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The Hague, 8/8/64; 4.0 m; "Back to the Hague"
I quote from an Internet review: "To my knowledge the first ever audience
tape of the Stones... The concert of the Stones in the Hague at the Kurhaus,
the Hague (which was one of the most fancy hotels back then) was the Stones'
first ever concert on the European continent. Opening acts were some dreadful
Dutch entertainers, which made the crowd riotous. The show started with
Walking The Dog and the crowd started to tear down the hall. Jagger lost his
mike lead and played maracas on Hi-Heel Sneakers and Susie Q. The Stones
ended with Mona (and not Not Fade Away as Karnbach and Bernson state) before
the show was cancelled by the police. Never happened something like this
before in Holland! Funny enough, the press didn't consider a Stones concert a
big thing so didn't send a camera team. Luckily for us now, a young D.J.
called Willem van Kooten decided it was important and went to the concert with
a camera and a tape recorder. He recorded the complete concert from the side
of the stage and even got to ask Jagger (during Susie Q!) if he had ever seen
something like this. Jagger responded no, and said the police had to take it
easy on the young girls. The tape is of very good quality, all instruments
can be heard loud and clear. The tape is especially funny if you understand
Dutch, since the reporter is clearly amazed at the sight of 1000 young kids
fighting! The tape is on at least on LP (Back to The Hague), on video with
the film footage, but not on CD as far as I know." Note: having heard the LP
recently, I can say it really isn't that good. The instruments are fairly
clear but vocals are totally inaudible.

The Rolling Stones
August 8, 1964
Kurhaus, Scheveningen, Holland

From "Ready steady Stones" (VGP 248)

1 - Walking the dog

2 - High heel sneakers

3 - Susie Q

4 - Mona

Tracks coming in a bit...

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1 - Walking the dog
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2 - High heel sneakers
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3 - Susie Q
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4 - Mona

Had to post track 4 as a wav file - not too big..23 mb..converter was acting up on this one..not sure why..maybe someone else using a different software versus ABC Amber Converter can repost for others as an MP3

4 - Mona (WAV)
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Scheveningen salutes you..Joe!!!

Gracias to you Rooster - Kind of fun recording..

hi thanks,mona is wma file that's why your's converter didn't accept it,,

i already got it (this concert) i will compare ,the quality,

i think most of the stonesfans,got the bbc 1963-65 ,they are good q.
cops and robbers e.t.c

These are not BBC performances - Berlin. May be wrong, but not on BBC 1963-1965.. By the way, nice post vancouver and rooster!

Mona is a WAV file = what one gets from decoding a flac file

oops - not Berlin (see next posting) but Hague

hi ..i know this is not bbc ,,
i mean that bbc recordings from 64 are good quality,,
the 1964 oct 28 t.a.m.i show is good quality,
sorry there is not (or ????????) marguee 62-3 only 20 sec.
you can¨t judge a book,
the same is with the who ,only 30 min from marquee june 64(good q anyway)

Vancouver -

Do you have the 30 sec. of Marque 62-63 - Can't Judge a Book?

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here you go ,,maybe it's studio demo? ,not marquee

Yeah, this is an acetate from a studio session in 1963 with Soon Forgotten as flip side. Thanks!!

Many thx for this, shows us what the Stones would have been hearing, no monitors @ this time so the vocals would have gone straight out into the audience, & with the crowd noise they wouldn't have been able to hear themselves sing, we've come a long way since then.

BTW, have you tried dbPowerAmp as a converting tool, it does everything.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2006-05-09 18:40 by vox12string.