IT'S ONLY GOAT'S HEAD SOUP EVSD

Sound 10 Packaging 10 Performance 10 Video

Label: EVSD 2370
Source: Tracks 1,2: Stargroves (MJ’s house), Newbury Rolling Stones Mobile Studio 10-15 April 74 and Island Recording Studios, London 20-25 May 74 Tracks 3,7,8,11: Dynamic Sound Studios, Kingston 25 - 30 November & 6 - 21 December 72, Track 4: Island Recording Studios, London 28 May 73 onwards, Tracks 5,6,12-15: Stargroves, (MJ’s house), Newbury Rolling Stones Mobile Studio and Island Recording Studios, London 10 April-25 May 74, Track 9: Musicland St. Munich 8 February-3 March 74, Track 10: The Record Plant, Los Angeles late December 73.
Format: 1 picture cd
Running time: 71.44
Sound / source: Soundboard stereo
Packaging: Foldout Paper Sleeve
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Video / source

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Review by RICCAR99 More articles by RICCAR99

Track list

1. It’s Only Rock’n’ Roll, 2. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, 3. Winter, 4. Silver Train, 5. Drift Away, 6. Time Waits For No One, 7. Criss Cross Man, 8. Through The Lonely Nights, 9. Living In The Heart Of Love, 10. Too Many Cooks, 11. Angie, 12. Dance Little Sister, 13. Till The Next Goodbye, 14. If You Can’t Rock Me, 15. Fingerprint File.

The review

The predilection EVSD has for Cpt. Acid’s work prompted the label to release this too: an upgrade that came out in May 2025 of the 2022 remaster of the original digipack bootleg (Mighty Diamonds 2006) which was already reviewed here, so: The job was made using Azimuth correction and level correction a bit more; previously were done phase correction and some very gentle equalization.

The disc features outtakes & alternates from It's Only Rock'n'Roll and Goat's Head Soup albums, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll is a rough mix, Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Winter and Silver Train are alternate mixes. Drift Away, Living In The Heart Of Love and Too Many Cooks were unreleased songs, but were then released officially. Time Waits For No One here is the long version. Criss Cross Man is an unreleased song. The line-up for Too Many Cooks was: John Lennon (guitar)/Jesse Ed Davis (guitar)/Danny Kortchmar (guitar)/Al Kooper (keyboards)/Jim Keltner (drums)/Bobby Keys (sax)/Trevor Lawrence (sax)/Jack Bruce (bass)/Bruce Gary (drums)/Mike Finnegan (keyboards)/Wolfgang Metz (bass)/Rocky Djubano (percussions)/Harry Nilsson & some unidentified girls (backing vocals). Angie is a rough mix without reverb & 2nd keyboard overdub. Dance Little Sister, Till The Next Goodbye, If You Can't Rock Me and Fingerprint File are alternate mixes, the latter an alternate longer mix. Artwork is superb, must be said.