I never heard this before to be honest. Clapton on slide guitar, Al Kooper on piano. I think the begining is better than the more popular version, but it isn't mixed that well. The saxes make the song sound too busy.









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Never liked this. Wrong sort of slide guitar for that song...if it has to have any

What sort of slide guitar would you use?

äh - no. not wrong slide guitar. it´s only the best version. it´s only rock´n´roll!

my take is that it doesn't need both slide guitar AND the Saxes in the back.

That is gilding the lily.

You can mix the two though.







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I think it's a damn great version.

It's different, and that's why I like it. Put me back in the mixing room back in 1969/70, I'd probably have chosen the one we got on S.F., but I have always liked this gritty version.

I've always liked this "Keiths birthday" recording better myself but the creator of the video is mistaken, this isnt the original. The Muscle Shoals version is..

The version with the extra country guitar licks seen/heard in Gimme Shelter is very cool.

I always liked this version. Pretty sure Eric was spending a good bit of time with Duane Allman around this time whom he has credited with really inspiring his slide.

The slide guitar is alright, it's the piano that sounds like an afterthought.

Can't believe they never tacked this on as a bonus track to a Sticky Fingers remaster somewhere along the way.

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I think it's a damn great version.

I think the vocals are better on this version than the original. Especially Keith's.



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I think it's a damn great version.

I think the vocals are better on this version than the original. Especially Keith's.

The drumming's good as well. I always liked this version and for some time it was even considered to be released as the official version. But in the end there is something about the original version that makes it superior.

is mick taylor playing bass on this track?

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I think it's a damn great version.

I think the vocals are better on this version than the original. Especially Keith's.

The drumming's good as well. I always liked this version and for some time it was even considered to be released as the official version. But in the end there is something about the original version that makes it superior.

It's slick and commercially produced (not saying it's a bad thing) and the one here is just bluesier, which I dig.

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is mick taylor playing bass on this track?

Isn't that Mick Taylor playing solo at 1:55?

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is mick taylor playing bass on this track?

Isn't that Mick Taylor playing solo at 1:55?

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is mick taylor playing bass on this track?

I don't think Taylor is on this track at all.

Clapton plays the slide as well as the solo guitar after Bobby's solo.

Yes, that does sound like Clapton, apparently he over dubbed the solo.

I wonder why they went to the trouble of going to a recording studio if they had no intent on releasing it. It is not perfect, but it just needed to be polished just a little bit. Probably it would have cost the Stones a bunch of money to release the Clapton version. He doesn't work for free.



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Yes, that does sound like Clapton, apparently he over dubbed the solo.

I wonder why they went to the trouble of going to a recording studio if they had no intent on releasing it. It is not perfect, but it just needed to be polished just a little bit. Probably it would have cost the Stones a bunch of money to release the Clapton version. He doesn't work for free.

It was recorded during Keith's birthday party. It was a great version indeed, but I don't think it was ever intended for release.

I think Clapton played the solo live, since he is obviously playing the slide in standard tuning + that it doesn't exactly sound like a multiple take solo...

Much better Keith backing vocals on this one. That alone makes this stronger than the original IMO
I recall hearing this was originally going to be the version released on SF but then they released the Taylor version to better represent the current version of the band...

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I think Clapton played the solo live, since he is obviously playing the slide in standard tuning + that it doesn't exactly sound like a multiple take solo...

If you listen closely you can hear the solo overlapping with the slide, so the solo is an overdub.

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I think Clapton played the solo live, since he is obviously playing the slide in standard tuning + that it doesn't exactly sound like a multiple take solo...

If you listen closely you can hear the solo overlapping with the slide, so the solo is an overdub.

Mathijs

Bullshit.

Keith's back-up vocal is better on this one...

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Always thought it was Taylor on the slide. It has his trademark vibrato...
The solo is Clapton though...

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I think Clapton played the solo live, since he is obviously playing the slide in standard tuning + that it doesn't exactly sound like a multiple take solo...

If you listen closely you can hear the solo overlapping with the slide, so the solo is an overdub.

Mathijs

Bullshit.

Before you say that listen to the end and beginning of the solo. It overlaps with the slide. So there are either two players, of the solo is overdubbed.

Mathijs

A nice curiosity but pales in comparison to the released one, which is simply a perfect recording made in a right place in a right moment.

Richards is funnily still working on the open riff (was the released version recorded a yaer or something earlier? The Clapton version is from 1970, right?). Very close to the way he would open the 1972/73 shows.

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