Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (1969 Demos & 1973 Live)

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Brown Sugar - 1969 Demos & 1973 Live
Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Florence AL, USA
Olympic Sound Studios, London
December 1969 & April 1970
Live in Rotterdam 10/14/73, 2nd show
16:9 HD Clip 6000kBits/s / Audio 320kBits/s

Mick Jagger - Lead Vocal, Castanets & Maracas
Keith Richards - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Harmony Vocal
Mick Taylor - Electric Guitar
Bill Wyman - Bass
Charlie Watts - Drums
Ian Stewart - Piano

Jimmy Miller - Producer
Jimmy Johnson - Chief Engineer (USA)
Glyn & Andy Johns - Chief Engineers (UK)
Jim Gamble - Sound Engineer (Live 1973)

Original demos and live recording of this great song.
I used live photos from their 1971 concert in Leeds UK for the demo, 1973 Pacific/Europe and 1972 US tour pics for the live version. Many of these rare photos were shot by fans!
If you're able to keep yer feet still while listening to this,
then you're deaf or you 'ave none!

TRACK 01 - BROWN SUGAR (1969 DEMO)
Early raw take that lasts here only 01.05 minute.
It's taken from the 03.43 "Brown sugar, sure tastes good!" version.
Jagger purrs at the intro!

TRACK 02 - BROWN SUGAR (1969 DEMO)
A version without the brass section but lots of castanets, great guitar picking on the right channel and three guitar solos. This mix is ready to press but it has never hit shelves of record stores.

TRACK 03 - BROWN SUGAR (1973 LIVE)
This is my fave live version, everybody's on the spot and Mick Taylor plays a demonic slide.
Jagger sings "...just like a young BOY should" during the chorus!

Levi

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We cut a version of Brown Sugar with Al Kooper, it was a good track. He's playing piano on it at Bobby Keys' and my birthday party, which was held at Olympic Studios ... We wanted to use it cos it's a new version but there's something about the Muscle Shoals feel of the album one, that we got into at the end of the last American tour. Charlie really fills the sound and it was so easy to cut down there.
Keith Richards, 1971

We use acoustic guitars a lot to shadow the electric, always have done. It gives another atmosphere to this track, makes it less dry. It's cheap, too.
Keith Richards, 1993

Keith was playing a Gibson, but not a Les Paul ... I think it was an SG, and as I recall it was black. I remember it had those sharp horns on the cutaways. That's what he played most of the time he was here. Taylor, to my recollection, was playing a Strat. And guess what we came up with for Bill Wyman? Do you remember those Plexiglas body basses that were around then? I checked with David Hood later and he says it was a Dan Armstrong. So to the best of our recollection, that's what it was ... Keith played a Fender Twin, and so did Mick Taylor, and they brought those in with them. The loudness on those tracks really came from Keith. I had it put in that back booth and shut the door on it.
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Keith's guitar amp was in a booth, and Jagger was in the back of the room with baffles around him. There was some leakage going on, but you couldn't tell because he was so close to the mic. It was part of the sound. The drums did not have a booth, they were open, but with baffles. But there was a lot of leakage on the drums, cymbals and stuff, even though Charlie didn't play real hard ... Even today, that would be a good way for a rock band to mic their drums, if they like some great live drumming sound. They would be surprised to find that sometimes less is more.
Jimmy Johnson, 2005

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Wild Horses - 1969 Electric Demo
http://soundcloud.com/levi-magyar/rolling-stones-wild-horses-demo-2010-remaster
Levi Magyar 32bit Audio Remaster, May 2010

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