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nick
I am still enjoying those tracks!
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gotdablouse
Paris 2002 sessions
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Paris 2002 sessions
I have wondered about those Paris, 2002, sessions. They seemingly worked on a fair number of tracks. I suppose we can only speculate as to whether they were merely running through possibilities for the four ‘new tracks’ that’d later appear on 40 Licks, or were they working on material for a follow-up to 1997’s, Bridges to Babylon? I have also pondered over why there were four ‘new tracks’ on 40 Licks, as it seems a little much. We could’ve had Little Red Rooster (U.K. #1), Heart of Stone, etc. Instead, they gifted the public Keys to Your Love and Losing My Touch. In my opinion, Don’t Stop would’ve sufficed.
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gotdablouse
Yes these sessions are a bit of a mystery, initially they went in to record the couple of tracks promised at the Blimp PC a few weeks before and that Keith said had yet to be recorded, "only a small problem" or something like that. Then they showed up and Mick must have bombarded them with all his new songs and since they had the time they just went ahead and demoed them to see what would stick I suppose.
There's that screenshot from the Licks video where the tracks are numbered up to 35 or something like that with even the well-known "Still in Love" title.
So theynhad all these tracks but it was too late to backtrack and release a new album instead of 40 Licks and change the clever/lucrative format of the tour so they decided to put 4 tracks on 40 Licks and as you say it didn't make much sense but we were still happy to get these tracks at the time ;-)
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Paris 2002 sessions
I have wondered about those Paris, 2002, sessions. They seemingly worked on a fair number of tracks. I suppose we can only speculate as to whether they were merely running through possibilities for the four ‘new tracks’ that’d later appear on 40 Licks, or were they working on material for a follow-up to 1997’s, Bridges to Babylon? I have also pondered over why there were four ‘new tracks’ on 40 Licks, as it seems a little much. We could’ve had Little Red Rooster (U.K. #1), Heart of Stone, etc. Instead, they gifted the public Keys to Your Love and Losing My Touch. In my opinion, Don’t Stop would’ve sufficed.
It sounded like they planned a new album. However, judging by the demos available, they were nowhere near finished - hence they scrapped the project.
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...Dreams” by Mick will become”Trouble” by Keith..!