Rolling Stones - 1972-06-03 Vancouver v2

Rolling Stones 1972-06-03 Vancouver v2 0:00 Introduction 0:20 Brown Sugar 4:16 Rocks Off 9:03 Gimme Shelter 14:12 Bitch 19:52 Tumbling Dice 23:53 Happy 26:48 Honky Tonk Women 29:55 Loving Cup 36:40 Torn And Frayed 41:36 Sweet Virginia 47:38 You Can't Always Get What You Want 54:11 Ventilator Blues 57:40 Midnight Rambler 1:08:46 All Down The Line 1:13:25 Bye Bye Johnny 1:16:40 Rip This Joint 1:19:35 Jumpin' Jack Flash 1:23:10 Street Fighting Man This is the second of 3 versions of this show. #1 being the most complete and natural sounding of the 3. #2 is compressed a bit, making it louder. #3 is very compressed, loud and exciting but a little much for those who prefer a more natural sound. The photos for all songs through Sweet Virginia are from this show and are mostly by the brilliant Ken Regan. Not 100% sure about the photo for Sweet Virginia, but it matches a description of one of Jagger's antics during this show, according to one review. The notes have been edited and things added for this version. As you may be aware, this was the first show of the 1972 tour and was used by the band to try out which songs, played in what order, worked best. As such, it has a number of interesting features. Honky Tonk Women, Torn And Frayed and Ventilator Blues got the axe after this night. Loving Cup was deleted a couple of shows later as well. This is the only version of Sweet Virginia played on electric guitars, rather than acoustic, from the tour, I believe. Keith doesn't play his usual Chuck Berry licks on Bye Bye Johnny, except in the intro. Mick Taylor takes over and does the solos and fills. I've been wondering if this is when one of Keith's guitars "blew" (two "blew" according to Rolling Stone magazine) and Mick was forced to take over just like he did on JJF at the first Oakland 69 show. One very, very interesting thing about this show is that it's the only show from 69 or later (that I know of) where Keith is where MT used to be on stage, between Charlie and Bobby Keys. They changed back to the old setup for the rest of the tour. Looking at Keith's amp setup, could be he's hooked up to as many as 3 of those monster Ampeg amplifiers. Perhaps his guitars couldn't handle the juice. He'd brought a whole smorgasbord of them to try on this first show, as a backstage photo from Regan attests (a detail from it is in this video in the run-out after the show). There's even a Fender Mustang 6-string which he seems to be playing in a couple of photos from the beginning of the show (the pics are blurry, but I think it is the Mustang), only time I know of he's ever tried one of those onstage. When Keith starts Gimme Shelter, he gets a very plucky, rather brittle sound out of a Strat (maybe it's the Mustang?), seems like, to my ears. Don't recall any other 72 versions of GS with this sound. He'd switched to a Les Paul for GS by the time they shot the LAGTRS movie in Texas. Unfortunately, there was more than a little irony when Jagger sang, "Onstage the band has got problems, a bag of nerves on first nights," in Torn And Frayed. By the time they'd got to that number, Jagger had already messed up Rocks Off. Then an extended solo from Keith in Bitch leads to a near breakdown that they manage to disguise as a jam (thanks to Charlie, who doesn't stop) until Jagger leads them back into the song. Keith goes badly out of tune on Loving Cup, and there is confusion about when to go into the last verse of Torn And Frayed itself. After that was the false start from Keith on YCAGWYW. The ending of Ventilator Blues is confused. Then Keith goes out of tune during MR and Mick Taylor is pretty much forced to drop out as much as possible to avoid the contrast between his properly tuned guitar and Keith's. It was usually Keith's treble strings which would go out of tune, so he'd play as much as possible on the lower strings, his strategy here. K out of tune again in ADTL. And the ending of Rip This Joint is confused as well. Most of Keith's tuning problems were the result of changing guitars to duplicate the sounds on the records and his use of a capo on some tunes. The Regan photo indicates that the capos had already been placed on some of them, as Keith obviously seems to have had them in mind for certain songs. Capos make tuning a real pain in a live setting. You're trying not to play too loudly while you're trying to tune onstage, but when you start the song and hit the strings with full force at playing volume, they go out of tune. That can happen even without a capo, but they make it so much worse. Some might ask, "They were carrying a guitar roadie on this tour. Couldn't he have done more?" Well, I imagine all the guitars were tuned before being hauled onstage, where a temperature difference of as much as 15 to 20 degrees (or more as the show goes on) makes them all start going flat immediately. Notes continued in comments section.