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Vinyl · HotWacks archive review

A BIGGER BANG LONGER VERSIONS

Sound 10 Packaging 8 Performance 8.5 Video
Label
WLR The Rock Of Ages Records
Source
Ocean Way Recording St. 6-28 June 2005 except for LP 3 Side F, Track 5: Studio Guillaume Tell, Suresnes-Paris 13 May-7 June 2002 & Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto 10 Aug. 2005 (LP 2 Side D. Track 5).
Format
3 LPs (beige, red and green vinyl)
Running time
22.44/23.23/20.55/22.05/24.11/23.41
Sound / source
Soundboard stereo
Packaging
12” Cardboard box holding a 4 pages photos booklet and 3 coloured vinyl LP, Lim. Ed. 300 numbered copies
Features
Video / source
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Track list

LP 1 Side A: 1. Let Me Down Slow #1 (Let Me Down Slow #3 on cover), 2. It Won’t Take Long #2, 3. Streets Of Love #2, 4. Dangerous Beauty #1, 5. Don’t Wanna Go Home #2, 6. Let Me Down Slow #2 (not on cover).

LP 1 Side B: 1. Let Me Down Slow #2, 2. It Won’t Take Long, 3. Streets Of Love #1, 4. She Saw Me Coming, 5. Rain Fall Down #5.

LP 2 Side C: 1. Don’t Wanna Go Home #3, 2. Biggest Mistake, 3. This Place Is Empty, 4. Oh No, Not You Again , 5. Dangerous Beauty.

LP 2 Side D: 1. Driving Too Fast, 2. Don’t Wanna Go Home #1, 3. Under The Radar, 4. Let Me Down Slow #2, 5. Rough Justice.

LP 3 Side E: 1. Buggest Mistake, 2. Rain Fall Down, 3. Rain Fall Down,4. Rain Fall Down, 5. Under The Radar, 6. Don’t Wanna Go Home.

LP 3 Side F: 1. Streets Of Love, 2. Biggest Mistake (Instr.), 3. Rain Fall Down (Instr.), 4. Oh No, Not You Again, 5. Hurricane, 6. Rain Fall Down.

The review

This vinyl releases of the Bigger Bang early mixes presents materials that came out on the bootleg scene many years ago. This time around the usual setlist is beefed up by adding some official tracks, tracks that were available only on officially released DVDs like The Bigger Bang one (Don’t Wanna Go Home and Under The Radar) and some other promos, also included is Hurricane, the cd single given away at Red Cross stands in 2005 as help for the Katrina victims, a song penned by Richards himself during the Forty Licks sessions in May 2002 and played acoustically here with the help of Ron Wood on slide guitar. On my copy there is a problem on Track 5, LP 1 Side A at the end where the needle keeps on getting stuck. Packaging has the usual mistakes on back cover where 1 song at the end of Side A is repeated at the beginning of Side B, while the accompanying 4 pages booklet is just good for showing some b&w photos.

 

 

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