Rod Stewart - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-29-2025

It can't be denied that Rod Stewart is an old man. At the time I'm writing this, over a month after the 2025 Glastonbury Festival, Stewart is 80 years old. And yet he was one of the big names of the festival because he keeps entertaining crowds like someone much younger. I was rather wary about hearing this concert, but it turns out he sounds just like he did decades ago. 

In terms of the set list, there are no big surprises here. It consists mostly of his big hits from the 1970s and 80s. He did three unexpected covers of classic songs, though: "Love Train," "Lady Marmalade" and "If You Don't Know Me by Now." The second one was done by his backing singers while he took a "tea break," and the last one was a duet with Mick Hucknall, lead singer of Simply Red.

Speaking of guests, near the end of the concert, he was joined on stage for two songs by Ronnie Wood, currently a member of the Rolling Stones but also a former band mate of Stewart's in the Faces. And for one song, both of them were joined by 1960s female singer Lulu. 

This album is an hour and 29 minutes long. 

01 Tonight I'm Yours [Don't Hurt Me] (Rod Stewart)
02 Having a Party (Rod Stewart)
03 Some Guys Have All the Luck (Rod Stewart)
04 talk (Rod Stewart)
05 Love Train (Rod Stewart)
06 The First Cut Is the Deepest (Rod Stewart)
07 Tonight's the Night [Gonna Be Alright] (Rod Stewart)
08 Forever Young (Rod Stewart)
09 Riverdance [Instrumental] (Rod Stewart)
10 Forever Young [Reprise] (Rod Stewart)
11 talk (Rod Stewart)
12 You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart)
13 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
14 talk (Rod Stewart)
15 Young Turks (Rod Stewart)
16 talk (Rod Stewart)
17 I'd Rather Go Blind (Rod Stewart)
18 talk (Rod Stewart)
19 Da Ya Think I'm Sexy (Rod Stewart)
20 talk (Rod Stewart)
21 Lady Marmalade (Rod Stewart)
22 talk (Rod Stewart)
23 I Don't Want to Talk about It (Rod Stewart)
24 If You Don't Know Me by Now (Rod Stewart with Mick Hucknall)
25 Baby Jane (Rod Stewart)
26 talk (Rod Stewart)
27 Stay with Me (Rod Stewart with Ronnie Wood)
28 Hot Legs (Rod Stewart with Lulu & Ronnie Wood)
29 talk (Rod Stewart)
30 Sailing (Rod Stewart)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zFLyHF3D

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/1W66vKXqkwAL1qL/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert, showing Stewart with Ronnie Wood. 

The Rolling Stones - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: In Concert, Trans World Dome, St. Louis, MO, 12-12-1997

To quote Michael Corleone in "Godfather III," "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" Every time I think I'm done posting BBC albums by the Rolling Stones, it seems I find another one. This one typically isn't considered a BBC album because it was broadcast on U.S. radio at the time, and also shown on pay-per-view TV. But I found out from the BBC website that it was broadcast on the BBC at the same time, so that makes it a BBC album in my book.

At the time of this concert, the Rolling Stones were promoting their latest album, "Bridges to Babylon." Four songs are from that album: "Anybody Seen My Baby," "Saint of Me," "Flip the Switch," and "Out of Control." Also notable are some guest stars: Dave Matthews, Taj Mahal, and Joshua Redman. The song the band played with Taj Mahal, "Corrina, Corrina," was only ever performed by them at this one concert.

In 1998, the band released a live album of their 1997 tour. It contained three songs from this exact concert: "Waiting on a Friend," "Corrina, Corinna," and "The Last Time." Otherwise, everything here has not been officially released in any audio format. However, a DVD of this concert also exists. 

Sigh. Due to the belated discovery of this album, the two Rolling Stones BBC albums that come after this have been renumbered. If you want to get the updated versions (with revised cover art and mp3 tags), here are the links:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-rolling-stones-bbc-sessions-volume_24.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-rolling-stones-bbc-sessions-volume.html

This concert is two hours and 28 minutes long.

01 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
02 Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones)
03 talk (Rolling Stones)
04 Flip the Switch (Rolling Stones)
05 Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)
06 talk (Rolling Stones)
07 Wild Horses (Rolling Stones with Dave Matthews)
08 talk (Rolling Stones)
09 Anybody Seen My Baby (Rolling Stones)
10 Saint of Me (Rolling Stones)
11 talk (Rolling Stones)
12 Corrina, Corrina (Rolling Stones with Taj Mahal)
13 talk (Rolling Stones)
14 Out of Control (Rolling Stones)
15 talk (Rolling Stones)
16 Waiting on a Friend (Rolling Stones with Joshua Redman)
17 talk (Rolling Stones)
18 Miss You (Rolling Stones)
19 talk (Rolling Stones)
20 All about You (Rolling Stones)
21 talk (Rolling Stones)
22 Wanna Hold You (Rolling Stones)
23 talk (Rolling Stones)
24 It's Only Rock 'n Roll [But I Like It] (Rolling Stones)
25 The Last Time (Rolling Stones)
26 talk (Rolling Stones)
27 Like a Rolling Stone (Rolling Stones)
28 Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones)
29 Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones)
30 talk (Rolling Stones)
31 Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)
32 Start Me Up (Rolling Stones)
33 Jumpin' Jack Flash (Rolling Stones)
34 talk (Rolling Stones)
35 You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones)
36 Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6jjvYqii

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/pEwrUXIMbAPo9Je/file

I couldn't find any good images from this exact concert. The cover photo is from another concert in the same tour, in August 1997. From right to left, that's Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, and Charlie Watts.

The Rolling Stones - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, CA, 10-7-1981

I can't believe it's happened again! A while back, I thought I was done posting BBC albums by the Rolling Stones, but then I found another one and had to renumber the last couple. Then I found another one and had to renumber the last couple again. Now, I've found yet another one, and I've have to renumber the three that come after this! Sigh. Let's just pretend that never happened and this was my numbering all along.

This show, from the band's 1981-1982 world tour, was easy to miss because it doesn't get around much as a bootleg. I think that's because it's only half of a full show. Furthermore, the sound quality is not great. There are better recordings from this tour.

I can't do anything about the length, unfortunately. I found an audience bootleg from the same show, but it sounds pretty bad. However, I was able to do some audio editing, and I believe the show sounds much better now. For some reason, the BBC left in a lot of audience cheering all through the songs. I cut most of that out using the MVSEP problem. I also boosted Mick Jagger's lead vocals in the mix.

I think this show was first a "King Biscuit Flower Power" broadcast. But it was definitely broadcast by the BBC too, because the boot I had included the BBC DJ intros and outros. And while it's frustrating due to its short length, it is part of the Stones at the BBC, so I felt it necessary to post it here. 

