The BLACK AND BLUE sessions

Part V°] Rehearsals, recordings (and playbacks of already recorded tracks)

22nd January - 9th February: Rotterdam, Holland, De Doelen, Mobile Record Unit. Producers: The Glimmer Twins. Sound engineers: Keith Harwood, Glyn Johns.
Additional musicians: Billy Preston (p, org, string synthesizer, bvoc)/Jeff Beck (gtr)/ & maybe others.

Most of these recording were made by putting a microphone in the mailbox of the Stones recording truck. Some recordings were made secretly inside the truck. Others were made from the outside because it was to dangerous to put the mike in the mailslot. (precision gived by Virtual_Nobody nine years ago)
So this recordings are for warning collectors!

The ‘playbacks’ are leftovers from GHS- and IORR-previous sessions which The Rolling Stones seemed to listen to during these sessions.

The mainly first 3 parts from these recordings are coming from my copy of «1975 Rehearsals In Rotterdam» (MC 142). They are in bad quality (see before) and some tracks have digital noises (in particuliar tracks 10 & 11 of cd n°3)… this defaults seem to exist in all version I found.
BlueTurns2 Grey sent me a transfer from his tapes, interesting for the 4th part of these recordings in particuliar for the ‘Slave/vagina’ segments. His source is a set of 4 cassettes from 1984, simply called "Rotterdam Rehearsals Jan./Feb. 1975 Part I - IV": I call them ‘BT2G’ in my compilation.
When the source is not precised it means it’s coming from the «MC 142 - 4 cds box».

In the reworked parts I tried to improve them in particuliar changing the speed, amplifying the sound, deleting thousands of pops, noises etc…
I deleted some segments too much noisy and unpleasant to listen or without any interest (noise from the street etc…).
I used no noise reduction and deleted all the noises, one by one, with Audacity («my 10 cents logiciel»)
The recent appearance of the «Fully Finished» tracks permited to re-evaluated more precisely the speed correction for the tracks… for example «Buit That Way» is 5% slower as the «Boogie Jam» used as backing track: so I used 5% deceleration for the tracks unless it is specified…
The number for the sequences are referring to their order in the MC-142 production, (it’s not the chronology of the sessions or the take number) it’s also the order in Nico Zentgraf site. I also used the same name for the sequences.
Last warning: this collection is for the completists and, in particuliar the 4th cd, is sometimes hard to listen, but there’re also lots of gems for who likes to follow the way the Stones were in this very special period.

A big thanks to my usual partners in crime nzb and Jaap but also to Enrique (‘Quiquestone’) who spent a long time to check and correct my textfiles and covers and to BlueTurns2Grey who sent me his tape transfers for these recordings.

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CD n°1

01a (5’51) - ‘blues rhythm 1’- instrumental, merely one riff by KR (plus lead gtr and org)
01b (5’36) -‘blues rhythm 1’ - reworked
02b (3’20) - ‘blues rhythm 2’ - instrumental, now with bass and drums as well
02b (3’32) - ‘blues rhythm 2’ - reworked after 2’ looks like a pre-Hot Stuff riff
03a (6’02) - ‘slow jam’ - instrumental
03b (4’03) - ‘slow jam’ - reworked, reggae flavour, Hot Stuff riff not far away
04a (4’30) - ‘12-bar blues 1’ - instrumental,
04b (3’11) - ‘12-bar blues 1’ - reworked, with harmonica (cf. another take at seq. 32, 73 & 74)
05a (1’54) - ‘rock rhythm 1’ - instrumental
05b (1’55) - ‘rock rhythm 1’ - reworked, big digital noise deleted at 0’13 great JB work
06a (2’02) - ‘rock rhythm 2’ - instrumental
06b1 (0’20) - ‘rock rhythm 2’ - reworked not much to keep
06b2 (0’21) - ‘English Rose 1’ - reworked short intro for the next sequence
07a (2’16) - English Rose 1 - playback, part only
07b (2’21) - English Rose 1- reworked
07c (1’09) - English Rose 1 - mix with GS3 (left channel decelerated by -7,3%) & Seq 07b (right channel)
08a (4’14) - Men Eating Women 1 - playback
08b (4’17) - Men Eating Women 1 - reworked
08c (3’15) - Men Eating Women 1 - GS 3 version reworked: decelerated by -7%, channel requilibred (+1,5 for the right), pops deleted.
09a (1’27) - ‘funky rhythm’ - instrumental, James Brown-like; MJ vocals in the off
09b (0’56) - ‘funky rhythm’ - reworked
10a (1’03) - ‘slow blues part 1’ seems ‘12-bar blues’ continued (for next part see seq…)
10b (0’56) - ‘slow blues part 1’ - reworked
11a (4’52) - Built that Way 1 - instrumental (a/k/a Boogie Jam) several takes
11b (4’46) - Built That Way 1 - reworked
12a (5’00) - Built That Way 2 - instrumental
12b (5’12) - Built That Way 2 - reworked decelerated by 1%
13a (6’33) - Built That Way 3 - instrumental
13b (6’36) - Built That Way 3 - reworked decelerated by 1%
14a (4’27) - Built That Way 4 - instrumental (nearly complete)
14b (4’37) - Built That Way 4 - reworked, decelerated by 1%
15a (3’07) - ‘MJ & CW’ interview
15b (2’57) - ‘MJ & CW’ interview - reworked decelerated by -7%, I must admit I didn’t polish this one too much!
16a (3’05) - ‘funky rhythm jam’ - instrumental, great impro by Jeff Beck
16b (3’07) - ‘funky rhythm jam’ - reworked, not to be confused with ‘funky jam’ and ‘funky rhythm’ =)
17a (1’56) - I Love Ladies - instrumental a/k/a Sexie Nite
17a (1’36) - I Love Ladies - reworked





Posted by StonyRoad in 2021 on IORR: [iorr.org]
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next volume tomorrow

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2021-06-19 11:48 by StonyRoad.

Editing these tracks is hard work. To go through all the noises from cars, motorcycles and passengers can't be done without lots of wine or beer and a big heart for the stones sessions. Some (tape) copies included partly the 1967 Surrey Rehearsals, nearly nobody registrated that. As far as i can remember, fans have been talking about 16 hours (!) that might be taped in Rotterdam De Doelen. If that's true, most of it is not circulating. So let's thank Norbert very much to have this done.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2021-06-19 13:03 by BlueTurns2Grey.

Thank You

Thanks a lot!
CrazyMama

Great stuff, thank you!

Thanks very much!!!

Many thanks

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THX

Thank you kindly for another volume!

Thank you

More great stuff, thanks !
I remember being kindly sent these four 90' tapes by Marclaf around 1998 in exchange for...nothing, I did transfer them to MP3 (128kbps at the time) and included them on a CD-R when I sent him back the tapes. It was fairly rare stuff at the time because I shared them with ChrisM a little bit later who had access to tons of great stuff (that he couldn't share unfortunately) and he didn't have them.

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Thank you very much

Thank you Norbert!

Thank you

Thanks

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