ROLLING STONES
- CD
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NEW YORK 1975 1ST NIGHT
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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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Dec 30, 2025 - 10:00:58 AM |