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DaveG
However, I have always love this album for the sheer energy, the screaming, the rawness of the songs. I think it captured the essence of a Stones performance back in the day. I have it in CD and never tire of listening to it.
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Tate
This was my first Stones record at an early age, so it has sentimental value to me. I like the performances of the songs, but I agree with mitch about the listenability. It really is hard to enjoy, with the horrible edits and primitive overdubs. I do wish we could hear those performances for what they were, minus the screams and dubs... Particularly Lady Jane, which was really sweet sounding (even with Charlie crushing the tom-toms and cymbals throughout).
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mitchflorida
I was a huge Stones fan when "Got Live If You Want It" was released in America. And what a disappointment. It was the first time I thought, wow, the Rolling Stones are really only in it for the money.
A sampling of their most recent work proves that I was right.
I bought this album as a germanreleased Decca double-album around 1970, and it probably had 24 songs on it. The album I was listened to yesterday was a CD and of course it sounded horrible, it's live-rocknroll with the 1966s technique. What other good-sounding live-albums do you have from this year. Look at Beatles Live in Italy-album, it sounds even worser...
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skipstone
Here's one thing to start with:
10th December: THE ROLLING STONES.
LP 'Got Live If You Want It' (London PS 493). Producer: Andrew Oldham.
Sound engineer: Glyn Johns.
A: - Band introduction by Long John Baldry
- Under My Thumb (MJ/KR) -Newcastle 1.10.66 (original)
- Get Off Of My Cloud (MJ/KR) -Newcastle 1.10.66 (original)
- Lady Jane (MJ/KR) -Bristol 7.10.66 (remixed)
- Not Fade Away (Petty/Hardin) -Bristol 7.10.66 (original)
- I've Been Loving You Too Long II (Otis Redding/Jerry Butler) -outtake
(see 650511B ), with live backing overdubbed
- Fortune Teller II (Allen Toussaint) -outtake (see 630818A) with live
backing overdubbed
B: - Satisfaction/The Last Time (MJ/KR) -Newcastle 1.10.66 (original)
- 19th Nervous Breakdown (MJ/KR) -Newcastle 1.10.66 (remixed)
- Time Is On My Side (Jerry Ragavoy) -Bristol 7.10.66 (original)
- I'm Alright (Ellas McDaniel) -Bristol 7.10.66 (remixed)
- Have You Seen Your Mother,... (MJ/KR) -Bristol 7.10.66 (remixed)
- Satisfaction (MJ/KR) -Bristol 7.10.66 (probably remixed)
Note: Remixed and overdubbed by MJ (voc) and KR (bvoc, gtr). Also
there’s probably a piano-overdub by STU on 'Satisfaction'. Overdubs
were done at IBC Studios, London, in mid-October.
The remastered 'Got Live If You Want It'-CD of Abkco (released 1986)
includes a different version of 'Under My Thumb' and the complete
band introduction.
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NICOS
As a whole Got LIVE if you want it!svcksis not good there are some great tunes .........i.e. I've Been Loving You Too Long
It was better if they took a complete original show from ´66 with some minor overdubbs
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mitchflorida
The album notes claim that the concert was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Was that also a lie?
The funny thing is the only good part of the original release was the way some breathless American DJ introduced the group:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, It's all about to happen! Let's hear it for the fantastic Rolling Stones!"
And now I see they removed that intro for another bogus intro where they actually go to the trouble of introducing the group by name to the fans. Yuck.
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mitchflorida
The album notes claim that the concert was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Was that also a lie?
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gmanp
Bought it when first released, loved it !!!
Still do
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WeLoveYou
I bought the Decca album Gimme Shelter on vinyl in the 1980s as a young fan and was also initially disappointed but grew to like the live B side. I also got GLIYWI on vinyl which I liked. I know it's a patchwork of edits and the sound is muddy but I like the muddiness and the general vibe.
However what I don't like is the remastered CD version of GLIYWI. This to me is unlistenable, there's a freadful digital graininess to the sound, kind of like digital clipping. There are also some weird stereo reverb effects added in places (no wonder some people prefer it in mono!)
I got rid of all my vinyl but now wish I hadn't, as I'd like to get a copy of the vinyl GLIYWI again. I realise a released Stones album can't be posted - but has anyone happened to have made MP3s of the vinyl GLIYWI? And would be willing to email them to me?