1. Introduction, 2. Brown Sugar, 3. Gimme Shelter, 4. Happy, 5. Tumbling Dice, 6. Star Star, 7. Dancing With Mr.D, 8. Angie, 9. You Can’t Always Get What You Want, 10. Midnight Rambler, 11. Honky Tonk Women, 12. All Down The Line, 13. Rip This Joint, 14. Jumping Jack Flash, 15. Street Fighting Man.

This is a re-release of a 1973 concert that appeared lately in 2023, but according to the label ‘everything except the front cover has been re-designed’; the sonic output still shows a distant recording, however all instruments are equally upfront. Almost all of this concert releases had pitch issues, but Birmingham Odeon (DAC 067) was considered the definitive version, however the 2023 remaster by Graf Zeppelin provided a significant improvement, mostly due to the fact that it used a very low generation source that offered a refreshed and full bodied sound with well-balanced output that did not favour mid-range frequencies like DAC version; moreover, the left channel wobble from Gimme Shelter through Star Star has been eliminated. Besides that, the stereo separation is wider than on the DAC version which also was running a bit too fast and phase has been corrected too. Performance wise this was certainly one of the highlights of the 1973 tour, with an excellent dramatic version of Midnight Rambler and Angie sung like the album version. The 2023 release was soon sold out, hence the reason for this re-pressing which uses the artwork from the first release from the Oh Boy label, but this time the back photo is really from 1973.

The Birmingham 73 first show came out on a tape called Birmingham Odeon Revisited that featured a remaster of the Oh Boy release that had already been released in 1994 as Birmingham Odeon (Oh Boy 1-9168) on compact disc and as Picture Disc (Oh Boy PD 012) both marred by wrong pitch and as British Tour 1973 (Stone Crazy 004) with a mini poster; in the same year Rainy Days in Birmingham (Stonehenge 002) was released, both good recordings but not coming from 1^st generation tapes or master recordings. In 2006 came out Birmingham Remastered 1973 (IMP-N-016) that was a great improvement both for speed and sound quality; in 2007 came out An Afternoon in Munich (SODD 028) a stereo recording, then came Birmingham 1973 (SOS 730919) and Birmingham Odeon (DAC 067) which unfortunately was just a copy of that release, a good recording but hardly noticeable as stereo with a thin sound and a low left channel from Happy to Star Star, while from Dancing With Mr D onwards the situation changed and we got more depth. In 2010 we find this recording on the 13 cds box called Tour 1973 (WLR 2135) and in 2011 we got A Destructive Element (GFR 661). In 2023 came out a no label release with the same front cover as this, but with a 1972 photo on the back. It is also easy to identify this 2^nd press because here the Introduction has been given Track number 1. Packaging has been improved, but I would have also retouched the front cover, just to differentiate it more from the previous pressing.