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24FPS
I had no idea who Robert Johnson was when I first heard this on Ya Yas. But it seemed like a blues that transcended its genre and spoke universally. The live cuts and studio with Mick Taylor are the best.

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24FPS
I had no idea who Robert Johnson was when I first heard this on Ya Yas.

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24FPS
I had no idea who Robert Johnson was when I first heard this on Ya Yas.

As a young Dutch boy, I didn't quite get the meaning of the credits on the Get yer Ya-Ya's out
album, reading "Trad. arr Jagger/Richards". It would take years before I knew it was a song
Robert Johnson recorded before them.
But the arrangement of the song is completely different.

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liddas
To date this is one of the most brilliant rearrangements of a cover song by the Stones. The slowed down soul arpeggio (that on the studio version is played with a capo, adding a country flavor to the song) and, above all, the addition of that Em chord ...

The funny thing is that the original was in openG! Who knows how it would have sounded if Keith started working on it one year later?

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liddas
To date this is one of the most brilliant rearrangements of a cover song by the Stones. The slowed down soul arpeggio (that on the studio version is played with a capo, adding a country flavor to the song) and, above all, the addition of that Em chord ...

The funny thing is that the original was in openG! Who knows how it would have sounded if Keith started working on it one year later?

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Only the slide guitar is in open G. The acoustic is in standard tuning.

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liddas
To date this is one of the most brilliant rearrangements of a cover song by the Stones. The slowed down soul arpeggio (that on the studio version is played with a capo, adding a country flavor to the song) and, above all, the addition of that Em chord ...

The funny thing is that the original was in openG! Who knows how it would have sounded if Keith started working on it one year later?

C

Only the slide guitar is in open G. The acoustic is in standard tuning.

I mean, Robert Johnson's original is in open G.

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Silver Dagger
The Stones' version of Love In Vain encapsulates more than any other cover version of theirs just how brilliant the band was at re-imagining the blues.

The song has many textures, the delicate picking of the intro, the way the drums and bass come in that helps the song move effortlessly along - indeed like a train gently pulling out of a station. And then that incredible, perhaps even career-defining guitar solo by Mick Taylor that probably made every young kid hearing it want to pick up and learn how to play.

And when they played it on the 69 and 72 tours, boy did it send shivers down your spine, particularly in 1969 where it sat beautifully between the rock and a hard place of Stray Cat Blues and Midnight Rambler.

When I hear it now I wish more than anything that the Stones could return to finding some inspired, and little known blues songs to cover.

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Silver Dagger
The Stones' version of Love In Vain encapsulates more than any other cover version of theirs just how brilliant the band was at re-imagining the blues.

The song has many textures, the delicate picking of the intro, the way the drums and bass come in that helps the song move effortlessly along - indeed like a train gently pulling out of a station. And then that incredible, perhaps even career-defining guitar solo by Mick Taylor that probably made every young kid hearing it want to pick up and learn how to play.

And when they played it on the 69 and 72 tours, boy did it send shivers down your spine, particularly in 1969 where it sat beautifully between the rock and a hard place of Stray Cat Blues and Midnight Rambler.

When I hear it now I wish more than anything that the Stones could return to finding some inspired, and little known blues songs to cover.

You're thinking about the live versions here, right?

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Silver Dagger
The Stones' version of Love In Vain encapsulates more than any other cover version of theirs just how brilliant the band was at re-imagining the blues.

The song has many textures, the delicate picking of the intro, the way the drums and bass come in that helps the song move effortlessly along - indeed like a train gently pulling out of a station. And then that incredible, perhaps even career-defining guitar solo by Mick Taylor that probably made every young kid hearing it want to pick up and learn how to play.

And when they played it on the 69 and 72 tours, boy did it send shivers down your spine, particularly in 1969 where it sat beautifully between the rock and a hard place of Stray Cat Blues and Midnight Rambler.

When I hear it now I wish more than anything that the Stones could return to finding some inspired, and little known blues songs to cover.

You're thinking about the live versions here, right?

I'm thinking of both versions Dandy. But the bit you highlighted, yeah - the one on Get Yer Ya Yas Out.

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kowalski
Favourite version ever is the one from Tokyo '95. Their most 'soulful' version. And love how Charlie enters the song around 1:00...

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DandelionPowderman
Nothing can touch the original, imo

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24FPS
I had no idea who Robert Johnson was when I first heard this on Ya Yas. But it seemed like a blues that transcended its genre and spoke universally. The live cuts and studio with Mick Taylor are the best.

Hi, I really love the 69 and 72 live versions, too. Great solos and slide by MT. But is there really a studio version with MT? Never heard of it. Or did I get you wrong?

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OK, so this may not be relevant to this posting, but The Faces actually did a version of Love In Vain, which is on Five Guys Walk Into A Bar. Ronnie said that he was very fond of The Stones' version.

Ronnie does very well on the 1978 version, and on Stripped's version.