Riffhard wrote on May 25
th, 2012 at 12:40am:
My only question about El Macombo is that they have already offered up much of it on Love You Live. Would they offer it again in complete form? I hope you're right Gaza.
And yes, what is the best live Brian Jones' era Stones that has not seen the light of day? The only real official live release, GLIYWI, pretty much blows production wise. Did the recording technology that existed back then capture anything worth releasing today? It would be a sweet treat if they have some good material to offer, but I'm not certain that it exists.
Riffy
I dont see the existing LYL songs (which have been edited and overdubbed for the most part) being a problem.
After all, there are three songs on the recent Hampton 1981 release that were on 'Still Life' (Lets Spend the Night Together, Shattered, Time is on My Side)
The GLIYWI live ALBUM is a feeble excuse for a 'live album' (it even has two songs which are studio recordings and have audience noise overdubbed!), but the EP of the same name from the UK tour a year earlier is fantastic. IMO their best live release after Ya Yas prior to the Archive series starting.
There are very few circulating concerts from the era with Brian (1962-67) and, unbelievably, there's not a single US audience recording (the only US show that's in cirulation - Brian's last American performance ironically enough - is a show from Honolulu on 28.7.66 which was broadcast on the radio and which also partly circulates as a soundboard)
That show is probably releasable if it were cleaned up a bit . Paris Olympia 1965 too, a show which was professionally recorded. I doubt it would be possible to make it as high quality as the ones we've had so far, but I think most people wouldnt reasonably expect it to be.
Another problem is that Stones shows back then lasted 25-40 minutes. Any archive release would realistically need to include two of them at the very least.