Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert [40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set] [3 CDs + 1 DVD] [Box set, Deluxe Edition, Extra tracks]

The Rolling Stones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 1969
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set, Deluxe Edition, Extra tracks
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Abkco
• ASIN: B002NOAF9W
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (81 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,790 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Jumpin' Jack Flash (Original Release Remastered)

2. Carol (Original Release Remastered)

3. Stray Cat Blues (Original Release Remastered)

4. Love In Vain (Original Release Remastered)

5. Midnight Rambler (Original Release Remastered)

See all 10 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Prodigal Son (Unreleased Track)

2. You Gotta Move (Unreleased Track)

3. Under My Thumb (Unreleased Track)

4. I'm Free (Unreleased Track)

5. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Unreleased Track)

Disc: 3

1. Everyday I Have The Blues (Unreleased B.B. King Track)

2. How Blue Can You Get (Unreleased B.B. King Track)

3. That's Wrong Little Mama (Unreleased B.B. King Track)

4. Why I Sing The Blues (Unreleased B.B. King Track)

5. Please Accept My Love (Unreleased B.B. King Track)

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Prodigal Son (DVD content)

2. You Gotta Move (DVD content)

3. Under My Thumb (DVD content)

4. I'm Free (DVD content)

5. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (DVD Content)

See all 6 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Rolling Stone, Mark Kemp, October 29, 2009

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out For Good: One of the greatest live rock albums of all time just got better
5 STARS

"GET YER YA-YA'S OUT!" - recorded in 1969 over two nights at Madison Square Garden - is the last official live document of the Rolling Stones in their swaggering Sixties prime; it's also one of the greatest live albums of all time.

Expectations were high for the band on its 1969 tour, the Stones' first in the U.S. in three years, and their first outing without guitarist Brian Jones, who had died that summer. They delivered in spades. Keith Richards and new guitarist Mick Taylor combined for angry workouts on Ya-Ya's' "Midnight Rambler" - the album's bluesy nine-minute masterpiece - and a stark, rubbery "Sympathy For The Devil." Mick Jagger and Richards pull apart Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" into a raunchy romp, as if to prove they had fully mastered the rock form.

This three-disc remastered Ya-Ya's includes the original in all its gritty glory. Disc Two is a five-song EP from the same shows, with acoustic performances - "Prodigal Son" and "You Gotta Move" - from Richards (playing a resonator guitar) and Jagger. The third disc is an unexpected treat: blistering sets by openers B.B. King plus Ike and Tina Turner (doing an outrageously steamy take on Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long"). And serious rock geeks will enjoy the final flourish: the original ROLLING STONE review, by Lester Bangs.

4 out of 4 stars

Even after the deluge of Woodstock 40th anniversary commemorations we've seen this year, a new box set revisiting the Rolling Stones' celebrated U.S. tour a couple of months after those three days of peace and music makes an invaluable addition to the pop music archives. "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert," being released today, starts with the original 1970 live album, which has long stood as one of the great documents of one of rock's cornerstone bands in absolute peak form.

That album, culled from two shows at Thanksgiving at New York's Madison Square Garden, is supplemented in this four-disc package by a second disc comprising five tracks not included on the original set. A third CD captures the rest of the evening's stirring opening sets by B.B. King and Ike and Tina Turner. The fourth disc contains film footage from the Stones' tour shot by acclaimed documentarians Albert and David Maysles (whose 1964 footage of the Beatles' first U.S. tour provided the inspiration for "A Hard Day's Night") for what would become the 1970 film "Gimme Shelter."

There's also a "super deluxe" set that includes the three music discs on vinyl as well as CD.

By the time of the Garden shows, guitarist Mick Taylor had replaced Brian Jones, who'd been fired a few months earlier and then died under mysterious circumstances. In November, "Let It Bleed" was just being released, so the heart of the Stones' set list was the material drawn from that album and its 1968 predecessor, "Beggars Banquet." (Yes, Virginia, once upon a time, the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World was more interested in its newest songs than its classics.)

In fact, the big nods to the past were their versions of songs by a couple of their R&B and blues heroes: Chuck Berry's "Carol" and "Little Queenie" and Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain." The bonus disc and the DVD capture a couple more: Robert Wilkins' "Prodigal Son" and Fred McDowell and the Rev. Gary Davis' "You Gotta Move," which Mick Jagger and Keith Richards play as a virtual unplugged duo, Jagger sinuously singing while Richards applies a wicked slide to his old-school resonator guitar.

The Stones at this stage were still bona fide bad boys of rock -- these shows took place less than two weeks before their appearance at the Altamont Motor Speedway, which would torpedo the hippie euphoria from Woodstock in August when Hells Angels hired by the Stones to provide security killed a fan.

Back-to-back renditions of "Midnight Rambler" and "Sympathy for the Devil" play out like the modern-day equivalent of the fabled midnight deal in which bluesman Johnson surrendered his soul for the ability to play and sing like nothing human.

