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Dancing In The Light
(Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)

Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Unit, Stargroves, Newbury, Berkshire, UK & Olympic Sound Studios, London, UK, March - May 1970 and
One East Studio, New York City, New York, US,
Henson Recording Studios & The Village, Los Angeles, California, US, Fall 2009

Mick Jagger - vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
Keith Richards - electric guitar
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass
Ian Stewart - piano
Jimmy Miller - percussion

I'm sitting in the darkness, you're dancing in the light
You really hit the big time, I really took a dive
I'm running in the rain, you're dancing in the light
I'm waiting for the train that never will arrive
You left me twisting in the wind, dangling in the night
You'll be Mr. Christian and I'll be Captain Bligh
Look at you with your face all shining, got some new work and some realigning
Now that your nose got some redefining, you look like a million bucks
I got a sinking feeling, you and your wheeling dealing
I'm gonna hit the ceiling, bang the ground with a bump
My whole world is crashing, I took a violent bashing
Something to thrown the trash in, I'm in the garbage dump
What'd I ever do, you treat me so bad
You're living in a penthouse, my flat is dark and damp
Yeah, what's the matter, baby, we used to be so tight
I'm living in the gloom while you're dancing in the light, yeah
I got that sinking feeling, whose potatoes are you peeling
Can't you hear my poor heart squealing, I'm in the garbage dump
Ah, what' s happening, yeah
You're lying in the sunshine, I'm hanging in the cloud
You're basking in the spotlight, I'm lost there in the crowds, yeah
What am I gonna do about ya, what am I gonna do
What am I gonna do about ya, what am I gonna do
I don't have a clue without ya, what am I gonna do
I'm in a dark place, baby, I gotta, I gotta wear a grim face, baby
You got me with the heartaches, yeah, get me out of the darkness
What am I gonna do without ya, what am I gonna do
If I was your new boyfriend, I would have stage fright
While you're riding in a limo, I'm wheeling my bike, yeah
What am I gonna do without ya, what am I gonna do
What am I gonna do without ya, what am I gonna do
Oh yeah, oh yeah, dancing in the light, dancing in the light, come on, yeah, gonna do

Produced by Jimmy Miller, Don Was & The Glimmer Twins

First released on:
The Rolling Stones - “Exile On Main Street” 2CD
(Universal 273 429-5) UK, May 14, 2010

"whose potatoes are you peeling" is a beautiful line :E

A happy song............... is KR's guitar new overdub? I think so; happy guitar, not too brilliant.
I like it

pure joy
my foot cant keep tapping
i think keith's guitar is new and pretty good

I love it to the maximum-
though I must say, I have serious doubts about the previous 'whereabouts' of this track... I mean, does this really sound like early 70's Rolling Stones, Nellcote basement style?! Same goes for "Pass the Wine", imho- cheeky Jagger!
But hey, I think "Dancing in the Light" is a true gem; and it should be released as a single worldwide... to get some airplay, at least!

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I love it to the maximum-
though I must say, I have serious doubts about the previous 'whereabouts' of this track... I mean, does this really sound like early 70's Rolling Stones, Nellcote basement style?! Same goes for "Pass the Wine", imho- cheeky Jagger!
But hey, I think "Dancing in the Light" is a true gem; and it should be released as a single worldwide... to get some airplay, at least!

No, I'm pretty sure the music is from then, I have a pretty old boot with the inst. version and it's pretty close. I think this song is fun. Jagger makes me laugh on this one.

Ah- OK then...
Yeah, pretty funny, isn't it?! The way he belts out "What am I gonna do about ya/ what am I gonna do??/ I'm in a dark place, baby..." always gets a smile on my face.

I love this one! Easily my fave on the CD, though I wish there was another verse and the "What am I gonna do about you?" -- which I hear as an echo of "What you gonna do about it?" from Ventilator Blues -- did not start so early in the track.

I have not listened super closely, but does anyone else hear

"Suffered a total trashing"

rather than

Something to thrown the trash in"

I love this song. Pretty close to PMS for my favorite of the added songs. Just a jumping fun number that makes you want to get up and move.

Its still growing on me..My 2nd least fav track....It kind of reminds me of She Saw Me Coming, from bigger bang..
Jagger yelling out the words...I think it could have been better if Jagger sang a little less or he was a little lower in the mix.
Your right, it is a fun song. Something you can party too...Well i'll play it some more..ha..
I do think this is the best album the STONES have done since TY..

Fun song. The lyrics are kinda cute and I like the guitars. Nothing special but it's enjoyable. Something I mentioned before that maybe nobody else agrees with - but to my ears the drums sound very much like Charlie's modern (Voodoo onward) sound, as opposed to the way his drums sounded back then. Just listen to "So Divine" or "PMS", where the drums (at least I think) sound totally different than on here.

