Some thoughts on the 'Exile' remaster:

The DVD won't be 'Ladies and Gentlemen...'. Too much money to be made as a stand-alone DVD release.
Most likely the DVD will be a 'making of' thingy with lots of talking heads and some snippets of live stuff from the STP tour (maybe a couple shots from 'Ladies and Gents'); lots of brief clips of Capote and Warhol and a few low- res shots from 'Cocksucker Blues'. Standard rock doc type stuff.

Not looking forward to M Taylor doing some new overdubs (any more than Jagger vocals), unless Jagger or Richards are physically present to direct him.

Here's hoping they'll add a cleaned up "Good Time Women" and they extended version of "loving Cup" with that great extended outtro (go Charlie!). "Traveling Man" and the like wouldn't really add much for me.

I can see some tracks from the lost '72 live album from the Spectrum in Philly (not the whole thing with the stuff from Texas, of course; that would make too much sense and make too many people happy- we can't have that).

Mr. Sex Drugs Rock n Roll wrote on Jan 27^th, 2010 at 10:20am:



Never said he was...!

when might this be released??

gotdablouse wrote on Jan 27^th, 2010 at 3:12pm:


I dont think its suggesting that the two Micks wrote a lot of songs together (which they didnt)

Clifford still does a lot of technical stuff with Jagger, especially when he's demoing. He's credited on A Bigger Bang.

'Separately' was a GHS track, so it comes from after 'Exile'.

There's very little known about what was recorded at Nellcote (as tends to be the case when recording in someone's home with a mobile recording unit as opposed to a 'regular' studio where you'd imagine studio logs would be a bit easier to track down). Barely half of Exile was recorded at those sessions (and even then, most of those songs werent finished until they went to LA and got various session musicians to add their parts), so you'd imagine that most of what was recorded for Exile but which ISN'T documented somewhere would come from Nellcote - and that as they recorded there on and off for about 3 months, there's a fair chance there would be a few more songs.

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=206595

A "coffee table" box set according to one poster on that forum, quoting the latest issue of 'Rolling Stone'...

More 'Exile' reissue gossip, from a post on IORR from 'TeddyB1018'



In lieu of official news, I have assembled the following from a pretty much unimpeachable source, though things can always change: 

In addition to the three Jagger has confirmed, "Following The River", "Plunder My Soul" and "Sophia Loren", look for the following to be on the new CD: "Scarlet" (Stones version, said to be amazing), "Loving Cup" (original version), "I Ain't Signifying" (aka Ain't Gonna Lie), "Aladdin Story" (with unbootlegged original Jagger vocal) and "Soul Survivor" (with original Keith vocal). They are looking to include at least some things that have not been bootlegged in these versions. 

Don't look for these to be on this reissue: "Potted Shrimp" and "Highway Child". At least one of these has been determined to come from the Goats Head Sessions ("Potted Shrimp" I believe).

If this reissue works out, there is talk of following up with Goats Head Soup and, specifically, Some Girls

A 70 Stones album in 2010? unreal!

Gazza wrote on Feb 18^th, 2010 at 7:12am:


I'm trying to keep myself from freaking out, while still hoping we get the 45 mix of all down the line... that has been booted... ugh!

Scarlet...that rings a few bells, from the top of my head it was supposedly recorded with Jimmy Page, I had Montreux 1975 in mind, not 74 or 76, but it certainly has never been bootlegged.

Strange that "Potted Shrimp" should have been determined to be from the GHS sessions, I suppose the fact that these three instrumentals (Aladin Story, Potted Shrimp, Dancing in the Light) all came out on one boot (Trident Demos ?) and said to have been recorded at Elektra in 1972 doesn't mean they were recorded at the same time.

gotdablouse wrote on Feb 18^th, 2010 at 9:01am:



Elektra, Hollywood late 1972 was what they were originally announced as when first bootlegged, but that wasnt the case. Not even sure they ever DID that session.

They're all on the 'Trident Mixes' tape which got leaked around that time. However, Aladdin Story and Potted Shrimp BOTH come from the same session in October 1970. Maybe Potted Shrimp got redone/finished for GHS and thats why it wasnt shortlisted? Very odd. Dancing in The Light comes from around 1970 as well.

Gazza wrote on Feb 18^th, 2010 at 9:26am:

You're right, I'd leant Elektra some credit since that's where they recorded/mixed Exile, but that was in November 1971 not November 1972.

I'd need to listen to them again but going by memory, I wonder if Potted Shrimp/Save Me don't have some similarities, hence the qualification as a GHS track.

But they why would they include Scarlet a song that Keith himself said was recorded with Jimmy Page at a later date. Incidentally I just found out that Scarlet is the name of Jimmy Page's daugter! There must some hard evidence for Nico to date the session precisely at 15/10/1974.

it's all good!