Re: Constructing the "Ultimate" live album from 1978
Posted by:
bassplayer617
()
Date: January 7, 2006 02:23
cc Wrote:
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> An appropriate challenge might to be choose a set
> of LP length. I would still keep the opener, "Let
> It Rock." And "Just My Imagination," which is
> quite long. The 2nd side would need at least 1
> cover too, though we could probably squeeze in
> both "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Hound Dog."
>
> And we have our versions of "All Down the Line,"
> "Tumbling Dice," and "Shattered." "@#$%&,"
> and "Beast" also need to be on there, as well as
> "HTW" and "JJF." I propose we could lose "Love in
> Vain," "Happy," and "Brown Sugar" (last one is a
> maybe) for this album. "...Whip...," too, since it
> was on Sucking In the Seventies (or was that an
> '81 version?).
>
> Side 1
> 1. Let it Rock
> 2. All Down the Line
> 3. Honky Tonk Women
> 4. @#$%&
> 5. Beast of Burden
> (6. Maybe cram Respectable or Far Away Eyes here,
> out of sequence, but I'd bet the stones would have
> left it at that)
>
> Side 2
> 1. Shattered
> 2. Just My Imagination
> 3. Tumbling Dice
> 4. Hound Dog
> 5. Sweet Little Sixteen
> 6. Jumping Jack Flash
>
> bonus 7" - Street Fighting Man/Happy
Interesting choices, cc. In my above post, I'm assuming that the 78 Live Albums offered an alternative to the release of "Love You Live", but, yeah, more covers made LYL an inevitability. "The States in 78" relies very heavily on then-recent material.