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LeonidP
I almost agree. I prefer 1972 over 1978, but yes, 1978 also tops Ya Yas ... and don't get me wrong, I also love Ya Yas version! It's just a great song, studio included, and it was probably their best ever choice of a cover!
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TravelinMan
There are some pretty hot versions in 1970 and ‘71 as well.
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LiveAtHidepark
I prefer the 1969 Taylor solos, simple and perfect. I think he is overplaying in 1972.
And I prefer Brian Jones guitar playing at the Rock n Roll Circus over Keith, since Keith is overplaying. Everyone can have their opinion , but how anyone can say his playing on the Love in Vain 1972 Ft Worth show is overplayiong and not brillant is like saying Bach overplaysQuote
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LiveAtHidepark
I prefer the 1969 Taylor solos, simple and perfect. I think he is overplaying in 1972.
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Taylor1
Nothing could top the 1972 performance from Ft Worth on the Ladies and Gentlemen movie. Taylor's blues solos are as great as any on recordvideo: [youtu.be]
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TheflyingDutchman
This is my favourite version, Taylor's solos are delicious. Thanks to Kleermaker.
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TheflyingDutchman
Essen 1970, "ice cream in the foyer".
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Taylor1
Nothing could top the 1972 performance from Ft Worth on the Ladies and Gentlemen movie. Taylor's blues solos are as great as any on recordvideo: [youtu.be]
I think the version in L&G is from Houston. But that said, if I had to choose my all-time favorite version of LIV, it's a tie between the two Fort Worth shows on the 1972 tour. They're majestic. Just majestic.
That has none of the emotional power of the 1972 performances.The Johnson version is a feeling of resignation.Whereas the 1972 version captures the angst of the story.How anyone cannot see the brilliance of Taylor’s solos,especially the second,is beyond me.I love a lot of Ron Woods work, and on some tracks,like Tumbling Dice, I like his versions better than the ones with Taylor.But to say his Love in Vains are definitive is sillyQuote
DandelionPowderman
I like the outtake where they play it Robert Johnson-style from 1969.
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Taylor1That has none of the emotional power of the 1972 performances.The Johnson version is a feeling of resignation.Whereas the 1972 version captures the angst of the story.How anyone cannot see the brilliance of Taylor’s solos,especially the second,is beyond me.I love a lot of Ron Woods work, and on some tracks,like Tumbling Dice, I like his versions better than the ones with Taylor.But to say his Love in Vains are definitive is sillyQuote
DandelionPowderman
I like the outtake where they play it Robert Johnson-style from 1969.
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Doxa
"Love in Vain" is one of those songs the Stones never can do much wrong with. I mean, is there any actually 'bad' version of it, no matter when they did it (there might be, but I can't really remember any now - it could be that I have skipped those a long time ago and my memory is limited). No matter how the rest of the gig goes, when they get to play that one, they seem to concentrate and sound awesome, clicking with each other. That's strange because the song is a pretty delicated and fragile piece, deep stuff to play, that is, slow as hell, asking a right feel, and no way to hide any f..kups.
Just thinking of the ones I most listen - say, YA-YA'S ´69, Leeds '71, Ladies and Gents '72, Texas '78 - I think each of them is perfect by its own means. With that I mean that when I listen any of them I don't hear anything missing or thinking 'that and that should played better or somehow otherwise'. Any choice - say, arrangements, guitar solos, Mick's vocals - just sounds apt in that very context. And when talking about perfection it is useless to put them in any order of preference. The best is the one I happen to listen at the moment...
- Doxa