If you're a stickler about album titles, please redownload the three Stones BBC concerts after this. I redid the cover art and the mp3 tags to all of them. And it turns out the mp3 tags were wrong for two of them anyway, due to all the confusion over the repeated renumbering. But everything should be good now.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones)
02 Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones)
03 Shattered (Rolling Stones)
04 talk (Rolling Stones)
05 Beast of Burden (Rolling Stones)
06 She's So Cold (Rolling Stones)
07 Hang Fire (Rolling Stones)
08 Miss You (Rolling Stones)
09 Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)
10 Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
11 Start Me Up (Rolling Stones)
12 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3xQHEEDq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7pbPInoG0gixxOa/file

The photo is from this exact concert.

The Rolling Stones - BBC Sessions, Volume 10: 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.

UPDATE: On May 10, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same as before, but I changed the title (and cover art) after finding a previous BBC concert that I'd missed.

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/ikDyXXem

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/WMxdpqUSA6nD3OH/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.

The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue - Alternate Version (1980)

I've been gradually posting Rolling Stones stray tracks albums, working my way chronologically through their long music career. Starting at this point with their 1980 album "Emotional Rescue," I'm going to take a different approach. In my opinion, from 1980 onwards, their albums were usually hit and miss (with occasional exceptions, such as their 1981 album "Tattoo You"). So instead of more stray tracks albums, I'm making alternate versions of most of their albums from 1980 and after. (I'm also making some cover versions albums and some other things.) In this way, I hope to make versions of these later day albums that are solid all the way through, just like nearly all of their output prior to 1980.

The Stones put out a classic album in 1978, "Some Girls." Their 1981 album "Tattoo You" is also a classic. So it's a bit strange that the album in between, "Emotional Rescue" in 1980, was considered both a commercial and critical disappointment. (It reached Number One in the charts in many countries, but that was momentum from the previous album, and it didn't stay high in the charts for long.) For instance, if you look at the crowd-sourced ratings at rateyourmusic.com, it was their lowest rated album in their career up until then, and far below the ratings of "Some Girls" and "Tattoo You."

The Rolling Stones Albums: songs, discography, biography, and listening guide - Rate Your Music

In retrospect, I think there are two reasons this was a disappointing album. The first is that there was increasing conflict between the two main creative forces in the band, singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Richards had been heavily using drugs through most of the 1970s, if not earlier, but he cleaned himself up in time for this album, after having narrowly dodged a long prison term for drug possession in Canada in 1978. During his drug years, he'd been content to let Jagger lead the band. But once he cleaned up, he wanted to take a bigger role. That should have been a good thing, but Jagger was used to being in charge by then. The songwriting suffered, since Jagger and Richards had often written songs together, much like the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team in the Beatles.

But even with that, the album should have been a really solid one, except for poor song selection. Most critically, three songs were rejected for this album, but were included on their next one, "Tattoo You," when the band all but stopped coming up with new songs for a while due to the Jagger-Richards conflict. Those three were "Hang Fire," "Little T&A," and "No Use in Crying." In my opinion, had those songs been included instead of the weakest ones that ultimately made it on the album, its reputation would be much, much better. Unfortunately for my purposes though, I don't want to use any of those three, since they work great as part of "Tattoo You."

That said, it still can be greatly improved by removing some songs and adding others. The ones I removed are: "Dance (Part 1)," "Send It to Me," "Indian Girl," and "Where the Boys Go." I'm sure other people would pick different ones to remove. In my opinion, some of these are less fully fleshed out songs and more riffs with dance beats added. The band wasn't afraid to dabble with disco, which was super trendy at the time, but I don't think many of their disco experiments look that good in retrospect (with the obvious exception of their big 1978 hit "Miss You").

Anyway, I've kept six songs from the album, and I've put those as the first six tracks here, in their original order. The remaining four come from elsewhere. "I Think I'm Going Mad" was an easy add. It was a B-side, released in 1979. That's another case of poor song selection, since I think it's better than many songs they chose to include on the album. 

You might recognize "Lonely at the Top," because it was a single from Jagger's 1985 solo album "She's the Boss." However, it started out as a Rolling Stones song in 1979. The version here is unreleased. The sound quality is a bit rough, and some of the lyrics hadn't been worked out yet. But I figure it's interesting enough to merit inclusion.

The last two songs are more examples of poor song selection for the album. They did get released, but not until decades later. Both were recorded in 1979 and could have been included on the album. But "Troubles A-Comin'" wasn't released until the 2021 super deluxe edition of "Tattoo You," and "We Had It All" wasn't released until the 2011 super deluxe edition of "Some Girls" (despite the fact that it was actually recorded a year after "Some Girls" was released). 

This album is 40 minutes long. By comparison, the original version was 41 minutes long.

01 Summer Romance (Rolling Stones)
02 Let Me Go (Rolling Stones)
03 Down in the Hole (Rolling Stones)
04 Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones)
05 She's So Cold (Rolling Stones)
06 All about You (Rolling Stones)
07 I Think I'm Going Mad (Rolling Stones)
08 Lonely at the Top [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
09 Troubles A-Comin' (Rolling Stones)
10 We Had It All (Rolling Stones)

The download link has been removed due to copyright issues. But see the comments below.

The original cover used a thermal camera to take pictures of four members of the band. (I think drummer Charlie Watts got cut out.) I wanted something similar but different. Since the cover was already so strange, all I did was invert the colors for everything but the text at the top. You have to know the cover well to even tell the difference.

The Rolling Stones - Some Covers, Volume 2: 1979-1981

I posted "Some Covers, Volume 1" by the Rolling Stones back in September 2021. I planned to post Volume 2 soon thereafter. It's now two and a half years later. Oops! The reason for the delay was that I wanted to post my stray tracks albums for the band's "Some Girls" era, and that got delayed for various reasons I've explained elsewhere. So now I'm finally free to post this one.

Just like "Volume 1," this collects cover versions the band did that they didn't put on their studio albums at the time. But after getting themselves together and making the classic "Some Girls" album in 1978, the band started to split. Lead guitarist Keith Richards finally got off various drug addictions and wanted to take more of a leadership role in the band. But lead singer Mick Jagger didn't like that, and the two of them butted heads.

One result of that was the key members began taking part in more solo projects. There aren't any solo songs from Jagger, but there are two solo songs by Richards, one by guitarist Ronnie Wood, and two more by a short-lived side project band that was headed by both Richards and Wood, the New Barbarians.

Furthermore, Richards sings one of the Rolling Stones songs here, "Your Angel Steps Out of Heaven." As a result of all that, Richards sings four songs and Wood sings two. Normally, Jagger sang the vast majority of the songs for the band. But that leaves only seven songs for him, and two of those are duets with blues legend Muddy Waters. So that's a bit unusual, but that's what the source material gave me. I tried to sort the songs so that it usually alternates between one sung by Jagger and then one sung by Richards or Wood.

