SUPplement for the
STEEL WHEELS Sessions
Writing and recording sessions for STEEL WHEELS
Montserrat AIR Studios, West Indies
FP 139
In the previous volume (FP 138) I presented all the audio parts coming from the rework of Imthemastah's video which got used by BlueTurns2Grey to create his video upgrade.
This new volume will complete the mini-series devoted to the STEEL WHEELS-sessions (see FP 102 to FP 104).
Here, on CD n°1, I kept only the musical parts from FP 138 without any new reworking: only the banters and discussions are deleted.
On CD n°2, I added the recently appeared version of ‘Giving It Up’ (from the ‘Fully Finished Outtakes’-collection) and I completed it with some DIY versions combining, mixing or merging parts from the tracks of CD n°1.
A big thank you to Imthemastah who shared his video and to my two accomplices nzb and BlueTurns2Grey for their help, advice and inspiration.
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CD1: writing and recording sessions.
(from the video uploaded by Imthemastah)

Line-up: MJ (voc, gtr)/KR (gtr, voc)/RW (gtr)/BW (bass)/CW (dr)/Matt Clifford (keyb)

01 – during the dinner and before the session: banter over a playback of Continental Drift with RW adding some percussions with two cigarette boxes!
02 - “Welcome to another fabulous session”
03 - from Malaguena to Rock And A Hard Place
04 - RAAHP intro
05 - RAAHP #1 with MJ indications, cut abruptly
06 - CW warm-up (drums)
07 - Spanish flavored warm-up (Malaguena citation)
08 - RAAHP #2 part 1 cut abruptly
09 - RAAHP #2 part 2 stopped by KR
see 01 on CD n°2: RAAHP #2 both segments connected at 2’03.
10 - RAAHP #3 cut, (end is missing)
11 - banter and & MJ clapping hands over RAAHP #3 (beginning is missing)
see 02 on CD n°2: RAAHP #3 both segments reconnected at 1’28.
12 - first part of RAAHP #4 (part 1)
13 - RAAHP #4 (part 2)
see 03 on CD n°2: RAAHP #4 both segments reconnected at 3’37.
14 - warm-up KR blues improvisation
15 - first Mixed Emotions riff & jam
16 - work in progress 1: KR showing his ideas to MJ
17 - work in progress 2 & guitar riff
18 - work in progress #3 to #7 (short segments reconnected)
19 - work in progress #8
20 - work in progress #9 & #10
21 - work in Progress #11
22 - work in Progress # 12
23 - 2 new steps
24 - a new try-out until the 2nd chorus
25 - working on the 2nd chorus
26 - restarted on 2nd chorus
see 04 on CD n°2: 2 first chorus reconnected at 1’32.
27 - new try-out for Mixed Emotions stopped by KR
28 - listening Mixed Emotions in the control room (fade in/out)
see 05 on CD n°2: 2 segments reconnected at 0’56 (gap deleted)
29 - rehearsing Mixed Emotions, a flaw patched at 1’37
See 06 on CD n°2: medley for ‘You’re not the only one.’
30 - Mixed Emotions #2: more elaborated music, approximative lyrics, very long version
31 - banter over the previous recorded long version (beginning is missing)
see 07 on CD n°2: Mixed Emotions #2 (merged version from both previous recordings)
32 - 3 MJ partial vocal overdubs
see 08 on CD n°2: addition of the 25x5 source.
33 - short blues medley: unidentified blues/Phonograph Blues/Hellhound On My Trail
a/k/a ‘Hellhound On My Trail’(coming from an outtake from the 25x5 video)
See 09: on CD n°2: mix from both versions.


CD2: complement and D.I.Y.

01 - Rock And A Hard Place #2 (combined version)
it’s a combination from 2 incomplete recordings: the beginning coming from track 08 and the second part from track 09: they’re connected at 2’03.

02 - Rock And A Hard Place #3 (combined version)
it’s a combination from 2 incomplete recordings: the beginning coming from track 10 and the second part from track n°11: they’re connected at 1’28.

03 - Rock And A Hard Place #4 (combined version)
it’s a combination from 2 incomplete recordings: the beginning coming from track 12 and the
second part from track n°13: they’re connected at 3’37.

04 – Mixed Emotions -work in progress (combined version)
Two first steps connected: track n°24 & track n°26 connected at 1’32.

05 – Mixed Emotions #1: (combined version)
The 2 segments from track n°28 (playback from control room) reconnected at 0’57seconds.

06 – “You’re not the only one” (combined version)
Medley with segments coming from different banters not kept on CD n°1.

07 – Mixed Emotions #2 (merged version)
Here a merge from the studio version (left channel) and the control room version (right channel).

08 – Vocal overdubs (mixed and combined version)
The first part (until 0’37) are sequences 1 & 3 from MJ overdubs mixed together, then comes the sequence 2 solely until 0’59, then back to sequence 1 until 1’13, then the 2 snippets coming from the video 25x5.

09 – short blues medley ‘Hellhound On My Trail’ (mixed version)
Here’s a mix from the FP 104 version with this video version: it created a more spatial effect.

10 – Mixed Emotions (merged version)
The long version that appears on the video (named here Mixed Emotions #2) is earlier to the ‘Mixed Emotions II” (see FP 102). In the first part both versions are closer but an electric rhythm guitar is missing (in the video version RW was only playing an acoustic guitar) and some MJ indications have disappeared. Above all, in the final part of the song, the vocals are completely different, there’s more keyb etc.…
You can discover these differences in the merged version presented here: (left channel from FP 102 and right channel track 30).

11 – Giving It Up II -shortened version I with more piano (from Fully Finished Outtakes).
Here it’s the DAC 208 version slightly reworked.

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