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

CD n°2

18a (1’29) - ‘short jam’ - instrumental a/k/a Warm Up Jam
18b (1’08) - ‘short jam’ - reworked
19a (8’40) - Worried About You 1 - instrumental, slower version
19b (8’57) - Worried About You 1 - reworked as FP 075: decelerated by -7% in 4 sequences
20a (2’33) - Worried About You 2 - instrumental, faster version
20b (2’26) - Worried About You 2 - reworked as FP 075 : decelerated by -7%
cf. also sequence 25 for another take
21a (3’10) - ‘slow ballad’ - instrumental
21b (3’15) - ‘slow ballad’ - reworked
22a (5’09) - ‘funky jam 1’ - instrumental, with Billy Preston on synth
22b (5’09) - ‘funky jam 1’ - instrumental, with Billy Preston on synth
23a (8’17) - ‘funky jam 2’ - instrumental, with less Billy Preston on synth
23b (5’23) - ‘funky jam 2’ - reworked
23c (3’10) - Freeway Jam 1 - reworked
The 2nd part of 23a is a Freeway Jam take
24a (6’18) - Freeway Jam 2 - instrumental, with Jeff Beck on guitar, several takes
24b (6’38) - Freeway Jam 2 - reworked
25a (0’41) - Worried About You 3 - instrumental, with Billy Preston on keyboards
25a (0’41) - Worried About You 3 - reworked
26a (3’03) - Freeway Jam 3 - instrumental
26b (3’12) - Freeway Jam 3 - reworked
27a (2’17) - Freeway Jam 4 - instrumental
27b (2’24) - Freeway Jam 4 - reworked
28a (2’28) - ‘rock rhythm 2’ - nearly instrumental, some shouting
28b (2’00) - ‘rock rhythm 2’ - reworked
29a (1’15) - English Rose 2 - with vocals
29b (1’17) - English Rose 2 - reworked
30a (4’45) - Men Eating Women 2 - with vocals
30b (4’32) - Men Eating Women 2 - reworked
31a (1’27) - ‘funky jam 3’ - with vocals
31b (1’01) - ‘funky jam 3’ - reworked
32a (3’21) - ‘12-bar blues 2’ - a/k/a Slow Blues, with MJ on vocals in the off and harmonica
32b (3’23) - ‘12-bar blues 2’ - reworked
33a (3’48) - Windmill 1- playback a/a/a Wind Call (this version is aptly named!)
33b (2’17) - Windmill 1- reworked
34a (2’32) - Waiting On A Friend - playbackpart only
34b (2’22) - Waiting On A Friend - reworked as FP 076
35a (1’35) - Criss Cross - playback part only
35a (1’14) - Criss Cross - reworked
36a (2’27) - Windmill 2 - playback, part only, very bad quality
36b (2’29) - Windmill 2 - reworked
37a (2’29) - Windmill 3 - nearly complete
37b (2’29) - Windmill 3 - reworked
38a (4’22) - Tops - instrumental; playback, lots of digital noises
38b (4’34) - Tops - reworked as FP 075
38c (3’22) - Tops - version Pignose 026 reworked
Bonus
39b (0’49) - You Know What I Mean - a/k/a ‘funky jam’ mix from S061 (right channel) & Pignose 026 (left channel)





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

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com

Thanks a lot!
CrazyMama

Thank you !

Thank You

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Nice FP's

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Thanks Norbert

Thank you Norbert!

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Thanks very much!!!

Many Thanks indeed

Thank you for Volume 4.

Thanks a lot!

THX

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Also available in Stonesvault here [iorr.org]

This is some Hot rough stuff but I can dig it! The Dirty Work "outsider" tapes however were too much for me. I had to draw the line there!