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THE ROLLING STONES
Get Yer Leeds Lungs Out [Mighty Diamonds MD 2004, 1CD]
Live at the University Of Leeds, Leeds, UK; March 13, 1971. Very good BBC radio.
Here is another version of a popular show.
Thanks to godxofxrock9 for sharing the tracks at Dime.
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Some background and other notes:
alimente commented at iorr.org:
Swingin’ Pig used a reel-to-reel copy of the original BBC archive tape for their releases of this show (Get Your Leeds Lungs Out and Get Your Leeds Lungs Out Revisited [click here]). What’s on these releases is all there is in the BBC vaults. There’s no more material and, in particular, no stereo mix in the BBC vaults - otherwise TSP would have put it out. The mono mix of the material we know is all he Stones gave the BBC for the broadcast…
Of course, they did not open the show with Dead Flowers but it was the Stones’ decision to have Dead Flowers at the start of the broadcast tape, for whatever reasons that only the Stones or people from the Stones’ camp could explain. I would think that the missing songs had technicals flaws which could not be repaired - could be anything, microphone misfunctions resulting in missing lead vocals, guitars or any other instruments, distortion or whatever. Or performing flaws, fuckups - whatever. It’s also possible that there were tight time restrictions and therefore some songs had to go, and the Stones decided to drop the opening songs. Nowadays, in case of shortened/incomplete broadcasts of Stones shows, the songs that get dropped are usually from the middle of a show, leaving the opening and finale of the shows intact. However, starting a Stones concert broadcast with a country tune like Dead Flowers seems a rather bizarre decision but it has a certain charm. I can imagine that it sounded “fresh” at the time in contrast to Jumping Jack Flash which already was featured on the GYYYO album as the opener.
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There is another version of this show - sourced from “soundboard analog reel to reel” - that is being shared. However, this soundboard master version cannot be shared lossy. Those interested can torrent the lossless flacs here.
This is what uploader Spider_Web wrote of the soundboard master version:
Although not an uncommon show, it is taken from the master reel to reel with verified lineage, not from a bootleg or radio broadcast. As the text file says, no equalization or sound manipulation has been done to this recording - the original recorded sound is what you get. I’m sure a ton of folks already have this show in some form or another; hopefully this will be some sort of upgrade.
Some of you may ask if there is any difference in sound between this and the version that was pressed on numerous bootleg records and CDs. The answer is not really. Most of the vinyl bootlegs were taken from this same source, and most of the CD bootlegs were taken from this exact transfer somewhere down the CDR chain. I also believe that many of the CD bootlegs underwent a bit of equalization and/or level normalization. Again, this copy is raw with verified lineage.
I knew someone back in the mid 1990s who had access to the master reel to reel recording. The reel was carefully recorded directly to stand-alone CDR, and then a copy was made for me. Supposably this same reel to reel was transferred to analog cassette in the 1970s, and transferred to DAT in the early 1990s. I do have a DAT clone of the transfer done in the early ’90s; the sound is about the same but a tad duller.
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Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (224 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.
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Track 01. Dead Flowers 4:41 (7.9MB)
Track 02. Stray Cat Blues 3:52 (6.5MB)
Track 03. Love In Vain 6:17 (10.6MB)
Track 04. Midnight Rambler 12:59 (21.8MB)
Track 05. Bitch 4:14 (7.1MB)
Track 06. Band intro 0:54 (1.5MB)
Track 07. Honky Tonk Women 3:13 (5.4MB)
Track 08. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction 5:12 (8.7MB)
Track 09. Little Queenie 4:41 (7.9MB)
Track 10. Brown Sugar 4:16 (7.2MB)
Track 11. Street Fighting Man 5:09 (8.6MB)
12. Let It Rock [02:39] - Omitted (Official Content)
Track 13. Roll Over Beethoven (Palais Des Sports, Paris, France; September 22, 1970) 2:14 (3.8MB)
58 mins
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