One more release that cannot
properly be considered a bootleg due to the 50 years copyright that in this
case expired over 5 years ago, so it is officially been sold by www.1960s.com . Here are Lou Goldman
sleevenotes:
Throughout 1964 and 1965
the Stones were beneficiaries of the BBC s ‘needletime’ agreement. Until it was
abandoned in 1988, needletime was the number of hours of music on record that
the BBC and other broadcasters were allowed to play per day. In order to
supplement this allowance, the BBC commissioned extensive live recording
sessions from the prominent pop groups of the day, thus inadvertently creating
a rich archive of otherwise unavailable material. The Rolling Stones official
On Air set showcased many of the tracks recorded for the BBC but some still
remain officially unreleased. Here we have an extended version of High Heel
Sneakers
, a stalwart of the Stones 1964 live repertoire that
was never released on a studio LP.
Later in April 1964 Bill Wyman s diary says: We played the
NME poll
winners concert at the Empire Pool, Wembley. We chatted with the Beatles
backstage, John Lennon was very complimentary about our album. Also on the bill
were the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Dave Clark Five, Cliff Richard, Manfred Mann
and the Searchers. We performed I Just Wanna Make Love To You, Not Fade Away
and I m Alright. A year ago we had been playing to an audience of just a few
hundred people at the Ricky Tick in Windsor:
now we had a wonderful reception from over 10,000 fans. Even the Beatles
admitted that the scale of the response to our performance had freaked them
out.
Now this items packaging is spectacular as for the previous EP reviewed here,
the sound is good, however on the back cover the first track is called an
extended version of High Heel Sneakers which is debatable since it lasts 2.45
minutes. Apart from that this is a very nice release, historically significant,
another one overlooked by the band.
