ROLLING STONES - CD
THROWING STONES THE ABKCO FIASCO LIVE AND STUDIO 1969

LABEL:
Skeletunes UK
SOURCE:
Disc One, Tracks 1-14: Oakland Coliseum Nov. 9th 69 1st show, Tracks 15,16: St. Collins Nov. 7th 69, Track 17: Olympic Sound St., London 9-18 Dec. 69. Disc Two, Tracks 1-13 Oakland Coliseum Nov.9th 69 2nd show, Tracks 14,15: Inglewood Forum Nov.8th 69 2nd show, Track 16: Phoenix Nov. 11th 69, Track 17: Olympic Sound St., London 9-18 Dec. 69, Track 18: Bearsville St., Woodstock 27 May-8 June 78. Disc Three, Track 1-9: Champaign Nov. 15th 69 Disc Four, Tracks 1-4: Champaign Nov. 15th 69, Tracks 5-12: NY MSG Nov. 27th 69. Disc Five, Tracks 1-6: NY MSG Nov. 27th 69, Tracks 7-9 : NY MSG Nov. 8th 69 1st show, Tracks 10-16: NY MSG Nov. 28th 69 2nd show. Disc Six, Tracks 1-7: NY MSG Nov. 28th 69 2nd show, Track 8-14: studio, Track 8: Olympic Sound St. London 15 March 69, Track 9: Sunset Sound St. & Elektra St. Los Angeles 17 Oct.-2 Nov.69, Track 10: Olympic Sound St. London 9-16 March 6, Track 11: Olympic Sound St. London 12 May (5 June-3 July) 69, Track 12: Olympic Sound St. London 9 March (22-31 March) 69, Track 13: Olympic St. London 23 May 68, Track 14: Olympic Sound St. London 9/10 Feb.69 (10,11 March-16 May 69). Disc Seven: Tracks 1-7: Palm Beach Nov. 30th 69. Disc Eight, Tracks 1-6: Palm Beach Nov. 30th 69, Tracks 7,10: Olympic Sound St. London 8 Dec.68 (Track 7 Intertel St. London 10,11 Dec.68), Track 8: Olympic Sound St. London 22-30 March 69, Track 9: Olympic Sound St. London 17 March-7 April 68 (1-14 March, 13-18 May 68 RG Jones St. Morden, Surrey and Olympic St. London). Disc Nine, Altamont Speedway, Livermore Dec. 6th 69: Disc Ten, Tracks 1-3: Altamont Speedway, Livermore Dec. 6th 69. Track 4: Olympic Sound St., London 9-18 Dec. 69, Track 5: Olympic Sound St. London early or Oct.70 (21 Oct.-3 Nov.70 Trident St. London), Track 6: Olympic Sound St. London 9 Feb.-31 March 69.
FORMAT:
10 vinyl looking pro cdr
RUNNING TIME:
78.38/78.08/40.37/58.12/78.22/78.00/43.03/46.18/70.21/29.48
SOUND/SOURCE:
Lossy versions, Disc One: Audience mono except for Track 17: Soundboard mono; Disc Two, Audience mono except for Tracks 17,18: Soundboard stereo; Disc Three & Four, Tracks 1.4: Audience mono; Disc 4 Tracks 5-12 & Five: Soundboard mono; Disc Six. Soundboard mono except Tracks 9,10:Soundboard stereo. Disc Seven & Disc Eight, Tracks 1-6: Audience mono; Disc Eight, Tracks 7,8: Soundboard stereo, Tracks 9,10: Soundboard mono. Disc Nine: Tracks 2,6,8 (up to 1.44): Audience mono, Tracks 3,6,9, 11: Audience stereo (from 0.32 into Carol onwards, from 1.20 Stray Cat Blues, from 3.29 Brown Sugar ), Tracks 4,6 (up to 1.20), 8 (from 1.44 and 3.20),9: Soundboard stereo, Tracks 1,5,7,10,13: Soundboard mono. Disc Ten, Tracks 1-3: Audience stereo, Track 4: Soundboard mono, Tracks 5,6: Soundboard stereo.
PACKAGING:
Large Plastic Box (VHS like) holding 10 cds and an 8 pages booklet
 


