ROLLING STONES
- CD
BE SURE TO WEAR FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR
LABEL: |
Mayflower 264-5 |
SOURCE: |
Disc One and Disc Two, Tracks 1-3: Winterland Arena, San Francisco 8th June 1972 2nd show; Disc Two, Tracks 4-18: Coliseum, Charlotte 6 July 1972. |
FORMAT: |
2 picture cds |
RUNNING TIME: |
70.05/79.50 |
SOUND/SOURCE: |
Disc One: Audience mono, Disc Two: Audience stereo |
PACKAGING: |
Double Slimline Jewel case with OBI |
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SOUND 8 / PACKAGING 8
/ PERFORMANCE 10
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TRACK LIST: |
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, 12. All Down The Line, 13. Midnight
Rambler, 14. Bye Bye Johnny, 15. Rip This Joint.
Disc Two: 1.
Jumping Jack Flash, 2. Street Fighting Man, 3. Honky Tonk Women, 4. Bitch, 5.
Rocks Off, 6. Gimme Shelter, 7. Happy, 8.Tumbling Dice, 9. Love In Vain, 10.
Sweet Virginia, 11. You Can’t Always Get What You Want, 12. All Down The Line,
13. Midnight Rambler, 14. Band Introduction, 15. Bye Bye Johnny, 16. Rip This
Joint, 17. Jumping Jack Flash, 18. Street Fighting Man.
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REVIEW: |
The Stones
stop at San Francisco’s Winterland in 1972 produced 4 concerts and this is the
last one, previously released on tape as San Francisco Winterland American Tour
1972 and as cdr on Double Whammy which included the June 6th first
show. In 1997 it came out a complete audience recording called Midnight Magic (VGP
188) and then All Juiced Up And Sloppy (Coast2Coast 04) another audience
recording with sound quality very good as well. Then in 2011 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. This
concert saw the rare live performance of Loving Cup as well as the encore Honky
Tonk Woman both not often played during the 72 US Tour and the former allegedly
played live for the last time in 72; the Stones put on a great performance with
Taylor in evidence. In 2016 was released Winterland 1972 2nd Night
(no label) that had again a nice recording of the event allegedly coming from a
lower generation tape with a much clearer sound, a great improvement over the
previous releases, actually it is from Love In Vain onwards that the volume was
adjusted and the sound improves a lot; there is a tape cut at 4.53 during You
Can’t Always Get What You Want. In 2018 was released Live at Winterland 1972
(Exile Rec. 1972 SFCA0608) that offered the whole show in excellent mono on a
2cdr set. This recording is a good one, with no hiss and some bass frequencies
that were lacking in the first versions, but, in my opinion, there is nothing
that can justify it being called a major upgrade of the existing ones.
As for
Charlotte it was rumoured that after that excellent performance the band
decided to tape each and every one of their future gigs. It was previously
released on tape as Charlotte 72 and as Bring It Back Alive that was used by
VGP for its release, them on vinyl as Bring It Back Alive (K&S 003) then
with the same title from IMP (1112), as Drippin’ Honey (Concert Series 7672). 4
tracks appear on Rehearsal Sessions 72 Tour (WCR 3690A/B) and on a couple of
strangely titled vinyl albums (American Tour in L.A.1972 and Live in Detroit).
On cd it came out on Bring It Back Alive (VGP 054), Back To 1972 (Power Stick
Prod.901502,) re-released as Going Back To The Roots (DAC 102), Drippin’ Honey
(VGP 294), Going Back To 1972 (SODD 054), Going Back To The Roots (Scorpio POW
901502), while Rocks Off is on Very Ancient, Thank You
Kindly (Scorpio 30), Bye Bye Johnny and Rip This Joint can be found on Time
Trip Vol.3 (Scorpio 15/172/01). Then was released Sweet Charlotte (Exile
2008EXA001) which had a well-known source that came out some years before in
the collectors’ market, it seemed the generation was a lower one like the one
that has been reworked by SODD (Going Back to 1972) trying to boost up bass
frequencies that were a bit lacking on the original tape. This recording from
Mayflower presents the well-known recording and personally I didn’t hear any
improvement and so, coupled with the title which reminds
the 60s anthem by Scott McKenzie this release
is quite redundant.
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