Hang Fire: A Rolling Stones Podcast - "The Best Show Ever where we highlight incredible bootleg recordings from the Stones' massive bootleg world. A super special one today as we go back to 1967 in Paris for one of the Stones' most explosive shows ever caught on tape!"

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The second installment of Hang Fire: A Rolling Stones Podcast series" on YouTube features the Stones in 1967 in Paris... and it is a revelation to a lot of people.

The Stones in 60's were a force live... it is so easy to forget what they represented and how they were the point/counterpoint to the Fab Four... but man, they had everything... the hits, the power, the cultural cache, the chops, the intensity of performance, and the LOOK. They were the total package. Unbeatable. And on stage, they brought the noiz. I remember reading about David Crosby complaining about the Stones after Altamont, that they "still thought it was 1967"... that they invited violence and bedlam and an uncontrollable energy... well, shit... for the Stones at their peak, it was always pandemonium and chaos... and a sense of incredible aura and ecstasy too. And, yes, a hint of real violence. No wonder. Imagine being a kid in 1967 (as I was) and the radio is filled with songs like "To Sir, With Love", and "Windy", and "I'm a Believer" and "Never My Love" and "San Francisco /Wear Flowers in your Hair), (all great songs, mind you), and then you go to a Rolling Stones concert and you hear THIS... Brian Jones at his preening musical peak, Charlie sounding like Bonzo behind a punk band, Keith riffing wildly, Wyman providing a massive bottom... and Jagger howling like a jaguar in a rage...

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... it is nothing short of The Sex Pistols with radio hits... as transgressive and savage... no wonder that tour was a succession of music halls demolished, chairs flying in all directions, and thousands of kids outside without tickets fighting with the cops...

This tour cooked!






Sure wish we had a higher quality copy of London Palladium '67.



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Sure wish we had a higher quality copy of London Palladium '67.

Strange as it may (will!) seem, it's hard to overstate the enormous FUSS after the Palladium performance when the band refused to partake in the standard Grand Finale which required them to get onto a rotating stage and wave at the audience.

For (January) 1967 is was as big a social offence as you could imagine.

See pages 256/7 of "Rolling With The Stones".

Bootleg collectors will be extremely fascinated to learn that the show was "videotaped" by Paul McCartney - so now you know who to call/write to, to get hold of a good video copy from 1967.

Captain Corella

I have A L'Olympia 1967 on vinyl and it doesn't sound as clean as this.. Do you know if there was more than one recording of that show? Or maybe with technology someone was able to clean it up for youtube



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Paris 1967 was officially released on iTunes, with some studio outtakes and TV appearances. The sound was somewhat enhanced.

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This tour cooked!






Sure wish we had a higher quality copy of London Palladium '67.

"It's All Over Now" for the London Palladium show was recorded in the studio.

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Paris 1967 was officially released on iTunes, with some studio outtakes and TV appearances. The sound was somewhat enhanced.

Wow, thanks. Had no idea

Great podcast and a real pleasure to hear that improved sound.

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soundboard

Sure wish we had a higher quality copy of London Palladium '67.

Strange as it may (will!) seem, it's hard to overstate the enormous FUSS after the Palladium performance when the band refused to partake in the standard Grand Finale which required them to get onto a rotating stage and wave at the audience.

For (January) 1967 is was as big a social offence as you could imagine.

See pages 256/7 of "Rolling With The Stones".

Bootleg collectors will be extremely fascinated to learn that the show was "videotaped" by Paul McCartney - so now you know who to call/write to, to get hold of a good video copy from 1967.

Hey Captain Corella,
That would be cool to see!
Come on, Paul!

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This tour cooked!






Sure wish we had a higher quality copy of London Palladium '67.

"It's All Over Now" for the London Palladium show was recorded in the studio.

Great info - thanks exilestones.
Do you happen to know if it was the backing track or with vocals?

My sleeve notes from our Palladium EP
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By 1967 Sunday Night At The London Palladium was essential family viewing. How would the Stones manage to maintain their bad boy reputation whilst still promoting their latest single? Easy. At the end of each show all the artists mounted a rotating roundabout and smiled and waved. Not the Stones. “ I thought we’d gone far enough by doing the show” claimed Jagger. “Anyway, Andrew and I had a great row about it which made an excellent front page in the Daily Mirror which I was very pleased with. “ That would be Andrew Loog Oldham, Stones manager and media manipulator supreme.

The way the band looked was equally divisive. In the NME for January 28th fan Sue Baxter acclaimed the Stones appearance “Brilliant! Who else but them would dare to appear in the gear they wore?”. However reader Tony Hughes from Glamorgan was less impressed “in very bad taste…they could have made an effort to look reasonably respectable.”

Coming a poor third to outrage and appearance was the music. Connection is an audacious start, featuring Keith Richard’s debut lead vocal. Then follows a version of Ruby Tuesday with live vocals over a prepared backing track. Side Two opens with a radically different arrangement of It’s All Over Now, specially recorded at Olympic Studios. Finally an ebullient Let’s Spend The Night Together, again with live vocals.

If only they’d played Around and Around…

We also released two pretty cool live vinyl Paris LP's

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This tour cooked!






Sure wish we had a higher quality copy of London Palladium '67.

"It's All Over Now" for the London Palladium show was recorded in the studio.

Great info - thanks exilestones.
Do you happen to know if it was the backing track or with vocals?

Wyman writes that the entire thing was done with pre-recorded backing tracks and Jagger sang live. (Source: Rolling With The Stones. Op. Cit.)

The version of "It's All Over Now" is unusually interesting as it almost has a reggae beat to it.

Captain Corella

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I have A L'Olympia 1967 on vinyl and it doesn't sound as clean as this.. Do you know if there was more than one recording of that show? Or maybe with technology someone was able to clean it up for youtube

IMO the best quality can be found on Paris Match (DAC-007): [iorr.org]
They used the rebroadcast in excellent quality for most songs, only a few songs that were not rebroadcasted are from the old original broadcast in worse quality.

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snoopy2
I have A L'Olympia 1967 on vinyl and it doesn't sound as clean as this.. Do you know if there was more than one recording of that show? Or maybe with technology someone was able to clean it up for youtube

IMO the best quality can be found on Paris Match (DAC-007): [iorr.org]
They used the rebroadcast in excellent quality for most songs, only a few songs that were not rebroadcasted are from the old original broadcast in worse quality.

Great, thank you