It's my favorite of the outtakes/new exiles now, hands down. It's just a great song. It's funny. It gets you moving. Keith's guitar is perfect with Mick's vocals, they're both kind of loud and off-the-cuff. I actually thought this was an older vocal until I read otherwise. Following The River sounds new, Plundered sounds like later 70's Stones to me... Dancing In The Light though, it's timeless, it's just an awesome song.

This one might be my favorite of the new songs. Jagger really sounds great on it and I love his "pleading" at the end of the song and if the guitar by keith is new he sure sounds great.

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Fun song. The lyrics are kinda cute and I like the guitars. Nothing special but it's enjoyable. Something I mentioned before that maybe nobody else agrees with - but to my ears the drums sound very much like Charlie's modern (Voodoo onward) sound, as opposed to the way his drums sounded back then. Just listen to "So Divine" or "PMS", where the drums (at least I think) sound totally different than on here.

I haven't followed all those debates about the new Exile stuff and what is the newest knowledge of who did what and when.
But didn't Mick and Keith say that the drums were fine from the beginning on all those tapes?

This is one of those few Stones tracks that I won't be sorry if I never hear again. Like on PMS, Jagger's vocals are too up-front, over-exercised, and in your face. Maybe the earlier bootleg version (a rather sweet instrumental number that I sorta like) doomed my reaction to this version, since this one is so Jagger-dominated.

Drew

I like the first half then Jagger gives up and the second half is almost like outro lyrics at the fade out of the song it almost turns into Put Me in the Trash!

i like the original instrumental better.i don't like jaggers singing on this track.

My finances are so bad right now. but i'm feeling I have to go get Exile

I like the fact that after 20 years of listening to this instrumental on a boot (same as Alladin Story), it now has words. Kind of the same feeling i had when i heard Mick taylor's version of Leather Jacket.

[hey, i just realized this was my thousandth post here--kind of wish it had a little more meat to it, for such a "momentus" occassion, but it will have to do!



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I know the Exile reissue says Wyman on bass, but those credits are riddled with mistakes. Are we sure it's Wyman on this one?

So Divine is another that doesn't sound like Wyman to me.

I know why it wasn’t released…dull.

Rod

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I know the Exile reissue says Wyman on bass, but those credits are riddled with mistakes. Are we sure it's Wyman on this one?

So Divine is another that doesn't sound like Wyman to me.

Light sounds not so much like Keith, who tends to rumble more. It moves a bit too much to be Keith. Yet... it kinda sounds like how Keith plumbs the bass.

What a bland track. So Devine is another yawnfest.

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I know the Exile reissue says Wyman on bass, but those credits are riddled with mistakes. Are we sure it's Wyman on this one?

So Divine is another that doesn't sound like Wyman to me.

Light sounds not so much like Keith, who tends to rumble more. It moves a bit too much to be Keith. Yet... it kinda sounds like how Keith plumbs the bass.

What a bland track. So Devine is another yawnfest.

It doesn’t sound like Wyman to me, as you noted, it moves a lot.

I have no specific info regarding who played bass, but according to the "Stones Raw tapes" a memo prepared by Trevor Churchill for the Klein court thingy, it is Bill. You can see the full line up on one of the three pages printed on page 359 in the Nellcote book. However, as Churchill writes, this is the line up "as far as we know, Mick can probably fill you in on details". I can not see Mick having changed the line up in any other document, and I doubt he cared or remembered when it was included on the Exile deluxe, forty years later.

The Churchill documents also says that the recording dates that are noted are for when the basic track was laid down, and that possible overdubs would have been done later. As we know, Keith loved to "improve" those bass tracks ... so who knows ?

A side note; IMHO the tapes that Churchill compiled in London in 1971, the so called Bermondsey tapes, explains why these types of oddball tracks ended up on the Exile deluxe album. The old tracks/left overs were complied, sent to Nellcote intended for possible inclusion on Exile, some were included but most discarded. When the deluxe project came up in 2010, sa few were included anyway, regardless of era and place of origin.

It is Bill Wyman on his old fretless bass 200%.

Mathijs

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It is Bill Wyman on his old fretless bass 200%.

Mathijs

I believe the instrumental bootleg version plays back fast, which is why I thought it was more jumpy than it actually is.

What about So Divine?



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I have no specific info regarding who played bass, but according to the "Stones Raw tapes" a memo prepared by Trevor Churchill for the Klein court thingy, it is Bill. You can see the full line up on one of the three pages printed on page 359 in the Nellcote book. However, as Churchill writes, this is the line up "as far as we know, Mick can probably fill you in on details". I can not see Mick having changed the line up in any other document, and I doubt he cared or remembered when it was included on the Exile deluxe, forty years later.

