JWB sez: "For the record, this is a Japanese pirate of the excellent and free ASS BLASTER download "The Lost Mono Mixes", but with several tracks inexplicably removed from Disc 1. You should probably just seek that out instead of bothering with this."
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Quotedph After further review, the Ass Blaster Complete BBC Sessions appears to be a slightly modified and rearranged copy of DAC-130: Beat Beat Beat at the Beep. If you already have that, you probably don't need this. But I am glad to be able to compare; thanks for sharing. Update: Sounds like Ass Blaster used different sources or edits for the rebroadcast sources, but the quality is
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The DES version is available in lossless form here:
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Quotedamnation Wow! I just received my italian amazon box and I am almost through the second album (12×5). I have NEvER EvER heard the early stones this way. For me those early albums on vinyl have always been out of reach or in too bad condition. These are of course shiny new, but also in mono as intended. The box arrived in perfect condition thanks to the foam inserts and despite of clear o
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Anyone? It would be great if e-mail notifications worked.
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Quotegeorgie48 Don't forget that Decca was in a hurry! The high quality "Liver than you'll ever be" bootleg album was on the market and very popular (and cheap!). My guess is that putting "yaya's" on the market was far more important than making it a perfect album. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed both albums in those early years! Decca didn't have anything t
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QuotedonvisI would like to see some detailed analysis as to which of the mono mixes are brand-new for the first time and available only to this box set. There are a few mixes that were apparently unreleased prior to the box. 19th Nervous Breakdown, Back Street Girl, and Please Go Home. Most or all of the rest of the box is previously released, either on vinyl or CD. Aftermath, Buttons, and S
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QuoteHis Majesty QuoteDrPete Which Chess songs are in stereo and are they made into mono for this release? All of the Chess recordings were recorded on 3 or 4 track, then mixed to stereo in 1964/65, but it seems they were all released in mono (the stereo mixed folded in to mono) in 60's. Yes, as they were when originally released. All of the 1964 songs were mixed to stereo: It
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QuoteGreen Lady Quotelukpac QuoteGreen LadyInteresting that on the live BBC Sessions version ( ) which is unquestionably Keith, the guitar solo is nothing like the Chess version... May be it was Muddy after all. I suppose it's not impossible, but it seems unlikely to me that Keith wouldn't be on the studio version at all. Somebody is playing short sharp rhythmic chords along with
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QuoteGreen LadyInteresting that on the live BBC Sessions version ( ) which is unquestionably Keith, the guitar solo is nothing like the Chess version... May be it was Muddy after all. I suppose it's not impossible, but it seems unlikely to me that Keith wouldn't be on the studio version at all.
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Quoteironbelly Quotethkbeercan QuoteDrPete Different Jagger vocals on SFM and 19th? Fantastic! The different vocal take on the SFM single is well known and has been previously available. But a different vocal take on 19th Nervous Breakdown? Did I read that correctly? lukpac made analysis for the box on other forum. 19th Nervous Breakdown is not with different vocal part but is mastered differen
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QuoteCaptainCorella (Back to 2120 Sth Michigan Avenue) FWIW my understanding has always been that the 'short' version only existed because of the then problems of having an artist from one label appear on the recordings of an artist on another. FWIW my understanding was that the ending was cut off because the lead guitar was Muddy Waters (it sounds to me more like Muddy's s
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QuoteDeltics Quotedjgab The long version can be also found on the French LP version of "Around and Around". I remember some story about Muddy Waters himself adding some slide at the end. I wonder if does exist any confirmation ? The full name on the tape box is "2120 South Michigan Ave. (And Muddy Came Too)". This might have been an indication that Muddy was on the track a
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QuoteCristiano Radtke Sorry if it was posted before. "The record label ABKCO just released a 15 CD boxed set that collects 186 tracks recorded by The Rolling Stones, but in a format not heard for years: in the original mono. But why is mono better than stereo? Teri Landi, ABKCO's chief audio engineer shows Off-Ramp's John Rabe a side by side comparison." Never mind t
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QuoteIrix The ping-pong stereo version of 'Satisfaction' is also contained on the east-german compilation 'The Rolling Stones' (LP / Cass.), AMIGA label, early 1982. The source for this compilation has been taken from the west-german Telefunken-Decca Schallplatten GmbH (Teldec). I'm listening to the LP now. Satisfaction is fake stereo (basically just mono with some adde
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QuoteHis Majesty The Have You Seen/IBC session is probably for the Mike Leander horns. Note that horns were apparently overdubbed at least twice. The alternate version (which it should be noted actually has the same rhythm track as the master take) has different horns:
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QuoteBluerangerThere are a number of Between The Buttons tracks, which were undoubtly started at RCA. A high-quality boot, features fantastic backing tracks, which were apparently copied from a tape at RCA: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby? Yesterday's Papers My Obsession All Sold Out Please Go Home Complicated I Can See It (unreleased) "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby?"
