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hbwriter
So interesting. With this tour in particular I find myself so locked in to get your Yaya‘s out after living with it for so long, but then every bootleg I hear is so different than what they ended up with. It always becomes more obvious how much post-production they did when you hear a raw version like this but honestly, I’ll take anything from this tour. They were still figuring things out as a live entity, in a way they were starting over, and I feel like this tour was truly the modern Rolling Stones being born.

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pmk251
I have considered SFTD to be the seminal song demonstrating the evolution of the band on this tour, primarily for the later inclusion of the second solo by Taylor. But LIV is another and perhaps better example because we have a late tour reportedly unadulterated performance from Baltimore that made it on to Ya-Ya's. Listening to the LIV's in chronological order gives you an almost outtake feeling until you get to the final product in Baltimore. Amazingly, Taylor knocked off another stellar version 3 years later captured in L&G.

On Friday the band opened in Colorado; then played 2 shows in Inglewood; 2 shows in Oakland; and a this show in San Diego on Monday. The San Diego show sounds a bit tired to me, but this recording is a gem nonetheless.

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Taylor1
]Always interesting how many songs Keith plays the solos on albums but not live, like Love in Vain,Happy, Tumbling Dice, Luxury, Wild Horses, Satisfaction,1969, You Can’t Always Get What You Want,Stray Cat Blues and others

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Taylor1
]Always interesting how many songs Keith plays the solos on albums but not live, like Love in Vain,Happy, Tumbling Dice, Luxury, Wild Horses, Satisfaction,1969, You Can’t Always Get What You Want,Stray Cat Blues and others

They hired Taylor for his Lead Guitar skills basically, I think.

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Taylor1
]Always interesting how many songs Keith plays the solos on albums but not live, like Love in Vain,Happy, Tumbling Dice, Luxury, Wild Horses, Satisfaction,1969, You Can’t Always Get What You Want,Stray Cat Blues and others

They hired Taylor for his Lead Guitar skills basically, I think.

But Wood plays and has played the solos on most of those songs as well

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DandelionPowderman
.... Keith has played the guitar solos on Satisfaction live for some 45 years, though.

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hbwriter
So interesting. With this tour in particular I find myself so locked in to get your Yaya‘s out after living with it for so long, but then every bootleg I hear is so different than what they ended up with. It always becomes more obvious how much post-production they did when you hear a raw version like this but honestly, I’ll take anything from this tour. They were still figuring things out as a live entity, in a way they were starting over, and I feel like this tour was truly the modern Rolling Stones being born.

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Taylor1
Always interesting how many songs Keith plays the solos on albums but not live, like Love in Vain,Happy, Tumbling Dice, Luxury, Wild Horses, Satisfaction,1969, You Can’t Always Get What You Want,Stray Cat Blues and others

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hbwriter
So interesting. With this tour in particular I find myself so locked in to get your Yaya‘s out after living with it for so long, but then every bootleg I hear is so different than what they ended up with. It always becomes more obvious how much post-production they did when you hear a raw version like this but honestly, I’ll take anything from this tour. They were still figuring things out as a live entity, in a way they were starting over, and I feel like this tour was truly the modern Rolling Stones being born.

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GasLightStreet
Ha ha... it is bizarre how some performances were completely different from another on that 1969 tour. I'm Free was a disaster every show but some were atrocious, like San Diego. T

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Zotz
Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler - Altamont Speedway Dec 6th 1969

The last performance of this song on the tour. They played it every night, but it still has that delicious feeling of the band winging it. Perhaps they did not know what they had in Taylor or what he was going to do or play. Keith keeps the structure of the songs intact (who else is going to do it?) and you can feel the confidence of the band (and in Taylor) grow during those weeks. There must have been a OMG moment (or two) when they realized we are playing at a new level, even if we are winging it across the country. I love this tour. There is nothing like it. By '72 it was something different, impressive, but different.