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The Rolling Stones - Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 3 (1968-69) (Remasters Workshop)

Track listing:
  1. Did Everybody Pay Their Dues 3:03
  2. Dear Doctor 3:26
  3. Downtown Lucy 3:44
  4. Blood Red Wine 5:17
  5. Highway Child 5:03
  6. Hamburger To Go 3:20
  7. Sister Morphine 5:36
  8. Still A Fool 10:00
  9. Family 3:45
  10. Memo From Turner 4:00
  11. Gimme Shelter 4:25
  12. You Got The Silver 2:49
  13. I'm A Country Boy 4:26
  14. Jiving Sister Fanny 3:27
  15. Honky Tonk Women 3:06
  16. Country Honk 3:06
  17. All Down The Line 4:31
  18. Loving Cup 6:39

Notes

THE ROLLING STONES
UNSURPASSED MASTERS VOL. 3 (1968-69)
Remastered Edition

I am really, really glad I was able to recover this set from a bad hard drive. It was researched and compiled by a person known as JWB. He undertook a mammoth project, locating the best-available sources for all of this material, and mastering it, and getting it out there. I have to say that this is, hands down, the most impressive fan-created collection I have ever heard. It should be held up as an example of what an exhaustive retrospective or anthology should be like. 99% of the recordings are in stunning quality. You may never have heard some of these recordings in this kind of quality. All credit and thanks must go to JWB, who truly went above and beyond on this one.

Now, under inspection, it was discovered that each of the tracks ran at a different pitch. So they were all tuned to a digital keyboard. Phase and level correction was done. Clipping was undone. Multiband compression was added to several tracks to bring out the bass without mud or boom, and the treble without harshness. The feedback at the end of "Downtown Lucy" has been notch filtered out. To the best of my knowledge, these are the finest renditions of these tapes that you may ever hear, and I have many Stones boots of the same material. This puts many of them to shame. You will not be disappointed after hearing this disc.

Track listing:

01 Did Everybody Pay Their Dues (outtake)
02 Dear Doctor (alternate mix)
03 Downtown Suzie (alternate mix)
04 Blood Red Wine (outtake)
05 Highway Child (outtake)
06 Hamburger To Go (outtake)
07 Sister Morphine (alternate mix)
08 Still A Fool (outtake)
09 Family (alternate take)
10 Memo From Turner (alternate take)
11 Gimmie Shelter (alternate mix w/ Keith vocal)
12 You Got The Silver (alternate mix w/ Mick vocal)
13 I'm A Country Boy (outtake)
14 Jiving Sister Fanny (alternate mix)
15 Honky Tonk Women (alternate mix w/ different lyrics)
16 Country Honk (alternate mix without fiddle)
17 All Down The Line (demo)
18 Loving Cup (early take)

Tracks 1-9 recorded March-June 1968 ("Beggars Banquet" sessions)
Track 10 recorded November 1968
Tracks 11-18 recorded February-June 1969 ("Let It Bleed" sessions)

All tracks stereo except 10 which is mono.

Artwork is included. Recording details are listed on the back insert.

Please preserve the lossless quality of this material.

Uploaded to Demonoid July 24, 2010.

Enjoy!

Remasters Workshop
RMW 589