Double Honey, part 8

"Just gimme that raw fish!"

Here are a few more fun JOHN and YOKO vocal booth recordings from the summer of 1980.

First up is "Ordering Dinner". I have to say, between vegetarian MCCARTNEY, LENNON's Japanese fish, and RINGO with his suitcase full of baked beans, I think I'd rather eat dinner with The Rolling Stones!

Next we have a short snippet, "Sean Visits The Studio", where, uh, Sean visits the studio.

And then there's Yoko recording her "Walking On Thin Ice", featuring an intrusion by John. I had previously posted this great track back on Yoko's birthday.

ORDERING DINNER

SEAN VISITS THE STUDIO

WALKING ON THIN ICE

Berlin

For years now I've been saying that LOU REED should do a live performance of his classic 1973 concept album "Berlin", and now my wish has come true! Its just been announced that Lou will be performing "Berlin" at a four night stint at St. Anne's Warehouse in New York in December. I'm hoping for a DVD!

From the press release:
"A theatrically realized concert version of Reed’s stylized rock paean to life outside the circle, the orchestrations filled with the lyrics of the broken hearted and willfully disabled...the drifting tormented addicts of love formalizing their own downfalls in the outskirts of the divided city."

"Berlin" was originally conceived and recorded as a double-LP, but RCA informed producer BOB EZRIN at the last minute that they would not accept a double, and poor Bob had to hurry up and chop about fourteen minutes of music out of it to make it fit on a single LP. No songs were dropped, just some serious editing. (Lou would get his revenge soon enough, when he got them to release "Metal Machine Music" as a double LP). Surprisingly, and disappointingly, "Berlin" was not restored for the recently remastered CD.

As far as I know, there are no bootlegs of the removed material, but about 58 seconds of it showed up on the original 8-track release. You can download the clip from 8-TRACK HEAVEN here:

8-TRACK HEAVEN - BERLIN

Magazine of the Week #35

The November 1981 issue of HIT PARADER obviously went to press before the start of THE ROLLING STONES' 1981 tour, which kicked off in September.

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The four-page cover story, "The Rolling Stones: Confessions Of A Fanatic - The Coast-to-Coast Adventures of a Rock & Roll Junkie" by CHARLEY CRESPO tells us that "at press time, a Stones tour has been booked for the late Summer, but delays in the making of the new album, Tattoo You, threaten to postpone the tour".













In "Record Reviews", ROY TRAKIN reviews YOKO ONO's "Season Of Glass" and GEORGE HARRISON's "Somewhere In England". Of the Yoko LP, he says "its grim, unpleasant, and filled with the stench of death. I can't stop listening to it". As for George, he writes that "All Those Years Ago" with its "pitifully desperate attempt to recapture the Beatle flavor is a depressing reminder of how low the "spiritual one" has sunk in his thirst for a hit". Ouch!


















Also in the magazine are articles on JOE WALSH, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS, and DAVE DAVIES, plus two pages on "Beatlemania: The Movie".













And, as always with "Hit Parader", words to all the latest hit songs, including "We Can Work It Out" (as recorded by CHAKA KHAN), and THE WHO's "Don't Let Go The Coat".

Beatles Bootleg

And here's yet another fantastic music blog. Its called BEATLES BOOTLEG. The name says it all!

BEATLES BOOTLEG

Double Honey, part 7

"I'm gonna sing a little, so I hope I don't disturb you..."

Here are some more of those 1980 vocal booth recordings, this time from a Yoko song, "Every Man Has A Woman". The song would appear first, with Yoko's vocals, on "Double Fantasy", then with John's vocals on the "Every Man Has A Woman" Yoko tribute LP, and most recently (in 2004) as a dance remix CD called "Every Man...Every Woman...".

Plenty of fun here with both Yoko and John, and on the first track Yoko even has Sean in the booth with her.

EVERY MAN - PART 1

EVERY MAN - PART 2

EVERY MAN - PART 3

Gambrinus Harrison

GAMBRINUS MP3 is another great music blog from Brazil. They recently posted some very cool GEORGE HARRISON bootlegs, including the wonderful "Beware of ABKCO" and "Living In The Alternate World".

Here are links to the pages:

GAMBRINUS - GEORGE HARRISON

GAMBRINUS - GEORGE HARRISON - PARTE 2

Sympathy For The Merchant

Here's another odd cover someone sent - NATALIE MERCHANT with a live version of "Sympathy For The Devil". Who would've thought?

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL - NATALIE MERCHANT

25 Years Ago Today

On August 26, 1981 MICK JAGGER held a press conference at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to announce the forthcoming ROLLING STONES tour, which would commence in that very stadium with shows on September 25th and September 26th.

Here are four exclusive, never before seen photos taken prior to the press conference while legendary promoter BILL GRAHAM and rock journalist extraordinaire LISA ROBINSON hung out in the stadium parking lot scoping the place out and chatting with a few fans.















