Always live, with the 'boys' (just for AdrianL) playing it on stage......

DandelionPowderman Wrote:
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> That's Brussels 1973.


I wasn't questioning it's pedigree ,just stating a fact that I had it on a vinyl boot that I've had for 27-28 years ,haven't played it for 19 years though so I did not make the connection.

Recently Saitama was a bloody good version but i always seem to find my way back to 72/73 vintage

Andy

Was anyone at the LA Forum last year? My recollection is that it just smoked, but I have not heard the boot.

<I wasn't questioning it's pedigree ,just stating a fact that I had it on a vinyl boot that I've had for 27-28 years ,haven't played it for 19 years though so I did not make the connection.>

I have it too. Great vinyl sound.

Yeah..."Ya-Ya's" is my personal favorite as well. I like the slower, sexy, stealthy tempo of the earlier versions. After that the song went frenetic, then bombastic. The live version now with the flashing lights and Jagger's spazz dance is simply cheezy. It's a sure fire concert hit, but it's a very cheap thrill.

Hamburg 15th August, that is my absolute favorite. Never liked the live version of this song so much as in Hamburg!

MR from the bootleg titled 'Meatwhistle and Box lunch," probably 1972 New York.

Keith sings middle verse. Maybe 17 minutes long.

Powerful.

Always thought that the "Get Yer Ya-Ya's out" was the best...
Until 17th of July in Bucharest...

Brussels 73

Interesting that re-establishing MR as the centerpiece of the show took 30 years. The 72-73 versions were good, but they really didn't get their groove back until maybe 2003, with that fantastic MSG version (which is on FF). On every subsequent boot I've heard, the song has been consistently excellent (with Saitama being one of the best of the ABB tour).

BTW, there IS a 1990 version on "Cold Steel Blue (Tokyo)", but I didn't care for it. (The guitars were too clean, and Chuck "plinked" it to death. In the 21st century, they've restored the "ballsy" sound.)



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Toronto #1 '75 is my favourite.

my favorite version is Ft. Worth 6/24/72 2nd show.

It's on "Ft. Worth Express", "Philadelphia Special" and the "1972 Unreleased Decca Live Album".

Silver Dagger Wrote:
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> For me Midnight Rambler is still the best song for
> seeing the Stones' hitting a groove and jamming it
> for anything up to 14 minutes. My personal fave is
> the one on the Mick's Birthday boot - Madison Sq
> Gardens July 26 1972.
>
> I'd be interested to hear of equally heroic
> versions - especially ones longer than the
> standard 11 minutes.

Not my fav but i still think Basel 1990 was a very hot version!!

Oakland 99 for me, one of the encores. smoking hot

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> Da True Blues Opera = Ya Yas


Hmmm Yeah greetings to Philly!!! It really was the soundtrack of my youth....my band had this name!

Brussels 1973, Paris 2006

Oh yes, Paris 2006's version was incredibly good.

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> Oh yes, Paris 2006's version was incredibly good.


Eh Jim, I didn't expect hearing that from you

Hamburg 2007!

skelly Wrote:
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> Midnight Rambler on Brussels Affair - The best
> live recording of any song by any artist ever!
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> IMO


AGREED


I have said this to many people I know
Best version of any song by anybody.

Rambler on Brussels is the best live song EVER recorded

I still think, overall, that Ya Yas is the best...the whole record...best Rock'n'Roll record of all time...not just as a live LP, but ANY Rock'n'Roll Record...NOTHING compares to it. they were hungry then...not so now.

JR

Nope -- NOT Brussels 73 -- they play it way too fast.

On the Saitama vid they got the tempo down cold. Watch it.



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Leeds 71 is my favorite

It was shit f***ing hot at the O2 tonight, I can tell you. Just got back. Jesus, it was long, steamy and really intense.

Just love the song - for me it's the very essence of the Stones.

London #2 - tonight's version was absolutely unbelievable. Keith was incredible, and Ronnie reproduced Mick Taylor's solo from Ya Ya's - it was soooooo great.

Tonight was very, very, very good. Saitama still gets my vote because the video is so good, and it is great to have something for the collection and the memories.

Superb version tonight!!

Yeh, tonight was the best version I have seen live. I take back my earlier choice.

a second vote for Leeds 71
such a thick sound
was that an SG Mick was playing with the treble rolled off the humbuckers?