Only five of the songs here are officially released. "Going to a Go-Go" is from the rather obscure archival live album "Hampton Stadium." "Let’s Go Steady Again" is a duet between Richards and a lesser known female singer, Kristi Kimsey. This song comes from a Kimsey album called "As I Look Back." "Seven Days," a great Bob Dylan cover, is from a Ronnie Wood solo album. The two songs with Muddy Waters, "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Champagne and Reefer," are from another fairly obscure archival live album called "Checkerboard Lounge Live."

That leaves the unreleased songs. "Linda Lu," "Your Angel Steps Out of Heaven," and "Sweet Home Chicago" are from studio sessions by the band. "Linda Lu" has "[Edit]" in the title because I thought it went on too long without purpose, so I edited out about a minute of it. The next two songs, "Apartment No. 9," and "Worried Life Blues," are from a soundboard bootleg of a New Barbarians concert. "Twenty Flight Rock" is from a concert in Hartford, Connecticut, during the band's big 1981 tour. Richards has a penchant for weepy country songs, surprisingly enough. The last two unreleased songs, "Oh, What a Feeling" and "Don't," were done by him as solo performances in the studio.

I've collected one more album of covers that deals with the rest of the 1980s. I hope it won't take as long before I post that one.

This album is 51 minutes long.

01 Linda Lu [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
02 Your Angel Steps Out of Heaven (Rolling Stones)
03 Sweet Home Chicago (Rolling Stones)
04 Apartment No. 9 (New Barbarians (Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood))
05 Worried Life Blues (New Barbarians (Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood))
06 Going to a Go-Go (Rolling Stones)
07 Let’s Go Steady Again (Rolling Stones with Kristi Kimsey)
08 Twenty Flight Rock (Rolling Stones)
09 Seven Days (Ronnie Wood)
10 Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters & the Rolling Stones)
11 Oh, What a Feeling (Keith Richards)
12 Down the Road Apiece (Rolling Stones)
13 Champagne and Reefer (Muddy Waters & the Rolling Stones)
14 Don't (Keith Richards)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16322317/TROLLNGSTNS1979-1981SmeCversVolum2_atse.zip.html

I picked a pretty strange Stones concert poster for the cover art to Volume 1. I did the same with this one. I don't have the details about this poster, but I cropped out much of it so I could focus on the flower with the Stones lips logo.

The Rolling Stones - Some More Girls 1 - Non-Album Tracks (1977-1978)

You might have noticed that I posted a series of stray tracks albums for the Rolling Stones up until two and a half years ago (writing this in February 2024), and then I stopped. That's because I got stuck around 1978 in their career. But I recently found a way to tackle this time period for the band. (Funnily enough, I also got stuck around 1978 with Bob Dylan's career for a long time.) I've created no less than three albums. The first is "Some Covers, Volume 1," an album entirely of cover versions that I posted back in 2021. Next comes this, "Some More Girls 1." That'll quickly be followed by "Some More Girls 2."

To understand why there's so much Rolling Stones material around 1978, you have to understand some of the band's history. In February 1977, the band's lead guitarist Keith Richards was caught by police in a hotel room with so much heroin that he was charged with drug trafficking, which could have resulted in a very long prison sentence, possibly even life in prison. Ultimately, his charge was reduced to mere drug possession and he only got a suspended sentence. But the band members didn't know that result until late 1978. In the meantime, the decided to record as much new music as possible, in case he was locked up for years.

Also in 1977, punk music was suddenly all the rage. The Rolling Stones had been coasting for a few years, reveling in their luxury lifestyle and taking way too many drugs. But they felt challenged by punk music and found new inspiration in wanting to stay relevant. The result was their 1978 album "Some Girls," widely considered to be one of their best. In fact, Rolling Stone Magazine has listed it as one of the 500 best albums of all time.

One reason it was so good was because they came up with so many new songs from all those sessions while worrying about Keith Richards' possible prison sentence that they had plenty to pick and choose from for the album. In fact, they wrote about 50 new songs, and only ten were used on the album. Some more would come out on their next two albums, "Emotional Rescue" and "Tattoo You." Then, in 2011, the "Some Girls" album was released with an entire second album of extra songs. Many of them were overdubbed, especially with lots of new vocals by lead singer Mick Jagger.

I've created two albums to gather all the extra songs from the "Some Girls" era that are publicly available. That includes most of the songs from the 2011 deluxe edition of the album, as well as lots of still unreleased outtakes. Note that I say "most of" because one of the deluxe edition songs, "We Had It All" was actually recorded in 1979, well after "Some Girls" was released. So I'll be putting that elsewhere. I've put another song, "Tallahassee Lassie," on the "Some Covers 1" album.

This album is composed of the remaining songs from the deluxe edition, plus one more. That one, "Everything's Turning to Gold," was released as a B-side in 1978.

I've arranged this so nearly all the songs are originals, with most of the cover versions going to the "Some Covers 1" album. The only cover here is "You Win Again," originally by Hank Williams. 

There's not much else to say, since this is very similar to the second disc of the deluxe edition of "Some Girls." Note though that I edited one song, "Petrol Blues." That's because it came to a very abrupt end that didn't sound good to me. So I took an small, instrumental portion from earlier in the song and added it to the end, then faded it out. That makes the song about ten seconds longer. I think it has a better finish now.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 Claudine (Rolling Stones)
02 Everything's Turning to Gold (Rolling Stones)
03 So Young (Rolling Stones)
04 Do You Think I Really Care (Rolling Stones)
05 When You're Gone (Rolling Stones)
06 No Spare Parts (Rolling Stones)
07 Don't Be a Stranger (Rolling Stones)
08 I Love You Too Much (Rolling Stones)
09 Keep Up Blues (Rolling Stones)
10 You Win Again (Rolling Stones)
11 Petrol Blues [Edit] (Rolling Stones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16307893/TROLLNGSTNS1977-1978SmeMreGrls1_atse.zip.html

The cover of "Some Girls" is very memorable. It's based on a vintage advertisement for female wigs, except some faces were replaced by members of the Rolling Stones and a random selection of female celebrities (as well as George Harrison, believe it or not). This led to legal trouble and the cover has since changed twice, but the basic look has stayed the same. I thought it would be fun to go with that same general idea. So I found a vintage ad for female underwear that seemed to have a similar vibe, and I used that. I also mimicked the font style and text placement for the words.

The Rolling Stones - Some More Girls 2 - Non-Album Tracks (1977-1978)

I just posted "Some More Girls 1," a collection of stray tracks by the Rolling Stones from 1977 and 1978. This is a complimentary album to that one, as you can tell by the name, containing yet more stray tracks from the same time period.