The sound is sterling, Richards' guitar soaring effortlessly over the nimble rhythm section work by bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts. As dramatic as are the cornerstone numbers, which also include "Honky Tonk Women" and "Street Fighting Man," I still argue that the Stones never sounded more exhilarating than in the Berry-inspired "Live With Me."

The Maysles' film catches Richards and Jimi Hendrix hanging out backstage, comparing notes on a Plexiglas guitar; then Janis Joplin can be spotted looking on from the side of the stage. There's also a curious separate snippet of film showing an impatient group of Stones biding their time at an airport waiting for an overdue plane along with Jerry Garcia and other members of the Grateful Dead.

The package also includes a 55-page book built around photos that Ethan Russell shot while on tour with the group. He also contributes text describing the unfolding of that tour -- noting that before showtime, New York Philharmonic conductor Leonard Bernstein was hanging out backstage with Jagger.

Sandwiched in the middle is critic Lester Bangs' Rolling Stone review of the "Ya-Ya's" album when it appeared about a year later. It's amusing to read even back in 1970 Bangs referring to worries about the future of rock music and how the form appeared to be in trouble, even though he thought the Stones sounded magnificent on the live album: "I'm beginning to think Ya-Ya's just might be the best album they ever made."

The remarkable thing is how many Stones aficionados would be willing to stand by that statement 40 years later.

Product Description

The GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! THE ROLLING STONES IN CONCERT 40TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE BOX SET contains 3 CDs, 1 DVD, a 56-page Collectors Book and a postcard replica of the original Rolling Stones 1969 tour poster by David Byrd. The first CD is a remastered version of the original Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out release. The second CD contains 5 unreleased tracks by The Rolling Stones from the original Madison Square Garden concert. The third CD contains 12 never before released tracks by opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner. The DVD features performances by The Rolling Stones from the 2 night concert at Madison Square Garden, backstage footage, scenes of Keith Richards in the studio and footage of the Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out album cover shoot, all shot by Albert and David Maysles. The 56-page Collectors Book includes photos and an essay by the acclaimed photographer Ethan Russell, an original article by Lester Bangs from Rolling Stone magazine and remembrances from concert-goers. A limited number of box sets will also have an insert with a code to download "I'm Free (Live)" for Guitar Hero.

Customer Reviews

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290 of 303 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Disapponting Ripoff, November 7, 2009

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This review is from: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert [40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set] [3 CDs + 1 DVD] (Audio CD)

I've loved this album since I bought it on vinyl at a used record store in 1983. The Stones have put out a ton of live material, but I've always considered this their very best. The heart-pounding, fists-clenched version of Midnight Rambler is probably the best live track the Rolling Stones ever produced. Bluesy yet energetic renditions of lesser Stones classics like Live With Me and Stray Cat Blues stand out too. A couple of Chuck Berry chestnuts are lovingly rendered, retaining the original fun while adding depth and texture. Mick's iconic banter with the audience ("I've just busted a button on my trousers...") is a lot of fun, too. I could go on, but anyone considering buying this thing already knows and loves this collection.

When I first heard about a new version, with unreleased tracks and even some video, I bought it without hesitation. I should have hesitated. The new edition is nothing if not well-packaged, coming in a thick box that's just a bit too tall to fit onto most CD shelves. Inside, there's a hardcover book with lots of pictures and some bland text by the usual bunch of self-important Rolling Stone (the mag, not the band) writers and critics. And then there are the discs. Disc 1 is the original album, supposedly remastered, but I didn't hear a difference. To be fair, when I ripped disc 1 into iTunes using Apple Lossless Encoding, it did register a slightly higher bitrate than the original CD, which I purchased in the late 1980s. So...there's that. Disc 2 has the unreleased tracks. Oh boy! Now we're getting somewhere. After 40 years, some new material from that amazing performance. So I popped it into my CD player and heard a very nice version of Prodigal Son, followed by 4 undistinguished tracks AND THAT'S IT. Five tracks count 'em FIVE. I was pretty disappointed, but there were 2 more discs, so I soldiered on.

Disc 3 contains highlights from the other performers who played with (maybe "warmed up for" is too harsh) the Stones. There's some ok stuff here from B.B. King and Ike and Tina Turner, but both artists put out better material on their own.

disc 4 was the "Bonus DVD" with live footage from these legendary shows. I was amped again, despite the disappointment of disc 2. Again, I was disappointed. Yes, there is some nice footage of Mick and Keith doing that same version of Prodigal Son, and snippets of some other stuff, and there is some nearly-wordless footage of Keith talking to Jimi Hendrix. Then there is some pointlessly lengthy footage of Mick trying to direct the album cover photo shoot on a highway that was closed down while the Stones dithered and complained about the cold. I think the whole DVD was about 20 minutes long.

