ON TOUR 69

Sound 8 Packaging 9.5 Performance 10 Video

Label: R&B 087
Source: all 1969, Side One, tracks 1-4: Hyde Park, London 5 July, bc by Radio Veronica on 15 July, Track 5: Pop Goes Sixties 12 December. Side Two, Tracks 1-3: Saville Theatre, London 14 December 2nd show, bc on Supernight of Rockâ€™n Roll on 31 December 1984, Tracks 4-6: Olympia Stadium, Detroit 24 November, bc on Detroit Tube Works WSU in December
Format: 1 LP
Running time: 20.24/23.35
Sound / source: Disc One, Track 1: Soundboard stereo, Tracks 2-5 and Disc Two: Soundboard mono
Packaging: Single sleeve cover
Features
Video / source

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Track list

Side One: 1. Down Home Girl, 2. Give Me A Drink (Loving Cup), 3. Street Fighting Man, 4. Backstage Rehearsal With Mick Jagger, 5. Gimme Shelter.

Side Two: 1. (I Canâ€™ t Get No) Satisfaction, 2. Jumpinâ€™ Jack Flash, 3. Carol, 4. Sympathy For The Devil, 5. Stray Cat Blues, 6. Little Queenie.

The review

This release continues the Let the Airwaves Flow series from this label, jumping from 1965 to 1969; the first tracks come from Dutch radio Veronica broadcast of the Stones Hyde Park concert which happened 10 days after the concert, the concert was recorded with a Sony portable recorder bit broadcasted on AM radio, so low fidelity, but the important thing is that the songs are complete and there is no talking over them, also these 3 songs were not part of the officially released DVD that was based upon the Granada TV Special, nor in the 2006 or 2015 updated versions; notably the first song is here in stereo. This concert also saw the live debut for Street Fighting Man; as bonus a guitar duet recorded backstage featuring Jagger; this side ends with a version of Gimme Shelter from Pop Goes the Sixties tv show with live vocals on a prepared backing track. Side Two begins with three songs from the Saville Theatre (now called Covent Garden) recorded in mid-December 1969, after the Altamont show. The final 3 songs come from the Detroit concert, allegedly 40 minutes from the whole set were visually recorded by the tv crew in front of a bewildered audience, amongst which Iggy Pop who called this the most memorable gig he ever witnessed.