Rolling Stones - No Security

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Music Review: No Mott
Rating: 5 Stars

"No Security" is a collection of live songs from the 'Bridges of Babylon Tour'. A nice little memento if you caught the tour or a reminder of what you missed if you didn't. "No Security" is the seventh Stones live album and their second in three years at the time, so by its very notion it could not be a straight collection of songs recorded as in concert running order. You cannot just go banging out versions of 'Jumpin Jack Flash', 'Honky Tonk Woman', and 'Satisfaction' every time like a continues conveyer belt of Greatest Hits every time you go on tour, expecting your loyal fans to keep on forking out their hard earned bucks. On the other hand, when so much work has gone into a tour, why let the Bootleggers get all the money by releasing the live recording? So the Stones took a great attitude and released a collection of songs from the tour that were a little bit special.

On "No Security" the Stones flex their collective musical muscle by opening up with the aptly named "You Got Me Rocking", which immediately has Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood grooving along on guitar with Keith delivering an awe inspiring solo. Next up is the finest version of "Gimme Shelter" this dog has ever heard, the whole band positively shimmers and when it gets to the call and response chorus of "Just A Kiss away", Mick Jagger and the wonderful Lisa Fischer taunt each other to the end. We then get a live version of probably the only good song from the terrible mid-seventies album "Black 'n' Blue" 'Memory Motel'. While a great version, I would still rather have Keith Richards singing his half of the duet rather than special guest Dave Matthews. I mean he does a fair version, but then he is no Keith Richards, but then who is?

The next guest is truly phenomenal though as long time Stone inspiration Taj Mahal gets up to growl his way through a version of his "Corinna". This alone is worth the price of the album. The beautiful ballad "Waiting on a Friend" is an inspired run through with famous jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman taking the solo (Bobby Keys is the regular saxophonist for the Stones and gets his chance to shine on the final track, an extended version of "Out Of Control"). Keith gets his turn in the vocal spotlight with his own "Thief in the Night". The audience gets a chance to sing their collective hearts out with Mick Jagger as the conductor on "Saint of me". "Sister Morphine" from the "Sticky Fingers" album is completely rearranged for this live outing, and the band reach back to 1965 for their third British number one (when it meant something to have a number one hit single). "The Last Time" they play with as much gusto as if they had written it last week. The version of "Respectable" from the "Some Girls" album leaves the studio version in tatters. "Live With Me", the only song here repeated from the proper first Rolling Stones live album "Get Your Ya Ya's Out". It shows the band has lost none of its thunderous ability or master hood of getting down and dirty with the best of them. Nobody plays as sleaze as these boys.
Mott the Dog.

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