I mentioned in my write-up for "Some More Girls 1" that I was found myself unable to post these albums for over two years. That was almost entirely due to this album (and I wanted to post them together). The other one was easy, because it mostly contained the songs from the deluxe edition of the classic 1978 album "Some Girls." This one contains all the other good outtakes I could find from the same time period. 

For a long time, I felt this one just didn't hold up musically, compared to the other album. As I mentioned in my write-up for that album, the Rolling Stones recorded a surprisingly large number of songs in 1977 and 1978 - about 50 in total. Of the unreleased ones, nearly all of them have been bootlegged in some form or another. But the problem is that a lot of them just aren't very good. As I mentioned for that other album, the band was stockpiling songs because of a worry that lead guitarist Keith Richards would have to serve a long prison sentence (although in the end he didn't have to). In many, many cases, the band was just brainstorming ideas, with no vocals or only a hummed or mumbled melody. I suppose the idea was that if Richards had to go to prison, lead singer Mick Jagger was the band's main lyricist, and he could write and sing the vocals later. That's why, when the deluxe edition of "Some Girls" was released in 2011 with a dozen extra songs, most of the extra songs had new vocals added by Jagger, often with newly composed lyrics.

The short version of all that is that while there are many unreleased songs from this era, most are lacking intelligible lyrics (since they largely hadn't been written yet) or any vocals at all. Furthermore, the sound quality of these bootlegs varies wildly. Some of the songs I found I thought were pretty good, but the sound quality was lacking. 

In a way, my dithering paid off, because in late 2021, the band's 1981 album "Tattoo You" was rereleased as a deluxe edition, with an entire second album of extra songs. But despite being a classic album, "Tattoo You" was made up of revamped outtakes from the 1970s, so the extra songs were also all from the 1970s. It turns out four of those were from the 1977-1978 "Some Girls" sessions. So I was able to include them on this album and get rid of some of the more dodgy selections I'd previously had.

Furthermore, in the last couple of years, audio editing technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, thanks to artificial intelligence breakthroughs. So I was able to use this new technology to improve the mixes of some of the other songs, most especially by boosting the lead vocals on some of them.

I also ultimately decided less is more. I had some iffy songs that I wasn't sure to include on the album or not, or as bonus tracks or not. In the end, I decided to let most of them go. The end result is pretty decent, I think, though it still obviously doesn't compare with the "Some Girls" album itself, an undisputed classic.

Tracks 1, 2, 10, and 11 are from the "super deluxe edition" of Tattoo You, as mentioned above. Note that includes an early version of the classic hit "Start Me Up" that's different enough to be interesting. Also, the released version of "It's a Lie" is about five minutes long, and I thought that was too long. The song started to get boring for me. So I edited about a minute out of it.

The only other released song is "Don't Look Back," which was released as a single in 1977. Some might argue that it doesn't belong here, since it's not actually a Rolling Stones song. It was a duet performed by reggae star Peter Tosh and Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger. In my opinion, having Jagger's voice prominently featured makes it fit with the other songs. Besides, this was well before Jagger began a real solo career, so there's no better album from this era to add it to.

That leaves six unreleased songs on the album proper. Most of them had issues, which is why you see "[Edit]" included in the song titles for some of them. In some cases, I thought they went on too long, so I cut them down to a reasonable length, like I did with "It's a Lie." Keep in mind that the band was figuring these songs out as they were playing them, so they often went on extra long in their efforts to find the right groove. I have no doubt that most or all of them would have been shortened up eventually if they even were included on studio albums.

Note that one song, "So Young," also appears on "Some More Girls 1." But that was a full band version, and this one is basically just accompanied by a piano. So I thought both were worthy of inclusion. Also note that "Covered in Bruises" is sung by band member Ronnie Wood. It's an early version of the song "1 2 3 4," which ultimately came out on his 1981 solo album "1 2 3 4." But while that album has a solo version, this is an actual Rolling Stones version, done at the same time as most of the others here (typically, December 1977). I figured it also is different enough for inclusion, even to the point of having a different title.

As with the other album, I wanted the vast majority of the songs to be originals. So only one is a cover, "Shame, Shame, Shame," originally by Jimmy Reed. Most of the covers were put on the album "Some Covers 1" instead. In case you don't have that one yet, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-rolling-stones-some-covers-volume-1.html

This album still has its flaws. For instance, some songs still just have mumbled vocals instead of fully completed lyrics, like "Everlasting Is My Love" (call me crazy, but I think I hear Bruce Springsteen's name mentioned in that one). But still, I think this is a worthy album. While it can't compare with "Some Girls," some of these songs are as good or better than the ones that made it on their next album, the very uneven "Emotional Rescue."

The bonus track "You Don't Have to Go" is another example of a song that wasn't really finished. It was too rough for me to include on the album proper.

This album is 40 minutes long, not including the bonus track.

01 Fiji Jim (Rolling Stones)
02 Shame, Shame, Shame (Rolling Stones)
03 Everlasting Is My Love [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
04 The Way She Held Me Tight [Misty Roads] (Rolling Stones)
05 Don't Look Back (Peter Tosh & Mick Jagger)
06 Never Make You Cry [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
07 So Young [Piano Version] (Rolling Stones)
08 Covered in Bruises [Early Version of 1 2 3 4] [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
09 Not the Way to Go [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
10 It's a Lie [Edit] (Rolling Stones)
11 Start Me Up [Early Version] (Rolling Stones)

You Don't Have to Go [Edit] (Rolling Stones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16307883/TROLLNGSTNS1977-1978SmeMreGrls2_atse.zip.html

Check out the write-up of "Some Girls 1" for a better explanation of what this cover art is all about. Basically, I was trying to imitate the style of the official "Some Girls" cover, which was based on a vintage advertisement for female beauty products. I found another real vintage ad with a similar vibe, then added the text in the same style and locations the official album.

Popgala '73, Sporthal de Vliegermolen, Voorburg, Netherlands, 3-10-1973, Part 4: The Faces

The next album from the Popgala '73 festival is the Faces. (And yeah, I know that technically they're just called "Faces" like the Eagles from this festival are technically just "Eagles.")

The Faces still had their original membership, including Ronnie Lane, who would leave later in 1973. Their album "Ooh La La" was released the same month as this concert, but only "Cindy Incidentally" is from that album.

Or at least that's all we know of. I think it's highly likely there was a lot more to the Faces' set that isn't included here. Other acts at the festival like the Eagles and the Who had sets that were close to an hour long, so I would assume the Faces did too, and they were one of the biggest acts of the festival.

As it is, I had to piece this together from different sources, and I had to make some educated guesses about the song order. It seems "Cindy Incidentally" was the last song, but beyond that much of the rest could be wrong. If anyone has more accurate information, please let me know.

Just like many of the other albums from this festival, I thought the lead vocals were low relative to the instruments, so I adjusted them using UVR5.

