Armpit Blues:





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Recording date(s):

1977–10–10 + 1977–11–29 + 1977–12–6/15: Boulogne Billancourt (near Paris), France, Pathé Marconi Studios. Producer: The Glimmer Twins. Sound engineer: Chris Kimsey (NZentgraf)

1978-01-05 Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris, France (dbboots.com)

Available on the following bootleg(s):

[595] PLACE PIGALLE 02:39 A Vinyl Gang Product
[770] SOME GIRLS SESSIONS 05:03 STONEHENGE
[789] Place Pigalle Vol. 2 02:35 Save The Earth
[958] PARIS RESULTS VOL.2 02:35 OUTSIDER BIRD RECORDS
[1002] Paris Results 02:39 DOG n CAT Records
[1415] Paris Results 2007 Remastered 02:33 Singer's Original Double Disk
[1457] GIRLS, PILLS & POWDERS 02:31 Pignose Records


Thanks to dbboots.com and NZentgraf for the info

What are your thoughts on this track?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2017-06-23 14:29 by DandelionPowderman.

I find it extremely boring.
Instrumental blues of the kind you can feed swine with.

1977 according to Zentgraf:

771010B 10th October - 29th November and 6th - 15th December: Boulogne Billancourt
(near Paris), France, Pathé Marconi Studios. Producer: The Glimmer Twins.
Sound engineer: Chris Kimsey.
- Armpit Blues (MJ/KR) -instrumental


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

I think its a tasteful song. Nothing more, nothing less. Nice to listen to, whn you have a glass of wine, fine cheese and a good conversation with yourself.
Jeroen

the only thing that stood out to me about this pedestrian blues was the bass - so warm and big!

It's clearly just one of the countless «warm-up blues»-tracks from Pathe Marconi, but there is always something interesting going on in those, imo.

Let's not forget the lovely harp playing in there

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Blueranger
I find it extremely boring.
Instrumental blues of the kind you can feed swine with.

True - although I do like the title.
There is some decent playing though- especially piano - but alas it leads to nowhere.
I would have actually preferred things like this though over the recent covers.

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Blueranger
I find it extremely boring.
Instrumental blues of the kind you can feed swine with.

True - although I do like the title.
There is some decent playing though- especially piano - but alas it leads to nowhere.
I would have actually preferred things like this though over the recent covers.

I thought you said B&L was decent, not extremely boring

Armpit Blues! YES

I Like them all, these blues instrumentals. Slow ones, faster ones. All of them.

Listening to the Jamming With STU bootleg a lot last few weeks and especially the first 5 songs.

Disc 1:
- Looking For Trouble (with vocals)
- Cook Cook Blues (early version, with vocals, later released as B-side)
- Blues Jam I
- Blues Jam II
- Blues Jam III
and TIE YOU UP (early version, with vocals, 10 minute+ version, great groove)

What I like about it is the early stage of the recordingsessions you get to hear.
A bit like a fly on the wall experience.

The Rawness... Unpolished...Improvising...Instrumental craftmanship...Loose Jamming...

All in all I have been listening to outtakes and early versions like this more than official released songs thru the years.

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DandelionPowderman

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Hairball

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Blueranger
I find it extremely boring.
Instrumental blues of the kind you can feed swine with.

True - although I do like the title.
There is some decent playing though- especially piano - but alas it leads to nowhere.
I would have actually preferred things like this though over the recent covers.

I thought you said B&L was decent, not extremely boring

I was referring to Bluerangers comment "Instrumental blues of the kind you can feed swine with"...which I should have highlighted in bold, but now that you mention it, B&L has gone from "decent" to "boring". Just Your Fool and Ride 'em on down at Desert Trips and Vegas shows were excellent surrounded by other Stones tunes, really lively (though some of the audience looked bored), but the studio versions in the context of the album don't quite do it for me - I got bored with it all after a couple of weeks (or less) and don't listen to any of it anymore. Is B&L extremely boring? Nah...not that bad. It's still a generous 2 out of 5 on my radar. I'd rather listen to these oddball outtakes of blues jams any day - "the kind you can feed swine with" - which for me is kind of a term of endearment...dirty, rough, and raw Stones...no covers necessary...jamming like they mean it.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2017-06-24 03:42 by Hairball.

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Hairball

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Blueranger
I find it extremely boring.
Instrumental blues of the kind you can feed swine with.

True - although I do like the title.
There is some decent playing though- especially piano - but alas it leads to nowhere.
I would have actually preferred things like this though over the recent covers.

*with a name like 'Hairball', you would.
(not serious)



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35love

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Hairball

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Blueranger
I find it extremely boring.
Instrumental blues of the kind you can feed swine with.

True - although I do like the title.
There is some decent playing though- especially piano - but alas it leads to nowhere.
I would have actually preferred things like this though over the recent covers.

*with a name like 'Hairball', you would.
(not serious)

Lol yes indeed!

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

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Blueranger
I find it extremely boring.

Without this kind of "boring" cuts the Stones would be just another band. They would sound "like bloody Status Quo" to quote the late great Stu.
With "Armpit Blues" you get to hear the essence of the Stones' sound and musical ID.

For me this tune separates the tourists from the purists.

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DandelionPowderman

Let's not forget the lovely harp playing in there

Yes! ... not to mention nice guitar, rhythm, and keyboards!!