2006-10-04 08:40:25 · 1 answers · asked by dewlover 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Got Live If You Want It! is the first live album by The Rolling Stones and was released in late 1966. Compiled as a result of a contractural obligation with US distributor London Records to deliver a new album, the band themselves were not happy with it and consequently disowned it, feeling 1970's 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' The Rolling Stones in Concert to be their true live album debut. The title of the album itself refers to their 1965 UK-only live EP release got LIVE if you want it!.
The performances captured for this album reportedly occurred in early October 1966 in Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol while on their last UK tour for three years (despite the album's assertion that the recording hailed from the Royal Albert Hall). However, "I'm Alright" contains the same instrumental backing track as the version on the got LIVE if you want it! EP, released over a year earlier, which calls into question the actual sources of the recordings. While the band indeed went into the studio later that month to correct audio imperfections, Got Live If You Want It! was deemed a lacklustre and ragged live document upon release - and still is. Furthermore, to fill out the album, both "Fortune Teller" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long" were unissued studio recordings treated with audience screams.
Issued in November - only in the US - as the group were nearing the end of Between the Buttons' sessions, Got Live If You Want It! reached #6 in the US in early 1967 and went gold.
In August 2002 Got Live If You Want It! was reissued in a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records.
2006-10-04 08:47:35 · answer #1 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