This concert is 33 minutes long.

082 Stay with Me (Faces)
083 Angel (Faces)
084 talk (Faces)
085 You Wear It Well (Faces)
086 Maggie May (Faces)
087 Twistin' the Night Away (Faces)
088 Memphis, Tennessee (Faces)
089 True Blue (Faces)
090 talk (Faces)
091 Cindy Incidentally (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17205463/VA-POPGLA197307TFces.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CJxm9iec

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Nrxi5NQxJlCvzWB/file 

The cover photo of Faces lead singer Rod Stewart comes from this exact concert. 

UPDATE: On October 5, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

Eric Clapton - Rainbow Theatre, London, Britain, 1-13-1973, Early Show

First off, I want to make clear that Eric Clapton performed two concerts in one day, January 13, 1973, at the Rainbow Theatre in London. The late show was released as the album "Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert" later in 1973. Then an expanded version of that was released in 1995. But what I'm posting here is the early show, in soundboard quality that sounds just as good as the official album. So you may want to have this, even if you have the late show.

These two concerts were pivotal for Clapton's music career and his life in general, so a little history in needed. He fell into a bad heroin addiction after his classic album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" was released in 1970. He didn't play in concert or release any new music in 1971 or 1972, with the exception of participating in the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Pete Townshend of the Who heard of Clapton's addition problem, and even though Townshend didn't know Clapton that well, he knew Clapton was a major music talent and he wanted to help him recover from his addition and get back on his feet. Townshend helped gather a band of excellent musicians just for these two shows. Many in the band were current or former members of Traffic, such as Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Rick Grech, and Rebop Kwaku Baah. But Townshend and Ronnie Wood also played guitar. 

This band practiced for ten days, and put on a good show. Clapton was still addicted to heroin at the time, but he sang and played lead guitar surprisingly well, considering his condition. More importantly, the concerts did give him a kick in the pants. He merely had been hanging around his house, watching TV and getting high, but this got him back into music. He quit heroin over the course of the next year, in part due to working on a farm to get back in shape. Then he released the album "461 Ocean Boulevard" in 1974, which was a big success and lead to a long and successful solo career. He later said that seeing the faith that Townshend and the other musicians had in him gave him the confidence to overcome him addiction.

Unfortunately, Townshend didn't leave much of a musical mark in the concerts. He didn't sing any songs, and it seems he only stuck to playing rhythm guitar. However, he seemed to have been the band leader, as well as the emcee, doing most of the talking between songs. Steve Winwood though, had a larger musical role. Clapton sang nearly all the songs, but Winwood sang lead on "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," Presence of the Lord," and the Traffic song "Pearly Queen." So the concert was a bit like a reunion of Blind Faith, the 1969 band led by Clapton and Winwood. However, since Clapton hadn't released any new music since 1970, most of the songs were from the "Layla" album and Clapton's 1970 solo album "Eric Clapton."

As far as the recording goes, this is another bootleg I found that had been improved by the person nicknamed Captain Acid. I then made more changes to his version. I boosted the volume of the lead vocals for all the songs. But I especially boosted the vocals for the talking bits between songs, which were really low. I also cut out some guitar tuning and other dead air between songs.

Note that not all of the songs performed here are officially unreleased. The 1995 version of the official album contains 14 songs. Ten of them are from the late show, and four are from the early show. Two of those from the early show, "After Midnight" and "Bell Bottom Blues," were included because they were only done in the early show. Two others, "Layla" and "Little Wing," were played in both shows, but for some reason the early show versions were chosen. By the way, I read the liner notes to the 1995 version, and it weirdly implies there was only one concert. So I had to dig pretty deep to find which songs were from which show.

This concert is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 talk (Eric Clapton)
02 Layla (Eric Clapton)
03 Badge (Eric Clapton)
04 Blues Power (Eric Clapton)
05 talk (Eric Clapton)
06 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Eric Clapton)
07 Roll It Over (Eric Clapton)
08 Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad (Eric Clapton)
09 talk (Eric Clapton)
10 Little Wing (Eric Clapton)
11 talk (Eric Clapton)
12 Bottle of Red Wine (Eric Clapton)
13 After Midnight (Eric Clapton)
14 Bell Bottom Blues (Eric Clapton)
15 talk (Eric Clapton)
16 Presence of the Lord (Eric Clapton)
17 Tell the Truth (Eric Clapton)
18 talk (Eric Clapton)
19 Pearly Queen (Eric Clapton)
20 Let It Rain (Eric Clapton)
21 Crossroads (Eric Clapton)

https://www.imagenetz.de/mo9SJ

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xkC9cgzX

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/jg3Efr0vehjxRo0/file 

The cover photo comes from one of these two Rainbow shows, but I'm not sure which one. From right to left, that's Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, Rick Grech, and Pete Townshend. Grech and Townshend were further to the side, but I used Photoshop to move them closer to Clapton.

The Faces - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 10-28-1970

I thought I had posted all the Faces music here that I wanted to post. But then I got to thinking about what the sound editing programs Spleeter and X-Minus could do. I remembered a Faces concert from 1970 that sounded great except for the fact that the vocals were too low. That's something that can be fixed now, so here it is.

This is an audience bootleg, but one of those rare ones that sound really good. It had two big problems, but I believe I fixed them both. The first one is the low vocals that I already mentioned. I've boosted those for every song. The second one is that, because it's an audience bootleg, there was a lot of audience noise during the songs. For slow blues songs in particular like "Devotion" and "Blues Deluxe," there were many "Woo-hoo!" type shouts all through the songs. But don't worry, because I was able to split the vocals onto a separate channel using X-Minus, then I erased dozens of such shouts as I came across them. 

The end result is that this sounds even more like a soundboard. It also suggests what can be done with cleaning up many other bootleg recordings. I hope other people will see the potential of these new programs and start using them for purposes like this.

When the Faces released their first album in early 1970, "First Step," it was credited to the "Small Faces" in the US and Canada, but just the "Faces" everywhere else. Apparently the thinking was the band wasn't well enough in North America yet to use their own name. This concert took place about half a year after that album was released, but they were still billed as "Small Faces" for it. You can hear Rod Stewart refer to themselves as that in some between song banter. Despite that, I'm billing them here just as the "Faces," since they became widely known with that name.

One really nice thing about this concert is that it's unusually long. All the other ones I've posted by the band range from about 40 minutes to an hour and 20 minutes, but this one is nearly two hours long. (An hour and 51 minutes, to be precise.) I suspect that's because there was no opening act, so they played longer to give the audience enough bang for their buck. Stewart even complained about the lack of an opening act in his talking between songs.

If you can think of any other recordings that have systematic problems, such as vocals too loud, or too low, or bass too loud, etc, please let me know. It's possible such things can be fixed.

