Coming soon but not much in the way of unreleased studio material….
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/rolling-stones-black-and-blue-super-deluxe-reissue/
Black and Blue SDE
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Yeah, the original album sounds amazing and they were at their most sloppy on that tour. I really don’t like Love You Live.
Can’t find out if the Steven Wilson mix is Atmos/5.1, but if any band didn’t need surround sound it is The Stones..
However the El Mocambo tracks and the recent album of those are terrific.
Agreed.
From the press release
‘The accompanying Blu-ray disc offers a previously unreleased TV broadcast of the Stones’ 1976 show at Les Abattoirs in Paris, plus Dolby Atmos surround sound mixes of both the studio album and the live Earls Court concert. All audio content is also available in high-resolution stereo.’
Thanks
I saw them at Earls Court and the sound was fairly dreadful, so maybe I will be able to catch up on what I missed!
You’re being coy… how much?
Think 3 figures
Got it. Only for mug punters!
I’d love to have heard some of the other guitarists trying out – Rory, Jeff Beck amongst many allegedly.
There’s a whole disc of outtakes in the box set, including various sessions and jams with Jeff Beck and Harvey Mandel.
By a whole disc you mean 6 tracks, two of which are actual songs. Can’t imagine anyone listening to Chuck Berry Style Jam with Harvey Mandel more than once and not sure even the Jeff Beck ones would bear repeated listening really.
It’s not about actually listening, it’s about HAVING these tracks, obviously. 😉
Well obviously. 🙂 I’m somewhat stuff averse these days.
If it’s on Spotify I’ll give it a lis.
True Fatima but not an admission to be made outside these digital walls.
Digital Walls – a Prince first draft?
I saw them at Knebworth in 1976. With Stevie Wonder. As the history books show, they came on very late. A bit sloppy but very exciting. Big day out for a 20 year old backpacker. We arrived in London, bought a Time Out at Heathrow and saw that they were playing in a week or so. Dream come true for a Stones tragic. And a Hot Tuna fan! Memories are a little hazy, but my pal Dave did not go to the toilet for 18 hours. Slept in a field after the show. Had seen them at Kooyong Tennis Courts in 1973, up close and baking in 100 degrees, Trams rattling along Glenferrie Road behind the stage. Swam in the Scotch College pool before the evening show. But to see them in the UK was wonderful.
Stevie Wonder? Billy Preston, surely, as another who slept after in the field.
Oops! Of course. Billy Preston. (nervous perhaps as a newcomer to The Afterword)
Welcome to the Afterword Brian.
Re B&B -a favourite album of mine. Maybe it’s the reggae, certainly sounded great as mentioned above and I like the looseness of the new line up.
Will I buy this deluxe se? . No.
Forgiven. Thought I didn’t recognise your hat. One of the Nimbin Nankervis’s? Welcome.
Melbourne.
I saw them. Good fun but Skynyrd had already won the day for me.
I’m not sure this one needed a remix, the original was excellent already.
I followed the link on the page to their store, and there’s quite a few archive live recordings that I wasn’t aware of – perhaps better value than this…
I have many, Marquee Club 1971, Toronto 1976, Leeds 1982, L.A. 1990, Shepherds Bush 1999, Twickenham 2003 (both of which I attended) etc. Confess I don’t play them too much and after under releasing live albums for many years, we have now reached the opposite situation. Some great stuff of course but how many versions of Jumping Jack Flash does one need?
One. But other songs I can happily listen to many versions. Midnight Rambler and Love In Vain for starters.
I think I need maybe 7 versions of JJF
Plus the Johnny Winter one which is awesome.
Not one of their best really is it? ‘Fool to Cry’ and ‘Melody’ are both top notch but the rest of it is pretty sub-standard stuff.
We’ve had deluxe reissues of pretty much everything in the 1970s now, barring this and IORR, so I guess it was inevitable. It’s the genius of marketing old rope – a fairly unremarkable album at the time, a disappointment to many, now being retrospectively hailed as some sort of milestone. Like they did when punting £1000 box sets of ‘Mind Games’. It’s OK Black and Blue, isn’t it, it’s not great.
Memory Motel is (really) great and I also love Hand of Fate more than the 2 songs you mentioned It’s an interesting, diverse album, albeit only 8 tracks. They certainly made better ones, but I have a soft spot for this one. Cherry Oh Baby is terrible.
I won’t be buying this SDE though.
Is that compared to Eric Donaldson’s version or do you just dislike reggae @Dai ?
Reggae is vile. No! Song is ok, but I don’t think it’s a great version of it.
Well I’m a big reggae fan and I quite like it. The original is better mind you.
Hardly up to UB40 standards, though, it it?
Look, I’ve had a long and stressful week…
I wonder why they have skipped the It’s Only Rock n Roll album…lack of material perhaps? I was under the impression Shame Shame Shame included in this set was recorded for that album along with Drift Away and Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, although only the latter actually appeared.
Well there’s not much studio bonus material here and at least Shame, Shame,Shame has an 80 year old Mick Jagger vocal along with other embellishments. Also there wasn’t a specific tour for IORR, there has been a release from a year later (L.A. 75) in their archive series which features some of the IORR album
I wonder why they didn’t include a few more though although I suppose all these would need work to finish them off.
Shame, Shame, Shame and Drift Away are on the Tattoo You ‘de luxe’ edition from a few years ago. The former, particularly, is a terrific track and sounds like it could have been on Blue & Lonesome – also reminiscent of It’s All Over Now.
The song on Tattoo You is a different Shame Shame Shame to the outtake on Black and Blue.