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The Rolling Stones - Catch Your Dreams (Before They Slip Away) (1969)

Track listing:
  1. Jumping Jack Flash 4:33
  2. Carol 3:38
  3. Sympathy For The Devil 4:49
  4. Stray Cat Blues 3:38
  5. Midnight Rambler 9:14
  6. Under My Thumb 3:50
  7. Prodigal Son 3:42
  8. Love In Vain 5:13
  9. I'm Free 6:19
  10. Little Queenie 4:45
  11. Gimme Shelter 3:48
  12. Satisfaction 6:15
  13. Honky Tonk Women 3:53
  14. Street Fighting Man 4:06

Notes

Fort Collins, CO 11/7/69

Review :

[DH] Distant, mediocre audience recording of the first show of the tour. For those who have to have everything.

[LMR-BG] Altough distant sounding, this is one of the more clear and steady recordings to have surfaced from the1969 tour. The fact that it is complete with no missing songs is an added bonus. The minimal tape hiss also indicates a master or low-generation tape source. Packaging is one of those dynamite cardboard sleeves that are arriving from Japan these days.

'Midnight Rambler' is one of the most interesting tracks here. The two Micks (one on harp, one on guitar and Keith Richards embark on a furious hard rock instumental passage before the slow, smoldering middle section. The"stop" comes suddenly and with great dynamics. The slow segment is shorter than usual before Taylor and Richards are back to full throttle for the close.

'Under My Thumb' contains a signature flaw, about one second towards the end where some audience noise (from another source) has been dubbed in.

'Little Queenie' is missing the last couple of notes. There is a slight bit of tape warble right before it ends
indicating that the taper probably ran out of tape. These are minor quibbles. Collectors looking for absolute
perfection in 1969 audience tapes are probably chasing a pipe dream.

'Satisfaction' is one of the better early singles to fit into the Mick Taylor era (a blistering solo here) and
its exclusion from the official '69 document, "Get Your Ya-Ya's Out", is still a mystery to me. The Stones were on a roll in 1969 and knew it. The set list avoided the "greatest hits on tour" mentality and focused primarily on new material. But 'Satisfaction' was the exception and it was a show highlight.
(The other old tune, 'Under My Thumb', was a bore night after night. 'Carol' and 'Little Queenie' were meant more as a tribute to their influences. 'I'm Free' was so obscure that nobody even recognized it.)

The Stones close the show with a double dose of rockers, 'Honky Tonk Woman' and 'Street Fighting Man'.
'Street Fighting Man' was the set closer for the whole tour and you could hear calls for it earlier in this show.
This is somewhat surprising since it wasn't nearly the hit that 'Jumping Jack Flash' and 'Honky Tonk Woman' were. But it was a thrilling live vehicle (and has been in subsequent tours) and word-of-mouth was a very effective tool in 1969. Now we call it a "buzz".

Speed problems and worse quality in the last part