01 talk (Faces)
02 Devotion (Faces)
03 I Don't Want to Discuss It (Faces)
04 The Wicked Messenger (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 Country Comfort (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 Flying (Faces)
09 talk (Faces)
10 Too Much Woman [For a Henpecked Man] (Faces)
11 Cut Across Shorty (Faces)
12 talk (Faces)
13 Maybe I'm Amazed (Faces)
14 talk (Faces)
15 Around the Plynth (Faces)
16 Country Honk (Faces)
17 Gasoline Alley (Faces)
18 Around the Plynth (Faces)
19 talk (Faces)
20 Love in Vain (Faces)
21 talk (Faces)
22 Three Button Hand Me Down (Faces)
23 talk (Faces)
24 It's All Over Now (Faces)
25 talk (Faces)
26 I Feel So Good (Faces)
27 Blues Deluxe [Gambler's Blues] (Faces)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9pM4Eyru

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hvUf8WBCGIwawJx/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/aTtkU

As usual when it comes to the Faces, I had to scrounge around to find a decent color photo to use for the cover. I found one from a TV appearance in 1973. I would have much preferred something from around 1970, but at least Ronnie Lane was still a member of the band. From left to right, that's Ronnie Wood, Rod Steward, and Ronnie Lane. 

This photo was marred by colorful drawings of large insects behind the band members. (I used another photo from this same appearance on the "BBC Sessions, Volume 7" album, so you can see what I mean there.) It was really distracting in this particular photo, so I used Photoshop to darken the background to the point that the weird insects can barely been seen. I would have liked to include the other two band members (Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones), but they weren't included in the photo.

The Faces - Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA, 3-7-1975

I recently posted seven albums of the Faces performing for the BBC, from 1969 to 1973. The Faces stayed together for two more years after that, though without key member Ronnie Lane. However, it doesn't appear that they recorded anything for the BBC during that time. I think the BBC albums show the Faces live at their best, due to the excellent sound quality. To finish things off, I picked the one 1975 concert bootleg that is a soundboard and matches the sound quality of the BBC stuff. Here it is.

Three of the performances here come from the official box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." But if you ask me, it doesn't really make any difference in terms of sound quality. It all sounds great. I only had to make some minor tweaks here and there, such as boosting the volume during the banter between songs.

The Faces released one live album while they were still together, and it was recorded in 1973 with the same line-up here (meaning no Ronnie Lane). It had the unwieldy title "Rod Stewart / Faces Live: Coast to Coast - Overtures and Beginners." It's not a very good album by Faces standards, mostly due to the surprisingly poor sound quality. This one is way better.

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

01 Take a Look at the Guy (Faces)
02 talk (Faces)
03 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Faces)
04 talk (Faces)
05 Bring It on Home to Me - You Send Me (Faces)
06 talk (Faces)
07 Sweet Little Rock and Roller (Faces)
08 I'd Rather Go Blind (Faces)
09 talk (Faces)
10 Too Bad - Every Picture Tells a Story (Faces)
11 Angel (Faces)
12 Stay with Me (Faces)
13 I Can Feel the Fire (Faces)
14 Motherless Children - Memo from Turner - Gasoline Alley [Instrumental] (Faces)
15 talk (Faces)
16 You Wear It Well (Faces)
17 Maggie May (Faces)
18 talk (Faces)
19 Twistin' the Night Away (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292909/TFacs_1975_SwngAuditriumSnBernardinoCA__3-7-1975_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo was taken in concert in 1974. It only shows three band members (left to right): Ronnie Wood, the new bassist Tetsu Yaumachi, and Rod Stewart. I would have liked a photo with all the band members, but this was the best looking concert photo with this line-up that I could find.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 4-1-1973

Over the past couple of months, I've posted a bunch of albums containing the performances the Faces did for the BBC. This is the seventh, and unfortunately, the last. But at least it ends on a high note, with a complete live concert in pretty good sound quality.

This concert took place one month after the band released their last album, "Ooh La La." So it's not surprising the set list was significantly different from the last time the band played a concert for the BBC fourteen months earlier. Four of the songs came from "Ooh La La," plus two more from Rod Stewart's 1972 album "Never a Dull Moment." Plus they did songs they never put out on record, such as "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon and "The Stealer" by Free.

In terms of sound quality, this is good, but not great. Though I'll point out these BBC recordings are pretty much as good as it gets in terms of live Faces recordings. Three of the performances were included on the band's box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." ("The Stealer," "Angel," and "Miss Judy's Farm"). So I used those versions. But in my opinion those don't really sound different from all the rest.

Like most of the band's previous appearances for the BBC, this was hosted by famous BBC DJ John Peel. That's not too surprising considering that he once said, "The Faces were my all-time favorite live band." However, his appearance here is very minimal, with just a comment or two that can be heard.

There are three extra songs at the end that don't come from the main concert. This is because the band first recorded a concert for the BBC on February 8, 1973, but then decided they didn't like their performance. They asked the BBC not to broadcast it, and instead made plans to do it again. That repeat is this main show, on April 1, 1973, at the same location. Personally, I don't see why they didn't like the show, since their performance sounded fine to me. The full unbroadcast show is out there on bootlegs in equally good sound quality. I've chosen not to include it here since the set list is very similar to this show, and the band preferred this one. But I did include three of the songs from that earlier show that were different. One of those, "I Don't Want to Discuss It," plus the banter right before it, was used as a bonus track for the "Ooh La La" album, so I've used that version here.

The main concert is 56 minutes long, no doubt because the BBC show was an hour long. But with the three extra songs at the end, this album is an hour and 11 minutes long.

01 Silicone Grown (Faces)
02 Cindy Incidentally (Faces)
03 Memphis, Tennessee (Faces)
04 If I'm on the Late Side (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 My Fault (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 The Stealer (Faces)
09 talk (Faces)
10 Borstal Boys (Faces)
11 Angel (Faces)
12 Stay with Me (Faces)
13 talk (Faces)
14 True Blue (Faces)
15 Twistin' the Night Away (Faces)
16 talk (Faces)
17 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
18 talk (Faces)
19 Jealous Guy (Faces)
20 talk (Faces)
21 Too Bad (Faces)
22 I'd Rather Go Blind (Faces)
23 talk (Faces)
24 I Don't Want to Discuss It (Faces)
25 talk (Faces)
26 It's All Over Now (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292867/TFacs_1973_BBSessionsVolum7InConcrtBBPrisTheatreLondnBritain__4-1-1973_atse.zip.html

The album cover features a photo of the band playing on the British TV show "Top of the Pops" in February 1973. Sorry the drummer Kenney Jones didn't get included.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 2-17-1972

Here's the next in the series of albums of the Faces playing for the BBC. There's just one more to go after this. Personally, I think this is one of the best in the series, both in terms of sound quality and performance. Plus, by this time, the band had more songs to choose from, and they still had Ronnie Lane. 

