Live in the Shadow, See Through the Shadow

This is a must hear for even a casual Stones fan, and for all the bootlegs I have from this band, it's probably the most essential. The background to this set comes from the accompanying nfo file: Necrophilia- How this title was even granted a catalog number - AB4224 - is a mystery. However the never-released album from 1971-1972, the planned follow-up to Hot Rocks was pressed on a few acetates, some of which were sold, and....surfaced on bootleg CD after a while. Much like the legendary unreleased 1966 Stones LP Could You Walk On Water?, this set was to have featured 15 previously-unreleased tracks including alternate takes or different mixes of "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby" "Heart of Stone", "Out of Time" and "Pay Your Dues" - the original version of "Street Fighting Man". Apparently Andrew Loog Oldham and Allen Klein had a major disagreement on the track selection - more specifically on the extremely vulgar "Andrew's Blues". It would have been unprecedented at the time for such a song to be released to the public, but not as far-fetched an idea by the 1980's if you consider that "Lonesome Schoolboy Blues" [aka: Cocksucker Blues] was included for a limited time in an official 1984 German albums boxed set. This title would be replaced by the friendlier More Hot Rocks but fans fear not, as nine of these selections later appeared in the 1975 LP Metamorphosis. Not surprisingly, "Andrew's Blues" has since become a popular bootleg track. As on that latter bootleg, several of the songs features Jagger, Richards and studio musicians, and not the other Stones members. Quality is perfect and artwork is included. I personally loved "Have You Seen Your Mother" which I understand hasn't been played live by the band since 1966 (?!) yet I recall from a 90s doc on the Stones that it's one of Mick's favourite Stones songs. Download this immediately particularly if you haven't heard Metamorphosis.

01 Out OF Time

02 Don't Lie To Me

03 Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow

04 Think

05 Hear It

06 Something Just Stuck In Your Mind

07 Aftermath

08 I'd Rather Be With THe Boys

09 Andrew's Blues

10 Pay Your Dues

11 Let the Good Times Roll

12 Heart of Stone

13 Each & Every Day of the Year

14 (Walkin' THru The) Sleepy City

15 Try a Little Harder

16 Blue Turns to Grey

17 We're Wasting Time

It Ain't What You Do (It's How You Do It!)

"This..this is one of those groups who are going to keep it going a long, long time, they've got a great sound, the J. Geils Band!" so it is proclaimed by Bill Graham himself to begins this fantastic show from the Fillmore East in 1971. I found a blurb about this particular show from Wolfgang's Vault: "Going onstage after Mountain and before the Allman Brothers was certainly no easy task, but this set finds the J. Geils Band more than capable of rising to the occasion. According to Graham's autobiography, this group was among his favorites ever presented at the Fillmore East, and this set captures them performing with a ferocity few bands could match." Covering songs from their excellent debut album The J. Geils Band and their even better follow up The Morning After they kick the show off with a raucaus 'New York City Breakdown'and and keep up a pace that can only be described with a a few more f-adjectives, 'frentic' and 'furious' and finally culminating with an absolutely fucking killer version of my favourite song of theirs "It Ain't What you Do (It's How You Do It!). Highly recommended this be played at a near ear-splitting volume.