...can someone tell me more about this ?
thanks

Same as Philaldelphia Special. I think the sound is better on the PS-boot as well.

Best sound still is the Stones Touring Party 7CD box set.

Mathijs

Agree. The STP 7CD box set is the dearest thing I've got!

Definitive. A must have!

Time for a refresher course-
What was the story on this supposed
unreleased Decca album anyway?

Marketing-stunt by bootleggers

davido Wrote:
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> Time for a refresher course-
> What was the story on this supposed
> unreleased Decca album anyway?

Some shows of the 1972 tour were recorded for a double live album, which also was to feature Stevie Wonder. Jagger and Richards did overdubs on about 7 songs (quite terrible overdubs actually) and artwork was made, but then Allen Klein refused to let the Stones release songs that are under his copyright. Jagger the lost interest quickly. The "unreleased "Decca" is a bootleggers mistake, as the Stones finished their contract with Decca two years earlier.

Mathijs

On wich songs did they do overdubs and are they on the bootleg?

Cheers,
Wuudy

Thanks Mathijs! Etc. Some of the 72 tour seems to have
also been recorded for the Ladies and Gentlemen/
@#$%& Blues films, but as the bootlegs
suggest, perhaps most nootably the 72
Touring Party set, much of the
tour was recorded. Was all of
this done with a possible
live album in mind? As a
matter of course? Or like
the Euro 73 shows for
possible King Biscuit
Flower Hour broadcast?

I have the 'Decca' album. And I have a cassette purported to be the unreleased album. It's BS, Bitch, Gimme Shelter, Happy, TD, SV, ADTL, RTJ and Uptight/Satisfaction. Maybe some more tracks but I ain't digging it out.

Anyway, version has overdubs all over the place. TD's overdubs are criminal. SV sounds great, though. And the encore kicks major ass! I'd like see if I can have it xferred from cassette to CDR because it really is very good.

"The wonder of Jimi Hendrix was that he could stand up at all he was so pumped full of drugs." Patsy, Patsy Stone

The Menace of Mayfair Wrote:
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> And I have a cassette
> purported to be the unreleased album. It's BS,
> Bitch, Gimme Shelter, Happy, TD, SV, ADTL, RTJ and
> Uptight/Satisfaction.

Most of this is from Philly 07-20-72. Besides the Rattlesnake box, there´s also a VGP disc out there ("Keep Your Motor Running" - I think this was also supposed to be the name of the official live album) which has all of this material in excellent quality.

The Ft. Worth 06-24-72 (2 shows), Houston 06-25-72 (2 shows), Philly 07-20-72 and Philly 07-21-72 (2 shows) concerts were all multitracked for official release. The Texas gigs were also professionally filmed (as seen in L&G and CS Blues).

I have never understood why they did these overdubs. Totally unnecessary.

After hearing of the overdubs for the tentative 72 live album, I've come to the conclusion that neither Mick nor Keith should have anything to do with post-production of "official" live releases. An outside producer should mix the existing raw tapes, present them to the band for final approval, and then put the sucker on the store shelves, warts and all.

Of course, this will never happen, and oddly enough, I don't see the sin in correcting the odd bum note here & there. Jimmy Page did it with both the Led Zeppelin DVD and "How the West Was Won", and did a masterful job of it. Sh it, maybe the Stones should ask Jimmy to go through their live archives and work his magic on them. Wouldn't that be a gas? If this man were able to work on the '72-'73 recordings, the Taylor fans would have repeated eargasms from the results.