Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
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Artist: Rolling StonesBrand: ROLLING STONES
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Music Label: Abkco
Soundtracks:
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
- Carol
- Stray Cat Blues
- Love in Vain
- Midnight Rambler
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Live With Me
- Little Queenie
- Honky Tonk Women
- Street Fighting Man
Music reviews of Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
Music Review: The Trousers Do Fall Down In More Than a Few Places - 3.5 stars really
Rating: 4 Stars
Let's get something straight right off. Anyone who calls this the "greatest live album ever" is not being very objective at all. Compared to what? Look at my other Stones reviews, almost all 5 stars. I am going to be objective here and it ain't gonna be pretty and I'm certain my objectivity is going to earn me lots and lots of "not helpful" votes from die-hard Stones fans .
Don't get me wrong, THIS IS AN ENJOYABLE SPIN AND IT'S WORTH YOUR HARD-EARNED PENNIES. It is hardly a priority if you are buying up the the ABKCO hybrid remaster series. Now, it's going to sound like I really dislike this release with what follows but I'm just adding a little balance to all the "greatest live album ever" reviews so that you, dear reader, will not have your expectations dashed when you pop this little goody into your player. I don't hate it - I was a tad disappointed with it based on the glowing reviews I read here, but I don't hate it. I purchased it and I would purchase it again if I lost it. But, *sigh* read on...
The Chuck Berry tunes are a lot of fun. Midnight Rambler, Honky Tonk Women and Live With Me are the high points and quite entertaining. The rest of the CD is good but back to that "best live album ever" label:
1. Why did they turn Stray Cat Blues into a lethargic dirge? I don't get it. That should be a show stopper! Instead they slowed the tempo by about a 3rd. What's up with that? So there it is just dragging along when it should be up in your face. Nevermind calling Lolita upstairs for a "feast," she would have fallen fast asleep on the sofa out of sheer boredom.
2. Sympathy for the Devil is definitely a let down. Where are those "Whoo Hoos" in the background vocal? Ian Stewart travels with them and you can hear his piano on some of the tunes but it is conspicuous in its absence here. Jagger's vocal confirms what I always suspected about the incredible studio version of this tune. Those falsetto hoots and hollers at the end of the studio version were isolated, sped up (for higher pitch) and then added back into the mix because he sure can't pull that off in a live setting. Here this incredible tune is reduced to what is basically a 3 chord jam with lyrics and a couple of really excellent guitar solos. In that respect it is very good. But it isn't anything like the original (other than the basic chord progression and the words)
3. There are some pretty sloppy starts and finishes on some of the songs, Street Fighting Man sounds like Richards decided to play it and then the rest of the band, upon realizing what he's doing, sort of wander in one at a time. Mr. Watts' drumming on the intro pales in comparision to the studio version - where's that big booming drum on the intro? And don't tell me ya can't pull that off live. I've seen Simple Minds with Mel Gaynor pull off massive drums in a live setting. It just takes... you guessed it, a massive drum. Anyway, that song is supposed to have a STUNNING beginning - at least it does on Beggar's Banquet. I don't expect it to sound like the studio version but this isn't even close... Ok, maybe sloppy is supposed to be the point since it's the Stones but I don't think so. A fundamental rule of rock-n-roll: A song should always have a strong start and a strong finish. Do whatever you like in the in-between bits. Also, there's a few sloppy guitar mistakes (presumeably Richards as Taylor is really a very brilliant player) in this one as well.
4. There's also some out of key singing by Jagger and/or Richards here and there (Love in Vain has a particulary painful moment towards then end, I whince everytime I hear it). In my mind that's inexcusable for what is essentially a live recording with overdubbing.
5. The guitars on Little Queenie are very much out of tune with one another. It's very overt in the introduction. Painfully out of tune. Another whince.
6. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Where's that nifty little intro with the really cool bass line? They just launch right into the main Dawnt Daaaah duh duh daaaah duh duh daaah dah dah dah (and so on). It's not like that riff is hard to play. Again, rock tunes should have a strong start and a strong finish. There's also some very sloppy guitar mistakes that any guitar player worth his or her salt will catch immediately.
But I still LIKE the CD. Really, I do! It just isn't the "best live recording ever" Not by a "Country Honk" mile. I get the sense that because this is the Stones and at the time they were the hottest ticket going, they figured why bother? It will sell.
And since we're on the topic of great live albums, I can think of about 1/2 dozen or so live albums recorded around the time of Ya Ya's that have far better playing and are much more lively. Here's six that are definitely worth your pennies before purchasing Get Your Ya Ya's Out.
1. Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies - Hendrix was just so brilliant in this collection of performances and it is unlike anything he'd done previously. Fillmore owner the late Bill Graham once remarked that the performances over which Hendrix recorded Band of Gypsies were the best he'd ever seen. I think Bill Graham was very well qualified to pontificate about the greatest live rock performance. The Buddy Miles/Billy Cox rhythm section just churns away like a "funky cement mixer" while Jimi focuses on masterful musician skills rather than clowning around and struttin' his stuff. Absolutely stunning! It's a shame Hendrix's manager Michael Jeffries did everything he could do to destroy this new Hendrix band. He thought the all black line-up wasn't going to sell. What an idiot that guy was.
