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highplainsdem

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7. That "something" was Mick Taylor. With the Stones from June 1969 (played on a few tracks of Let It Bleed,
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 11:32 AM
Apr 24

released in late '69, and dazzled on their American tour 11/7-12/6 (Altamont was the final US date). Ya-Yas was recorded in '69, released in September 1970. He quit the Stones in December 1974. The Stones' 1975 album, Made In The Shade, was a compilation of earlier Stones tracks that Mick T had played on, except for two - Happy and It's Only Rock 'n Roll. So almost everything new you heard from the Stones from the winter of '69-'70 through early.1976 included Mick Taylor. Who didn't get the songwriting credits he was promised by Jagger and was cheated out of other royalties.

I'm not as much of a Stones fan as you are a Deadhead. And since some of Ya-Yas was overdubbed (mostly Mick Jagger's vocals on several of the songs, though NOT on Love In Vain), I had to do some checking to make sure there wasn't anything about Keith playing slide guitar, either live or overdubbed, and there wasn't. I did run across mentions from fans that some of Mick Taylor's guitar solos had been cut from Ya-Yas when it was compiled from a few shows, and those cuts were blamed on Keith being jealous of Mick T.

Guitar Player magazine had an article a few years ago on fans demanding - petitioning - that the Stones release the full live concerts Ya-Yas was compiled from. The NYC concerts at MSG, anyway.

https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/fans-demand-rolling-stones-release-entire-get-yer-ya-yas-out-live-recordings

“We in the Stones fan-base community have longed to hear all three MSG shows (minus the excessive vocal/instrumental overdubs & extraneous editing) released in excellent quality in order to experience a true representation of being at a Rolling Stones concert in 1969!”


Interestingly, that would have missed Love In Vain, the only one of the 10 Ya-Yas tracks recorded in Baltimore.

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