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

 
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.


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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