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°4

60a (4’00) - ‘Monkey Man riff’ (BT2G) - instrumental
60b (2’18) - ‘Monkey Man riff 1’ - reworked
60c (1’24) - ‘Monkey Man riff 2’ - reworked
Note: short segment coming from BT2G tape and absent from MC 142
61a (3’58) - Slave 3 (BT2G) - instrumental, guitar only
61a (3’45) - Slave 3 - reworked as FP 073
62a (1’52) - Slave 4 (BT2G) - instrumental, guitar and a little keyboards rehearsals
62b (1’49) - Slave 4 - reworked
63a (2’43) - Slave 5 (BT2G) - instrumental, guitar and a little keyboards rehearsals
63b (2’28) - Slave 5 - instrumental
64a (3’08) - Slave 6 (BT2G) - instrumental, guitar and a little more keyboards rehearsals
64b (3’02) - Slave 6 - reworked
65a (1’46) - Slave 7 (BT2G) - instrumental, guitar, more elaborated drums and keyboards
65b (1’27) - Slave 7 - reworked
66a (3’53) - Slave 8 (BT2G) - instrumental, more research on guitar
66b (3’40) - Slave 8 - reworked
67a (1’50) - Slave 9 (BT2G) - instrumental
67b (1’38) - Slave 9 - reworked
68a (2’25) - Slave 10 (BT2G) - instrumental
68b (2’03) - Slave 10 - reworked
68c (0’19) - Slave 10b - reworked
Note: short segment coming from MC 142 and absent from BT2G tape
69a (6’55) - Slave 11 - instrumental, more elaborated, some shouting
69b (6’27) - Slave 11 - reworked
70a (4’56) - ‘funky rhythm 1’ - instrumental
70b (4’52) - ‘funky rhythm 1’ - reworked
71a (0’52) - ‘funky rhythm 2’ - instrumental
71b (0’45) - ‘funky rhythm 2’ - reworked
72a (4’41) - ‘funky rhythm 3’ - instrumental
72b (4’51) - ‘funky rhythm 3’ - reworked
73a (2’34) - ’12-bar blues 3’ - with a little bit of harmonica
73b (1’54) - ’12-bar blues 3’- reworked
74a (1’21) - ’12-bar blues 4’ - with piano
74b (1’02) - ’12-bar blues 5’- reworked
75a (2’11) - ‘funky rhythm’ - instrumental, different to above
75a (2’10) - ‘funky rhythm’ - reworked
76a (0’54) - Slave 12 - short and noisy segment
76b1 (0’26) - Slave 12 - reworked
76b2 (0’51) - ‘boogie jam 1’ - reworked, with Jeff Beck on guitar
77a (1’39) - ‘boogie jam 2’ - instrumental, with Jeff Beck on guitar
77b (0’59) - ‘boogie jam 2’ - reworked
78a (0’59) - ‘long blues 1’- instrumental,
78b (0’57) - ‘long blues 1’- reworked
79a (2’11) - ‘long blues 2’- instrumental,
79b (2’17) - ‘long blues 2’- reworked
80a (3’47) - ‘long blues 3’- instrumental,
80b (3’50) - ‘long blues 3’- reworked
80c (3’08) - ‘long blues rebuilt’ (BT2G) - reworked
Note: different segments from BT2G cassette, reconnected as a single track
81a (3’23) - ‘funky rhythm jam’- instrumental (ugly sound)
81b (3’26) - ‘funky rhythm jam’ - reworked
82a (0’38) - ‘more funky rhythm jam 1’- instrumental
82b (0’39) - ‘more funky rhythm jam 1’ - reworked
83a (12’13) - ‘blues with Jeff’ - instrumental
83b1 (2’39) - ‘more funky rhythm jam 2’- instrumental
83b2 (10’07) - ‘blues with Jeff’ - reworked «bells ringing» sing MJ at 2’40

Last note: if you have listened to this collection to the end then you have my congratulations (it may not be necessary to repeat this experience!)





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next and last volume tomorrow

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com

Thank you Norbert.

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CrazyMama

Thank you very kindly!!!

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Thanks for Volume 6. Great work.

Also available in Stonesvault here [iorr.org]

Thanks for your efforts, Norbert. It's a crime that a better copy of the Rotterdam rehearsals hasn't leaked.

Thanks a lot Norbert!