And here are a few taken by photographer SCOTT WEINER later in the day, scanned from a magazine:

Double Honey, part 6

Back at The Hit Factory, on August 13, 1980, the basic tracks were recorded for "Cleanup Time". From the "Master Control Running Tape" vocal booth recordings, here's a run-through with some discussion:

CLEANUP TIME - RUN-THROUGH/DISCUSSION

Ladies and Gentlemen...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones", the 1974 film of The Stones' 1972 tour has never been officially released for home video, but fortunately there are currently excellent bootleg copies available. This is one of the best, if not the best, concert film ever. Seriously. This is The Stones in their prime, when they really were The Greatest Rock'n Roll Band In The World. The energy, raw power, and sense of purpose on display here are awesome. Why this is still not commercially available is beyond me.

I found these links on a message board a few days ago, and have since seen the same links on two other blogs, so I don't know where they originally came from. The eight files for the main movie open as a single 700MB avi file, and it looks and sounds great. The bonus material is the '72 tour rehearsals, and there are links for the artwork also. The password for all files is "purgatory". Many many thanks to the original uploader!

Rolling Stones - Ladies and Gentlemen 1972 DVD rip DivX

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http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/stones/ladies-and-gentlemen-dvd-4-reel-2.jpg

pw = purgatory

Main movie :
http://rapidshare.de/files/29458600/RSLG_main.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29463257/RSLG_main.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29468300/RSLG_main.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29473667/RSLG_main.part4.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29480026/RSLG_main.part5.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29486297/RSLG_main.part6.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29491990/RSLG_main.part7.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29492738/RSLG_main.part8.rar.html

Bonus material :
http://rapidshare.de/files/29380622/RSLG_Bonus.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29391107/RSLG_Bonus.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29397243/RSLG_Bonus.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29403150/RSLG_Bonus.part4.rar.html

UPDATE 8/26/06: I finally got to watch the "bonus material" and it turns out I had some bad info from somewhere - its not the '72 tour rehearsals, its actually another "Midnight Rambler" - still good stuff though - sorry about that!

UPDATE 8/27/06: I'm now told that "Ladies and Gentlemen" was released on video, at least in Australia, at one time. Thanks for the info Rick!

Magazine of the Week #34

This week's magazine is the October 1981 issue of RELIX, the mag that brings us "Music For The Mind".

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The three-page cover story, "THE ROLLING STONES: The Wait Is Over" by STEPHANIE FINNEGAN, gives a brief history of The Stones, and hypes the '81 tour. Then there's a "Rolling Stones Celebrity Corner" page, with photos of various Stones with various celebs, including OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN with MICK, JIM CARROLL with KEITH, and KINKY FRIEDMAN "advising the Stones".


There's three pages on PETER TOSH - "De Bush Doctor Speaks", featuring an interview where Peter's words are transcribed to reflect his accent. Peter is asked "What kind of sensation was it to open up for The Rolling Stones?". His reply: "Oh mon, can you imagine?Can you imagine?! Dere was no nervousness because I do not boder wit dat. Nervousness was eliminated out of me after dying a tousand times, for after dying a tousand times dere is no fear left. But going on stage wit Mick Jagger and playing before an audience dat never even heard reggae music. I mean going before a hundred and twenty tousand people dat never even knew dat dere is a music dat exists called reggae. Can you imagine!? Dat means dat if de music did not have de potential, I would not be here before you today. For if de potential was not dere, I would have been mobbed by dose people."

In the "Vital Vinyl" record reviews, Finnegan reviews "Tatoo You", and tells us "the tunes on Tatoo You are collectively bland, but they are bound to become familiar and tolerable through extended airplay".


Lots of other good stuff in this issue, including Reggae Sunsplash 1981, THE TUBES, ROBERT HUNTER, "Remembering Janis", reviews of THE GO-GOS, LITTLE FEAT, and THE PRETENDERS, and a "GRATEFUL DEAD Song Title Centerfold", a two-page comic art spread depicting "100 GREATEFUL DEAD SONGS".

Double Honey, part 5

"Whoever's here, let's play it then....."

Recorded on the second day of the "Double Fantasy/Milk And Honey" sessions, "Nobody Told Me" would be the first single from the "Milk and Honey" LP. Here are takes 1 and 2, along with about a minute of dialogue, from the "Master Control Running Tape":

NOBODY TOLD ME 1

NOBODY TOLD ME 2

Blog Stoned

There seems to be no end to the great music blogs these days - we must be in some sort of Golden Age here.

Anyway, here's one from Brazil called "Blog Stoned". Their latest post is the ROLLING STONES show from Amsterdam on July 31, 2006, and they also have a few more Stones boots up, as well as lots of other stuff. Check it out:

BLOG STONED

Michael Putland

Legendary photographer MICHAEL PUTLAND recently had a show, called "Rocks Off", at the Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery in Amsterdam. It ran from July 22 through August 6.

