ROLLING STONES
- CD
IN THE COURT
LABEL: |
Mayflower 249-50 |
SOURCE: |
Disc One and Disc Two, Tracks 1-4: Earls Court Arena, London 22 May 1976; Disc Two, Tracks 5-4: Festhalle, Frankfurt 29 April 1976 (cover says 28). |
FORMAT: |
2 picture cds |
RUNNING TIME: |
68.28/67.44 |
SOUND/SOURCE: |
Soundboard stereo except for Disc Two, Tracks 5-14: Soundboard mono. |
PACKAGING: |
Double Slimline Jewel case with OBI |
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SOUND 9.5 / PACKAGING 8
/ PERFORMANCE 9
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TRACK LIST: |
Disc
One: 1. Honky Tonk Women (fade in), 2. If You Can't Rock Me, 3. Get Off Of My
Cloud, 4. Hand Of Fate, 5. Hey Negrita,
6.
Ain t Too Proud To Beg, 7. Fool To Cry, 8. Hot Stuff, 9. Starfucker, 10. You
Gotta Move, 11. You Can’t Always Get What You Want, 12. Band Intro, 13. Happy, 14.
Tumbling Dice, 15. Nothing From Nothing, 16. Outa Space.
Disc
Two: 1. Midnight Rambler, 2. It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It), 3. Brown
Sugar, 4. Jumping Jack Flash, 5. Honky Tonk Women, 6. If You Can't Rock Me, 7. Get
Off Of My Cloud, 8. All Down The Line, 9. Hand Of Fate, 10. Hey Negrita, 11.
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, 12. Fool To Cry, 13. Hot Stuff, 14. Starfucker,
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REVIEW: |
This
release from Mayflower is not new: this time we get the London concert held on May
22nd 1976 and some tracks from the Frankfurt show that opened the
tour. The London concert was released on tape as Down in the Court and Complete
Show which had anyway a very poor recording, on vinyl in 1989 16 tracks on
Liver Than You’ll Ever Be 2 (Southern Records TRS 01 A-D) 2LP issued in 300 numbered
copies, in excellent audience stereo while on compact came out in 200 on Down
In The Court (VGP 250) featuring 12 soundboard tracks mixed with an average
audience source; these same tracks can be found on Earls Court 1976 ( RS
90-10876) in 1990 in
Japan
which had the particular weird
feature of having Midnight Rambler split in two parts. Earls Court 1976
(Scorpio RS 90-10876), Order in the Court (no label), Earl’s Court 1976
(Mickboy remaster) and Live in London 1976 (SGRS 014), Hot Stuff-Black &
Blue Tour 1976 (Living Legend 090) are other releases of this concert. In 2006 in Japan came out
Europe ‘76 (SODD 017-18) a 3 disc set featuring 15 songs from this concert and Earls
Court 1976 (DAC 045) which again featured the 12 songs in soundboard, this time
with the rest of the show in improved audience quality. In 2010 was released Tour
of Europe 1976 (WLR 2134) 12 cds and 1 DVD box that presented songs in audience
quality, mostly in stereo except the last tracks in mono. Then in 2018 came out
The Circus Hits Town (Tarantura TCDRS 231,2) that was the first to offer parts
of Hony Tonk Women plus some in between comments by Jagger all this coming from
a low generation copy of the original soundboard recording. However, there was
still hiss to be heard especially in between songs when Jagger spoke. In late
2024 this recording was the subject of Cpt Acid work that came out as Earl’s
Court, London May 22nd, 1976. This release presents the best version
of this recording with no hiss marring its enjoyment, but the end of Jumping
Jack Flash is still missing being replaced by a bad audience recording.
As for
Frankfurt the soundboard tracks came out on vinyl in 1977 on Welcome To
Frankfurt (Idle Mind RSCP 1-2 IMP 1116), then in 1982 on More Than Welcome To
Frankfurt (Poly Vinyl Chloride Records 75), later on April Fools (Mother Earth
333-1) followed by Absolutely Too Stones To Roll (French Kiss GT 1000) and Jump!
(Boss 01), Live in the Town of Eros Centre (Mama Rec. Boss RS 76). 4 tracks are
on El Mocambo 1977+ (RTR 029) 4LP & 2cd.
On compact
we got it on Live in Frankfurt (Vigotone CD 10), then on More Than Welcome To
Frankfurt (VGP 135) and on Hear The Whistle Blowin’ (VGP 268), on Tour of
Europe 76 (No Label) 2 cdr, Live in Europe (Golden Concerts 001). All Down The
Line is found on Tour Of Europe ‘76 Revisited (Godfather 22-8) and Jumping Jack
Flash and Street Fighting Man can be found on Missing Links (Boss Hawg). The
sound is great here too, but why does this label always try to fool collectors-customers
with wrong dates?
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