Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 25
th, 2014 at 9:10pm:
Mr. Yeats wrote on Jul 24
th, 2014 at 10:12pm:
PA - Brian's guitar is clearly down-mixed from the master tapes. I'm assuming Glyn Johns was recording on an eight track console; Brian would surely be prominent in the mix, as the rhythm guitarist.
Apart from No Expectations, he's partly audible in Parachute Woman, otherwise his guitar has been mixed into the bass guitar frequencies. There was clearly an obvious decision to mix him low/out in '95. But why?
I humbly yield to you and Unclean's advisment...
No, no, mate! No humility or yielding about it! I'm just hypothesizing about stuff here, I truly can't feature why he was mixed out of the official release, cause he sounds pretty together when you can hear him. And I've not heard any rehearsal tapes, so that's why I'm asking you cats/chicks here.
Maybe Brian really did screw up some of those takes (JJ Flash, YCAGWYW); maybe the Stones Inc. were trying to pull one of those weird things of writing him out of the band's history (ala what they tried to do with Wyman for most of the '90s and later).
Yo Gazza - can you shed any light here mate?