The Churchill documents also says that the recording dates that are noted are for when the basic track was laid down, and that possible overdubs would have been done later. As we know, Keith loved to "improve" those bass tracks ... so who knows ?

A side note; IMHO the tapes that Churchill compiled in London in 1971, the so called Bermondsey tapes, explains why these types of oddball tracks ended up on the Exile deluxe album. The old tracks/left overs were complied, sent to Nellcote intended for possible inclusion on Exile, some were included but most discarded. When the deluxe project came up in 2010, sa few were included anyway, regardless of era and place of origin.

This is great info. What’s the difference between the “Stones Raw” tapes and the Bermondsey tapes?

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I have no specific info regarding who played bass, but according to the "Stones Raw tapes" a memo prepared by Trevor Churchill for the Klein court thingy, it is Bill. You can see the full line up on one of the three pages printed on page 359 in the Nellcote book. However, as Churchill writes, this is the line up "as far as we know, Mick can probably fill you in on details". I can not see Mick having changed the line up in any other document, and I doubt he cared or remembered when it was included on the Exile deluxe, forty years later.

The Churchill documents also says that the recording dates that are noted are for when the basic track was laid down, and that possible overdubs would have been done later. As we know, Keith loved to "improve" those bass tracks ... so who knows ?

A side note; IMHO the tapes that Churchill compiled in London in 1971, the so called Bermondsey tapes, explains why these types of oddball tracks ended up on the Exile deluxe album. The old tracks/left overs were complied, sent to Nellcote intended for possible inclusion on Exile, some were included but most discarded. When the deluxe project came up in 2010, sa few were included anyway, regardless of era and place of origin.

This is great info. What’s the difference between the “Stones Raw” tapes and the Bermondsey tapes?

Sorry about the confusion -
The Stones Raw Tapes is the name of a batch of documents, and not a tape per se.
The documents discuss which tapes are in the hands of the Stones prior to the Klein trial(s), ie which tracks does he own the publishing to and which does he not. Who have paid the session bills and where are the tapes located. As we know today (after the BBC series on each member divulged images from the present-ish archive) the archive filenames are not the same anymore, so its (fun!) dinosaur info.

The Bermondsey tapes are, as you probably are aware of, the masters found in the Bermondsey storage/rehearsal space, which Churchill did mixdowns of at Olympic around March/April 71 and brought down to Nellcote on domestic cassettes. He played them in the grand salon to Mick and Keith. Because they thought some of the titles were interesting, the proper masters were transported down to France, re-recorded or/and worked on in LA. (Sweet Virginia, Good Time/Tumbling, All Down the Line, etc etc)

Hope thats clearer.

Love the guitars & rhythm section! And the vocals are nice too (although guessing the vocals were added for the deluxe release)

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RobberBride
I have no specific info regarding who played bass, but according to the "Stones Raw tapes" a memo prepared by Trevor Churchill for the Klein court thingy, it is Bill. You can see the full line up on one of the three pages printed on page 359 in the Nellcote book. However, as Churchill writes, this is the line up "as far as we know, Mick can probably fill you in on details". I can not see Mick having changed the line up in any other document, and I doubt he cared or remembered when it was included on the Exile deluxe, forty years later.

The Churchill documents also says that the recording dates that are noted are for when the basic track was laid down, and that possible overdubs would have been done later. As we know, Keith loved to "improve" those bass tracks ... so who knows ?

A side note; IMHO the tapes that Churchill compiled in London in 1971, the so called Bermondsey tapes, explains why these types of oddball tracks ended up on the Exile deluxe album. The old tracks/left overs were complied, sent to Nellcote intended for possible inclusion on Exile, some were included but most discarded. When the deluxe project came up in 2010, sa few were included anyway, regardless of era and place of origin.

This is great info. What’s the difference between the “Stones Raw” tapes and the Bermondsey tapes?

Sorry about the confusion -
The Stones Raw Tapes is the name of a batch of documents, and not a tape per se.
The documents discuss which tapes are in the hands of the Stones prior to the Klein trial(s), ie which tracks does he own the publishing to and which does he not. Who have paid the session bills and where are the tapes located. As we know today (after the BBC series on each member divulged images from the present-ish archive) the archive filenames are not the same anymore, so its (fun!) dinosaur info.

The Bermondsey tapes are, as you probably are aware of, the masters found in the Bermondsey storage/rehearsal space, which Churchill did mixdowns of at Olympic around March/April 71 and brought down to Nellcote on domestic cassettes. He played them in the grand salon to Mick and Keith. Because they thought some of the titles were interesting, the proper masters were transported down to France, re-recorded or/and worked on in LA. (Sweet Virginia, Good Time/Tumbling, All Down the Line, etc etc)

Hope thats clearer.

Thanks for the info