The quivering apex before the Fall. They were never this good again.

Happy Free Download Friday, my dear people of Youdopia. I haven’t had anything ready (ripped, tagged, converted to mp3, zipped, and uploaded) for a couple of weeks, so I let you starve. That’s how I am. The grey skies are gonna clear up, so put on a happy face. I have a great show for you.

This is a new release, from the 1st gen safety tapes, of the Rolling Stones in Honolulu on 1/21/73.  This is one of their best tours, from the glory days with Mick Taylor. The notes for the show say:

Notes:
JEMS is proud to be able to partner with and present some of the choice recordings in the D & D archives. Some of these recordings have been around for years but none of the master tapes or safety copies in some cases have ever been digitized until now. Dave and Donn taped many shows in and around the Seattle area in the 70′s and also were contemporaries of some of the JEMS members. Volume 10 consists of The Rolling Stones opening night show of their 73 Pacific tour. This is one of Donn’s better recordings. This would be the first time The Stones had played Hawaii since 1966. This show features the only perfomance of Live With Me on this and the subsequent European tour and is also the last time this song would ever be performed with Mick Taylor. All 3 Honolulu shows featured the rarely played for this period songs of It’s All Over Now and Dead Flowers. The performance is sharper and looser than the previous U.S. tour shows in 72. This one is a must have for the casual and hardcore Stones fan.

It’s awesome. It’s free. It’s live music for you. This is to commemorate the release of Keith Richards’ autobiography, which is waiting for me to pick up, at the post office. Yay! Enjoy.It is the Coolest Thing Ever.

The set list is posted after the break:

The show is available here: http://www.mediafire.com/?o5q15cyov6555sd
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Date: 1973-01-21
Location: Honolulu, HI
Venue: HIC Arena
Source: audience
Lineage: 1st gen cassette>Wav(96/24)>Wav(44.1/16)>flac >wav>LAME VBR .mp3
Transfer: 1st gen cassette>Nakamichi 670>Wavelab 96/24
Taping Gear: unknown stereo mics>Sony TC-126
Taped By: D & D
Transferred By: JEMS

D & D Archives Master Series Volume 10

Band Members:
Mick Jagger- vocals, harmonica
Keith Richards – guitar, vocals
Mick Taylor – guitar
Bill Wyman – bass
Charlie Watts – drums
Nicky Hopkins – piano, organ
Bobby Keyes – saxophones
Jim Price – trumpet, trombone

Setlist:
01. Brown Sugar
02. Bitch
03. Rocks Off
04. Gimmie Shelter
05. It’s All Over Now
06. Happy
07. Tumbling Dice
08. Sweet Virgina
09. Dead Flowers
10. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
11. All Down The Line
12. Midnight Rambler
13. Live With Me
14. Rip This Joint
15. Jumping Jack Flash
16. Street Fighting Man

Length: 79:19

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Howdy youdopia. My friend Gus, who goes by August, now that he’s in the September of his years, says Youdopia hasn’t been updated since January. He is, of course, lying because I told him cold fusion doesn’t work. Anyhoo, this last month has been … how do you say… shitty and amazing.  So I blog Led Zeppelin. One of the reasons I love Zeppelin so much, and Jimmy Page in particular, is that they would cover almost any song. I never, ever, in my wildest dreams, would expect the boys to launch into Ray Charles’ Georgia On My Mind, but they did. And it’s good. Jimmy Page is absent, which leads me to believe that this was an off the cuff vamp while Jimmy changed a string.  Listen to the soul in John Paul Jones’  Fender Rhodes.  That’s a band, ladies and gentlemen, and I think it’s the Coolest Shit Ever. God, I love music.