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SOUND 7.5 / PACKAGING 8.5 / PERFORMANCE 10

 
TRACK LIST:

Disc One: 1. Jumping Jack Flash, 2. Prodigal Son, 3. You Gotta Move, 4. Carol, 5. Sympathy For The Devil, 6. Stray Cat Blues, 7. Love In Vain, 8. I m Free, 9. Under My Thumb, 10. Midnight Rambler, 11. Little Queenie, 12. I Can t Get No Satisfaction, 13. Honky Tonk Women, 14. Street Fighting Man , 15. I m Free, 16. Honky Tonk Women, 17. Brown Sugar.

Disc Two: 1. Jumping Jack Flash, 2. Carol, 3. Sympathy For The Devil, 4. Stray Cat Blues, 5. Prodigal Son, 6. You Gotta Move, 7. Love In Vain, 8. I m Free, 9. Under My Thumb, 10. Midnight Rambler, 11. Gimme Shelter, 12. I Can t Get No Satisfaction, 13. Honky Tonk Women, 14. Show Introduction, 15. Jumping Jack Flash, 16. You Gotta Move, 17. Gimme Shelter, 18. Gimme Shelter.
Disc Three. 1. Jumping Jack Flash, 2. Street Fighting Man (Carol on booklet), 3. Sympathy For The Devil. 4. Stray Cat Blues, 5. Love In Vain, 6. Prodigal Son, 7. You Gotta Move, 8. Under My Thumb, 9. Midnight Rambler.

Disc Four: 1. Little Queenie, 2. I Can t Get No Satisfaction, 3. Honky Tonk Women, 4. Street Fighting Man, 5. Jumping Jack Flash, 6. Carol. 7. Sympathy For The Devil, 8. Stray Cat Blues, 9. Love In Vain, 10. Prodigal Son, 11. You Gotta Move, 12. Under My Thumb-I m Free.

Disc Five: 1. Midnight Rambler, 2. Live With Me, 3. Little Queenie, 4. I Can t Get No Satisfaction, 5. Honky Tonk Women, 6. Street Fighting Man, 7. Jumping Jack Flash, 8. Carol, 9. Sympathy For The Devil, 10. Jumping Jack Flash, 11. Carol, 12. Sympathy For The Devil, 14. Stray Cat Blues, 15. Love In Vain, 16. Prodigal Son, 17. You Gotta Move.

Disc Six: 1. Under My Thumb, 2. Midnight Rambler, 3. Live With Me, 4. Little Queenie, 5. I Can t Get No Satisfaction, 6. Honky Tonk Women, 7. Street Fighting Man, 8. You Can t Always Get What You Want, 9. Gimme Shelter, 10. Honky Tonk Women, 11. Honky Tonk Women, 12.Let It Bleed, 13. Love In Vain, 14. Midnight Rambler.

Disc Seven: 1. Show Introduction, 2. Jumping Jack Flash, 2. Carol, 3. Sympathy For The Devil, 4. Stray Cat Blues, 4. Love In Vain, 6. Under My Thumb, 7. Midnight Rambler.

Disc Eight: 1. Gimme Shelter, 2. Live With Me, 3. Little Queenie, 4. I Can t Get No Satisfaction, 5. Honky Tonk Women, 6.   Street Fighting Man, 7. Ruby Tuesday, 8. Sister Morphine, 9. Stray Cat Blues, 10. Sympathy For The Devil.

Disc Nine: 1. Show Introduction, 2. Jumping Jack Flash, 3. Carol, 4. Sympathy For The Devil, 5. The Sun Is Shining, 6. Stray Cat Blues, 7. Love In Vain, 8. Under My Thumb, 9. Brown Sugar, 10. Midnight Rambler (Intro), 11. Midnight Rambler, 12. Live With Me, (Gimme Shelter only on booklet), 13. Little Queenie.