This could have been an effective release if they had ditched the fancy package and hardcover book, added the unreleased tracks to disc one, jettisoned discs 3 and 4 altogether, and put it out as a augmented and remastered version of Get Yer Ya Yas Out. Then again, they couldn't charge $42 for that, which is what I paid for it, let alone the $60 suggested retail price. Hopefully, some of you will read this and avoid making the same mistake.

143 of 156 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Really 3 Discs Worth of Music - one short 67 minute disc was broken into two even shorter discs, November 3, 2009

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This review is from: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert [40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set] [3 CDs + 1 DVD] (Audio CD)

It "appears" you are getting a lot of music when they market this as a 3 DISC + DVD Collection. The average joe will think 60 bucks for 3 CDs and a DVD is a good price. The average joe doesn't realize right away that one short CD was broken into two even shorter discs in order to raise the box set price. This price for 2 discs and a DVD doesn't sound like a good deal, so they made it 3 discs, which "appears" better.

The original 48 minutes of Stones Ya-Ya's tracks are on one disc.
Disc two has the five extra unreleased Stones tracks lasting only 19 minutes.

These two discs add up to just 67 minutes of music but one CD can hold 80 minutes of music. There is no reason to have two separate discs for the Stones tracks when both fit on one 80 minute disc with plenty of time left over. They only split these 67 minutes of music into a 48 minute disc and a 19 minute disc to charge 20 bucks more per box set.

The original Ya-Ya's release was limited to 48 minutes due to the limitations of vinyl forty years ago. There is no reason to carry the time limitations of vinyl over to CD in this box set. There is other Ya-Ya's material that could have been included in this set. For example, the song Sympathy for the Devil is still only in its shortened-for-LP version and not in it's full 4-verse glory (internet bootlegs of this are easy to find).

The Rolling Stones do not have any rights to these recordings. ABKCO and Universal has full creative control on how to release this box set. Unlike the recent Beatles remasters, this Ya-Ya box was done with no input by the band or band's estate. The record company doesn't have to be concerned with the overall legacy of the band. For the recent Beatles reissues, they worked years to release high quality music at a great value to their fans because it was their own name and reputation on the line. The band input that makes a great release is missing from this Ya-Ya's box set.

Thankfully record companies no longer use force to take control of recordings away from artists like the Stones. But sadly they once were able to, and this low value release is a product of those days. If the Stones had full control over any version of Ya-Ya's it would have been done much differently. And better.

40 years later the Stones versus Beatles competition continues, with the Beatles winning by releasing their superior Mono and Stereo Box Sets with better packaging and fair pricing. That's too bad, cause I always liked the Stones better.

43 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get Yer Ya Yas Out Again!, November 3, 2009

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S. Sigel "Sighunt" (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert [40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set] [3 CDs + 1 DVD] (Audio CD)

As a long time Rolling Stones fan, I am delighted that Abkco has re-released Ya Yas as a 40th anniversary box set. The 1969 tour brought the return of the Rolling Stones to America after a three year absence. This was Mick Jagger's break-out tour and one that would solidify the Stones reputation as the "greatest rock and roll band in the world." With their new guitarist (and replacement for Brian Jones in tow), the Stones rocked and socked halls all over America playing their new classics like Midnight Rambler & Sympathy for the Devil to very satisfied customers.

Ya Yas is a snapshot in time of the Stones performing over two nights at Madison Square Garden in November 1969. What you hear on this recording (and see on the DVD disc) are the Stones at the peak of their collective powers- both on a musical and performance level. It is no surprise that many critics over the years have included Get Yer Ya Yas Out on their lists of the best live rock albums of all time.

Sooooo...as a long time fan like me, you've bought and worn out the original album, you've purchased the CD, and later bought the re-master from 2002...You ask yourself- is it worth shelling out even more money for this pricey box set??? The answer is: ABSOLUTELY! In addition to the original 10 songs as featured on disc 1, included is a bonus disc of great tunes such as the acoustic Prodigal Son, the medley of Under My Thumb-I'm free and a blistering version of Satisfaction that were left off the original disc. The third disc features great music by the opening acts B.B. King and Tina Turner. The Stones originally conceived of Ya Yas as a two album set with the opening acts represented, but this idea was subsequently scrapped. Finally, you get a 4th DVD disc of some (not a lot) great concert footage (be forewarned that some of this is duplicated material featured on the Criterion Gimme Shelter DVD), along with backstage access to round out the box set (along with a nice hardcover booklet featuring Ethan Russell photographs from the 69 tour). Sound quality overall is excellent.

The only real criticisms that I can make regarding this box set is that it could have been offered at a more affordable price by eliminating the second disc altogether and putting the five bonus tracks at the end of disc one. Also, adding more concert footage and including a COMPLETE performace from Madison Square Garden on the DVD disc would have elevated this release to stellar status. However, those points aside, if you are a hard core Stones fan like me (and appreciate the music produced during the Mick Taylor years), overall, this box set is a must have.