ROLLING STONES
- CD
THE OLYMPIC SESSIONS
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DAC 198 |
SOURCE: |
Disc One, Tracks 1,3: Olympic St. London 8 December 68, Track 2: Olympic St. London 17 March- 3 April 68, Track 4: Olympic St. London 9-10 Feb. (cover says 9-13 Feb.) 69, Track 5: Muscle Shoals St. Florence, Alabama 2-4 Dec.69, Track 6: Olympic St. London 17 Apr-2 July (on cover 12 May) 69, Track 7: Olympic St. London 22, 28 & 30 March 69, Track 8: Olympic St. London 9 March 69, Track 9: Olympic St. London 23 May 68, Track 10: Olympic St. London 16 Feb.69, Track 11: Olympic St. London 23-25 Feb.69, Tracks 12,13: Olympic St. London 9, 10 & 18 Dec.69, Track 14: Olympic St. London 9 & 16 March 69, Track 15: Olympic St. London 15 March 69. Disc Two, Track 1: Olympic St. London 29 March 68, Track 2: Olympic St. London 4-10 June 68, Tracks 3,6: Olympic St. London 13-23 May 68, Track 4: Olympic St. London 31 March 68, Track 5: Olympic St. London 27 April 68, Track 7: Olympic St. London 28 June 68, Track 8: LWT St. London, Frost On Saturday 29 Nov.68, Track 9: Olympic St. London 11 May 68, Track 10: Olympic St. London 16 Feb.69, Track 11: Olympic St. London 17 April- 2 July 69, Track 12: Olympic St. London 24-27 March 69, Tracks 13-16: MSG, New York 28 Nov.69 1st show, Track 17: Altamont Speedway, Livermore 6 Dec.69, Track 18: Villefranche sur Mer, Villa Nellcote KR basement 10 July-23 Nov.71. |
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2 cd |
RUNNING TIME: |
76.02/76.37 |
SOUND/SOURCE: |
Soundboard stereo except for Disc One, Tracks 1,2,4,6,8,15 & Disc Two, Tracks 2, 5,8,9,11-17: Soundboard mono |
PACKAGING: |
Double Slimline Jewel case |
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SOUND 10 / PACKAGING 10
/ PERFORMANCE 10
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TRACK LIST: |
Disc One: 1.
Sympathy For The Devil, 2. Stray Cat Blues, 3. Ruby Tuesday, 4. Midnight
Rambler, 5. Wild Horses,
6. Country
Honk, 7. Sister Morphine
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8. Let It Bleed, 9. Love In Vain, 10. You Got The Silver, 11. Gimme Shelter, 12.
Brown Sugar, 13. Wild Horses, 14. Honky Tonk Women, 15. You Can’t Always Get What
You Want.
Disc Two:
1. Mickey Mouse Blues, 2. Sympathy For The Devil, 3. Family, 4. Pay Your Dues,
5. Jumpin’ Jack Flash, 6. Dear Doctor, 7. Family, 8. Sympathy For The Devil, 9.
Jumpin’ Jack Flash, 10. Gimme Shelter, 11. Let It Bleed, 12. Love In Vain, Bonus
Tracks: 13. Sam Cutler Introduction, 14. Jumpin’ Jack Flash, 15, Carol, 16.
Sympathy For The Devil, 17. Midnight Rambler, 18. Tumbling Dice.
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REVIEW: |
This
release from DAC presents a bunch of tracks that have surfaced since DAC’s
latest releases. So on Disc One we get the famous
69RS TRAX released on YouTube by Abkco at the end
of 2019 and on Disc Two mainly the TRRS TRAX released at the end of 2018 and at
the beginning of 2019, which was a compilation of alternates from Beggars
Banquet and Let It Bleed. It’s been reported that these tracks have been thoroughly
cleaned, so that the slight clicks that existed at about 0:24 and 0:50 in Sister
Morphine have been removed, however it must be said that the annoying beep can still
be heard in the background at high volume, there have been better sounding
versions released in the past.
There are
also some minor discrepancies on sources dates, for instance Wild Horses with
the strings and glass harmonica has been reported to be coming from the Olympic
Studios October 1970 sessions, but according to the info here just the strings were
added at the Olympic studios; Midnight Rambler was recorded on 9 or 10 Feb.69
and not on 9-13 of February 69 as stated on the inner cover; Country Honk
instrumental version was not recorded on May 12th 1969 (that was the
early no fiddle version) which reveal a lack of attention probably due to the
label’s rush release. On Disc Two the first 9 songs come from TRRS TRAX, but
they are not the same since each take has been upgraded to a higher quality. We get Mickey
Mouse Blues, which is a demo of Child Of The Moon, is a track that was not recorded
during the Satanic Majesties sessions. The following version of Sympathy For
The Devil is an early take with different lyrics and different vocals and
mixes, with Nicky's piano quite impressive. Family, Dear Doctor and Pay Your
Dues are the same take as those published in TRRSTRAX and that have however been
replaced with higher quality ones. The two versions
of Jumpin’ Jack Flash here included are: the first one is the version of the
promo film without make-up, possibly the longest studio version ever. The other
one is the make-up promo film version, with Mick's vocals recorded live. Sympathy
For The Devil version from the Frost On Saturday tv show has some additional
guitar licks at the end. It seems this
live vocals version is very valuable, because the audio has been completely
replaced with the recorded version from Top Of The Pops which was aired. In
addition to that, the origin of this track comes from YouTube with sound in HD quality.
After Keith Richards vocals on Gimme Shelter from the 69 RS TRAX, Let It Bleed
and Love In Vain are rough mixes from an acetate featuring different vocals,
however they both are in mono and shortened; hopefully the full version will
surface some time in the future. It has been reported
that, after the playback video was released on YouTube the acetate was put up
for sale in an auction, and it is here, providing another precious take. Midnight
Rambler comes from Altamont; this is a new soundboard version released on Chris
Manicou's site, Revelations On The Rolling Stones, where other precious Altamont
soundboard tracks have been released before. What follow are then the only
existing tracks released by Abkco of the Madison Square Gardens 28th
November 1st concert, regarded as bonus. Finally, Tumbling Dice backing
track ends beautifully this set, it first appeared on the Nicky Hopkins 1972
tapes, although this take here seems different at the end and is for sure better
sounding with less hiss. This song too was released on YouTube, but here is available
in silver disc for the first time. So, although the
sources of these tracks are almost all from the internet, this is a nice release
from DAC, a careful compilation that includes valuable things that may have
been overlooked as well as many well known outtakes never heard in a better
shape, like Pay Your Dues. Particular is an inner photo that shows Brian Jones
at the keyboards with a number of ladies and gentlemen that really seem the
chorus for the You Can‘t Always Get What You Want overdub sessions; no
confirmation of his presence though, but the fact remains that this shot is a
bit of a mystery.
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