Disc Ten; 1. I Can t Get No Satisfaction, 2. Honky Tonk Women, 3. Street Fighting Man, 4. Wild Horses, 5. Wild Horses, 6. You Got The Silver.

 
REVIEW:

I f you overslept on New Years Day or were watching football and were not on YouTube, most likely you missed the 8 hours availability of a hundred some unreleased Stones outtakes and live performances from 1969.  Some call it the holy grail, some say they would have expected higher quality from the Abkco masters. Some sources are incredible, while others may have seen similar quality on bootlegs in the past. Regardless, it s here and worthwhile! Presented in chronicle order with the audio watermarks removed. Skeletunes originally was only going to issue tracks previously unavailable on 6 discs but then decided to put out the whole ABKCO YouTube dump. So, it s now on 10 discs rather than 6 .In their haste to release this quickly, there is some dead air on a few tracks that should have been removed and a few double edits. However, we think you ll find plenty here to treasure!

So here we have all that was placed on that YT channel RS69TRX and we ll examine everything disc by disc. On Disc One we have 14 songs from the first Oakland 79 show for some reason missing Live With Me, however these tracks are in the usual mono audience quality, so it is not clear why they have been published, how good a copyright preservation will be for concerts recorded by someone in audience? This first discs ends with 2 songs from Fort Collins in surprising good quality, actually Honky Tonk Women is preceded by a brief show introduction but the song fades away after 2.06 minutes, then comes Brown Sugar taken from the Hot Rocks 2LP first pressing that featured different mixes of this song and Wild Horses, however   although recorded in 69 these racks came out officially in 1971.

Disc Two has the other Oakland concert, missing again Live With Me, Little Queenie and Street Fighting Man, this is peculiar as we know Bill Graham recorded (and later broadcasted) songs from this concert in soundboard quality, albeit in mono; here the beginning of I m Free is repeated twice, should have been edited out; unfortunately they forgot here to delete the watermark that mars Satisfaction, what follows after Honky Tonk Women is the Introduction (with 30 seconds of dead air) and the first song from Los Angeles 2nd concert, one more live song from Phoenix, a version of Gimme Shelter featuring alternate vocals (that ends abruptly at 3.59) and quite strangely a 1978 rehearsal version of the same tune from the Woodstock Rehearsals. Discs 3 and 4 are weirdly set up with the former having the first 9 songs from Champaign for a mere 40 minutes and the latter the remaining songs plus 7 from Madison Square Gardens 27 November, it would probably have made more sense dedicating each show to a disc. Anyway on Disc Three Track 2 has Street Fighting Man (unlisted) that comes and goes amid dead air seconds through the end, what an agony is listening to that, but that was Abkco uploading mistake! The mood changes rapidly when the Madison Square Garden show come due to they being in soundboard quality, albeit in mono. On Disc Six unfortunately the first Honky Tonk Women (with alternate lyrics) is cut abruptly at the end.

The last 2 Discs are devoted to Altamont which is presented in mixed formats plus 3 more outtakes, Wild Hoses from Hot Rocks(different mix) and the version with strings and glass harmonica and You Got The Silver sung by Jagger.

Packaging is really peculiar, it consists of   a large plastic box that on the outside reminds the old VHS tapes box (the artwork is in fact similar to that one) and inside has 4 plastic cd holders that house 1 disc per side (plus front and back case), there is however a small note informing customers to pay attention when trying to remove the discs since these cases are notorious for breaking discs if people try to extract them without pressing hard the button inside the disc and use all four grasp points without forcing the discs which will eventually break. An 8 pages booklet has each track source provided.

So this is most likely the only release that is presenting all of the Abkco uploads and despite some gaps, dead air and unintentional cuts, could somehow represent an historical product.


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