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 6 :

CD 6a (untouched versions) & CD 6b (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 - Stop That #1 (4’27) (DAC 110) aka « Chain Saw Rocker » -with hardly audible guide vocals and piano ending
01b - Stop That #1 (4’27 (4’27) (decelerated by -0,47% to be synchro with the DAC 159 fragment & duplicated)
02a - Stop That #2 (OBR) (5’15) - longer than I and with studio-talk ending
02b - Stop That #2 (5’19) (duplicated & decelerated by -1,4% to be synchro with #3)
03a - Stop That #3 (4’13) (OBR) - with guitar ending
03b - Stop That #3 (4’13) (duplicated)
04a - Too Much Blood #1 (10’25) (DAC 110) - early long version with different lyrics - basic track with Mike Baker on guitar
04b – Too Much Blood #1 (10’32) (decelerated by -0,9% to be synchro with the official & duplicated)
05a - Too Much Blood #2 (2’42) (DAC 109 ) -early short version without horns - This version has an additionnal lead vocal track with « wanna dance, wanna sing » chorus & additional sounds
05b - Too Much Blood #2 (2’42) (duplicated)
06a - Too Tough #1 (5’26) (DAC 110) -early version, with KR singing the bridge (working title: XXX)
06b - Too Tough #1 (5’25) mix from DAC 110 & VGP 240 same version as on FP 049
07a - Tried To Talk Her Into It #1 (3’34) (DAC 110) -Jim Barber on 12-string gtr
07b - Tried To Talk Her Into It #1 (3’33) (duplicated)
08a - Tried To Talk Her Into It #2 (3’42) (DAC 159) -with pedal steel guitar & Jim Barber on 12-string
08b - Tried To Talk Her Into It #2 (3’42) (duplicated)
09a - Wanna Hold You #3 (7’04) (DAC 110) -early version with different lyrics
09b - Wanna Hold You #3 (7’06)( decelerated by -0,19% to be synchro with the official version)
10a - Wanna Hold You #4 (6’15) (DAC 109) -early version different lyrics & double tracked vocals
10b - Wanna Hold You #4 (6’16) (decelerated by -0,9% to be synchro official version & duplicated)

Part III : 30th January 1983 - ca. 9th February and 15th February - mid-March: Boulogne Billancourt (near Paris), France, Pathé-Marconi Studios. Producers: The Glimmer Twins & Chris Kimsey. Sound engineer: Chris Kimsey.
11a - Feel On Baby #1 (2’07) (OBR) -early short version with KR on vocals
11b - Feel On Baby #1 (2’07) mix with « Show Me Your Working » version decelerated by -0,734%
12a - Feel On Baby #2 (10’07) (DAC 182) -early long version with MJ on vocals
12b - Feel On Baby #2 (09’49) accelerated by +0,533% (was too much decelerated by DAC)
13a - I'm A Little Mixed Up #2 (7’04) (DAC111) (« All Mixed Up #2 ») -with (partly improvised) vocals
13b - I'm A Little Mixed Up #2 (7’05) (mixed with the R R version & speed correction of -6,195%





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Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com

Thank you so much !

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Another big thank you Norbert!

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