What’s so amazing is that there a million live recordings of Mick Taylor playing this and other songs. None of the fills and solos are the same, they’re all different and they’re all amazing! Underrated genius!
Spot on. Mick was my favourite guitarist before he joined the Stones. Some great solos on Diary of a Band John Mayall. Try Crying Shame and My Own Fault
@@Kleermaker1000 yes, was at Bruxelles 73 first show and they were even better,a kind of perfection. An indoor show with no more than 8000 people maybe a reason why.
I loved Mick Taylor with the Stones. I'm listening to this song played in D.C. and basically Taylor just "wails" the whole time on it {I heard this for the first time last night.}.....................Did Taylor "stand out?" Did his playing "knock your socks off?"
I was there also, one of the best shows ever. Mick came out with a three cornered hat and declared....."We've come to take ye back"!!!! Never forget it!!!!
I was there as well. I grew up in Alexandria and my brother gave me the ticket for my HS graduation. I wish I could say this was my first concert but it was my second. My first one was about two weeks previous to this at Wolftrap. Kenny Rogers and the 1st edition....
Mick Taylor will always be at the top for me. He is the reason why I picked up the guitar. He didn't have to rush through lead runs and fills. He was articulate and very soulful with his playing. It never sounded like his solos would just play scales and boring lines that sounded like practicing. His solos took you on a journey and meant something.
Kleermaker: the first time I listen to this version of gimme shelter. Uptempo, and fantastic guitars. Specially the one and only Mick Taylor, the best ever. Thank you.
There are at least two bootleg recordings of this entire show. One is, "Jack Daniel's On Tour." The other is the one I recorded. :) I'm guessing this performance is from the former. Most of the still shots above are not from the DC show, as Jagger wore white.
This is pretty amazing for a show that is the start of the Tour. Usually, bands will come off tentative during opening nights. It's not the case on this performance. I will listen to the full show though. I have never heard this Vancouver gig in its entirety and I imagine there are a few spots where things get a little rough. Taylor, on this track, is playing as if he's in the same form he would hit in Philadelphia and in the Europe '73 versions. You can hear the intensity in the speed of his melodic lines just like in the latter part of the '72 U.S. stuff.
Me Too! RFK Stadium,4th of July - we had just graduated from Douglass Sr High,Upper Marlboro - I bought 3 tix for my frnds & we camped out overnite in front of the box office to be 1st in line, some of us went back to sleep in my Rambler, they were up front & i was back at the car around 3pm when there was a rush to the gates & I lost my place so I was one of the last to get in - I wandered around the back to the loading dock & saw limos drive in, maybe the Stones, & when I finally went in, my best friend Steve Marra was waiting for me - he led me down to the front of the stage where my other friends were & watched the great show there - I think before the Stones came out they said they'd give us 15min to set off all out firecrackers & we were bombarded by them from the upper stands! Had the souvenir shirt for decades...still have the tix! Have seen the Stones 5x, last in 15 in Orl...far out!
I was there that day too. Once they opened the gates I raced to be as close as possible to the stage and lost my friends in the process. Spectacular but for being smashed up against the stage. So many wonderful stones concerts since all over the world.
@@1klsklar far out,man! didnt know you had replied back then! see them on this last tour? i missed it this time, still great memories! watch Gimme Shelter reg!
We partied like never before, perhaps even ever since. Man what an amazing show. It seems my buddy had saved a small treat and left it in the car... I woke up sometime around 3 am in the back seat with the police pointing a flashlight in my eyes. He thought the show was over and he was yelling at us to "Go on home"... little did he know the show was still going on. ;-)
As it was July 4, in DC -- the concert began with guys on stage in colonial soldier outfits waving flags -- don't recall if they were american or brit flags. Jagger yelled, "I salute your revolution" and soon was climbing the scaffolding on the stage. The crowd was utterly insane (throwing firecrackers from the bleachers), and in front of the stage, there was no way to do anything except roll with the mass of humanity. it was the closest I've come to being trampled to death.
Me, too. As soon as they opened the gates that afternoon I raced to see how close I could get losing my friends in the process. The goal was to be smashed up against the stage and I think that’s what happened. Even having seen them for 48 years in more exotic places, I have never been so close to being trampled to death. Now, I feel like a time traveler listening to that night.
This was only my 3rd concert (Don McLean, the Guess Who, then this). At 17, I wasn't yet savvy enough to realize being close to the front was so important, so I sat in the lower bleachers. However, I was literally lifted off my feet (at 6'1", 160 lbs) and swept through the turnstiles into the stadium grounds. I never experienced that before (or since) DEFINITELY an adrenaline reaction!
I was there. When the doors opened I was worried about a stampede. Seeing them once was good for me. Plus tickets were probably only 25.00 or something.
Brian was creative all round, Ronnie shoulda stayed with the Faces and Rod Stuart. but Mick was the shnitt!! That's when they were a real rock band. M.J. andK.R. shut him down artistically. They wouldnt let him write and produce. GetYerYaYas one of the greatest albums ever. Cant say much for the Stones past Black and Blue. Ronnie Wood kicked ass in The Faces instead of just being a follow along kinda guy with the Stones.
Recording quality leaves a little to be desired but MT, WOW! Have heard numerous versions (including 2 where I was in attendance at MSG in 69 and 72) and this is great.
Mick is a great lead guitarists as lead guitarists go if you are out there looking for guitar solos, but misses the undercurrent of the song and what made this song so popular imo. You come away with a nice guitar solo as the standout feature of the song. It's all subjective, what you hear, and look for of course. Glad I heard this version. Almost don't need Mick J :-).
Nice reading all of the people that went. Before my time. Interesting. Would have been interesting if Taylor, Keith and Mick could have found a sound and style that blended well together. Some great material may have come.
Tough to give it that crown with such bad audio. Also, it's on the short side. The best version is the second of two nights in Philadelphia just a couple weeks after this D.C. show. July 21st, at The Spectrum in south Philly. Better audio, a minute longer, and Mick's solo is scintillating. It's on RU-vid, on a channel called, ROLLOGUITAR.
I saw them a couple of weeks later in Phila. and MT's attack was very different. I saw him/them in 1969 as well, and again quite different , somehow more tentative.
@@Kleermaker1000 very true- in '69 he was the new hired hand- by '72 he had transformed the Stones into " the world's greatest rock n roll band". He also switched from a Gibson SG to a Fender Les Paul.
Sorry. This was Washington, D.C. I don't know why I was thinking of Vancouver. Weird! This is still amazing. I was probably really tired when I posted.
kleermaker-I'm really sorry for the gaffe. I'm pretty well-versed on Stones history. It was just staring me in the face and my mind just completely blanked out. I really appreciate the effort you are making in posting stuff like this. I finally moved up to a high-speed connection and this stuff is helping me to scout out what to download and what to avoid.
I was there with about 8 friends. Police shot tear gas outside stadium as people trying to bust in the gates. People shooting bottle rockets right behind our seats. Some throwing cherry bombs at the police. Was it crazy? Of course. Was it fun? Hell ya. The music? At that time listening to bands in a stadium just didn’t do anything positive for the music. Sound was not so good but we had one hell of great time!
I know! I think Greenfield's book said the band rushed through their performance, concerned about what was regarded at the time as a huge show in a giant stadium, on July 4th in a city with the nation's largest minority population. Not exactly a PC sentiment half a century later! But I think this concert totally holds up almost 50 years later.
