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...with beggars the stones entered fully the next phase of their career which also happened to be their last great period when they could still distort/mutate/modify the blues...they were the blues from the dartford delta, when mick met up with keef at the train station they were merely unconciously re-enacting W.C.Handy aspying the young cat playing the guitar with a knife blade at tutwiler mississippi back in 1903 and declared it was nothing but 'da blues'...after years of kicking the gong around with some hep R&B they had an epiphany moment on the satanic sessions, the acid finally presented the vision they needed to take heed of, they were to keep the blues alive by recreating it in the form of a robert johnson tune given flesh, coming complete with whiskey and drugs, mayhem and death and possibly on micks part 'selling his soul'...all this was played out with a backdrop of the blues remodeled, giving it the power to reach out and capture the moment, they were a barometer measuring and reflecting the madness of the times...this disk is a great sounding slice of the sessions that went to make up beggars banquet where they really start to get their groove on...
...there's a goodly amount of stonesian grist making the rounds, being repackaged to the nth degree and when it comes to the swaggering majesties years it's all very welcome, the '68/71 period is the stones in funky overdrive, reinventing the blues by stepping back and drawing on the whole 60 years of rent party racket in its many forms...this boot has a bunch of tunes from the year of the barracades, 1968, taped at olympic studios located on the outskirts of old london towne while they were thinking about beggars banquet, their first offering with the newly emerging 'GET BACK' style, to take it all back to a more basic rocking groove as evidenced by the fabs white album and dylans basement tapes where he took the whole groove back to the mountains and hollows, to hillbilly times of depression and moonshine folk...after the previous wax, 'satanic', where the stones had gone all hallucinogenic with the end result not to all cats taste or understanding they themselves checked out this more 'honest' route to making a rocking noise, a funky country blues for the NOW generation, giving the whole proceedings an earthy vibe, a getting in touch with what's happening kind of vibe...sound quality is real good so cats who ain't got too much stones from this funky period can cop a smart and fine earful...
...the 1969 tour of uncle sams autocracy was getting underway and this is a very nice recording (couple of glitches makes no never mind) from the oakland gig about a month before the altamont fiasco which sees the combo knocking out some cool stonesian racket, getting grooved and riding high on the vibe...by this time they were into the final real phase of their career where they were peaking with their swaggering desperate blues from the dartford delta, chugging and funky live-wire buzzing and that's what is translated on this boot, one of the first illicit recordings of the newly emerged rock scene to be released along with dylans GWW...supposedly an audience tape though the quality suggests this was a little closer to the stage, even the stones themselves may have commissioned this...originally released by the trustworthy cats at the TMoQ label this has been put out many many times and its a solid rocking sound that has stood the rigors of time...
...another one of those boots that's been released on and off in differing forms down the decades and they all lack something in fidelity and this ain't no great shakes hi-fi-wise but it is a goodly 99% complete with only a couple of rough minor edits on the tunes...the poorish sound quality does go someway to giving an insight into the chaotic atmosphere that kicked off that day due to bad drugs and the stones keeping the crowd waiting longer than was perhaps wise, paying the hells angels in beer to do security must have been a decision that was regretted by all concerned, this was not a recommended move as the angels often show their capacity for mayhem when a few drafts have been sucked, so it follows that free rolling stones beer, satanic broth, would mess with the varied karma levels operating that day...this is a mental breakdown in progress, the madness that spreads across this disk from the outset still sends out bad vibes, this ain't for any mellow fellows, this needs a bit of a serious bong hit to keep the karma level on an even keel (and thats from a listening position, safely ensconced many years in the future not being in the vacinity of this rock'n'roll baptism/death)...what makes this a fine audio verity groove is the random voices that are picked up on the tape, everyone is in flip city getting the paranoid vibe, this is the war coming home, this split the whole counter culture, ain't no cat could figure out this mess, this really brings the whole debacle into a cats living space (dig the helicopter buzzing past in the middle of track 14, vietnam gunships agogo)...naturally enough this has built the stones reputation as the bad boys of rockroll (jagger stops the gig a few times to get the angels to cool it, but they take no notice and carry on getting blitzed and wigging out badly) and although the stones ain't in top form (who would be in this war zone) it is one of the rock'n'roll records of all time, this is freedom taken to extreme by those the least able to handle it, the children of the consumer slaves meet their very own guardians of morality, the angels...throbbing gristle would be stoked to have this as one of their gigs, bringing proof tangible to their whole outlook on civilisation...recommended on every level...
...certainly not totally acoustic by any means but most are good quality takes of late sixties, early 70's, beggars through exile, the ultimate stone time (last few tracks come from early 90's with keef vocalising)...very nice feel, this fits in well with the whole hep groove of decadent stonesian vibe...does not disappoint...
