I got an italian boot the other day, called "Beast of Eden" which is quite amazing. Among it's mostly fantastic tracks is a nice Mick Jagger remake of Memory Motel which sounds like an outtake of Primitive Cool. Although it suffers a bit from the typical "keyboard treatment", I really like the vocals on this.

Does anybody have more information on this track? And what's your opinion on this one?



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from nzentgraf.de:

870100C early January - late February: MICK JAGGER. Barbados, Blue Wave Studios.
Producer: MJ and Dave Stewart.
Musicians: MJ (voc, gtr)/Dave Stewart (gtr)/Patrick Seymour (keyb)/
Dean Garcia (bass)/Olle Romo (drum programming)/Simon
Phillips (dr)/Harrison College Choir (bvoc on Let’s Work)
- Kow Tow I (MJ/Dave Stewart) -unverified
- Let’s Work I (MJ/Dave Stewart) -unverified
- Memory Motel (MJ/KR) -new version, soundtrack for Beyond The Groove-movie
- Say You Will I (MJ/Dave Stewart) -unverified
- Throwaway I (MJ) -unverified
Note: The new version of Memory Motel maybe stems from a different
(unidentified) session.

Thanx TooTough, I should've looked there first ;-)
But there must have been another guitar player involved. The intro doesn't sound like Dave Stewart at all... Maybe Jeff Beck?



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Was Beyond the Groove an actual movie? I can't seem to find anything for it online?

Same with me. Unreleased maybe?

Really like this version.

Can anyone send me this song please! I never heard it and I love Memory Motel!

clarog@terra.com.br

Thank you!

So I'm assuming then that no one here knows whether or not Beyond the Groove is an actual movie with a soundtrack out there somewhere....

It was evidently a TV show Co-produced by Dave Stewart:

Facebook link with Beyond The Groove mention

I used to go to this studio and there were clouds of smoke in the corner. But I never met Jimmy at the time. Then, in the 1980s, I co-produced a TV series called Beyond the Groove and Jimmy did a live performance of "Save our Planet Earth" from Mulholland Drive in LA, but I wasn't there because I was on tour.



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It was Broadcast in GB in 1990:

BFI listing for Beyon The Groove

TV Transmission
BEYOND THE GROOVE: BEYOND THE GROOVE[05/08/90]
Transmission date05/08/1990
CountryGreat Britain
Series/SlotBEYOND THE GROOVE
Start time20:00
Stop time20:30
Duration30 mins.
CompanyNot available
ChannelChannel Four


Library Synopsis
Fictional businessman Sir Harold Blandford takes a musical odyssey across America. In this programme he travels south into Cajun country.


Top five credits
DirectorPOMPHREY, Roger
Production CompanyPalace Television
Production CompanySquink Productions
CreatorSTEWART, David A.
ProducerRAPPAPORT, IrvingMore...


Top five cast
On-screen ParticipantGELDOF, Bob
On-screen ParticipantLANG, k.d.
On-screen ParticipantLOVETT, Lyle
On-screen ParticipantDirty Dozen Brass Band

I think that this version can also be found on the "Trough The Years - A Collection Of Solo Performances 1982-93" (TSP-191) CD bootleg.

Nice version, can now be heard here :

Great .....and now I understand his voice better.............. it sounds 2011

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Beautiful. Was it recorded in 1990?

No, check the message date March 27, 2008 12:08 above ;-)

You say that production is via Dave Stewart? It's funny - that slide, I would have said it was a D Stewart slide, or at least produced through him. He's not the grooviest slide player... I love the strummed guitars (sounds like 12 strings) from end of Verse 1 on.
Jagger is the best though.

this song isn't much worth without Keiths singing parts...

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The intro i so Gilmour's

Satriani comes to mind too, or at least the guy who plays the slide on some instrumentals from the 1988 Australian tour, could be Jimmy Rip.