ROLLING STONES
- CD
THE COMPLETE KNEBWORTH 1976
LABEL: |
No Label |
SOURCE: |
Knebworth, Hertfordshire 21st August 1976. |
FORMAT: |
2 picture cds |
RUNNING TIME: |
77.24/71.15 |
SOUND/SOURCE: |
Matrix of Soundboard stereo with patches sourced from various video and audience recordings. |
PACKAGING: |
Double Slimline Jewel case |
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SOUND 9 / PACKAGING 10
/ PERFORMANCE 8.5
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TRACK LIST: |
Disc One: 1.
Introduction, 2. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, 3. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, 4.
If
You Can’t Rock Me/ Get Off Of My
Cloud, 5. Hand Of Fate, 6. Around And Around, 7. Little Red Rooster, 8. Stray
Cat Blues, 9. Hey Negrita, 10. Hot Stuff, 11. Fool To Cry, 12. Starfucker, 13. Let’s
Spend The Night Together, 14. You Gotta Move, 15. You Can’t Always Get What You
Want.
Disc Two: 1.
MC, 2. Dead Flowers, 3. Route 66, 4. Wild Horses, 5. Honky Tonk Women, 6.
Country Honk, 7. Tumbling Dice, 8. Happy, 9. Nothing From Nothing, 10. Outta
Space, 11. Midnight Rambler, 12. It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll, 13. Brown Sugar, 14.
Rip This Joint, 15. Jumping Jack Flash, 16. Street Fighting Man.
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REVIEW: |
Many
releases have been called the definitive Stones Knebworth 76 edition, the last
one before this was Midnight Ramblers in the Midnight Hour (Tarantura TCDRS
50-1,2) which had a new audience source presenting an almost complete show,
reconstructed with some help from various other audience sources and a short
soundboard, using a master tape of a previously uncirculated audience source
for most of the concert. There were two very brief sections missing from that
compilation: a few seconds between Honky Tonk Women and Country Honk that were not
on any audience source as well as the first few seconds of Nothing From Nothing
which were also missing from the audience tapes. This release, however claims
to be the complete version. Here the LP version has been used as the main
source, gaps filled using the video and multiple audience sequences. Hot August
Night has recently come out twice, showing a reproduction of the original LP
converting the vinyl onto cd, cutting off the pitch instability that was the
biggest drawback of the stereo soundboard. The next thing to do then was to
look for the most complete version of this show. The longest soundboard version
came out on Hot August Night (VGP 146) using the mono video, while the first
audience came out on the Shaved Disc version; for tracks like Stray Cat Blues
and Brown Sugar was used the Stones Tour Mop Up LP. Later SODD edited the gaps
between tracks using the video for the MC before Stray Cat Blues, but the sound
quality of the soundboard part clashed with the rough audience parts, let alone
that hiss was present on the soundboard. This version however has completely
reworked the audience parts used to complement the soundboard used that comes
from vinyl using Stones Tour Mop Up but also Stoned Stones and Look At Me Face LPs.
A good thing here is that the usual beeps in You Gotta Move are much less
prominent, as well as the issue in Hey Negrita at about 3 minutes into the
song.
In few
words in order to have a complete version the soundboard LP sourced has been
supplemented using videos and audience recordings. The end result is a non-stop
recording which is the next best thing to a full release which has been
recently proven won’t happen officially on the new Black & Blue remastered
Deluxe version. The only draw back is that at times Jagger vocals in between
songs have an unrequired echo, when sourced from audience recordings.
Knebworth
76
has come out at first on vinyl album
as Knebworth Fair later renamed Route 76 Low Tide & Fair Hits (RSVP 005) on
coloured wax, then as Hot August Night 2lp (DDR Prod. Kneb 876) running too
fast and with the same unimaginative title from Kneb 1976:it wasn’t a hot night
at all (I can tell it because I was there) as Jagger says: “It’s getting cold
right after Ain t Too Proud To Beg” or “Cold weather” before Hand Of Fate.
Other vinyl albums that portray songs from Knebworth 76 are Look at My Face (No
Label), Stoned Stones Tour Mop Up (Allied Prod. 082), Stoned Stones (Apollo
786) and Everybody s Got To Go (Great Live Concerts RR 786), later released on
compact as well. Talking about silver discs the best is undoubtedly Best of the
Knebworth Fair (Midnight Beat 088) that has a very clear but incomplete soundboard,
then from Japan came out Hot August Night (Hot Lips 004-5) that missed only
Stray Cat Blues taken from the video that surfaced in the 90s, to be found
complete on Hot August Night at Knebworth Fair (Stone Crazy 001-2) that was released
as 3 cd in a large box with an extra disc featuring El
Mocambo 77 tracks. Then later a long digipack
was released, called Live Dead Flowers (Black Cat Rec. 30) offering an incomplete
performance and Knebworth Fair Complete Recording 1976 Final!!!(Shaved Di
020-1), the worst of the lot with a high generation tape coming from a video
source, again Hot August Night (TAKRL 876) 2 LP with an incomplete soundboard
but with one of the crispest releases before it came out again as Save Me (RSP),
Knebworth 2 cd
(Red Devil 004 1-2-) and then
Hot August Night (VGP 146) with a stereo line recording, thanking Bill Graham
for lending the tape (something hard to believe). Then we got Hot August Night (SODD
062-63) which mixed audience and soundboard sources in order to get the most
complete version of the concert and bypass the dullness of some soundboard
songs that have always been of a higher generation, not comparable to the best
one circulating; in 2012 came out a new audience source on a cdr called
Knebworth 21-08-76 (TRS). On Tour Of Europe 76 Revisited (GFR 227-28) are
featured 10 songs as bonus, 3 songs are on Unreleased Live Stones 68-79 (Golden
Stars LACS 1034). Latest releases have been Hot Stuff (No Label) and Midnight
Ramblers in the Midnight Hour (Tarantura TCDRS 50-1,2).
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