I've got Metarmorphosis running on my stereo, and Jiving Sister Fanny is such a cool song. As far as I remember, it was originally recorded in 1969(?), so is this song an outake for Let it Bleed? And who played the great lead guitar, I guess it's Taylor but I'm not sure.

Taylor on the lead


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JSF & I Dont Know Why I Love You from MM are two of my favourite tracks. The rhythm & lead playing from Keith & Mick T. is out of this world.
I guess they are outtakes in that they werent considered strong enough material to be released on a studio album.
This just shows the staggering quality of material they were recording if these two great tracks couldnt make the cut for an album. If not LIB surely they could have slotted them into GHS or SF maybe. They did it for Start Me Up for TY. Why not these two tracks.

I ask the same questions mikesnaps! Jiving Sister Fanny is pure, real stones with that brilliant rythm guitar and the fantastic lead guitar by mick. I love, it's just a shame they never found the song good enough to be a part of an album.

Organ also so good on JSF. And Bass (Richards methinks). Jagger putting Taylor through his paces.

I bet Richards and Jagger just couldn't believe their luck.

No auditions like in '75. Taylor only needed to turn up and play and he had the job. They never actually told him! Taken for granted. (Referring to his initial session where he did lead on HTW and rhythm on Live With Me, slide on C. Honk.)

Goin' Down another favourite from same era. Shades of BrownSugar + great percussion at end.

Also was going to mention Going Down (Rocky Dijon's congas, classic riff), & I like another LIB outtake Bill's "Downtown Suzie/Lucy" which would have been a great album cut or b-side.....I assume some OD work was done on these in 1970 , at least the horns, which really (re)emerged on SF.

Play this one live.

.....it would be great live...better than the tepid attempt at Sway.....and easier for the Jag to hit the notes.

Imagine JSF on LIB instead of Country Honk. LIB is a great album, and when you listen to some of the outtakes it was definately a major period of creativity.

It's so very lonely, you're 2,000 Light Years from home

Rockin song AND its amazing to me how many different versions there are( even though the differences are minor, I guess). BUt this is one they oughta dig out like "Start Me Up" and finish off the lyrics!

I always thought Jiving Sister Fanny was one of the coolest grooves they
ever produced--awesome energy and really captures a "live feel", no doubt
because they recorded most of it live. There's actually two versions of this tune
with slightly different lyrics (if you want to call them that, lol) and a slightly
different tempo. The Metamorhosis version is different from the one on Trident Mixes.

I used to have a boot of outakes from that era where the tape was speeded up a bit. Usually, thats annoying, but in this instance, it came out sounding really cool.

All those outtakes from '69 and '70 are some of my favorite Stones, you can really hear them playing together in the same room and it was a remarkably creative period.

I agree, how they never found the room for JSF or Going Down or Traveling Man (Well, MT wrote that one, so we can guess what happened there, lol--same for Downtown Suzie, which I believe is Bill's song.)

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JSF & I Dont Know Why I Love You from MM are two of my favourite tracks. The rhythm & lead playing from Keith & Mick T. is out of this world.
I guess they are outtakes in that they werent considered strong enough material to be released on a studio album.
This just shows the staggering quality of material they were recording if these two great tracks couldnt make the cut for an album. If not LIB surely they could have slotted them into GHS or SF maybe. They did it for Start Me Up for TY. Why not these two tracks.

I totally agree..I always loved Metamorphosis,

I always loved those Metamorph Rockers JS Fanny, Don't know why I love you and Going down with that great conga & horns ending.

Jiving Sister Fanny is a real good live tune with some nice drumming.
Used to play it with my band.

waiting for beast to weigh in on this one


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It goes fantastically on a revamped running order of Let It Bleed too.

Not sure about this and can't recall but the version on The London Years and Metamorphosis - same one?

Highly recommended: Izzy Stradlin covered it on his Buried Alive live album (also Little Red Rooster included). On his studio album IS & The Ju-Ju Hounds he did Take A Look At The Guy (with Ronnie on guitar and vocals too; Ian McLagan is on various songs of the record).

I'd never heard that Travelling Man was a Taylor song. True?

Isn't it Keith who plays lead on I Don't Know Why?

I like Jiving Sister Fanny, yet I do not feel it would fir the overall vibe of the Let It Bleed album. I have always thought of the album as being fairly dark and dangerous: Jiving Sister Fanny is a little too sprightly and happy.

I'm Going Down could have made an OK b-side.

JSF or IGD as contenders for B-side to HT Woman.
Instead - they used an album track.

Perhaps they were keeping JSF and IGD as possibles for the next album?

Very much like the Faces if you ask me. Not sure whether the song predated their formation or not.

Wouldn't this be a great opening tune when and if Mick Taylor is ever invited to sit-in with the Stones again!!!! tell me the crowd wouldn't go nuts over
that one...

MLC

IMO, Jiving Sister Fanny and Going Down are strongly boosted by the fact that they are outtakes. As such, they provided fresh fodder for a hungry fan's ears and as such they succeeded impressively well. But if "Going Down" would really have been a B-side many observers would've called it a cheat (lousy run-through version of a potentially promising idea or something along these lines). And with Jiving Sister Fanny (which is great fun indeed), I second Big Als impression that it doesn't really fit the mood of the album (and arguably not it's high standard, too). It's just a funny session idea with a nice swaggering groove, that's all...



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"JSF" is a great cut, but it doesn't seem like a finished song compared to the tracks on Let It Bleed. It shows that they could write swaggery rockers whenever they wanted to, but were more interested in going in new directions... until Some Girls.

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IMO, Jiving Sister Fanny and Going Down are strongly boosted by the fact that they are outtakes. As such, they provided fresh fodder for a hungry fan's ears and as such they succeeded impressively well. But if "Going Down" would really have been a B-side many observers would've called it a cheat (lousy run-through version of a potentially promising idea or something along these lines). And with Jiving Sister Fanny (which is great fun indeed), I second Big Als impression that it doesn't really fit the mood of the album (and arguably not it's high standard, too). It's just a funny session idea with a nice swaggering groove, that's all...

Many sixties b-sides weren't fully worked songs - bonus tracks that wouldn't be quite up to album standards.
Neither right for LIB - but perhaps with fuller treatment right for the nextalbum (after LI is what I meant.

JSF "It's just a funny session idea with a nice swaggering groove, that's all ...."

well then, if that's the case, then so are: Rough Justice, Oh No NYA, in fact most of ABB, most of Voodoo Lounge - and lots of Bridges .... etc. etc.

Going Down is pretty complete and stronger than most (if not all) post eighties material.

They don't make out-takes like that any more!



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I've always thought that IGD was sort of a working version of Brown Sugar its very similiar and it has Jagger kind of mumbling like he does when he does not have the lyrics finished. I am in total agreemnet that JSF is one of their coolest tunes ever.

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JSF "It's just a funny session idea with a nice swaggering groove, that's all ...."

well thaen that's the case with Rough Justice, Oh No NYA, in fact most of ABB, most of Voodoo Lounge - and lots of Bridges .... etc. etc.

correct. In other words, B-side material, unfortunately on the "A"-side.

I'm now wondering, infact, if HTW is the first single to have an album track as its b-side

(talking about UK releases here)

And Brown Sugar - the first time their hit single also appeared as an album track? (UK)

So, should JSF have opened on SF?! (And Travelling Man as B-side to BS!)

Not Fade Away/Little By Little - 1964



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Little By Little - not a UK album track (or is memory getting that bad?). B-sde only there, I think.

An album track elsewhere?

Little By Little track 6 - A-side UK & US



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