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Quotetioms MrEcho, "Got live if you want it" doesn't exist in LP Mono, exept: In USA and maybe other countries: USA: MONO LONDON LL3493 USA: STEREO LONDON PS 493 So yes, it exists in mono. And it's worth noting that neither of the original mono and stereo mixes are currently available. The ABKCO release features a new (circa 1986)
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QuotealimenteBut that's not necessarily a bad thing, isn't it? There's tons of music out there where it is just the other way round - fidelity wins over feel. One can say about ALO as a producer what one wants, but the fact remains that he is responsible for some of the most iconic recordings in Rock 'n Roll history - no matter how they sound in pure technical terms, they i
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QuoteMrEcho Quotedrwatts Drum roll please. Collectors always find something to complain about, but the cover photos of the UK LPs are all cropped wrong (much too tight, with parts of the photos missing). It looks like they used the re-cropped photos from the old digipak CD reissues and re-cropped them once more, losing much of the original photos/compositions. Only "Buttons" looks ri
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QuoteDGA35 Wow, good points Lukpac! I was looking at my hybrid SACD of Sam's which shows where/when the songs were recorded and a lot were at RCA Hollywood although there were also some at RCA New York. Yes, I just looked, and far more were recorded at RCA that I recalled. It seemed Sam's initial RCA sessions were generally in New York, but then he moved mostly to Hollywood. Still
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QuoteDGA35 I look at a lot of Sam Cooke's hits that sound great that were recorded at RCA in Hollywood. Dave Hassinger was also the engineer for those sessions. I always wondered if he suggested the Stones record Good Times as a tribute to Sam. A few things to keep in mind about Sam Cooke: 1) While some of the material sounds good, it arguably doesn't sound as good as some of the
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QuoteDGA35 I see ATGB was recorded in late 65 at IBC with Glyn Johns. I would assume it would have been recorded in stereo. Off topic but I always wondered why the Chess recordings sound so crisp, especially the drums/cymbals versus songs they recorded at RCA. One would think As Tears Go By could be mixed to stereo, but just about all of the other "hits" have been, and yet there�
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QuoteDGA35 Hoping that one day we get official stereo releases of The Last Time, 19th Nervous Breakdown and As Tears Go By! I wouldn't hold your breath. It's also not clear if As Tears Go By was recorded multitrack or not. It's certainly never been in stereo on bootleg.
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Quotefrankotero Ya'll are going to laugh, I cancelled my pre-order twice. Really wanted to buy this but I'm blown away by too many let downs/missed opportunities/botched attempts over the years. This hardly seems like a replica set to me considering the amount of fold downs and artwork. Still curious though if the disc have the big Decca letters on them. To be clear, most of the songs
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QuoteMaindefenderSo, Teri Landi was involved with both the 2002 SACD's and this new release. Is this a good thing? I don't have the 2002 singles but have the 1989 release which I would imagine is mono also. As far as Teri Landi goes, I'm not sure who to praise/blame for various ABKCO decisions, so it's hard to say. The 1989 Singles Collection has some mono and some s
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QuoteMaindefender The 2002 TSMR SACD is not mono, correct? I'm looking for a reason not to cancel my order. Happy Sunday all...... Stereo, as are Aftermath and Between The Buttons. There are 4 mono Satanic songs on the 2002 Singles Collection, however.
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Quotefrankotero Love The Stones to death, but I will say I cancelled my pre-order for this. Really feel it's another cash and grab deal. Maybe I'm wrong and hope so. On the brighter side of life I am looking forward to a Euro Tour next year, plus any new albums, blues or whatever they conjure up. My personal opinion is that the unique mono mixes in this set are worthwhile if you'
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QuoteDGA35 Hey Lukpac, your website is the definitive source for the 2002 remasters! I bought all the remasters when they came out (except for Hot Rocks). Even bought a Sony SACD player just for them. I don't recall being able to here any piano on the 2002 stereo mix? FYI, there are various errors that we're looking to address. We've been going through all of the various CDs a
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QuoteIrixTherefore I called it "pseudo stereo" .... Generally "pseudo stereo" is reserved for stereo "mixes" that are derived from mono, which the 2002 mix isn't. Hence my comment.
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