ATLANTA 1981 SOUNDBOARD

Disc One: 1. Take The A Train, 2. Under My Thumb, 3. When The Whip Comes Down, 4. Let’s Spend The Night Together, 5. Shattered, 6. Neighbours, 7. Black Limousine, 8. Just My Imagination, 9. Twenty Flight Rock, 10. Let Me Go, 11. Time Is On My Side, 12. Beast Of  Burden, 13. Waiting On A Friend, 14. Let It Bleed.

Disc Two: 1. You Can’t Always Get What You Want, 2. Band Introduction, 3. Little T&A, 4. Tumbling Dice, 5. She’s So Cold, 6. All Down the Line, 7. Hang Fire, 8. Miss You, 9. Start Me Up, 10. Honky Tonk Women, 11. Brown Sugar, 12. Street Fighting Man, 13. Jumping Jack Flash.

The Stones stop in Atlanta on the 1981 US Tour came out on tape on Atlanta, Oct.26, 1981 in audience quality and on an untitled raw soundboard; on silver came out at first In The Windy City (VGP 371) that offered the concert in audience quality coupled with Des Plaines, then in 2005 was released Atlanta, Georgia Fox Theater (Crossfire Hurricane) followed by Atlanta Fox Theater 1981 (DAC 029) and in 2006 by Street Fighters 1981 (Pignose 106) all in mono soundboard.

This recording was remastered already in 2022 when on most 1981 soundboards were used multitrack recordings intended for radio broadcasts, but this was different because it has been used a soundboard taken from the PA, part of a massive wave of 1981 soundboard recordings that surfaced in 2005; however, especially for the October concerts the effects of tape deterioration were apparent though. All the releases sported such deterioration at the end of the show. In 2022 the recording had been upgraded, from after the All Down The Line cut onwards when the sound started to wave a lot. So, all speed fluctuations have been corrected as far as possible and both discs are longer than the DAC version which was also marred by a tape cut after the start of Neighbours where a splice in the recording was conspicuous, but not here. In fact on Atlanta Fox Thater 1981 (DAC 029) the label tried to attempt a remedy by increasing the high frequencies, but that increased the hiss too. This is a reissue of that remaster which instead corrected the pitch carefully patching gaps with an audience recording, adjusted the frequency range and volume reducing a lot the tape warble thus creating the definitive edition of this concert, which was special because played inside in a small theatre and also because it had the first appearance of Chuck Leavell on stage with the Stones for the whole concert. Note that on Disc One on Let Me Go from 2.28 through 2.51 an audience recording is used to supplement missing part, as well as on Disc Two on All Down The Line there is an audience patch from 2.49 onwards and on Hang Fire from the start through 0.22.