There's not much to say with this one that I didn't say earlier in the series. All the songs come from one concert performance recorded by the BBC in front of an audience. There were no tricky problems requiring any fixes anywhere. Oh, BBC DJ John Peel is back acting as emcee, but he didn't speak much this time compared to earlier in this series.

This concert is an hour and one minute long.

01 talk (Faces)
02 Three Button Hand Me Down (Faces)
03 talk (Faces)
04 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 Memphis, Tennessee (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 Give Me the Moonlight (Faces)
09 Too Bad (Faces)
10 talk (Faces)
11 Last Orders Please (Faces)
12 talk (Faces)
13 Devotion (Faces)
14 talk (Faces)
15 That's All You Need - Country Honk - Gasoline Alley - That's All You Need (Faces)
16 talk (Faces)
17 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Faces)
18 talk (Faces)
19 Stay with Me (Faces)
20 talk (Faces)
21 Had Me a Real Good Time - Underneath the Arches - Every Picture Tells a Story (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292743/TFacs_1972_BBSessionsVolum6InConcrtBBPrisTheatreLondnBritain__2-17-1972_atse.zip.html

As with most of the albums in this series, I had trouble finding good photos of the band from the right year. So for this album, I used a concert poster of the band from that year instead.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: 1971-1973

Here's the next in my series of albums featuring the Faces performing for the BBC. The last three in the series were live concerts recorded for the BBC. This one is different than those, but similar to the first one, in that it features a bunch of songs where the Faces played in the BBC studios without any audience. But I've also thrown on a some other things, taken from the band playing on TV shows and live rarities.

Tracks one, two, and five through ten were recorded at BBC studios. Tracks two and ten out of those are officially unreleased, but they come from the same sessions as the released ones. The other tracks come from either the band's box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." or from album bonus tracks. As you'd expect, the sound quality from these BBC recordings are generally excellent, even the unreleased ones.

While the Faces still existed as a band, Rod Stewart never played live in concert without them. But there's kind of an exception here with tracks two and three, "Gasoline Alley" and "Lady Day." That's because these songs are simply Stewart singing songs by himself while standing in the middle of some random city street. These performances are unreleased, but they were recorded for a German TV, and you can find the video of them on YouTube. Sometimes in the background, you can hear the sounds of cars driving by or kids playing. Even though both songs were clearly recorded at the same time by the same people, "Gasoline Alley" sounds better. With "Lady Day," Stewart's voice was too quiet in many parts. But I painstakingly boosted those parts using a sound editor, which is why that song has "[Edit]" in the title.

Of the remaining four songs (the last four), three of them come from a Dutch TV, and the other, "Jealous Guy" is a cover of a John Lennon song that was rarely done live, and was included on the band's box set. Two of the songs from the Dutch TV show, "Memphis, Tennessee" and "True Blue," were played live in concert. I made some edits to get rid of most of the crowd noise, which is why those songs have "[Edit]" in the title also. (Ditto for the second track, "Richmond.") The last song, "One Last Sweet Cheerio," seems to have been done backstage after the concert, which is why it wasn't marked as live despite coming from the same source as two songs that were.

The bonus track "Too Bad" is a bonus track due to poor sound quality. I tried to improve it by using Spleeter to raise the lead vocals through the muck. That's why that one has "[Edit]" in the title as well. But that could only help so much, so it's still a mere bonus track.

This album is 49 minutes long, not counting the bonus track. As far as I can tell, the band didn't play in the BBC studios again. So the last two albums in this series will be more live concerts that were recorded by the BBC.

01 Bad 'N' Ruin (Faces)
02 Richmond [Edit] (Faces)
03 Gasoline Alley [Acappella Version] (Rod Stewart)
04 Lady Day [Acappella Version] [Edit] (Rod Stewart)
05 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
06 Stay with Me (Faces)
07 Maggie May (Faces)
08 Cindy Incidentally (Faces)
09 My Fault (Faces)
10 Borstal Boys (Faces)
11 Memphis, Tennessee [Edit] (Faces)
12 True Blue [Edit] (Faces)
13 Jealous Guy (Faces)
14 One Last Sweet Cheerio [Acappella Version] (Faces)

Too Bad [Edit] (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116247/TFacs_1971-1973_BBSessionsVolume5_atse.zip.html

When it comes to album cover art, once again I was left with slim pickings. I'm continually surprised at how few good photos of the band that can be found on the Internet. Anyway, I picked a good photo this time, I think, but unfortunately it's one that only shows three members of the band, instead of all five. But at least they are the three most famous, from right to left: Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, and Ronnie Lane. It comes from a concert in the Netherlands in March 1973, not long before Lane left the band.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Sounds for Saturday, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 10-26-1971

I recently posted Volume 3 in this series of albums of the Faces performing for the BBC. In my comments for that, I said the sound quality was good, but not great, and unless you're a really big Faces fan, you might want to wait for this one, recorded later the same year.

Well, that's all true. However, upon closer inspection, I realized the set list of this performance compared to the one in Volume 3 is fairly different, even though the band hadn't released any new music in the meantime. In fact, only two songs were played for both: "Love in Vain" and "(I Know) I'm Losing You." So I don't recommend this as a substitute for Volume 3.

It is true, though, that the sound quality is somewhat better on this one. Four of the seven songs were included in the band's box set, "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." So that helped a lot. The other three songs and all of the banter between songs remain unreleased.

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Three Button Hand Me Down (Faces)
02 talk (Faces)
03 Maybe I'm Amazed (Faces)
04 talk (Faces)
05 I Want to Be Loved (Faces)
06 talk (Faces)
07 Miss Judy's Farm (Faces)
08 talk (Faces)
09 Love in Vain (Faces)
10 Stay with Me (Faces)
11 talk (Faces)
12 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292718/TFacs_1971_BBSessionsVolum4SoundsfrSaturdyBBPrisTheatreLondnBritain__10-26-1971_atse.zip.html

I've continued to have a hard time coming up with good color photos of the Faces. In this case, I was able to find a photo that is actually from 1971, taken from the Weeley Festival. I'm not keen on the photo because three band members are looking to the side, but it was the best one I could find. If you know of a better one from 1971, please let me know.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: John Peel's Sunday Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 5-13-1971

Weirdly, for the past few days, I wasn't able to upload anything to Zippyshare. I was beginning to get seriously concerned, but today it resumed working for me again. So I have a few backlogged posts ready to go. Here's the first.

A week or so ago, I posted an album of the Faces playing a concert for the BBC, which was emceed by famous BBC DJ John Peel. This is exactly like that, because the Faces returned a year later and did another concert also hosted by Peel. Naturally, their set list changed during that time. Also, this show was longer, about an hour (technically, 55 minutes) compared to the half hour of the previous show.

