It was 55 years ago!

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THE ROLLING STONES
ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS Sessions
10 – 12 December 1968
FP 135

This project was initiated by nzb who sent me a video with rehearsals from the Dirty Mac. This caught my attention to go through all the versions that circulate.
I decided to keep only the parts where Stones members participate and to present them with some comments coming from the radio program ‘The Lost Lennon Tapes’ (published by the Walrus label).
The Lost Lennon Tapes was an American music documentary series presented by Elliot Mintz, comprising a three-hour premiere episode and 218 one-hour episodes, broadcast on the Westwood One Radio Network between the 24th January 1988 and the 29th March 1992 (so before the Rock And Roll Circus was officially released, which was not before October 1996).
The sources kept are from the “ROCK’N’ROLL CIRCUS SESSIONS” published by ‘Original Master Series’ (OMS) and from a video rip coming from ‘Hallucination’ (thanks a lot!).

01 - A presentation from the program
02 - Mick Jagger and John Lennon introducing the Dirty Mac with an a capella snippet, Julian Lennon voice and the rehearsal sequence presentation
03 - YER BLUES (rehearsal) from Nagra reel (OMS)
04 - Mick Jagger and John Lennon introducing the Dirty Mac (OMS) merged version
05 - YER BLUES (take 1) from Nagra reel (OMS) with some off-mike vocals
06 - YER BLUES (take 1) (OMS) vocal track
07 - YER BLUES (take 1) merge from both previous files
08 - YER BLUES (take 2) mono mix with count-in (OMS), completed by the radio program with journalist explanations
09 - John Lennon and Ethan Russel (photographer) comments over HER BLUES (a/k/a ‘Whole Lotta Yoko’)
10 - John Lennon introducing The Rolling Stones (more complete)
11 - PARACHUTE WOMAN (rehearsal 1)
12 - PARACHUTE WOMAN (rehearsal 2) first seconds missing, channel equilibration, equalization
13 - YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT (rehearsal) both circulating versions are coming from the same take but more or less complete and with different speed and fidelity
14 - YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT from a file sent by “Hallucination”. This version is more authentic, as it was remixed for the official release in 1996, especially the first minute is very interesting for Brian’s guitar which can be heard here and Nicky Hopkins’ piano is also more present. This recording is now declicked and equalized (+10% to the left channel). There was a little gap at 2’09 (on ‘get’), I decided to patch it with one second coming from 3’23. The official version reveals the correct speed: this recording is now accelerated by +4,3%.

BONUS:
15 - Mick Jagger and John Lennon (‘a capella’-sequence) merge from both OMS versions
16 - JUMPING JACK FLASH merge from stereo and video versions from OMS
17 - PARACHUTE WOMAN merge (see 02b)
18 - NO EXPECTATIONS merge (see 02b)
19 - YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT merge (see 02b)
20 - SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (see 02b)
21 - SALT OF THE EARTH (see 02b) Keith first chorus reversed from the right to the left channel and after 4’20 it’s solely from the video source.

As usual all the infos are coming from Nico Zentgraf's Rolling Stones Complete Works Database: [www.nzentgraf.de]





Posted in 2023 by StonyRoad at IORR: [iorr.org]

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Norbert
email: stonyroad58@gmail.com

Thank you!

Thanks for this interesting collection!

N

Thank you very much Stony Road!

Thank You very much

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Thank You Thank You !!!!!!

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Many thanks for all your efforts

Thank You....

Thanks very much!!!

Thank you for your work!

THX

Thanks very much!!!

Merci beaucoup StonyRoad

Great!

Thank you

Thank you.

Another great effort, thanks for sharing your work here Norbert!

Thanks a lot Norbert!

Thank you very much Norbert for this great collection!! Have a good week!!DRSC Dieter

Hallo N, ich würde mich freuen, wenn wir wieder Infos etc. austauschen würden! beste Grüße DRSC D

Thanks very much!

maidenlane.world

Thanks a lot!

Thank you very much indeed.

interesting to hear Brian
thanks

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2023-12-13 20:43 by exilestones.

Thanks, Norbert.
A couple of questions though:
what do you mean with Parachute woman merge (see 02b)? What is 02b? What merge, of track 11 and 12?
And the official set is here presented as merges (video/OMS)?

Cheers,
Alex.

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alexander paul
Thanks, Norbert.
A couple of questions though:
what do you mean with Parachute woman merge (see 02b)? What is 02b? What merge, of track 11 and 12?
And the official set is here presented as merges (video/OMS)?

Cheers,
Alex.

Hi Alex,
Initially I named the bonuses b01, b02, b03 etc... on the advice of a friend I renamed them 15, 16, 17 etc... but I forgot to modify the explanation for my merges. In fact it should read ‘see track 16’ instead of ‘see 02b’.
The ‘merged’ versions do not use the official version, but versions published on the “Original Master Series” bootleg. On the left channel is the left channel from the stereo version of OMS and on the right channel is the right channel from the ripping of the video published by OMS.
I hope my explanations are clear enough.
Norbert