![]() ![]() You Can't Always Get What You Want - Brussels, Oct. ![]() On this version of Love In Vain he plays a stunning solo - both soulful and precise - and far superior than the one on 1969's Get Yer Ya-Yas Out. His playing on the 69 tour seemed tentative but throughout the 72 tour he plays with total authority. The band played amphetamine fueled 90 minute sets that tore through the songs and left everyone breathless, including Mick Jagger, who seems to bark out the words to many of the songs instead of singing them.The singer may sound bored and the rhythm guitarist is starting to feel the effects of his heroin habit but new addition Mick Taylor comes into his own on this tour. ![]() The Stones chaotic free concert at Altamont in 1969 had even, in part, helped to kill it. Probably recorded on18th December 1970 at Olympic Studios in London at Keith Richards' birthday party. Brown Sugar (with Eric Clapton on slide guitar) - December 1970Raw and fairly rough sounding. In the five years that Taylor was with them they went form being a band that was coming out of semi-retirement (as a touring band) and had to prove themselves to American audiences on the 1969 tour to 'the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world' of the early 1970s.Here are some recordings from the classic 69 - 73 Taylor years - mostly unreleased - which would surely gain a place on any Rolling Stones boxed set anthology.1. In the 5 yearshe spent with the band, they recorded a string of albums which arenow considered some of the band's finest - Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Goats Head Soup, and It’s Only Rock’n’Roll.I also think that this was their peak as a live band. Taylor added a virtuosity they had previously lacked. Many, including myself, consider this period to be the band's most creative period. However this doesn't stop the spread of some really classic material doing the rounds on the internet.So, looking at what's available on Youtube, I decided to compile some of my favourite live Stones cuts recorded between 19 when Mick Taylor was the lead guitarist. ![]()
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