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drwatts
The vinyl of this beeotch just smokes!
Plus you can now buy the offical BXL vinyl version. So cool.
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drwatts
The vinyl of this beeotch just smokes!
Plus you can now buy the offical BXL vinyl version. So cool.
Help me understand what is the BXL vinyl version.
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ironbellyBXL = Brussels (Bruxelles in French).Quote
stonesstein
Help me understand what is the BXL vinyl version.
Vinyl version is
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toomuchforme
Listened last night to the VINYL extraction : Taylor and Jagger clearly upfront but no Keith and only Charlie's cymbals audible.
Then I listened to the official bootleg bought on Stones Archives. Much better with Keith work very listenable (great) and the horns too.
But on both Charlie's bottom drum is missing, awful thin sound. I guess the microphone was not near the bass drum...
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DandelionPowderman
It's not the same show, though (Except for MR, BS and possibly one more track).
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stone-relics
Re: Brussels Affair - Any overdubs?
Posted by: stone-relics ()
Date: May 29, 2009 01:37
No, they sold the rights to KBFH, hence never had access to overdub it. I have the original reel to reel tapes from 74, both broadcasts, September and November, NO overdubs there.
JR
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stonesstein
I bought my first version of this back in the Summer of (I think) 1978, A Bedspring Symphony (and a Box Lunch and a Meat Whistle), TAKRL 1941 with the black label and yellow/red mimeograph insert from Billy Arnold's Purple Prism Record Shop on King Street in Charleston, SC. Seems like next year, I also bought East & West on Excitable Records which turned out to be a straight copy (oh well!). Thereafter, numerous versions and copies came into my hands such as the 2LP Europe 73 (Royal Sound slapper-wax), and then various CD versions like Brussels Affair (Chameleon label), Headin' for an Overload, the Definitive Brussels and a host of others. I think I have 11 or so of the 15 different versions listed on the Stones' bootleg database site. I still have every single LP of this music I have ever acquired.
After accumulating all I thought I'd ever be able to get, in 2002 or 2003, I managed to get ahold of a complete set of 3 original King Biscuit Flower Hour Reel-to-Reel tapes (with an Affidavit) from a guy who ran a radio station board somewhere in Iowa who found them in some old station stock closet. They had all the stamps on the box and stickers on the reels with cue sheets and the ever-elusive 3rd Reel with the Interviews. Strikes me, if I recall correctly, these were from the 1974 KBFH Broadcasts. While I never trade off incredible collectible pieces like that, somehow, someway, those got traded to my dearly departed (yesterday) Stones-brother, JR over a 2-night stay at his house back in July, 2004 under circumstances that are very hazy to me now but for all kinds of amazing stuff that I still have in my collection (I think). He wanted them, and if you knew JR, he had the trade-stock to get whatever he wanted out of others' collections. (I digress....)
When the Deluxe Box Set came out in 2011, I had to get it, because, after all, here was THE live show of shows on Rolling Stones' Records!!! Double-WOW! I missed on the box set with the Dancing with Mr. D 7", but I got the Super Deluxe with Poster, watch, and all kinds of ephemera. Still a prized possession, and people have offered me 3x what I paid for it.
Sure, I downloaded all of the electronic offerings from Apple and wherever else (Amazon, maybe?) one could find, just in case there was "something better".
Apparently, there was a Japanese 4LP set where Marquee and Brussels were combined? (I missed that, but if anyone knows more about it, please share what you know and if there is any difference with the trax thereon from the 2011 and 2020 releases.)
Finally, in 2020, when the GHS Box came out, I had to order and get the Super Deluxe if only to be sure that there was "nothing better".
While I got my first Stones' record (HTW London 7") in the early 70s, of all Stones' music, it is perhaps having my listened to this at 12, 13, and 14 over and over and over and over again which made me conclude that the music on BedSpring Symphony was THE standard by which ALL rock and roll music ought to be judged. Sure, there are others, and there will always be. But, as I believe Doxa wrote in some post here some time back, Midnight Rambler from Brussels 73 is THE finest live performance of any rock and roll band ever, period. Certainly, Chris M's wonderful work (linked above) on these recordings is so inspiring!
Perhaps it was the passing of JR yesterday which now compels me to write about perhaps my core-essential Stones' live recording and with Exile, my Stones' "desert island discs". It certainly has shook me to my core and caused me to reach into countless hours of memories with my friend and discussions of those most precious moments of this incredible band's catalog and history.
The Stones made incredible music long before and long after October 17, 1973, but if one asked me which one piece "above all others", this is it. As a last note, I think the band understands this, too, because when they finally opened up their "live vault", this was the first piece.
If you've read this far, thanks for indulging me, and please be inspired, if you have not already, to re-listen to these (as we approach the 48th anniversary of the shows) and share your thoughts and memories.
WOW!