ROLLING STONES - CD
BLESSED POISON SESSIONS

LABEL:
EVSD 2354
SOURCE:
Ocean Way Rec. Studios, Los Angeles 13 March-July 1997.
FORMAT:
1 picture cd
RUNNING TIME:
70.58
SOUND/SOURCE:
Soundboard stereo
PACKAGING:
Foldout cardboard sleeve
 


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SOUND 9 / PACKAGING 9 / PERFORMANCE 10

 
TRACK LIST:

1. Out Of Control #1, 2. Dream About, 3. Prairie Love, 4. Desperate Man, 5. Sanctuary, 6. 20 Nil, 7. Too Tight #1, 8. Low Down #1, 9. Might As Well Get Juiced #1, 10. Flip The Switch #1, 11.   Saint Of Me #1, 12. Lowdown #2, 13. Might As Well Get Juiced #2.


REVIEW:

This compilation of Bridges to Babylon outtakes was worked by Cpt. Acid some time ago (APCD 082) and Empress Valley just decided to put it out. Blessed Poison was in fact the working title for the Bridges to Babylon album. Some files were used before when remastering Chronological Fully Finished Studio Outtakes, but more work was done on those files, mostly with iZotope RX 10 Spectral Repair and also applying new equalization presenting now the Bridges to Babylon tracks that surfaced on Fully Finished Outtakes all together with some previously liberated ones from the same sessions. In detail, Out Of Control is the basic take early mix with early vocals and instrumental overdubs, while Too Tight first take has an additional fiddle and Keith Richards on vocals, just like the 2 versions of Lowdown (the second featuring an overdubbed mandolin) and the first take of Flip The Switch. The first take of Might As Well Get Juiced has an harmonica coming in at the end and is called ‘clean version’, while the second take is shorter and doesn’t have it, named ‘produced’ version. Saint Of Me first take is an early version with programmed drums. From a creative point of view it is hard to understand why these takes were not considered worthy of being released, especially since the band had fans wait for 8 years for the studio follow up, A Bigger Bang, maybe there has been one of the famous disagreements between the Glimmer Twins. The sound here is a bit richer than before, but that just prompts the desire to listen to these tracks in a fully lossless format, which is not the case here; however, this remains the best sounding version for these outtakes.

 

 

 

 

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