However, be warned that the sound quality is variable. You'd think the sound would be the same all the way through since it comes from a single performance, but for whatever reason, some parts sound better than others. I tried to use the best sources possible. In this case, two, and only two of the songs played at the show are officially released: "Cut Across Shorty" and "Love in Vain." Both of those come from the Faces box set "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..." Naturally, those two songs sound very good. The rest comes from a bootleg. But in my opinion, some of those songs sound better than others.

In conclusion, the sound quality is good, but not great. If you're a stickler for only great sound quality, I plan to soon follow this with another concert the Faces did later that year, with largely the same set list, that sounds better all the way through. But if you're a big Faces fan, you'll probably want both this one and that one.

01 talk (Faces)
02 You're My Girl [I Don't Want to Discuss It] (Faces)
03 talk (Faces)
04 Cut Across Shorty (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 Love in Vain (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 Bad 'N' Ruin (Faces)
09 It's All Over Now (Faces)
10 talk (Faces)
11 Had Me a Real Good Time (Faces)
12 talk (Faces)
13 [I Know] I'm Losing You (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15259216/TFacs_1971_BBSessionsVolume3JhnPeelsSundayConcrtParisTheatre___5-13-1971_atse.zip.html

As with the cover to the previous Faces album in this series, I had a very hard time finding a good color photo of the band from the right year. I did find a nice color photo of them which I used here, but I don't know what year it's from exactly. However, it does include Ronnie Lane in it, and since he left the band in mid-1973, it has to be from before that point.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: John Peel's Sunday Concert, BBC, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 9-19-1970

I haven't posted in a few days because I somehow got sucked into watching the TV show "The Expanse." It was so good that I ended up binge watching it for all of my free time. But I'm done with the show, so I'm back to posting. :)

Some days ago, I posted an album of the Faces performing for the BBC. I have a bunch of albums like that. This one, like that one, is from 1970, and features some of the same songs. But while that was is mostly performances done at the BBC studio without an audience, the bulk of this one is a live recording hosted by famous BBC DJ John Peel. Normally, I cut out the BBC DJs when possible, but in this case Peel was an integral part of the show, introducing the songs instead of having someone in the band do it, so I've kept all his banter in.

The John Peel show is relatively short, at only 34 minutes. To flesh things out I bit, I've added a few songs from a live recording from 1970. This was recorded at a club in London for a TV show. (I forget which one, but I vaguely remember it may have been for something in the Netherlands.) As a result, the sound quality is excellent, though a notch below the quality of the John Peel portion.

One problem with these extra tracks is that one song, "Flying," got cut off near the end. So I patched in the last 30 seconds or so from a different BBC recording. Hopefully, you won't notice the edit.

If you include the extra songs, this album is 47 minutes long.

01 talk (Faces)
02 You're My Girl [I Don't Want to Discuss It] (Faces)
03 talk (Faces)
04 The Wicked Messenger (Faces)
05 talk (Faces)
06 Devotion (Faces)
07 talk (Faces)
08 It's All Over Now (Faces)
09 talk (Faces)
10 I Feel So Good (Faces)
11 talk (Faces)
05 Flying (Faces)
13 I Want to Be Loved - Street Fighting Man - I Want to Be Loved (Faces)
14 Gasoline Alley - Around the Plynth (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292728/TFacs_1970c_BBSessionsVolum2JhnPeelsSundyConcrt__9-19-1970_atse.zip.html

It's surprisingly hard to find good color photos of the Faces from 1970. If you know of some, please let me know. This photo I used for the cover art is a good one, but I'm not sure what year it's from. However, it has Ronnie Lane in it, and he left the band during 1973, so it has to be from before his departure.

The Faces - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1970

In recent months, I post a handful of stray tracks albums for the Faces. I've finished those, and that now frees me up to post BBC material from the band. It turns out the Faces performed a lot for the BBC. Even though the band only existed for six years, I have seven BBC albums I want to post here, starting with this one.

The vast majority of the band's BBC material remains officially unreleased, and this album is a case in point. Only three of the ten songs here have been released. The first song is from a bonus track, and the fifth and ninth songs are from the band's box set, "Five Guys Walk into a Bar..."

Most of the Faces BBC albums I plan on posting here are entire concerts that were recorded by the BBC. But this is of the more stereotypical kind of BBC material, in which the band played live in a studio without any audience. As a result, there could be a danger of BBC DJs talking over the music. Happily, by 1970 that bad habit seems to have become less common, and there are no cases of that here.

The sound quality is solid throughout, except for the last song, "Away in a Manger." Consider that kind of a bonus track. 

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Shake, Shudder, Shiver (Faces)
02 Love in Vain (Faces)
03 The Wicked Messenger (Faces)
04 Maybe I'm Amazed (Faces)
05 Flying (Faces)
06 Evil (Faces)
07 Had Me a Real Good Time (Faces)
08 Country Comfort (Faces)
09 Around the Plynth - Gasoline Alley (Faces)
10 Away in a Manger (Rod Stewart with Ian McLagan)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292635/TFacs_1970b_BBSessionsVolum1_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I used part of a 1970 concert poster for the band. The only changes I made were that I increased the contrast, and added some words in black.

The Faces - I Can Feel the Fire - Non-Album Tracks (1974-1975)

Here's the last of the stray tracks albums for the Faces. 

The band broke up in 1975. Their last studio album was in 1973, and one of their key members, Ronnie Lane, left that year too. They had some studio sessions in 1974 and 1975 with a mind to putting out a new album, but in the end all they released was a single. The first two songs here are from that single. The next two songs were recorded live in concert, then released much later on a Faces box set. The rest of the songs are from the unfinished album studio albums, and also were released much later on that Faces box set.

By the way, the song "I Can Feel the Fire" was put on a Ron Wood solo album in 1974. He joined the Rolling Stones in 1976, and I put a different version of the song on a Rolling Stones stray tracks album too.

Most of the songs are originals. I think the only one that isn't is the medley of "Hi-Heel Sneakers - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love."

The two bonus tracks are fine songs. The only reason they're bonus tracks is they're from concert bootlegs, and the sound quality isn't that good.

The album is 37 minutes long, not counting the two bonus tracks.

01 You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Faces)
02 As Long as You Tell Him (Faces)
03 Take a Look at the Guy (Faces)
04 I Can Feel the Fire (Faces)
05 Hi-Heel Sneakers - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (Faces)
06 Gettin' Hungry (Faces)
07 Open to Ideas (Faces)
08 Rock Me (Faces)

Big Bayou (Faces)
Early One Morning [Highgate Shuffle] (Faces)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15116263/TFacs_1974-1975_I_CnFeeltheFire_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is from 1975. Note that Ronnie Lane is gone, and has been replaced by Tetsu Yamauchi (who is the only one in back, wearing a hat).