'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!': The Rolling Stones In Concert

A great live album - everyone should have a copy.

Best 2 tracks, Midnight Rambler and Sympathy for the devil, just my opinion.Nice condition.

November 27th/28th, 1969. The Rolling Stones take to the stage at New York's Madison Square Garden and blow the house down with a set that drew heavily from their most recent albums, BEGGARS BANQUET and LET IT BLEED. The tapes from the shows produced certainly one of the greatest live albums ever made and, with this release, it just got even better.The sets by B.B. King and Ike and Tina Turner got the evenings' entertainment off to great start. To me, B.B. King sounds on great form, while hearing Tina Turner sing the likes of 'Son Of A Preacher Man' and The Beatles' 'Come Together' is a real treat indeed. As for the Stones themselves, well, 'Midnight Rambler' is awesome and arguably the highlight of the original album, perhaps followed closely by a really funky 'Sympathy For The Devil'. Of the outtakes contained on disc two, I particularly enjoyed Mick and Keith doing the acoustic 'Prodigal Son' justice with a really punchy performance.The DVD is composed of unused footage from the movie GIMME SHELTER but this is far from disposable; the rendition of 'Prodigal Son' captured here is lovely as Keith finishes the song too early which prompts a reaction of surprise from Mick! It's a lovely moment as the two share a giggle in recognition of the mistake.Finally, the hardback book contained in the box is a nice souvenir, containing personal recollections from, among others, the photographer Ethan Russell, a reproduction of the unused sleeve design for GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! and a typically florid contemporary review of the LP from that late, great music critic Lester Bangs.All in all, this a lovely time capsule of The Rolling Stones at a performing peak and, if you start by playing the support sets by B.B King and Tina Turner on disc three first, it's the closest you'll ever get to accurately re-living two nights of great music at the end of the 1960s.

Many would claim that with the end of the '60s the Beatles imploded and their "rivals" the Rolling Stones were already passed their best. But while 1970 saw Paul McCartney apply to dissolve the Beatles legal partnership, the Rolling Stones were still a work-in-progress and on an upward trajectory boosted by new boy Mick Taylor. Their commonly acknowledged best two albums "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main Street" were still ahead of them; and on the evidence of "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out" their live sound, not yet the highly polished rock 'n' roll show that it would become in the '70s with an increasing cast of backing vocalists and additional musicians was still raw and raucous (the only help the five Stones get here coming from the occasional piano of road manager and original Stone Ian Stewart).Recorded on their 1969 American tour "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out" opens, a bit chaotically, before the Stones launch a rocking run-through of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" followed by a rolling cover of Chuck Berry's "Carol", the first of two Berry numbers. Things then slow down, initially with Beggars Banquet's "Stray Cat Blues" before slowing further with a dark bluesy run through of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain", a track that will appear on the then soon to be released "Let It Bleed" album. The original side one then closed with an extended nine-minute chugging and wailing Dartford Delta Blues jam of "Midnight Rambler", another that will appear on "Let It Bleed" albeit in a shorter tighter form.Side two opened with a superb near seven minute rocking "Sympathy for the Devil" with an extended middle eight which has the guitars of Richards and Taylor cutting loose with extended solos [but I can't tell who played which guitar!], absolutely brilliant. "Live with Me", another that will be found on "Let It Bleed" follows, never a single and coming from a then as yet unreleased album it was perhaps a bit of a left-field choice but it's a crowd pleasing rocker. Driven by Ian Stewart's barrel-rolling and rocking piano Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" keeps the tempo up, it's more Chuck Berry than the real thing [okay I know that'll upset the Berry purists]. Recent chart-topping single "Honky Tonk Women" follows, but without its cowbell introduction it wrong-foots the audience as the guitar riff kicks it off. The album closes with a hard rocking delivery of frequent current (Stones Sixty Europe 2022 Tour) live set opener "Street Fighting Man" and what a great way to finish.,And that's it. Only ten songs and the selection is perhaps with the exception of the Chuck Berry numbers a bit predictable although stalwarts "Paint It Black" and "Satisfaction" are missing. I'll be honest and admit that I am not generally a fan of live albums, I've written about why elsewhere, but while the sound is disappointingly a bit muddied (less one star) albeit less so with the bass boost turned-off the harder-rocking, bluesier and looser reinterpretations of some of these songs, particularly "Sympathy for the Devil", "Love in Vain" and "Midnight Rambler", make this an interesting listen and a must have for hard-core Stones fans even if in 1969 they were still a (live) work-in-progress.

I did not used to be such a fan of live albums. I guess because when I grew up I could never afford to buy many LPs so those that I and my friends had were played over and over and so I got accustomed to the studio version as a fixed thing. Only after I broadened my collection and got more heavily into jazz and other more improvised music did I become happy with live albums.I did like the Stone on film, Gimme Shelter and other live performances but there was something about live albums that took me some time to come around to and I find the recent DVD of Shine a Light much more satisfying than the CD soundtrack album.Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! is a true masterpiece, although I have often worried about the apostrophe.I first bought my own copy of this album on the original so called remastered CD which is okay but the packaging is ugly with the horrible black strip at the foot with the red writing and the sound quality is okay, much better than the first post Decca Stones CDs.This new version sounds great and the bonus track by the Stones are a real treat.It is also great to hear the B.B.King and Ike an Tina Turner songs which demonstrate the context of this period of the band's career well. The Stones would not have had a career without the inspiration and music of these artists and their peers.The DVD footage is the icing on an already rich cake. If you have fond memories of the Stones from your youth or just want to see the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World at a time when that title was universally acknowledged then this is the package to get and you should get it while you can.

Very good live show cd