VOODOO LOUNGE SONGWRITING SESSIONs
- The Complete Voodoo Residue Tapes -


20th April - mid-May 1993: St. Philip, Barbados, West Indies, Blue Wave Studios.
Writing and demo sessions by Mick JAGGER (voc, gtr, keyb, bass), Keith RICHARDS (gtr, voc, p, bass) and Charlie WATTS (dr, perc, April 30 onwards; for the two last volumes).


This great project was enabled by Glimmerman. Over 20 years ago he was contacted to write the liner notes and select the songs for what became "Voodoo Residue". For this task he had received 4 one-hour tapes. It is these tapes (half of their content has never been circulating until now!), that Glimmerman now kindly shares with us.

It was not too easy to edit each segment properly, to identify or characterize them and for that task nzb helped me a lot.
Here you won't find any completed songs, but songwriting in progress. For those who are interested in the creation of the Stones self-penned songs it is exciting to follow the progress of their work.
Many songs are abruptly interrupted, some passages are a bit saturated, others have flaws and sometimes even digital noises. I tried to make these songs more enjoyable to listen to. I didn't use a filter to reduce the background noise, unlike Vigotone did, maybe that's why the overall spectrum is better here. When it is only stated "reworked", then it generally means that I reworked the segment by adding a fade in/out, changed the amplification of the sound (by amplifying some passages and de-amplifying others) and corrected the phase (there was a very slight mismatch between the channels).

Quite a few of the song titles used in ‘Voodoo Residue’ are not confirmed or refer to just certain vocals… if vocals exist. Or if lyrics exist, as you can hear on some songs, what Keith Richards describes as vowel movement.
We decided not to go in this direction because these titles do not exist and if we use these, then they will get a life on their own and will become the titles to these songs. We have therefore chosen to name them "untitled # ..." by indicating between brackets a characteristic allowing them to be identified.

I decided to post this project in volumes of two CDs: one with the untouched tracks and another one with my reworkings... always with the idea in mind that you can keep only what you prefer.
I used Nico Zentgraf's Rolling Stones Complete Works Database for reference: [www.nzentgraf.de]
I'd like to thank my usual partners in crime Jaap (‘Stonesmuziekfan’) and nzb but also RDP for their advice and revisions and of course Glimmerman for his generosity and without whom this project would not have been possible!

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VOODOO LOUNGE SONGWRITING SESSIONs
- The Complete Voodoo Residue Tapes -

« CASSETTE ONE »
20th - 29th April 1993: St. Philip, Barbados, West Indies, Blue Wave Studios


01-01a (1’51) Unknown (or untitled) #1 ("Mick's idea #1") - MJ humming a melody to the guitar
01-01b (1’50) (reworked) lots of clicks deleted or attenuated

01-02a (3’56) Unknown (or untitled) #2 ("Mick's idea #2") - MJ humming a melody while playing keyboards (with programmed drums) KR plays some bass at the end (lots of clicks coming from the drum machine?)
01-02b (3’56) (reworked) clicks deleted/attenuated, default deleted at 1’39.

01-03a (4’42) Breakin' #1 - MJ & KR humming and singing to keyboards and guitar
01-03b (4’43) (reworked)

01-04a (1’40) Breakin' #2 - instrumental; MJ playing with keyboards (with programmed drums) and (at the end of the track) some bass (KR?)
01-04b (1’42) (reworked)

01-05a (2’23) Make It Now -instrumental; KR on keyboards with programmed drums, MJ on bass
01-05b (2’28) (reworked) a little patch used to upgrade the gap at 0’23

01-06a (3’01) Unknown (or untitled) #3 ("Keith's idea #1") - KR composes on keyboards (with some humming), with talk of KR & MJ in the middle and a little guitar
01-06b (3’04) (reworked)

01-07a (0’57) Unknown (or untitled) #4a ("Not Enough" #1) - KR vocals and guitar, MJ some drums and bass
01-07b (0’57) (reworked)

01-08a (0’53) Unknown (or untitled) #4b ("Not Enough" #2) - KR vocals and guitar: version more "boogie" than the previous version
01-08b (0’54) (reworked) little defaults deleted or upgraded

01-09a (4’02) Unknown (or untitled) #5 ("Keith’s idea #2") - KR on guitar, work in progress-composing, with MJ some vocals
01-09b (4’04) (reworked) little defaults deleted or upgraded

01-10a (5’34) Unknown (or untitled) #6a ("Keith’s idea #3a") - KR on guitar, work in progress-composing
01-10b (5’34) (reworked) little defaults deleted or upgraded