A promotional card for the show featured a photo on one side, and some details on the back:

"Michael Putland has been the Rolling Stones tour photographer during various tours in the seventies and eighties. We are proud to show a wide variety of his most exciting pictures, for the first time ever in The Netherlands! Each purchaser of a photo can win a free copy of the book "Pleased To Meet You" in a prize draw. (courtesy Genesis/PTMY)"

Here's what it says about the photo on the front: (front image: Michael Putland, "Its Only Rock 'n' Roll" gelatin silver print, 1973. Image size 16"x20"). It says 1973, but wasn't this from 1974, for the "Its Only Rock 'n Roll" video shoot? Anyway, its a great photo. Check out Keith with his little portable cassette recorder (which appears to be recording!), and Charlie's got something stuffed in between his hi-hat cymbals, presumably so he could play along with the pre-recorded backing track while filming without making too much noise.

Click to enlarge. And thanks Frank!

Double Honey, part 4

On August 18 and 19, 1980, JOHN LENNON had a film crew come in to the Hit Factory for a video shoot, and producer JACK DOUGLAS once again had his "Master Control Running Tape" going. This is not really for the casual listener - its mostly Lennon's vocal, with the band way in the background, and lots of clowning around. I think its a fascinating look at Lennon having a good time in the studio. For details, see CHIP MADINGER and MARK EASTER's great book "Eight Arms To Hold You", available here.

01 SHES A WQMAN / C'MON EVERYBODY
02 SHES A WOMAN
03 RIP IT UP / CHAT
04 I'M A MAN
05 BE-BOP-A-LULA / CHAT
06 I'M LOSING YOU / CHAT
07 STARTING OVER / CHAT
08 I'M LOSING YOU / CHAT
09 CHAT / RIFFS / TUNING / CAMERA SETUP
10 I'M LOSING YOU / CHAT /RIFFS
11 I'M LOSING YOU / RIFFS / TUNING
12 I'M LOSING YOU (COMPLETE)
13 FILM CHAT / RIFFS
14 DREAM LOVER
15 STAY
16 CHAT / RIFFS
17 MYSTERY TRAIN
18 CHAT / RIFFS

Something oh-so groovy

Here's a ROLLING STONES song that doesn't get covered too often, "Something Happened To Me Yesterday".

This is from an absolutely charming 2005 CD from Argentina called "Babies Go Rolling Stones":

SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY - BABIES GO ROLLING STONES

Check out this track, and then go buy the CD, which is available here. Other "Babies Go" CDs include The Beatles, Bob Marley, and Pink Floyd.

Double Honey, part 3

Yoko: "You sound like a Beatle."

John: "An EX-Beatle, you (bleep)-ing (bleep)!"

August 8th, 1980 - in addition to "Starting Over", JOHN LENNON and the boys also recorded the basic tracks for what would be the second single from the "Double Fantasy" LP, "Woman". I'm certainly no expert on these sessions, so I'm not quite sure if some of this stuff actually comes from a later overdub session, but here ya go - more fun from the vocal booth recordings:

WOMAN - PART 1
WOMAN - PART 2
WOMAN - PART 3
WOMAN - PART 4
WOMAN - PART 5

Ulf TV

Some of you youngsters may not remember, but there really was a time when it wasn't quite so easy to find so much cool, easily-downloadable bootleg stuff on the internet. No bit-torrents, no blogspot.com, just the newsgroups (which I still haven't figured out!), and a few here-today-gone-tomorrow sites that we'd have to scour the 'net to find. But even back then, there was "Ulf's List". Every week (more or less), starting in the late '90s, Ulf would post some great ROLLING STONES bootleg audio, and he's still going strong today.

Anyway, this week Ulf has posted some Stones audio from TV appearances - from the Super Bowl, the American Music Awards, MTV Music Awards, and some live MARIANNE FAITHFULL.

Here's his page, scroll down for the downloads, and you can click on "Hard facts on the albums" for the details:

ULF'S LIST

Thanks for everything Ulf!!!

Double Honey, part 2

The first day of the "Double Fantasy/Milk And Honey" sessions was August 6th, 1980, when they recorded the basic tracks for "I'm Stepping Out", which wouldn't be released until almost four years later (on "Milk and Honey").

Great stuff here, again from the vocal booth recordings.

I'M STEPPING OUT:

PART 01
PART 02
PART 03
PART 04
PART 05
PART 06
PART 07
PART 08
PART 09
PART 10
PART 11
PART 12
PART 13
PART 14
PART 15
PART 16

Magazine of the Week #33

Yes, its another "poster magazine"!

HIT MAG, Volume 1, Number 8, sometime in 1984, with a 22-inch x 32-inch poster of the cover illustration.








The mag gives us two pages of "What Mick And Michael Have In Common": For starters, "Both are entertainer entertainers". Also, "They have the same initials", and "They are both picky about films". And betcha didn't know that "They love beautiful women". "Both are the lead singers in their groups", and, of course, "Both are constantly misunderstood".



Also in this issue, two pages of ADAM ANT, two pages of STYLE COUNCIL, and a full-page TINA TURNER photo.


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