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Rolling Stones   01/18/1973

Great Western LA Forum, Inglewood, CA
Source “All Meat Music” TMOQ Vinyl Remaster FLAC - justinmsmith19@hotmail.com 5GB one drive
Media FLAC   2 discs
Notes “All Meat Music” TMOQ Vinyl Remaster FLAC - justinmsmith19@hotmail.com 5GB one driv
Tech Notes  
The Rolling Stones 1973-01-18 LA “All Meat Music” TMOQ Vinyl Remaster FLAC

The Rolling Stones
The Forum
Inglewood, CA
January 18th, 1973
 
Contrast Clause: This version has a known lineage from the original vinyl and has been remastered.
 
The other version on the tracker is here:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=693510
It has a longer lineage with possible unknowns and has been remastered.
 
Sources:
1/ Original Vinyl Rip Lineage (written by Silkcut 1978):
"Technics SL-1210MK2 with Shure M97 x E (MM) - DENON PMA-710 - direct source, no equalizing - capture with CoolEdit Pro 2.0 - de-crackle with Soundforge 9.0 - normalizing, fade-in and fade-out, track-splitting again with CE Pro 2.0 - flac with flac-frontend on a VM-machine with Windows XP as flac isn't running under Windows 7 (at least not on my PC) - correction of SBE's with Trader's Little Helper (thanks again, tjkrol)"
 
2/ Lineage for this Remaster
Flac > Wav > Amadeus Pro > Wav > Flac Setlist:00. Introduction01. Brown Sugar02. Bitch03. Rocks Off04. Gimme Shelter05. Route 6606. It's All Over Now07. Happy08. Tumbling Dice09. No Expectations10. Sweet Virginia11. You Can't Always Get What You Want12. Dead Flowers13. Stray Cat Blues14. Live With Me15. All Down the Line16. Rip This Joint17. Jumping Jack Flash18. Street Fighting Man


LINE UP:
Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica
Keith Richards – guitar, backing vocals
Mick Taylor – guitar
Bill Wyman – bass guitar
Charlie Watts – drums
Nicky Hopkins – piano
Ian Stewart – piano
Bobby Keys – saxophones
Jim Price – trumpet, trombone
 
FLAC FINGERPRINTS
;flac fingerprints generated by xACT 2.50 on 2022-07-20 01:04:01 +0000
00 Intro.flac:cc61acb5ca3bcd8f942e40b5b9887f66
01 Brown Sugar.flac:569a03445757b353c3edb8d056433c02
02 Bitch.flac:e433c69e0eea114fff7ab2888f9c6dec
03 Rocks Off.flac:49055c0166679ed2641beec37244c460
04 Gimmee Shelter.flac:c793210036c6abf9f79d474fe8746974
05 Route 66.flac:77df67c1dc2b609f0bffbdbdfb5c8ef8
06 It's All Over Now.flac.flac:4bf1f78c0a9d567bb76ca5f8a057e9c9
07 Happy.flac:dd21948d98eee32d3f0c30f4078a6df4
08 Tumbling Dice.flac:51ee49fbfdd893b1b3c3dcbbf1ea5822
09 No Expectations.flac:29cf864f7de3034b9dc135ca5d6ef7b1
10 Sweet Virginia.flac:db17035436420f3f5828c3bc7640b690
11 You Can't Always Get What You Want.flac:307fcb4ad05cd09774faca93f1109d10
12 Dead Flowers.flac:209b2da60cbde62164f2495ffeba35ba
13 Stray Cat Blues.flac:5ab0bcd83ac5db2257380fab0636be10
14 Live With Me.flac:06dcc02b37004ea25ab0b9e2a4959eda
15 All Down The Line.flac:77ce68fe49339ab39318ebcbc4c8c5e2
16 Rip This Joint.flac:ced87311bdb80dd71a751d4ec83efa80
17 Jumping Jack Flash.flac:82ad3370537cc2ce421dbb40e0374d51
18 Street Fighting Man.flac:c49a3b1b93cc7315a1db064e418041b2
INFO ON ARTWORK: Included William Stout sleeve insert images from Silkcut’s original share – these appear to be the 3 vinyl  versions from the original vinyl releases
SOURCE: Silkcut 1978 Declicked TMOQ Vinyl
 
This concert was performed to benefit victims of earthquake that happened in Nicaragua on December 23, 1972.
 
This is one of the magical bootlegs that sparked my interest at the very beginning. I saw it in the used record bins at independent record stores (Scorpio Records on West 4th in Vancouver) and eventually picked up a copy. This was one of many releases by Trademark of Quality (TMOQ) that had intriguing insert artwork by William Stout, the art adding even more to the mystery of where this thing had come from.
 
Years later I read about the history of TMOQ and the path of how this and other boots came about. Some good background on the story here:
https://theamazingkornyfonelabel.wordpress.com/category/tmoq-orig-pig/
 
The story of how William Stout began doing artwork for TMOQ here:
https://wimwords.com/2018/02/02/from-the-stacks-rolling-stones-all-meat-music-and-a-william-stout-interview/
Plus a nice scan of the inner sleeve artwork.
 
This is one of my favorite Rolling Stones boots because of the set list and especially the version of Route 66. Ever since I heard this recording, I always hoped the original tape would appear in the same way that the “Liv’r Than You’ll Ever Be” (another TMOQ release) tapes did. I have read that the pressing plates and maybe the master tape for this gig were thrown into the Pacific Ocean in a moment of paranoia by the makers and that the only low gen sources of the show are the original vinyl pressings. I decided I should try to make a version that was more listenable for my own pleasure.
 
My vinyl copy has long disappeared. All CD boots come from the original TMOQ vinyl so that lineage is hazy, I looked for something with a known lineage and found Silkcut 78’s source through recommendations on the IORR message board.
 
This boot is a rabbit hole of discovery. Each of the four sides has its own dynamic range and surface noise issues from the original vinyl. Silkcut78 used a de-crackle process to clean up the audio to create a great archived TMOQ copy. For this project I wanted to try to remove as many of the surface noise issues, thumps, and clicks as possible. I joined the files into one giant track and set about de-noising with heavy handed voodoo and witchcraft to see how far this thing could be pushed. The next step was trying to make it sound closer and find as much of Mick’s voice as I could (He is just lost in the live mix on Brown Sugar and later at the end of the concert). Charlie and Bill were challenges also and still lost at some points due to the original source limitations. Keith’s guitar is present but also lost at times because as those familiar with the recording Mick Taylor’s guitar is very upfront most of the show and buries the band at moments. There may have been some real PA audio issue also as Mick calls out the sound crew at a point so maybe it’s not just where the taper was positioned, perhaps the audience could not hear him either.
 
Last was trying to master this moving target. I played this back through many different environments, car, living room, headphones at home, and earphones walking around. Each time I tried to tweak something more it sounded to heavy on the low end or too bright in the highs, so I have settled on this mix as the best all around version. You may need to adjust it either way for your system and feel free to do so – this is for listening pleasure.
 
So here we are 49 years, 6 months, 4 days later, a celebration of this amazing release.
 
Soundboard
July 2022
 
SPECIAL THANKS go out to Silkcut1978, Jaap, and Erik Snow for providing the vinyl transfer, and to the IORR community in general.
 
 
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