Here the
label’s words: “The years 1968 and 1969 were turbulent years for society
in general and the Rolling Stones in particular. Having decided that the
psychedelia of 1967’s
Their Satanic Majesties Request was not a good
look, Keith Richards went back to his roots for the highly acoustic
Beggars
Banquet LP. Lead track Sympathy For The Devil
made
its world debut on David Frost’s primetime TV programme to a mixed reaction. It
was the last time that Brian Jones would be seen on stage with the Stones
(apart from Rock n Roll Circus Ed.Note): he can be glimpsed playing keyboards,
and percussion on the opening verses. When the Stones recorded You Can’t
Always Get What You Want and Honky Tonk Women
for Frost
the following year Jones was gone, replaced by Mick Taylor. For all these
tracks Jagger sang over a pre-recorded backing track: Sympathy also benefitted
from some additional Richards’ guitar parts.”
This 33 rpm vinyl disc has great purple labels and its
contents are the soundtrack of 2 different David Grost tc specials, the first one
from 68 features Brian Jones while the second one from US television is from 69;
nothing new since the first one was relesased officially on DVD in 2010, while
the second one is popular among collectors, however the great cover and the
context itself are stunning.
