ROLLING STONES
- CD
THREE DAYS IN MONTSERRAT
LABEL: |
FTP 138 |
SOURCE: |
Air St. Montserrat 25-27 April 1989 |
FORMAT: |
2 downlioad cdrs |
RUNNING TIME: |
79.46/71.41 |
SOUND/SOURCE: |
Soundboard Mono |
PACKAGING: |
Double Slimline Jewel case |
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SOUND 8 / PACKAGING 10
/ PERFORMANCE 9
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TRACK LIST: |
Disc One,
Part I 25 April 1989 Dinner at
Montserrat: 1. Segments Reconnected with Fade Ins/Outs and Banter Over Continental
Drift, 2. Banter After Dinner: KR, RW, Jo & Patti Talking; Part II: 25
April 1989 Warm Up and First Rock And A Hard Place Try-Out, 3. Banter Welcome
to Another Fabulous Session, 4. From Malaguena to Rock And A Hard Place, 5.
RAAHP Riff, 6. Banter, 7. RAAHP #1; Part III 26 April 1989 In the studio: 8. Banter
& Warm-Up, 9. Banter and Spanish Flavored Warm-Up (Malaguena), 10. RAAHP #2
part 1, 11. RAAHP #2 part 3 (part 2 is missing), 12. Banter with Instructions
by KR, 13. RAAHP #3; Part IV Check in the Control Room: 14. Banter & MJ Clapping
Hands Over RAAHP #3, 15. Banter Rushes; Part V Other Checks and Try-Outs in the
Studio and Control Room: 16. Banter in the Studio with Some RAAHP Parts, 17. Partial
RAAHP #4, 18. RAAHP #4 part 3, 19. Banter Wise, 20. Checking 4 Extracts, 21. Banter
Feeling Was Great, 22. Checking a Last Short RAAHP Extract, 23. Banter MJ with
Charlie, 24. We Gonna Get This Movie; Part VI First Mixed Emotions Ideas: 25. Warm-Up
KR Blues Improvisation, 26. Mixed Emotions Riff & Banter, 27. Bonus: Beginning
of RAAHP #3, 28. Bonus: Blues Improvisation/Hellhound On My Trail.
Disc Two, Part
VII KR Showing ME Riff and Ideas to MJ: 1. Work in Progress 1, KR Showing
his Ideas to MJ, 2. Banter Chris 2 and Chris 1, 3. Work in Progress 2, 4. Banter
I Never Smoke…, 5. Work in Progress 3, 6. Work in Progress 4, 7. Work in Progress
5, 8. Banter We Left Here, 9. Work in Progress 6 (3 or 4: Choose a Number), 10.
Work in Progress 7 (KR improvisation); Part VIII KR & MJ Searching for Ideas
Around ME Riff: 11. Work in Progress 8; Part IX Joined by the Band: 12. Work in
Progress 9, 13. Work in Progress 10, 14. Work in Progress #11 With Chorus, 15. Work
in Progress # 12; Part X 27 April 1989 New Work in Progress Mixed Emotions
Extracts: 16. A Short Work in Progress Extract, 17. Short Extract & Banter Mister
Compromise; Part XI Working on the 2nd Chorus:
18. Work in Progress,
19. Discussion about 2nd Chorus, 20. Restart on 2nd
chorus; Part XII More Reworkings in the Studio: 21. Banter The Last Only One, 22.
New Try-Out for Mixed Emotions, 23. Short Banter Shown From the Control Room, 24.
More Banter Shown From the Control Room Out of Question; Part XIII From the Control
Room: 25. Banter Over an Elaborated Version of Mixed Emotions #1, 26. Banter Bonjour
Ma Colombe, 27. 2 Short Banters (in total 23 seconds); Part XIV Back in the Studio:
28. Rehearsing Mixed Emotions, 29. Banter & Warm-up You’re Not the Only
One, 30. More Elaborated Music, Approximative Mixed Emotions Lyrics #2 Very Long
Version, 31. Final Studio Banters; Part XV Checking the Results in the Control Room:
32. Banter Over the Previously Recorded Long Version, 33. Banter, 34. The Last Banters
and Laughs; Part XVI MJ Vocal Overdubs (very partial): 35. Short MJ Voice Overdub
Extract #1, 36. Banter from the Control Room, 37. Short Vocal Overdub Extract
#2, 38. Short Control Room Comment, 39. Short Vocal Overdub Extract #3, 40. Bonus:
Mixed Emotions #1.
