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gotdablouse
Fast Talking was started at Criteria Studios in Miami BEFORE the Kingston sessions. I can't remember these sessions ever being mentioned anywhere ?
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erad
Hillside Blues is so darn good. Deserves an official release.
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rebelhipi
Anyone who ordered the 4 cd version on French Amazon has had it shipped yet?
No news on mine atm.
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rebelhipi
Anyone who ordered the 4 cd version on French Amazon has had it shipped yet?
No news on mine atm.
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ChrisM42
Start Me Up (4:10) – The early reggae version a.k.a. ‘Never Stop’. Released on “The Pain of Love” DAC-111 (4:55 with quick fade out) and “Start Us Up” Mighty Diamonds, MD 2009 (2:16) and ‘Emotional Rescue Demos’ SODD 125 to name a few.
Recorded: First reggae version recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany on March 19 - April 4, 1975.
Note: The version on ‘Lost & Found’ has newly recorded vocal track with the nearly complete ‘rock’ lyric over the reggae instrumental. The unauthorized versions are much less developed with an incomplete song hook. They actually sound more reggae than the ‘L&F’ version.
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JakeA
listen to the 2021 version, start at 3:55 and you will hear the acoustic most clearly
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JakeA
listen to the 2021 version, start at 3:55 and you will hear the acoustic most clearly
Yes, it's there! Great find! It's the same acoustic as the 1981 overdub they removed. But it's absolutely here at 3:55.
Mathijs
The bass for me is not the problem.The pianos are mixed too high in tracks like Fast Talking and Living in the Heart and the guitars are too low. In fact, I could do without any piano on Fast Talking.Quote
doitywoik
Finally made it to listen to mine (the 2CD version) and had it followed by listening to the 1994 Virgin version ...
Apart from the brickwalling, what I find additionally disturbing is the volume boost they gave to the bass, which quite on its own suffices to suffocate the music. Now I do like Bill's bass playing on TY - seriously, he plays some great bass there that gives the music more life, depth and variety - but this mix literally takes it out of proportion.
Listening to the 1994 Virgin CD right afterwards was a real relief: what a clear, well-balanced plastic (in the sense of plasticity) mix! I guess that for the time being, this will have been not only the first but also the last listening of the 2021 mix (other than for analytical purposes, maybe). Unfortunately I can't compare with the original LP from back in 1981 because my turntable's not working. (Also, the LP got quite some spins over the years/decades, so possibly suffered a bit from that, too.)
I can't compare to the CBS or Japan SHM versions because I don't have them. Otherwiser, the Stones CDs that were available in my area before the Virgin CDs came out were just flat-sounding and very hissy, so I skipped them (and saved a lot of dough - hard to believe nowadays but there was a time when CDs were really expensive...).
As for the Lost&Found disc, I will have to listen to that one a few more times. At first listening there was nothing that really blew me off the sofa - or rather maybe, nothing I would have wished to be part of the TY album. Somehow the songs are too different in character from what ended up on TY. As with other bonus CDs, I feel like they (or here, Kimsey, or Mick) had good reasons why they were ultimately not chosen for the original album. They might have made an interesting follow-up to TY, though (and spared us their nadir album Undercover ...).
So, and now that TY40 is off the list, let's hope that they will really finish the bloody new album once the tour is over ...
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DandelionPowderman
According to Kimsey this version is from the BAB-sessions.
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Mathijs
...The backing track of this new 2021 release of SMU is available in tape traders circles...
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Mathijs
...The backing track of this new 2021 release of SMU is available in tape traders circles...
Stop pretending you don't have it. When have you ever shared anything here, you can do it now. Or tell your friend Remco to share it.
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Mathijs
...The backing track of this new 2021 release of SMU is available in tape traders circles...
Stop pretending you don't have it. When have you ever shared anything here, you can do it now. Or tell your friend Remco to share it.
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Bashlets
To me Wembley is the the highlight of the reissue. Great show
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DandelionPowderman
According to Kimsey this version is from the BAB-sessions.
That's not about the deluxe version, though, it simply says 'first reggae version' or whatever as in that's when they started working on it. This is an earlier take than the LP take from 1977.
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DandelionPowderman
According to Kimsey this version is from the BAB-sessions.
That's not about the deluxe version, though, it simply says 'first reggae version' or whatever as in that's when they started working on it. This is an earlier take than the LP take from 1977.
Have you read the book that came with the superdeluxe-set? Kimsey is saying that this version, on LP2, is indeed from the BAB-sessions. I'll see if I can dig up a pic of the quote later.
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doitywoik
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Listening to the 1994 Virgin CD right afterwards was a real relief: what a clear, well-balanced plastic (in the sense of plasticity) mix! I guess that for the time being, this will have been not only the first but also the last listening of the 2021 mix (other than for analytical purposes, maybe). Unfortunately I can't compare with the original LP from back in 1981 because my turntable's not working. (Also, the LP got quite some spins over the years/decades, so possibly suffered a bit from that, too.)
I can't compare to the CBS or Japan SHM versions because I don't have them. Otherwiser, the Stones CDs t
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