The Rolling Stones are really digging deep into the archives with their latest “From the Vault” release, “From the Marquee Club in 1971,” that
hits the streets June 23. The show, filmed for American television, is
relatively short for a Stones show. It runs only an hour.
Coming a month before the release of the “Sticky Fingers” album, it does include four live versions of its tracks. That includes a rare live version of “I Got the Blues.” It also includes a cover of a song the Stones performed rarely, “Let It Rock.”
The show itself features only eight tracks. Bonus tracks of four outtakes of two of the songs from the set, “I Got the Blues,” and “Bitch,” are also included. The DVD also includes a video of “Brown Sugar” from a 1971 “Top of the Pops” show.
One of the great things about this is that it's with Mick Taylor and from a period when the Stones were at their best. The group's performance, however, looks ragged and tired, which is not all that surprising since they'd just finished their 1971 farewell tour of the UK.
The picture on the SD-Blu Ray looks very good. The set is being released in SD-Blu Ray and CD, DVD and vinyl, and DVD and CD configurations. (A Japanese release adds a CD of “The Brussels Affair”.) But this show really should have been a bonus to a bigger release with a full Mick Taylor show and not left to stand on its own. "Live at the Marquee in 1971" is not a terrible show, but it deserves a better treatment than to be stuck out there all by itself.
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Coming a month before the release of the “Sticky Fingers” album, it does include four live versions of its tracks. That includes a rare live version of “I Got the Blues.” It also includes a cover of a song the Stones performed rarely, “Let It Rock.”
The show itself features only eight tracks. Bonus tracks of four outtakes of two of the songs from the set, “I Got the Blues,” and “Bitch,” are also included. The DVD also includes a video of “Brown Sugar” from a 1971 “Top of the Pops” show.
One of the great things about this is that it's with Mick Taylor and from a period when the Stones were at their best. The group's performance, however, looks ragged and tired, which is not all that surprising since they'd just finished their 1971 farewell tour of the UK.
The picture on the SD-Blu Ray looks very good. The set is being released in SD-Blu Ray and CD, DVD and vinyl, and DVD and CD configurations. (A Japanese release adds a CD of “The Brussels Affair”.) But this show really should have been a bonus to a bigger release with a full Mick Taylor show and not left to stand on its own. "Live at the Marquee in 1971" is not a terrible show, but it deserves a better treatment than to be stuck out there all by itself.
http://www.examiner.com
