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Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!

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"Does everything seem to be ready is everybody ready, ladies and gentlemen the greatest rock and roll band in the world, the Rolling Stones". And with that introduction, the Stones were about to unleash a live performance that could be hailed as one of the best live recordings ever made. This album was made when the Stones were arguably the greatest rock and roll band in the world and this album proves it. After the introduction, the Stones break into a scorching version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash", pay tribute to Chuck Berry with 2 fine versions of "Carol" and "Little Queenie", giving a nod to their past while strutting their new material with a vengeance. The guitar solo in "Sympathy For The Devil" is simply flawless and as Mick tells the crowd prior to "Honky Tonk Women", "Charlie's good tonight isn't he." Well they were all good that night as this record shows. The Stones were in the midst of a phenomenal creative period in their careers, just prior to the release of this record the Stones had released two albums that were to become classic performances (Beggar's Banquet and Let It Bleed). This album shows the Stones in the midst of that creative juggernaut and in fine form. (Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street were the next albums to be released). This album deserves five stars because it shows the Stones at the height of their performing power as well as just about reaching their creative peak. If this one is not in your collection, then get yer wallets out. This is not only the best Stones live album by far, but one of the best live recordings ever made by a rock and roll band.

The Rolling Stones tour of America in 1969 has become one of the most infamous and legendary of all time. It of course concluded with the Altamont concert and was documented in the film Gimme Shelter. Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out provides us with a live document of the tour from a Madison Square Garden show. What makes this such a great live record is that is does what so few live albums do, it makes us we feel as if we're actually at the show. From the opening introduction of the "Greatest Band Of All Time" to the closing chords of the militant "Street Fighting Man", we get the vibe of what it must have been like to have been there. While the performances, from a technical point of view, may not be the best of their career, that's beside the point. The Stones have always been more about emotion than anything else and the performances of "Sympathy For The Devil", "Midnight Rambler", "Love In Vain" & "Stray Cat Blues" perfectly capture and convey all their raw emotion and intensity. The Stones have made it a practice to release a live album after all their tours, but none are even close to this one.

This is no 'true' live record, because there have been some studio overdubbings, I think of the solo guitars. Its from the 1969-tour and initially was planned as a double album featuring also Ike&Tina Turner. Then this project was reduced to a pure R.S.-record becoming definitely one of the best Stones albums. There are among others fascinating takes of Midnight rambler (In the slower middle section You can here the excited audience scream with joy), Sympathy for the devil (Thrilling intro, Keith Richards' solo and therafter Mick Taylor's - very different styles), Jumping Jack Flash (A great opener), Stray Cat Blues (Fascinating solo-guitar parts), Love in vain (Moving acoustic style). To compare this album to a real live record of that tour you have to stick to a bootleg, f.ex. 'Liver than You'll ever Be'), and almost any concert of this great America-tour is available bootlegged. This record symbolifies heavily the Stones' occupation of that period with apocalypse! (listen to 'Gimme Shelter and 'Sympathy for the devil') and thus creates very strong emotions. The lyrics of the former song were inspired by M. Bulgakows novel 'The master and Margarita'. In comparison to the Hyde Park-Concert at London Mick Taylor, who replaced drowned 'problem-child' Brian Jones in 1968, here is fully integrated into the band and contributes greatly to this masterpiece. The guitar sound also reveals Keith Richards faible for the typical 'open tuning' guitar style which is so characteristic for the Stones since their Beggars Banquet-period and lasts until today. BUY THIS RECORD !!! Again: Thank You Stones!!!

Dan Epstein's review of "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" is largely insufficient. More than likely he only listened to the album once. The first time I heard, I was less than satisfied. But repeated listenings reveal just how great the Stones were with Mick Taylor (in my opinion their best years: 1969-1972). "Sympathy With the Devil" emerges as the "true" definitive version, with Keith's rhythm work shuffling through the song, jazzy and tough. Then, Keith's ragged but intense solo is followed by Taylor's lightning-fast bluesy notebending. Sublime! Contrary to what Epstein wrote, I think most of the versions on here surpass the studio cuts (the exception being "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Stray Cat Blues"). "Street Fighting Man," the Chuck Berry tunes and "Live with Me" all benefit from new arrangements, and "Midnight Rambler" rocks harder with a faster tempo (notice how it is on "Hot Rocks" and not the "Let it Bleed" version?). Along with Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged," Dylan's "1966 Live" or The Velvet Underground's "1969 Live," "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" is a primary text for afficionados of live rock albums. This album is only surpassed in the Stones' catalogue by "Exile on Main Street" and "Sticky Fingers."

