Saturday, November 2, 2024

The Rolling Stones - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-29-2013

Here's the ninth and I assume last album of the Rolling Stones performing for the BBC. This time, it's a full concert from the massive yearly Glastonbury Festival in Britain. Despite it being 2013 and the festival has been happening steadily since about 1980, apparently this was the first time the Stones were invited to play there!

I mentioned in the previous album in this series, a BBC concert from 2006, that the Stones were getting long in the tooth. That even more so the case here. Lead singer Mick Jagger was 70 years old, which is frigging old for their style of energetic rock and roll. But in their defense, if you just listen to the recording, there's no way to tell. In my opinion, they still sound good and vibrant.

This is completely unreleased, and the sound is as good as you'd expect from the BBC. There were some problems though. The second half appears to be from a slightly different source. You can't tell based on the sound quality, but a difference was that, for that half, a BBC DJ talked between songs whenever possible. For instance, there was a couple of minutes of talking during the lengthy applause before the encore. But there was other talking as well. For instance, that annoying DJ talked over the last few seconds of "Midnight Rambler" and over the first few seconds of "You Can't Always Get What You Want." 

So I deleted the DJ talking whenever possible, like during the encore applause and after the final song. I also used the UVR5 audio editing program to remove his voice when he talked over songs. Those are the ones with "[Edit]" in their titles. Hopefully, the recording is now just the Stones.

One nice thing about this concert is that it has Mick Taylor guesting on two songs, "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Taylor was the band's main lead guitarist starting in 1969, but he quit the band in 1974 and was replaced by Ronnie Wood. In recent years (writing this in 2024), he's been a guest star at quite a few Stones concerts.

In 2013, the band hadn't put out a new studio album in ages. So this is nearly all their best, classic songs. The only new song performed here was "Doom and Gloom," which came out on a 2012 greatest hits album.

This album is two hours and six minutes long.

01 talk (Rolling Stones)
02 Jumpin' Jack Flash (Rolling Stones)
03 talk (Rolling Stones)
04 It's Only Rock 'n' Roll [But I Like It] (Rolling Stones)
05 talk (Rolling Stones)
06 Paint It Black (Rolling Stones)
07 Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)
08 talk (Rolling Stones)
09 Glastonbury Girl [Factory Girl] (Rolling Stones)
10 talk (Rolling Stones)
11 Wild Horses (Rolling Stones)
12 talk (Rolling Stones)
13 Doom and Gloom (Rolling Stones)
14 talk (Rolling Stones)
15 Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Rolling Stones with Mick Taylor)
16 talk (Rolling Stones)
17 Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)
18 talk (Rolling Stones)
19 You Got the Silver (Rolling Stones)
20 talk (Rolling Stones)
21 Happy (Rolling Stones)
22 Miss You Intro (Rolling Stones)
23 Miss You (Rolling Stones)
24 Midnight Rambler [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
25 talk (Rolling Stones)
26 2000 Light Years from Home (Rolling Stones)
27 Sympathy for the Devil [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
28 Start Me Up (Rolling Stones)
29 talk (Rolling Stones)
30 Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones)
31 Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
32 You Can't Always Get What You Want [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
33 talk (Rolling Stones)
34 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Rolling Stones with Mick Taylor)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yRGJUAyR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/v0QXpC79jxlAQQb/file

The cover is from this exact concert. It shows Ronnie Wood on the left, Mick Jagger in the center, and Keith Richards on the right.

3 comments:

  1. The first Glastonbury concert, and 'fayre'. was in the early 70s and David Bowie plated there in the early hours one morning. In 2000 he played there again and said, "good to be back." I've only been once because although I love the music I can't put up with the squalor. Still, Billy Bragg recognised me when I was there and I saw some great bands and artists - That Petrol Emotion, World Party, Julian Cope, New Order and Elvis Costello with The Attractions for the first time in years. He did around an hour solo, and then said "I've invited some friends along..." and we thought he'd be playing with Los Lobos, who had been on before him. Instead he introduced his former backing band by saying "This is an old Swedinh folk song," and played a great version of Abba's 'Knowing You, Knowing Me.' I'd love a copy of that gig.

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    1. Yeah, there were some early Glastonburys in the 1970s, but they were intermittent. I said it's been a regular thing only since the start of the 1980s. As far as Elvis Costello goes, I don't know what year you were there, but I plan on posting his Glastonbury sets from 1987, 1994, and 2013 as part of my BBC series on him. I don't know how many times he's played the festival, but those are the ones I could find.

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  2. Many thanks. The version I have is also from the BBC but has no DJ banter.

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