RARE TRADE MARK OF QUALITY '71 LEEDS LUNGS ROLLING STONES Raw ALIVE TMOQ GEM

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ORIGINAL EARLY '70s FIRST PRESS                     

TRADE MARK OF QUALITY UNRELEASED GEM!                  

                      THE ROLLING STONES                 

            Get Your Leeds Lungs Out!

                       USA - TRADE MARK OF QUALITY - 1701 

Original first printing in CLEAN Collection worthy condition!

This early '70s limited edition TRADE MARK OF QUALITY release is easily the finest unissued live music by the Rolling Stones. In fact the intense version of Midnight Rambler on is arguably some of the best music they ever recorded.

After the hysteria and drug busts of the mid 1960s and the death of Brian Jones still overshadowing the band, the Rolling Stones returned to touring in 1969 with new guitarist Mick Taylor in tow. Taylor, fresh from John Mayall's band, added a virtuosity to the Stones' music which put them on a par with contemporaries like Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton and other blues wailing guitar heroes of the day. The Stones were now a band with a blues maturity they had previously, in their mid 60s pop incarnation, lacked.

The 5 years which Taylor spent with the band can be seen as their most artistically creative (Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, Goats Head Soup, and It’s Only Rock’n’Roll were all recorded during his tenure). As a live band, they were at was their tightest and most energetic and Mick Jagger was at his youthful demonic peak. The 1969 American tour saw the band reinvent themselves as “the Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band in the World” and although terminating in the disastrous Altamont festival, the tour was highly successful and put the band back on the rock center-stage along with Dylan, the Who and the recently separated Beatles.

The Rolling Stones played Leeds University in the spring of 1971 on the penultimate date of their first UK tour since 1966. Recorded in the Refectory in front of (presumably) less than a thousand slightly stoned hippy students, it has an intimacy and informality that the later Rolling Stones' arena shows lack. It sounds like a band in a club. Jagger talks to rather than shouts at the audience. The Watts / Wyman / Richards rhythm section has the funky looseness soon to be recorded on Exile On Main Street and there is a tight rhythm guitar / lead guitar interplay between Richards and Taylor, both of whom instinctively know when to leave space for the other. Taylor’s playing is arguably better on the '72 American tour however on that tour the band tended to pay everything too fast and a lot of the funk present here was lost. This is a recording of a band with a virtuoso lead player who is however playing within, and functioning as a part of the band, rather than in front of it, as Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee or Johnny Winter would have done. It isn’t about the guitar player it’s about the music. It’s about the “roll” as well as the “rock” as Keef said. This is a prime recording of the "roll" in the Rolling Stones.

And this is the dirtiest, rawest, rudest guitar sound Keith Richards ever achieved. His amp sounds as though the speakers have gaping holes in them. Midnight Rambler burns and crackles and Brown Sugar is far more incendiary here than on the single version. The flick knife intro precedes a guitar sound which is the aural equivalent of rusty razor blades. Jagger still sounds as though he is interested in what he is singing and makes an effort to put some life in the words as opposed to the breathless barking and yelping he would be making on the 1972 tour and for quite some time thereafter. The version of Satisfaction here is slower than the single and has a much funkier arrangement that seems to owe a lot to James Brown and Otis Redding. However the overwhelming climax here is Stray Cat Blues. It is everything you ever wanted from the Rolling Stones. Richards and Watts appear to take inspiration from the opening lines "In The Heat Of The Day Down In Mobile Alabama, working on the railroad with the steel driving hammer" and pound and hammer their way through the song to bust through into a moment of true magical inspiration when the band takes off and seems to become energized and overtaken by some other power. Their own momentum seems to overtake them and the song seems to be playing them. It seems about half way through they all sound like they are levitating...

This LP reflects all the rawness, grace, swagger and danger of what rock music was supposed to be about in the early '70s. The Stones were soon to lose their ability to conjure up those qualities but should anyone now too young to know ever ask you who were the Rolling Stones and what was all the fuss about...
Play them this LP.

Dead Flowers
Stray Cat Blues
Love In Vain
Bitch
Brown Sugar
(2)
Honky Tonk Women
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Midnight Rambler

CONDITION: The cover: thick textured light blue backing cover with Trade Mark Of Quality paste on design ...still very collection worthy VG++ having only a touch of light wear, nothing much - see photo! Has no bends, no writing and no split seams ... collection worthy rarity ...

The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated M- a TOP TMOQ collectible = expect play grade to be with very enjoyable audio, ... both TMOQ labels are clean

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record