1. Brown Sugar, 2. Bitch, 3. Rocks Off, 4. Gimme Shelter, 5. Happy, 6. Tumbling Dice, 7. Love In Vain, 8. Sweet Virginia, 9. You Can’t Always Get What You Want, 10. All Down The Line, 11. Midnight Rambler, 12. Introductions, 13. Bye Bye Johnny,14. Rip This Joint, 15. Jumping Jack Flash.

This release presents TMOQ's Welcome to New York, originally released in 1973 on LP, had great stereo soundboard sound quality of the last show of the Stones' '72 US tour on Mick Jagger's 29th birthday, and a great cover drawn by William Stout. Since then, it has been re-released many times on LP and CD, in varying quality. The attempt here was to try to use the best available sources for this version. For further info, see http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/Welcome_To_NY.htm and http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/VGP_Archive.html (scroll way down to VGP-312).

This is a revised (pitch corrected) reseed for the 40th anniversary of the show.

Tracks 1-6 are from a 2nd generation audience recording. Quality is decent for '72; this tape was discovered in 1992, on a Rolling Stones mailing list. The person that owned it got it from the taper itself. It seems this friend called Madison Square Garden before the show and asked if it was ok to bring a tape recorder, and they said it was. Of course, during the show someone noticed him taping and he had to stop, but somehow he managed to keep what he had recorded to that point. This is all there is. These tracks were transferred to PC in 2001 using a Nakamichi BX-300 tape deck with pitch control and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card. They have since been transferred back and forth between PC and CDR several times, always using EAC. For 2010, I have slowed the pitch 2% compared to the 2007 edition. This sounds more correct and matches Nasty Songs, (DAC 065) which is a commercial bootleg of the 2007 torrent.

Tracks 7-15 are from LP. Legend has it that the soundboard tape was stolen from the person recording the show for the Stones. TMOQ's Stones tapes don't circulate, so the original vinyl is the best source. Wgat was used here was a red vinyl original with RS-546 REI matrix, played on a Music Hall MMF-7 turntable with an Ortofon OM-20 cartridge, through an Adcom GFP-565 preamp, then into an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card. The transfer was originally done in 2006 and LP surface noise was reduced using Cool Edit Pro 2.1. The volume drop at the end of Midnight Rambler was fixed as much as possible, and tracks rearranged back to their original running order; TMOQ took it upon themselves to re-sequence them. For 2007 the editing has been slightly improved as well as the indexing. For 2010, the pitch was slowed 3% compared to the 2007 edition. This sounds more correct matching Nasty Songs (DAC-0659 again.

Artwork is based on Vinyl Gang's Welcome to New York CD, which lifted its artwork from the original TMOQ LP. Cue sheet is included for playing or burning with CD text.

Please note that the sound on tracks 7-15 is far superior to the best known (as of 2007) CD release which are TSP's CD (and LP) from 1989. Those releases, also made from an original TMOQ LP, suffer from excessive NoNoise; it does reduce the hiss, but it also sucks all the life out of the music. The last few songs from the show (Street Fighting Man, Happy Birthday Mick and Uptight/Satisfaction) have not been added as they are only of a poor quality source.

The classic Stones live bootleg album from 1972, was the final show at the Madison Square Garden in New York where not only the end of the 72 US Tour was celebrated but also Jagger s 29^th birthday; this concert was released in part as a vinyl album that came out first in special Soundboard quality from TMOQ in red vinyl though with tracks in wrong order and that was also released as Happy Bithday Mick! (Wizardo RS 546), Jean Clarke Memorial Sonic Barbecue (TAKRL 1919), Cocksucker Blues (TKRWM 1822), Madison 72 (Contraband HS MSG), Mick s Birthday Party (TMOQ 72017), Tour 1972 (Berkley 2004), Stoned Stones (Apollo 786), Welcome to New York (Box Top Rec.), The Live Album (Fanatic 5228), Nasty Songs (Takrl 25909), An American Affair (Toasted 7046), The Best of the RS Live in Concert (BRS 775), Taxile on Main Street (Town 42HS), Sonic Barbecue (Beacon 25717), Cherry Oh Baby (01-105), Jump (Flashback   (World Production 04900118-33), Stray Cat Blues (Toasted 26914),  Midnight Ramblers (Phoenix 44785), on ep as Five by Five Alive (Decda 50096) and on many cds including Nasty Music The Original (VGP 002), Touring Party 1972 (Rattlesnake 048-54) that had an almost complete soundboard (missing only Street Fighting Man and Uptight-Satisfaction), Welcome to New York (TSP 038), Ladies and Gentlemen (M.Diamonds 2002), Welcome to New York (SODD 022), Jumping Jack Flash (Oil Well 012) Midnight Ramblers (WPOCM 1090), Jump (Flashback 04900113), Hot Stuff Vol.One (Great Dane 9416), Happy Birthday Mick! (Montserrat 1918), A Slice of Rock n Roll (VGP 244), The Sweetest Night of Seattle 72 (IMP 034-5), Welcome to New York (TSP 038), Greatest Rarities Vol.1 and 1 (Adam 49029 and 49030), Nasty Songs (DAC 065), Welcome to New York (VGP 312), Nasty Music (Nanker 001-2),   Nasty Music (SODD 001-2), Nasty Music Remastered Version (SODD 112-13), The Missing Years (Great Dane SAT 3), Renny’s Blues (ZAP 7886) and Madison (PGN 124) a 3 cdr set that had the July 25^th and 26^th shows; Nasty Music The Best Ever (SODD 052-3), lately Live at MSG (Acid Project APCD 015), American Exile (Scorpio 1972 1/3), Welcome to New York on Mick s Birthday Party (Tarantura 31), Here Come the Rolling Stones American Tour 1972 (EAP) and Welcome to New York (Archive Master Series). In this concert there is also an accompanying percussion player that is evident even in melodic songs like You Can t Always Get What You Want, but of course on the more rhythmic performances like a fast and furious All Down The Line and the long and marauding Midnight Rambler are the highlights of this show with a hoarse Jagger at the centre stage. This is a nice release that however does not add anything to what we already had, may we hope for a 2022 50^th anniversary official release?