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°3

40a (1’44) - ‘slow ballad’ - instrumental
40b1(0’57) - ‘slow ballad’ - reworked
40b2 (0’19) - ‘instrumental jam’ (part 1) - reworked
The 2nd part of 40a is the first part of the instrumental jam
41a (1’27) - ‘instrumental jam’ (part 2) - with Jeff Beck on guitar
41b (1’10) - ‘instrumental jam’ (part 2) - reworked
42a (1’31) - Freeway Jam 5 - instrumental
42b (1’27) - Freeway Jam 5 - reworked
43a (2’50) - Shame, Shame, Shame - instrumental
43b (2’55) - Shame, Shame, Shame - reworked
43c (2’42) - Shame, Shame, Shame - reworked, mix from VGP 027 & GS 3
44a (6’48) - Vagina (Slave 1) - instrumental
44b (6’16) - Vagina (Slave 1) - reworked
Note cf. track 57 and cd n°4 for the other Slave versions
45a (1’02) - Built That Way 5 - instrumental, partial
45b (0’48) - Built That Way 5 - reworked
46a (11’35) - Built That Way 6 - instrumental, some shoutings in the first minute
46b (11’52) - Built That Way 6 - reworked
47a (4’45) - Built That Way 7 - instrumental
47b (4’36) - Built That Way 7 - reworked
48a (4’05) - interview with CW - in fact he only answer to a question!
48b1 (0’06) - interview with CW reworked
48b2 (3’10) - Crazy Mama 1 - fragments, piano overdub- session
The 2nd part of 48a are fragments of Crazy Mama
49a (3’55) - Crazy Mama 2 - with ghost-vocal, overdub-session
49b (3’49) - Crazy Mama 2 - reworked
Note: track destroyed by diginoises after 3’45!
50a (1’53) - I Got A Letter - with some vocals, piano overdub- session
50b (1’33) - I Got A Letter - rebuilt (first 6 seconds and some in the middle saved by deleting diginoises then the kept parts were reconnected)
Note: lots of digital noises in the first 9 seconds and from 0’45 until 1’15
51a (1’32) - Cherry Oh Baby - with some vocals
51b (1’37) - Cherry Oh Baby - reworked
52a (0’50) - Act Together 1 - instrumental
52b (0’50) - Act Together 1 - reworked
53a (2’15) - Act Together 2 - instrumental, guitar overdub-session
53b (2’21) - Act Together 2 - reworked, dozens of diginoises deleted
54a (3’05) - Fool To Cry - partial
54b (3’11) - Fool To Cry - reworked
55a (5’48) - Melody - longer version, vocal by MJ & BP
55b (6’00) - Melody - reworked
Note a big diginoise deleted at 3’33
56a (4’53) - Built that Way 8 - some vocals in the first segment, additional lead guitar
56b (4’55) - Built that Way 8 - reworked
57a (5’16) - Slave 2 - elaborated instrumental with some shoutings in the background
57b (5’30) - Slave 2 - reworked
Note: remember the number are not the chronological versions but the appeared order in the MC box!
58a (1’19) - ‘slow riff’ - instrumental
58b (1’15) - ‘slow riff’ - reworked
59a (7’29) - ‘long jam’ - instrumental, very bass-heavy
59b (6’28) - ‘long jam’ - reworked





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Norbert
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