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I see. Makes sense, but yeah, your suggestion is better. Or not include it. There was certainly more they could have chosen from. Thanks for the answer.Quote
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this has been discussed before. during the london concert the band got out of time and the song fell apart, so they included that performance but cut the flub. don't ask me why they didn't just use a performance from a different night.
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RollingFreak
Its really as simple as that? Doesn't even seem like there was any initial reason to edit anything. Wouldn't it have just been easier for them to just rip the audio and stick it on there? No work necessary lol. But yeah, it always throws me because I'm not used to that change and it doesn't work well either. Also, its the only live version of Rocks Off I have so its a bit disappointing. I know there are others I could download, but I already have too much Stones as it is.
Wow, really interesting to know. Always something I've wondering and glad to finally have the answer. Idiotic reason, but if thats the answer its the answer. Thanks for all the responses in the thread!Quote
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RollingFreak
Its really as simple as that? Doesn't even seem like there was any initial reason to edit anything. Wouldn't it have just been easier for them to just rip the audio and stick it on there? No work necessary lol. But yeah, it always throws me because I'm not used to that change and it doesn't work well either. Also, its the only live version of Rocks Off I have so its a bit disappointing. I know there are others I could download, but I already have too much Stones as it is.
Yep, that simple.
Live Licks was originally meant to have something like 33 songs on it. There was a track listing on the internet when the album was announced. As you can imagine, fitting that many songs onto two discs of 80 minutes apiece - considering a Stones gig is about two hours and 20 songs long at best - would have required several songs to be edited (Pretty much every Stones live album features several edited songs, and this one was no exception)
In the end (presumably after the work had been done) they chose to release a 23-song double CD clocking in at about 110 minutes - and appear to have left in the 'doctored' versions despite having 70 minutes of disc space to play with.
Theres simply no way any of them listened to that release before approving it. Even Helen Keller could have noticed that aberration on 'Rocks Off'. People were actually bringing the album back to the shops in the belief that there was a flaw at the pressing stages.
Right, now that you say it, I believe Brown Sugar is cut pretty stupidly also. Its a much shorter version than what was played as it goes right into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the end and then ends it pretty quickly. I guess the only glaring ones to me where Rocks Off, and Brown Sugar now that you mention it.Quote
Beast of Babylon
there are several tracks on that release that are butchered. Paint it black, rocks off, cant always get.....and everybody needs somebody(although i like that version, it mixes the LA with Soloman Burke, with the paris olympia version)......the one thing i never ever understood about that album, is that it opens with the intro and then brown sugar, however, the version of brown sugar is not the "opening version", its infact the b-stage version done at the garden on 1-18-03.....never understood that...
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Gazza
Sloppy editing and proof that none of the artists involved with this shoddy 'product' bothered listening to it before approving it for release as it sticks out like a dog's balls.
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this has been discussed before. during the london concert the band got out of time and the song fell apart, so they included that performance but cut the flub. don't ask me why they didn't just use a performance from a different night.
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this has been discussed before. during the london concert the band got out of time and the song fell apart, so they included that performance but cut the flub. don't ask me why they didn't just use a performance from a different night.
Why didn't they just use a performance from a different night?
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sjs12
I was at that gig and can confirm 100% that the middle bit was totally ballsed up. I think the four flicks version must be edited.