...with beggars the stones entered fully the next phase of their career which also happened to be their last great period when they could still distort/mutate/modify the blues...they were the blues from the dartford delta, when mick met up with keef at the train station they were merely unconciously re-enacting W.C.Handy aspying the young cat playing the guitar with a knife blade at tutwiler mississippi back in 1903 and declared it was nothing but 'da blues'...after years of kicking the gong around with some hep R&B they had an epiphany moment on the satanic sessions, the acid finally presented the vision they needed to take heed of, they were to keep the blues alive by recreating it in the form of a robert johnson tune given flesh, coming complete with whiskey and drugs, mayhem and death and possibly on micks part 'selling his soul'...all this was played out with a backdrop of the blues remodeled, giving it the power to reach out and capture the moment, they were a barometer measuring and reflecting the madness of the times...this disk is a great sounding slice of the sessions that went to make up beggars banquet where they really start to get their groove on...
...there's a goodly amount of stonesian grist making the rounds, being repackaged to the nth degree and when it comes to the swaggering majesties years it's all very welcome, the '68/71 period is the stones in funky overdrive, reinventing the blues by stepping back and drawing on the whole 60 years of rent party racket in its many forms...this boot has a bunch of tunes from the year of the barracades, 1968, taped at olympic studios located on the outskirts of old london towne while they were thinking about beggars banquet, their first offering with the newly emerging 'GET BACK' style, to take it all back to a more basic rocking groove as evidenced by the fabs white album and dylans basement tapes where he took the whole groove back to the mountains and hollows, to hillbilly times of depression and moonshine folk...after the previous wax, 'satanic', where the stones had gone all hallucinogenic with the end result not to all cats taste or understanding they themselves checked out this more 'honest' route to making a rocking noise, a funky country blues for the NOW generation, giving the whole proceedings an earthy vibe, a getting in touch with what's happening kind of vibe...sound quality is real good so cats who ain't got too much stones from this funky period can cop a smart and fine earful...
...the 1969 tour of uncle sams autocracy was getting underway and this is a very nice recording (couple of glitches makes no never mind) from the oakland gig about a month before the altamont fiasco which sees the combo knocking out some cool stonesian racket, getting grooved and riding high on the vibe...by this time they were into the final real phase of their career where they were peaking with their swaggering desperate blues from the dartford delta, chugging and funky live-wire buzzing and that's what is translated on this boot, one of the first illicit recordings of the newly emerged rock scene to be released along with dylans GWW...supposedly an audience tape though the quality suggests this was a little closer to the stage, even the stones themselves may have commissioned this...originally released by the trustworthy cats at the TMoQ label this has been put out many many times and its a solid rocking sound that has stood the rigors of time...
...another one of those boots that's been released on and off in differing forms down the decades and they all lack something in fidelity and this ain't no great shakes hi-fi-wise but it is a goodly 99% complete with only a couple of rough minor edits on the tunes...the poorish sound quality does go someway to giving an insight into the chaotic atmosphere that kicked off that day due to bad drugs and the stones keeping the crowd waiting longer than was perhaps wise, paying the hells angels in beer to do security must have been a decision that was regretted by all concerned, this was not a recommended move as the angels often show their capacity for mayhem when a few drafts have been sucked, so it follows that free rolling stones beer, satanic broth, would mess with the varied karma levels operating that day...this is a mental breakdown in progress, the madness that spreads across this disk from the outset still sends out bad vibes, this ain't for any mellow fellows, this needs a bit of a serious bong hit to keep the karma level on an even keel (and thats from a listening position, safely ensconced many years in the future not being in the vacinity of this rock'n'roll baptism/death)...what makes this a fine audio verity groove is the random voices that are picked up on the tape, everyone is in flip city getting the paranoid vibe, this is the war coming home, this split the whole counter culture, ain't no cat could figure out this mess, this really brings the whole debacle into a cats living space (dig the helicopter buzzing past in the middle of track 14, vietnam gunships agogo)...naturally enough this has built the stones reputation as the bad boys of rockroll (jagger stops the gig a few times to get the angels to cool it, but they take no notice and carry on getting blitzed and wigging out badly) and although the stones ain't in top form (who would be in this war zone) it is one of the rock'n'roll records of all time, this is freedom taken to extreme by those the least able to handle it, the children of the consumer slaves meet their very own guardians of morality, the angels...throbbing gristle would be stoked to have this as one of their gigs, bringing proof tangible to their whole outlook on civilisation...recommended on every level...
...certainly not totally acoustic by any means but most are good quality takes of late sixties, early 70's, beggars through exile, the ultimate stone time (last few tracks come from early 90's with keef vocalising)...very nice feel, this fits in well with the whole hep groove of decadent stonesian vibe...does not disappoint...
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