They don't play any of it like the studio verisons. The verison of Sympathy, is the most dissimilar. They omit the percussion intto and skip the last verse. However, it contains two of the greatest solos ever recorded. The first, by Richards, is about as biting as it gets. The second solo, played by Taylor, takes a totally different direction and just sizzles. Their different playing styles compliment each other well. This album also contains the best verison of Midnight Rambler, which blows the already great studio verison away. The killer solos on Live With Me, Stray Cat Blues, and the Chuck Berry songs are perfect. Love In Vain is much better than the studio verison here. Jumpin Jack Flash is different from the great studio verison(the awesome opening chords aren't played) but it is a nice change. The only disappointments are Honky Tonk Women(why does Mick do a different 2nd verse at all of the concerts) and the electric verison of Street Fighting Man, which don't come close to the studio verisons. This and the Who's Live at Leeds tie as the greatest offical live albums ever. Perfectly captures the raw emotion of a Stones concert.

Probably the Stones' best live album, "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" is one of the greatest, most energetic concert recordings of the 60s.

It was recorded over two nights at Madison Square Garden in late 1969, and features superb, tough renditions of some of the Roling Stones' best songs, as well as terrific versions of Chuck Berry's "Carol" and "Little Queenie".
The sound is excellent, and the mix pushes the groovy, interlocking guitar playing of Keith Richards and Mick Taylor to the forefront. And Jagger sounds neither slurred nor sloppy!

The Stones do hard rock, blues, and the swinging rock-samba-fusion of "Sympathy For The Devil", and "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" goes from highlight to highlight:
"Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Street Fighting Man", Robert Johnson's stately "Love In Vain", the classic "Honky Tonk Women", and a great, nine-minute "Midnight Rambler".

This album is one of the high points of the Stones' career. Never again did they manage to assemble a live album with this much power and grit, and very few of their records manage to pack this much fire and energy into a ten song track list.
Highly recommended.

The one thing that comes across the Stones in all their 70's music is their attitude. Though, not a 70's CD but more like the Welcoming is Get Your YA-YA's out. Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, are there to make the guitars thrive in funk and hard in melo dramatic collaborations. Entertaining rock. There is a reason the team of Jagger and Richards have been around for 40 years...Attitude. It's full of teen age rebellion, the teen age swagger, the teen age party, the teen age wreckless ambition. Though at the time they were heading into their 30's. Compared to their Souled Out concerts of the mid 80's and beyond the mentors of rock could learn a few rules they must have forgot by listening to this CD. Yes it's a bit ragged but that was the flambouyancy of the late 60's early 70's rock where it wasn't meant to be commercialized. It was meant to drive parents insane. I am 40 have 7 kids and now I use it to drive the kids insane. If you like gut wrenching fist clinching. It's the fountain of youth recorded. Buy it you'll like it.

Wow!What a great record!!Any Stones fan has got to own this.The song "Midnight Rambler" is their best song of all time.And live? It is truely awesome.Mick Taylor,what an incredible guitar player!!!What a fun concert this would have been.Luckily we have this recording.It's spectacular!!

This album has stood the test of time. Always has been, always will be not only the best Stones album, but one of the best live rock albums on the planet. Mick Taylor made it that way. Stones and Taylor in their prime. Worth ten times whatever you pay for it.

Back in the days when recording an album meant assembling ten or fifteen blistering tracks, rather than today's methods of two good singles and twelve mindless fillers, the Stones picked their best live recordings off the 1969 tour and gave us this.
The slide guitar in Love's in Vain alone is worth the price of the CD. Midnight Rambler should come with a health warning not to listen to it while driving. Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man, Jumping Jack Flash, the Stones whole early catalogue is here, played hard and hot and simply fantastic.