The Rolling Stones: Stormy Night (Sweet Black Angels)

Label:

Sweet Black Angels

Catalog number:SBA-009
Packaging:Double Jewel Case
Limited edition:50 items
Integral:Complete
Format:2xCD + DVD
Release date:6th May 2016
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CD1
Source:Soundboard recording
1. No Woman, No Cry / Take The 'A' Train (through PA)1:55
2. Under My Thumb4:09
3. When The Whip Comes Down4:37
4. Let's Spend The Night Together3:58
5. Shattered5:12
6. Neighbours4:05
7. Black Limousine4:15
8. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)(Audience)9:17
9. Twenty Flight Rock1:55
10. Going To A Go-Go4:14
11. Let Me Go4:44
12. Time Is On My Side3:48
13. Beast Of Burden8:17
14. You Can't Always Get What You Want11:23
Total duration: 71:49

CD2
Source:Audience recording
1. Band Introduction1:19
2. Little T&A(with Keith Richards (vocals))2:57
3. Angie4:45
4. Tumbling Dice4:04
5. She's So Cold4:12
6. Hang Fire2:58
7. Miss You8:45
8. Honky Tonk Women3:44
9. Brown Sugar3:58
10. Start Me Up5:21
11. Jumpin' Jack Flash9:04
12. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction6:57

13. BONUSTRACK: Jam1:07
14. BONUSTRACK: Angie7:08
15. BONUSTRACK: Angie5:17

16. BONUSTRACK: Under My Thumb(Soundboard; alternate mix)3:49
17. BONUSTRACK: Interview4:27
Total duration: 79:52

Bonus-DVDR1
Source:Soundboard (TV Broadcast) recording
1. Under My Thumb4:47
Total duration: 4:47


Original liner notes from Stormy Night:
Short story for those who don't like reading: this release is an improvement over the previous releases, using SOUNDBOARD and AUDIENCE masters to present you the definitive -and for the first time ever, complete- version of this concert, an upgrade over all previous releases.

And now, let's get started! There are only two partial releases of this show, the first release was a double LP from the eighties Madrid July-82 that used a great audience tape including all the songs between Just My Imagination and Jumpin' Jack Flash -well, only half the first half of Jumpin' Jack Flash-, and the second and final release appeared in the nineties: the CD Singing Under the Rain (JL-013) included the first part of the show until You Can't Always Get What You Want -well, the song Just My Imagination was not in the CD- using a great Soundboard tape.

For your listening pleasure, we've been able to locate the same master used for the Soundboard CD but less hissy -especially at the beginning of the show-, also make a superb clean transfer of the original audience LP -declicked when necessary-, and also locate a never before released audience master -from the same tape used on the LP, but a few generations from the master- that did include the songs that weren't on the LP -that's it, the second half of Jumpin' Jack Flash, the encore break, and (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction; also a few seconds of the Band Introduction and a tiny gap in She's So Cold-. These three sources, combined, remastered, and speed corrected when necessary, present for the first time ever the show complete and in it's best sound.

After Barcelona in 1976, this was the second visit of The Rolling Stones to Spain and no doubt one of the greatest concerts in their career, with 70.000 people there and a great storm during the first part of the concert that made the headline of the newspapers: "los Rolling debutaron entre rayos y truenos", "Magia y leyenda en una noche inolvidable", "Rayos y Truenos, con los Rolling", "Memorable concierto de los Rolling Stones bajo una gran tormenta de lluvia y truenos", "Grandioso acto de amor de Morritos y sus balas perdidas"...

The promoter of the show Gay Mercader has even cited Keith Richards as saying that God gave us that start for the show and also The day I die, whether I go to heaven or hell, God will ask me to pay the thunder and lightning that he sparked so impressive for us. A fun fact is that the giant garland of balloons that were supposed to be used during the end of the show collapsed onto the stage due to the weight of the rain just after the start of the set, please see how the band maneuvered it on stage in the bonus DVD-R! (by the way, that's the only remaining footage of the concert). The whole time the band and the crowd just keep rocking... the forces of nature at work!

If the start of the show has become legendary and showed that the crod and the band were in a real wild mood, the end of the show featuring Mick Jagger's naked torso and a flag of Spain over his body as a cape while he sang the encore song Satisfaction.. no doubt why the people went crazy!

The show in itself shows the band in top form, very energetic, and featured the standard 1982 setlist but with a top quality surprise, a song not played since Nice in 1976: Angie, a spanish favourite they did reharse in two complete takes at the soundcheck -specially for their alto saxophone Gene Barge, who has not played it before-. We have included the complete soundcheck as bonustrack, a pity Keith's guitar was recorded a little bit too high -over distorted- in the initial rock Jam.

Stormy Night is dedicated to Charlie Rockin' Rott and Mario Dog & Cats, without whom this release would not have been possible.
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