UNDERCOVER SESSIONS
Presentation, objectives and thanks:
An attempt to compile all UNDERCOVER sessions that are in circulation and to rework them

This project was initiated in April/May 2019. In this period parts of the Art Collins Tapes (tapes from the estate of Art Collins, a former executive of Rolling Stones Records) came in circulation on The Outsider Bird Records ‘Bird's Vault’-series and also on DAC.
Fiddling with them around at first, I noticed that most of them had speed problems. First I started with the tracks that also appear on official albums, making synchronization mixes to find out the correct speed. Lots of the files from the Undercover sessions on the Art Collins Tapes (a/k/a ACT) needed to be decelerated by -3,863%, sometimes they were already decelerated on the published bootlegs… but not always in the correct speed.
So I started with OBR, then the DAC ones. Later I decided to make a compilation of all the circulating material from the Undercover sessions. At last I decided to put all the « circulated » versions in front of my reworked versions so you can make your own idea and delete what you don’t like…
Recently (March 2020) Mr D. decided to put the whole of the ACT in circulation. So I had to check them all to see what is newly circulating to be added to this compilation (in fact not too much except for the « Too Much Blood » variations)

I decided to post it in 7 parts, with for each volume the first CD containing only the untouched versions and the second my DIY. I left the many versions of "Too Much Blood" on the last two CD’s without reworking them: they form the 8th volume: a total of 16CD’s!
For this compilation I did not keep the versions that were used for official releases (b-sides, dub versions ...)
I used Nico Zentgraf's Rolling Stones Complete Works Database a lot: [www.nzentgraf.de] of which I tried to respect the chronology and the order of the proposed versions. It was not always easy to spot the different versions; the result is not perfect and surely criticizable. I was able to make (I certainly do!) errors ... I thank you in advance for helping me to rectify them. Don’t forget all this is done for pleasure and passion....
I also used the Rolling Stones Bootleg Database: [www.dbboots.com]
I thank them warmly and also my partners in crime, Jaap and nzb, for their advice and revisions!
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VOLUME 4 :

CD 4a (untouched versions) & CD 4b (reworked versions)
PartII°] 11th November - 19th December: Boulogne Billancourt (near Paris), France, Pathé-Marconi Studios. Producer: The Glimmer Twins & Chris Kimsey. Sound engineer: Chris Kimsey. Additional musicians: Jim Barber (gtr, bass), Chuck Leavell (keyb).

01a - Keep It Cool #1 (21’07)(DAC 181) -long version
01b - Keep It Cool #1 (21’29) mix with DAC 181 (already decelerated by -1,673%) and DAC 159 with speed correction of -2,19%
02a - Keep It Cool #2 (09’40)(DAC 159) -"short" version, nearly 10 minutes long
02b - Keep It Cool #2 (09’40)(duplicated)
03a - Keep It Cool #3 (ACT 12-01) (9’59 ) another « short » version without count in, drums in the end seems anterior to #2 call Keep It Cool #1 on ACT
03b - Keep It Cool (10’2) channel reequilibred +20% to the right channel speed corrected -1,16%
04a - Looking For Trouble (3’07) (DAC 11)
04b - Looking For Trouble (3’07) (duplicated)
05a - Melobar (6’28) (OBR) –instrumental called Mick’s Idea on ACT 16-07
05b - Melobar (6’31) (speed corrected & duplicated) OBR was accelerated by 0,795
06a - Munich Hilton #5 (5’40) (DAC 111) but titled Munich Hilton IV -includes the ‘Brown Leaves/Dancing Girls’- riff and piano Note : Munich Hilton called « V » on DAC 111 is in fact « instrumental Reggae » cf. before !
06b - Munich Hilton #5 (5’40) (duplicated)
07a - Pink Pick (2’51) (OBR) –instrumental
07b - Pink Pick (2’52) (speed corrected & duplicated) OBR was acelerated by +0,815%
08a- Pretty Beat Up #1 (6’13) (DAC 110) -instrumental
08b- Pretty Beat Up #1 (mix of DAC &OBR) decelerated at the same speed as #2
09a - Pretty Beat Up (5’04) (ACT 6-11) more elaborated (working title: Xmas Issue)
09b - Pretty Beat Up (5’15) synchro with official version by decelerating from -3,220%
10a- Pretty Beat Up #2 (4’21) (DAC 109) -version I with additional harmonica and guitars
10b - Pretty Beat Up #2 (4’18) (duplicated)





Posted by StonyRoad in 2020 on IORR: [iorr.org]
link valid until 25/04/20
[we.tl]
next tomorrow

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2020-04-18 12:53 by StonyRoad.

Thank you

Thanks!

Thanks a lot!
CrazyMama

Thanks, Norbert!!!

Thanks a lot Norbert!

Thanks Norbert [and for the previous three] great project.

Thank you

Biggest compliments, you did another great work!

Thank you

Thank you a lot...again Norbert!

Thank you very much

Thanks much!!!

Thanks.

THX

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2020-04-18 22:25 by stonesmuziekfan.

Thanks