01-11a (0’44) Unknown (or untitled) #6b ("Keith’s idea #3b") - KR on guitar, work in progress-composing, some additional guitar by MJ
01-11b (0’45) (reworked) little defaults deleted or upgraded

01-12a (2’01) Unknown (or untitled) #7 ("You Got Away With Murder") -MJ & KR both singing and playing guitar
01-12b (2’02) (reworked)

01-13a (2’16) Unknown (or untitled) #4c ("Not Enough" #3) with some ‘You Got Away With Murder" lyrics, MJ&KR singing, KR playing guitar, MJ hand clapping
01-13b (2’17) (reworked)

01-14a (0’24) Unknown (or untitled) #4d ("Not Enough" #4) - MJ & KR singing, KR playing guitar
01-14b (0’25) (reworked)

01-15a (0’49) It's Funny #1 - KR on guitar - his "pretty little melody"-riff…, some vocals by KR and MJ
01-15b (0’51) (reworked)

01-16a (1’35) Unknown (or untitled) #8 ("Glimmer Twins Boogie") - MJ & KR on guitars
01-16b (1’37) (reworked)

01-17a (3’25) Unknown (or untitled) #9a ("Why You Runnin" #1; 2 segments) - MJ on vocals and guitar
01-17b (3’28) (reworked)

01-18a (1’27) Unknown (or untitled) #9b ("Why You Runnin" #2) - faster than version #1; MJ on vocals, guitar (and with drum programming)
01-18b (1’29) (reworked)

01-19a (2’27) Unknown (or untitled) #10a ("Mick's idea #3a") - MJ on vocals on guitar (with drums programming)
01-19b (2’28) (reworked)

01-20a (1’05) Unknown (or untitled) #10b ("Mick's idea #3b") - MJ on vocals on guitar (with drums programming)
01-20b (1’05) (reworked)

01-21a (4’40) Unknown (or untitled) #10c ("Mick's idea #3c") - plus additional bass by KR
01-21b (4’39) (reworked)

01-22a (5’16) Unknown (or untitled) #11a ("Look Out Baby" #1) - MJ on keyboard and vocals
01-22b (5’05) (reworked) little defaults deleted

01-23a (5’24) Unknown (or untitled) #11b ("Look Out Baby" #2) - plus additional drums programming
01-23b (5’13) (reworked) default deleted at 3’31





Posted in September 2021 by StonyRoad on IORR: [iorr.org]

link valid until 107/09/21
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next volume on sunday

Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com



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this looks great!

many thanks!

but am i being dense? can't see a dl link

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rayrad
this looks great!

many thanks!

but am i being dense? can't see a dl link

Sorry, It seems that after these holidays I had lost the habit!

Wow this looks amazing, thanks for sharing !

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many thanks! exciting!

Song writing in progress - thanks for posting these highly interesting recordings!

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Thanks very much!!!

Thanks a million!

Fascinating. Many thanks for posting.

Great share!..Many thanks Stony'!

Excellent, many thanks!

thanks a lot!

Wow this is positively amazing and it'll put some balm on my wounds after Charlie's and Bebel's demise...

"what Keith Richards describes as vowel movement"... Ah funny one!



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What a delight ! I've reached "01-21a (4’40) Unknown (or untitled) #10c ("Mick's idea #3c") - plus additional bass by KR" that I'm pretty sure was not on VR ;-)

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Many thanks to the StonyRoad Team for their many hours of archaeological work to bring these fully unfinished tracks to the community.

I remember noting in the original Voodoo Residue liner notes that these snippets suggest that most of the band's publishing should read "Jagger/Richard/Watts".

Have a great weekend everyone!

A great new project. Many thanks to everyone involved, specially to Glimmerman, Jaap, Nico and Norbert. Minimum a big beer will be served to you, when ever a chance for that is coming.

Thank you, worth checking

Thank You - looks to be an intersting new series

Thank you very kindly Glimmerman for your generosity and to everybody involved in this project!!!

Fantastique!

Fantastic upload! Thanks for sharing those gems!

Excellent! Thanks for sharing it!

Thank you!

Thanks a lot to Glimmerman for your generosity and for sharing your tapes with all of us, to Norbert for your hard and amazing work and everybody involved in this fantastic project!

Thanks for this. Always pleased to get new studio material I havent heard before.

Thank you!!!

Wow, this is exciting! Thanks. Looking forward to the other volumes!

I've been waiting!
Thank you!

Thank you very much, all. This is wonderful stuff!