WINTERLAND 1972 DEFINITIVE EDITION

Disc One: 1. Introduction, 2. Brown Sugar, 3. Bitch, 4. Rocks Off, 5. Gimme Shelter, 6. Happy, 7. Tumbling Dice, 8. Love In Vain, 9. Sweet Virginia, 10. Loving Cup, 11. You Can’t Always Get What You Want.

Disc Two: 1. All Down The Line, 2. Midnight Rambler, 3. Bye Bye Johnny, 4. Rip This Joint, 5. Jumping Jack Flash, 6. Street Fighting Man, 7. Honky Tonk Women.

The Stones stop at San Francisco’s Winterland in 1972 produced 4 concerts and this is the last one, which was previously released as a complete audience recording in 1997 called Midnight Magic (VGP 188) and as All Juiced Up and Sloppy (Coast2Coast 04) another audience recording with sound quality very good as well. It was also released on tape as San Francisco Winterland Palace San Francisco 1972 and in 2011 on silver came out Winterland (Dasuje NJK) and in 2013 Friend Of The Devil (Tarantura TCDRS 30 1-2) that presented a recording with much less hiss and background noise. Later were released Winterland 1972 2^nd Night (no label) in 2016 and Live at Winterland 1972 (Exile EXCDR-1972FCA0608) in 2018.

This concert saw the last live performance of Loving Cup for this tour as well as the encore Honky Tonk Woman not often played during the 72 US Tour; the Stones put on a great performance with Taylor in evidence. This recording appeared first in 2016 in a low generation source, but here it has been reworked deleting the duplicate parts midway You Can’t Always Get What You Want and levelling out a much too prominent Bill Wyman; also, the distortion experienced before and during Love in Vain and Jumping Jack Flash has been taken care of, the result is a clearer sound, a great improvement over the previous releases for one of the few small venues concert of this tour. However, there are still moments of distortion especially during Midnight Rambler and this is another reason not to accept the subtitle that claims it the definitive version of this gig.