Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil" - Cleveland, Ohio - June 15, 2024

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I dunno, 50 years makes a difference.

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1. Great song! And good for the Stones for doing what they can these days. But they were at their best

starting in 1969, when Mick Taylor was with them for 5 years, including the tour when Ya-Yas was recorded, his first with the band. That album has audio from NYC and Baltimore in 1969.

This is video from Detroit 1969, and although I posted it less than a month ago at https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034141738 it's worth posting again here. Mick's solo starts at 5:55:

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4. Out there in the cineverse....

there is a full video of the Stones developing the song, Sympathy For Devil. Weird....they mix studio time with depressing negative social shit outside. Truly worth a watch, though....to see how a great piece of music gets baked. And they nailed it live....in studio.

[Figarosmom]

2. Yeah it does

I have a friend that sees them everything they come around. She says they are still great just slower. I wonder if they get tired of the repetition of it all for SO long.

I don't know I saw Chuck Berry when he was old and he just looked sweaty and tired. I wondered why he was still doing tours when he obviously looked like he thought it was a chore rather than fun.

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3. Why Tour? Lotta money. Why not?

Stones don't have the structural support to carry them past 2050.....music wise.


But they were so awesome in 1975. Like this. Whatta sound. Keith, slide guitar, they were on target.

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5. That's Keith playing slide guitar in the studio on Love In Vain, but Mick Taylor playing slide guitar on Ya-Yas.

Keith played both slide and acoustic guitar on the studio track, recorded in May of 1969 before Mick Taylor joined them in June. On Ya-Yas, recorded late that year,Keith is playing acoustic guitar while Mick plays slide on Love In Vain.

Vintage Guitar article on Mick Taylor:
https://www.vintageguitar.com/36124/shedding-light-on-the-genius-of-mick-taylor/

This is from 1972, in Texas, Mick playing slide on Love In Vain, starting at 2:50:

He was playing slide guitar with the Stones from his first appearance with them, Hyde Park in July 1969. Brilliant guitarist.

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6. OK, OK, Ok. I'm a Deadhead, not a Stonehead.

But something about the Stone blues thing 70-75. They had a powerful sound.

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7. That "something" was Mick Taylor. With the Stones from June 1969 (played on a few tracks of Let It Bleed,

released in late '69, and dazzled on their American tour 11/7-12/6 (Altamont was the final US date). Ya-Yas was recorded in '69, released in September 1970. He quit the Stones in December 1974. The Stones' 1975 album, Made In The Shade, was a compilation of earlier Stones tracks that Mick T had played on, except for two - Happy and It's Only Rock 'n Roll. So almost everything new you heard from the Stones from the winter of '69-'70 through early.1976 included Mick Taylor. Who didn't get the songwriting credits he was promised by Jagger and was cheated out of other royalties.

I'm not as much of a Stones fan as you are a Deadhead. And since some of Ya-Yas was overdubbed (mostly Mick Jagger's vocals on several of the songs, though NOT on Love In Vain), I had to do some checking to make sure there wasn't anything about Keith playing slide guitar, either live or overdubbed, and there wasn't. I did run across mentions from fans that some of Mick Taylor's guitar solos had been cut from Ya-Yas when it was compiled from a few shows, and those cuts were blamed on Keith being jealous of Mick T.

Guitar Player magazine had an article a few years ago on fans demanding - petitioning - that the Stones release the full live concerts Ya-Yas was compiled from. The NYC concerts at MSG, anyway.

https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/fans-demand-rolling-stones-release-entire-get-yer-ya-yas-out-live-recordings

“We in the Stones fan-base community have longed to hear all three MSG shows (minus the excessive vocal/instrumental overdubs & extraneous editing) released in excellent quality in order to experience a true representation of being at a Rolling Stones concert in 1969!”

Interestingly, that would have missed Love In Vain, the only one of the 10 Ya-Yas tracks recorded in Baltimore.