ROLLING STONES - CD
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NEW YORK 1975 1ST NIGHT

LABEL:
No Label
SOURCE:
Madison Square Garden, New York 22 June 1975
FORMAT:
2 picture cds
RUNNING TIME:
71.17/73.12
SOUND/SOURCE:
Audience stereo
PACKAGING:
Double Slimline Jewel case
 


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SOUND 9.5 / PACKAGING 9 / PERFORMANCE 9

 
TRACK LIST:

Disc One: 1. Fanfare For The Common Man, 2. Honky Tonk Women, 3. All Down The Line, 4. If You Can’t Rock Me, 5. Get Off Of My Cloud, 6. Star Star, 7. Gimme Shelter, 8. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, 9. You Gotta Move, 10. You Can’t Always Get What You Want, 11. Band Introductions, 12. Happy, 13. Tumbling Dice, 14. It’s Only Rock n Roll, 15. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker).

Disc Two: 1. Fingerprint File, 2. Angie, 3. Wild Horses, 4. That’s Life, 5. Outta Space, 6. Brown Sugar, 7. Midnight Rambler, 8. Rip This Joint, 9. Street Fighting Man, 10. Jumping Jack Flash, 1. Sympathy For The Devil, 12. Closing.


REVIEW:

This release features the Stones at Madison Square Garden in New York on the first of their 6 nights stand; this recording is the best possible version of the one coming from the Joe Maloney collection.

The concert at first came out on tape as Six Nights at the Garden Pt.1, then on silver in 1994 came out a single disc called MSG 75 With Eric Clapton (VGP 029) that had only 11 songs, but stereo from 2 sources; in 1996 was released an 8 discs box set called Tour Of the Americas (Phonocomp. RS 01-08), followed in 2000 by Devil (Mid Valley 057-8) in mono and in 2002 by Eric Clapton and His R.Stones (VGP 315) featuring all songs, but in mono, this was also remastered with the same title by Cpt.Acid; the concert also came out as New York MSG 22-6-1975 (Joe Maloney Master),  New York Madison Square Garden 22-6-75 (RLR), in 2007 by Sympathy For The God (Tarantura TCDRS-5 1,2) with a new version of Joe Maloney source, the first disc in mono, the second in stereo and in 2008 by Sympathy For Slowhand (DAC 075) which presented the Joe Maloney source also used in the same year for EC Was Here (TAKRL 002) in mono. Ten years after, in 2018, came out First Garden (APCD 033) that worked on VGP 315, the following year a very good stereo version appeared on Dancing With Mr. E.C. (Mayflower 113-4).

Here on Disc One there is a strange version of It’s Only Rock n Roll with jamming bass lines from Wyman and some strange mistakes by Jagger that sings wrong verses, with the song developing close to 6 minutes long; Disc Two starts with Heartbreaker, this time around the sound is more brilliant with highlights on Ollie Brown percussions that do complement Charlie Watts drums (listen to Angie for example). This is only the beginning of the fourth week of the 1975 US Tour but Ron Wood plays solos with confidence as in You Can’t Always Get What You Want or Wild Horses that feature open interactive bass figures by Bill Wyman. The beginning of Brown Sugar is again mono for 3 seconds before the stereo sound comes in with Jagger entering late on the song, while, despite an unbalanced beginning with one channel lower than the other, a spectacular version of Midnight Rambler shows the Stones at their best later in the set.

The 13.36 minutes encore Sympathy For The Devil starts with just Wyman on bass joined by the Steel Association on steel drums, Jagger fights to be heard on this song, almost overwhelmed by the many musicians on stage. The presence of a bearded Eric Clapton steals the audience attention. It is during the 6 nights at MSG that the Richards and Wood attempted to stay awake for a good 4 days and nights before collapsing. (on the night of the 25th of June all of the Stones and Clapton with his band recorded 7 takes of Carnival To Rio at the Electric Ladyland Studios).

The Joe Maloney master was remastered on a No Label release in 2019 and 2022, but this time this is a completely new master, with the filler material being re-filled and the main source slightly equalized and corrected to reduce hardness, pitch and phase corrected, left and right bandwidth adjusted, sound dropouts corrected on one channel and missing sections filled in with some crossfading supported. This release presents an excellent recording, again not that broad as far as stereo separation is concerned, however the Outro, here called Closing is the longest one ever heard and that proves this is a copy of the real master recording.

 

 

 

 

 

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