Ya-Ya's is a classic, indeed. LYL never did much for me, with the notable exception of side 3 (the El Mocambo side).
The "essential boots" category definitely should include Handsome Girls, The Definitive Brussels and Welcome to New York. Latter-day boots just seem extraneous, as the Stones have adequately presented their tours with the Miami VL video, the St Louis B2B video, and FF.
RankOutsider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out (what are Ya'Ya's anyway? and > how do you get them out?) Breasts? (I always thought. Not a specialist in slang.) Now the second question don't need answer:-)
I'd go for Stripped, beautiful album, at least some tracks are live - and those are amazingly done (Shine A Light...) Ya-Yas, that goes without saying Live Licks is so sloppy compared to what a great tour it was
Get Your Ya Ya's Out - I think Ya Ya's are breasts, btw - native speakers, tell us! ...and Stripped too - always loved it - in combination with Stripped Companion it would've been even greater!
Flashpoint! Just kidding. Love you live of course. And bootlegs from '72, '73 and '75-'76. Some boots from '78 and some from '81-82. After that? 57 stages and nuthin on.
Country Honk, I was listening to the solo's on Ya-Ya's SFD today. Keith does the first one, (great solo I think), and then MT comes in and blows the doors off the place. What fluid beauty. (what no V' ?) I think they're both excellent solo's. I don't have LYL on cd yet, just LP and no turn table!
I ain't stupid, I'm just guitarded.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-04-30 07:05 by RankOutsider.
One track I'd forgotten about on LYL-- I do love the version of "Happy" on this one--Charlie & Bill are firing on all cylinders, with Charlie turning the beat around from the way he usually plays it (bap-boom-boom, bap-boom-boom.) There's a split second in the last few stanzas where Bill hits an upper-register note and everything just stops--it's perfectly lovely.
Tour trivia question--I noticed that Nicky Hopkins plays some fantastic piano licks on Welcome to New York (MSG 72). Did Ian Stewart not participate on this tour?
" Yas Yas (Yas) 1 - Both "yas yas" and "yas yas yas" are used as a rhyming substitute for the word "ass" and appear quite frequently in songs from the earlier part of the century, when "ass" was apparently still unacceptable slang. Examples: Blind Boy Fuller "Get Yer Yas Yas Out" (the actual lyric in the song is "get yer yas yas out the door"). Note that the Rolling Stones later bastardized this one in their live album which was mistitled "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out"."