Re: Gimme Shelter the soundtrack
Posted by:
retired_dog
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Date: May 18, 2007 16:28
rooster Wrote:
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> Well on this album you got the three climax songs
> ...SFTD..UMT.GS.LQ is from NY is perfect...a real
> satisfaction...should be on YA Ya s!! Prodigal
> son Should be included to..try to get it
Unfortunately, Prodigal Son is marred by fact that Keith's Dobro guitar goes badly out of tune, and Keith's attempts to tune it while playing the song are not really sucessful... So it is easy to see why this song was not included on Ya Ya's. I was always keen on getting a great soundboard recoding of Prodigal Son from 1969 and became quite enthusiastic when the Criterion announced that their expanded Gimme Shelter version would indeed include a complete version of this song (one of my favourite Stones blues numbers, by the way). However, my disappointment was quite big when I noticed that Keith's out of tune guitar renders this version nearly unlistenable...