I actually think the end of the show is the best with energetic versions Jumpin' Jack Flash and Street Fighting Man. I also really like You Can't Always Get What You Want.
I really dig Sweet Summer Sun or whatever they called it. My father got me back into the Stones because he forced me to watch that one.
Just checked , it’s showing as in stock on the web store ? I’m gonna go into the HMV shop tomorrow and pick up the Vinyl, CD/DVD hopefully.
What’s the difference? The version the label put out in the boxset is the official version, sounds good enough to me from the boxset but haven’t heard the bootleg.
Official archive release was not the same show as the extremely familiar and famous bootleg commonly known as "Brussels Affair". I think the official is show#2.
The official is a mx n match of the boot and the other show from the same day. Sadly in one way and great in another because we now got two great shows for the price of one and a half
Watching the Voodoo blu and the guitars are aggravating me as much now as they did 24 years ago. Too clean and mixed too low! Frustrating, since they sounded so thick and nasty the following summer on the Euro/Stripped theater shows. That said, Mick's dialogue is pretty priceless.
The only thing I don't like about that version of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is the sax solo that never seems to end.
That's disheartening. I watched that show live on PPV in 94, thought the mix was miserable. Had it on Dutch Import in the mid 2000s (a VHS to DVD transfer), still thought the mix was terrible. And now this in 2018? Damn shame. I was really looking forward to this as I love Voodoo Lounge.
It seemed like in 1972 the guitar solos were longer and sax solos shorter. Maybe it's just a fuzzy memory.
I believe that the boot version of Brussels Affair (and also the same material on Headin for an Overload) has a version of Gimme Shelter from the same tour but a show in London. That is the incredibly smokin version. The one on the "official" Brussels is good but not quite as tight, IMO. I have the Ward Records vinyl, a prized item in my collection.
This site explains which songs are from which Brussels show on the official release: Bedspring Symphony - Brussels 1973 - Brussels Affair . Scroll down and you can read about the bootlegs' sources, from King Biscuit radio broadcasts for the most part. Frankly I prefer those, but they are all great.
I think 1989-90 was less "phoned in" and more "getting back into the swing of things". I think that because they'd been apart so long -and essentially broken up along the way - that they were more tentative, and in an odd way, that made them more "professional". Ie, they weren't relaxed so they didn't feel the internal freedom to loosen up and risk some sloppiness. By 1994, they were back to being a "real band" again and not one walking on eggshells, so they could be freer. Or maybe not - that's just a theory!
I'll just throw in that the '72 Philadelphia "Gimme Shelter" performances aren't exactly slouches either.
Is the Blu Ray in widescreen or panned with the black bars either side ? It probably wasn’t shot in widescreen at the time, the rest I have all have the sides cut off, probably to do how it was filmed at the time.
My version (Chamelion Records, 1988) states that It is "Street Fighting Man" that is from London. But the difference between the official (late show) and the booted (early) Brussels is that they are mostly from different shows, although both are from the 17th of October 1973. The late show is pretty great in its own but cannot hold a candle to the other one, IMO. Then again YMMV as people like to say around these parts. HTRL
