6. Apartment Number Nine (Johnny Paycheck/Bobby Austin), 7. Brand New Heartache (Everly Brothers - Bryant), 8. Sweet Dreams - version 1 (Don Gibson), 9. Careless Ethiopians (Toots Hibbert), 10. She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye (Newbury/Gilmore), 11. I Wonder Who s Kissing Her Now - version 2 (Howard/Adams/Hough), 12. Let It Be Me (Curtis/Becaud/Delanoe), 13. Since You Broke My Heart (Everly Brothers), 14. Try A Little Tenderness (Woods/Campbell/Conelly), 15. Heartbeat (Buddy Holly), 16. Wishing (Buddy Holly), 17. I Got Stripes (Johnny Cash/Charlie Williams), 18. Can t Take A Joke – improvisation, 19. Granada - instrumental (Lara/Dodd), 20. Sweet Dreams - version 2 (Don Gibson), 21. Problems (Everly Brothers - Bryant), 22. Brand New Heartache - complete (Everly Brothers - Bryant), 23. Never On Sunday - instrumental version 1 (Hadjidakis/Towne), 24. Flamenco – improvisation, 25. Never On Sunday - instrumental version 2  (Hadjidakis/Towne).

 
REVIEW:

This release from Goldplate presents yet another copy from Cpt. Acid s work (shouldn t the guy sue them?Ha ha) featuring Keith Richards solo sessions recorded on the same day of his birthday in 1983 when he wed Patti Hansen in Mexico at Cabo St.Lucas. We hear   Keith Richards strumming through the night his acoustic guitar thanks to the session been recorded in a Hotel room, allegedly the same Finisterra Hotel where his wedding happened, together with a guy named Stroker who provided backing vocals and translating immediately in Spanish tracks 11 and 14 on Disc 2 ). All this has been recorded in stereo by a cassette recorder and has surfaced in many release (most of the times the session is featured in mono due to too much hiss on one channel). At first on vinyl on a LP called The Honeymoon Tapes (Toast Rec.Browninc 2,002), 2 tracks can be found on High and Lonesome (Anna 1)LP,  then   Peaches Gone South (Coast 2 Coast 005), The Complete Honeymoon Tapes (Hot Lips   HLR KR 001-2) and with the same name (SRS Records 001), Sing Me Back Home (OBR 458031) on LP and You Know My Dreams (OBR   93003) both on LP and cd and parts on many cds like Learning The Game (Scorpio 92KD 0803); recently 2 cds that are part of a massive 13 cds box called K.Richards 1967-2007 The Solo Works (WLR 2144), The Honeymoon Tapes-Key to the Highway 2 (SODD 123-4)   have the same set list that consists of traditional Country, RnR, Blues classics mixed with the occasional Stones tune. The SODD release presented the same songs all in stereo this time (lots of hiss on Disc one at the beginning) offering nothing more than a re packaging of the whole lot without adding anything new in a double disc subtitled Keith To The Highway 2. In late October 2016 Cpt. Acid reworked the original tapes and presented his version sourced mostly from OBR vinyl rip ( tracks on first disc) and Hot Lips - The Complete Honeymoon tapes ( second disc  and few tracks placed on the first one ). So what about this release? It can easily be said it surpasses all other ones in terms of clarity of sound. From the maker s words:
The most important thing done here was pitch correction. The closest pitch was on Peaches Gone South (CTS  bootleg ), but even that one was not completely ok and since the remastering job wasn t that good, it was too hot that has been reworked as well. Of course some equalization has been made and level corrections, cleaned some clicks and pops too. The OBR vinyl rip was a much better source but did not have all of the tracks, while the Hot Lips bootleg had a muddy sound which has been fixed, but also there was tape hiss on that one but however no noise reduction was used. So there is still some hiss on second disc but generally it sound much better than on any other bootleg with these tracks. It must be noted that tracks order has been also rearranged according to my taste.

It must be also said that the packaging is particularly tasty with a nice photo of Keith embracing his wife.


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