2. Johnny Winter And Live - Winter and Rick Derringer play a blistering set that includes lots of old rockers and the best live rendition of Jumpin' Jack Flash I have ever heard, period. Go read the Amazon reviews and then buy this, it will be $9.98 well spent!
3. Humble Pie - Rockin' the Fillmore. Heavy, brilliant playing by Marriot, Frampton, Shirley and Ridley to a very spirited audience - Walk on Guilded Splinters! Steve Marriot is the consumate entertainer here. I know where my next wad of cash is going. Go read the Amazon Reviews for this tasty slice of Humble Pie. Rock On!
4. Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Very much in the spirit of what the Stones were doing in this time period but a much tighter set of performances. Not bad for a large-sized band that had only rehearsed together for just 2 short weeks before setting out on the road. I think both Bobby Keys and Jim Price ("stand-by" Stones horn players) are on this release. The soulful version of Delta Lady found here might just be one of the most exciting things ever to appear on a rock-n-roll record. The only problem with this incredible classic is trying to choose between the deluxe and original releases.
5. BB King Live at Cook County Jail. I'm surprised this one didn't come to mind the first time I put this review together. If I had to vote for an "all time greatest live album" as in someone put a gun to my head and commanded me to vote it would be this spectacular session. THIS is the blues. THIS is a great great great performance! Professional, tight, no sloppy starts and out of key singing from this man, he means business when he steps on a stage. Of the five I've listed I would go with this one first. *ok, put the gun down now, I voted* 'nuff said
6. Any one of the trio of Miles Davis's live albums from the early to mid 70's - Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea are infinitely, I-N-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y better than Get Your Ya Ya's Out. Agharta is almost 2 hours of blistering, psychedlic funk that Robert Fripp (King Crimson) once described as "the wallpaper shredder".
And here are some later live recordings that are superior to Ya Ya's:
1. U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky. Anyone who knows rock, knows this classic session and how engergized and great it is.
2. Simple Minds - Live in the City of Light. Energy, excitement and drums that actually sound humongus when needed :).
3. Pat Martino - Live at Yoshi's. Ok, you have to be a jazz fan to appreciate how truly amazing this trio is. Recorded and released without overdubs, i.e., no safety net. All of the players are amazing (Martino, Billy Hart, and Joey DeFrancesco). However, the Hammond B3 player Joey DeFrancesco steals the session with his jaw-dropping playing (he carries a solid, thumping walking bass line that is so precise it is inhuman. He plows ahead with those baselines while the band plays on and even underneath his own solos - no sequencing and no overdubs). My pick for the greatest modern day live release of all time yadda yadda yadda.
If you are a Stones fan you are going to want the Get Your Ya Ya's Out! document. It is worth the money but is certainly not the "best live album ever" and not even a priority for your collection.
POSTSCRIPT: A little while later... I listended to this on the way from Tempe to Tucson last night. The Stones sound like a jam band here, they aren't even remotely tight in this set. My own bar band back in the 70's sounded far tighter than this.
As a live recording, it's good fun. But it still isn't the "greatest live recording of all time",not by a Moonlight Mile. To make such a proclamation is unobjective and very far detached from reality.
POSTSCRIPT 3 MONTHS ON:
I want to love this CD but it just isn't happening. It is flawed and unforgivably sloppy overall with moments of goodness here and there. 3.5 stars is generous. By far the worst live album I own. And I love the Stones people.
Anyone who rates this thing with 5 stars really doesn't know very much about music and performance. This Stones release is mediocre. My 4 stars is actually very generous.
POSTSCRIPT 4 YEARS ON:
It's still just ok and anyone who calls this the greatest live album ever has a very limited live album selection from which to compare.
A word of warning on the used disks. Make sure they are the 2002 remaster before wasting your money. I once purchased a used King Crimson CD advertised along with the remasters. It was a 20 year old remaster that really sucked.
Description of Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
Returning to the American concert scene after a three-year layoff, the Rolling Stones recorded GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! during a triumphant two-date stand at Madison Square Garden in late November 1969 that found B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner opening for them. Having amassed an impressive recorded output during their three years away from touring, the Stones peppered their sets with hits, including "Honky Tonk Women," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and "Street Fighting Man." Tipping their collective hats to Chuck Berry, the band also included covers of "Carol" and "Little Queenie" alongside more blues-influenced numbers such as "Stray Cat Blues" and "Love In Vain."Having been a member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, new guitarist Mick Taylor parlayed his experience into some impressive slide guitar work. The pièce-de-resistance of what is arguably the best live Rolling Stones recording is the eight-minute-plus reading of "Midnight Rambler." Between Mick Jagger's unearthly harmonica playing and the tight interplay between Taylor and Keith Richards, the sinister vibe emanating from this song was eerie, foreshadowing the tragedy that would occur at Altamont less than two weeks later. Observant fans will catch the cover's subtle visual reference to a certain lyric from Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" from BLONDE ON BLONDE.
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