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REVIEW: |
This project started when Imthemastah posted the video and when
BlueTurns2Grey proposed to do a new collaborative work on it. The original idea
was to do a complete version from the audio of this great testimony, deleting
the silent and deteriorated parts and a second version posted separately with
only the musical parts that will be combined with some other newly circulating
outtakes that will be located in FP 139). For these sessions the p
roducers were Chris Kimsey & The
Glimmer Twins, the sound
engineer was Christopher Marc Potter; additional musician: Matt Clifford on
keyboards.
As usual all
tracks have been edited, de-clicked, treated against distortion, rumble
(smoothly so the music wouldn't be altered), the silent or altered parts deleted
and the segments reconnected (when possible) and all
cleaned up by deleting
lots of noises (all ‘by hand’) in particular in the songs.
Part I: 25
April 1989 ‘Dinner at Montserrat’ starts with 1. During Dinner: lots of segments
reconnected with fade ins/outs and banter over Continental Drift with Ron Wood
adding some percussion with his cigarette box, then Banter ‘After Dinner’: Keith
Richards, Ron Wood, Jo & Patti talking “So now we make a record or a movie?
… or both?” Then comes Part II: 25 April 1989 'Warm up and first Rock And A
Hard Place try-outs’ starting with Banter “Welcome to another fabulous session”
followed by Malaguena through Rock And A Hard Place, Rock And A Hard Place riff
and another take with Mick Jagger indications, cut abruptly. In Part III: 26
April 1989 ‘in the studio’ after the usual banter & warm-up with Charlie Watts
on drums there is a Spanish flavored warm-up (Malaguena citation), then RAAHP
#2 part 1 and part 3 (part 2 is missing) stopped by Keith Richards, then
another Banter with Instructions by Keith Richards ‘to G’ and RAAHP #3 cut, the
end missing. In Part IV: ‘check in the control room’ more Banters with Mick Jagger
clapping hands over RAAHP #3 (the beginning is missing) while in Part V: ‘other
checking and try-outs in the studio and the control room’, after some Banters
in the studio with some RAAHP parts we get another partial RAAHP #4 (only part
1), then RAAHP #4 part 3 (part 2 is missing), they checked 4 extracts and a
last short RAAHP extract, a banter with Mick Jagger with Charlie. Part VI:
first Mixed Emotions ideas with Keith Richards solo and Ron Wood with an
acoustic guitar; after a warm-up with Keith Richards blues improvisation we get
the Mixed Emotions-riff & banter, then
two
bonuses: the beginning of RAAHP #3 (Part III n°13) reconnected at 1’26 with
Part IV n°14 and a Blues Improvisation/Hellhound On My Trail coming from 25X5
video outtake.
Disc Two
starts with Part VII: Keith Richards showing Mixed Emotions riff and idea to Mick
Jagger (writing sessions for Mixed Emotions part 1) with just KR & MJ on guitar)
several silent and damaged parts in between the extracts. This is work in
progress 1: KR showing his ideas to MJ through 7 (KR improvisation). After that
we get Part VIII: KR & MJ searching for ideas around the ME riff with KR on
guitar & MJ on vocals. In Part IX they are joined by the band, there is more
work in progress with first keyboard try-outs and KR showing his ideas to RW on
acoustic guitar with drums and first ideas for a bridge. Then we are at the
last day of these sessions, 27 April 1989, Part X: new work in progress with
Mixed Emotions extracts, a short work in progress cut abruptly & banter
‘Mister compromise’; in Part
XI: working on the 2nd chorus, work
in progress with more elaborated version broken off by MJ on the 2nd
chorus, discussions about the 2nd chorus and restart of 2nd
chorus. Part XII has more reworkings in the studio, new try-outs for Mixed
Emotions stopped by KR & short banters from the control room Again Part
XIII is from the control room, starting with an elaborated version of Mixed
Emotions #1 with a gap, a banter ‘Bonjour Ma Colombe’ and 2 short banters (in
total 23 seconds) separated by a gap. Part IV: back in studio
begins
with rehearsing Mixed Emotion’, a flaw patched at 1.37, another banter &
warm-up ‘You’re not the only one’, more elaborated music, approximative lyrics of
Mixed Emotions #2 a very long version and final studio banters, separated by a
gap.
Part XV:
checking the result in the control room, starts with a banter over the previous
recorded long version, then another banter "I fucked up a little
bit", "I think we could repair that" and the last banters and
laughs. Finally, we get Part XVI: MJ vocal overdubs (very partial) with a short
MJ voice overdub extract #1, extract #2 and some short vocal overdub extract #3;
then another bonus: Mixed Emotions #1: 2 segments reconnected at 0’57 seconds. As
with other releases of this kind Disc Two is much more enjoyable featuring
music excerpts, while Disc One has lots of dialogues and is intended for completists
only.
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