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Review: Expanded version of Rolling Stones' 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out' is a gas, gas, gas-s-s
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The layout of the expanded "Ger Yer Ya-Ya's Out." (ABKCO Records.)
"We're sorry for the delay. Is everybody ready?"
There was always an inner excitement as Sam Cutler's voice was heard at the beginning of the original release of the Rolling Stones' "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert."
"The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World. The Rolling Stones. THE ROLLING STONES!"
The record, taped live at Madison Square Garden in 1969, showed the Stones at their peak. Now, ABKCO Records has done those of us who always hated to hear this record end a huge favor and reissued the disc for its 40th anniversary in a four-disc (three CDs/one DVD) expanded edition that's out Nov. 3. (See a preview and a tracklist here.)
The new set includes a wealth of unreleased material, beginning with the Stones themselves. One of the three CDs and the DVD feature the same five Stones tracks: "Prodigal Son," "You Gotta Move," "Under My Thumb"/"I'm Free" (listed separately, though they run together) and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."
The DVD is actually a new Maysles Brothers film called "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" that features the songs and also includes more of the footage of the cover shoot with Charlie Watts from the beginning of the film "Gimme Shelter." "Prodigal Son" is not completely unreleased. It was included in a longer rough cut version in the outtakes on the Criterion Collection DVD release of "Gimme Shelter". (Criterion is releasing a Blu-ray version in December.) Here, it's edited and missing the dropouts from that earlier version.
Also included is a CD with roughly 20-minute sets from B.B. King and Ike and Tina Turner, who supported the Stones on the Madison Square Garden show. The contrast between the two shows is amazing. B.B. King's is polished, but has the guitar power that he was famous for. However, the audience response from the line "I gave you seven children and now you want to give them back" in "How Blue Can You Get" is nothing like what we heard when we saw King do the song in Oakland, Ca., in the '70s. The audience was screaming that night.
While the somewhat sedate B.B. King sounds great on the CD, the Ike and Tina Turner set cries out for video footage. Ike and Tina pulled out the stops at every show, even this short one. Nowhere is that more noticeable than on their cover of Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You Too Long." It includes an incredibly erotic (for the day) vocal exchange, though nothing close to the version included on the live CD "What You Hear Is What You Get," which is much more explicit. Tina also does a nice version of the Beatles' "Come Together."
The set also includes a 56 page hardcover book that includes vintage printed recollections of the Stones, including pictures by photographer Ethan Russell, a mini-reproduction of the original concert poster and Lester Bangs' original (and incredibly overanalytical) review of the album from Rolling Stone. Somebody please tell Lester that it's only rock 'n' roll. (A deluxe edition with three LPs, three CDs and a DVD, will feature a larger size book and poster and signatures of the Stones embedded in the LPs.)
If there's one thing we would have wished for here, it's that the Stones' live set had been issued in complete form in its original running order. Maybe that can still happen. We hope so.
"Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" has always been one of the best live rock albums ever. This expanded edition makes the best that much better.
Further reading:
- Vintage Rock 'n' Roll Examiner: Rolling Stones' 'Get Your Yas-Yas Out' to be reissued in expanded versions with unreleased tracks
- Hollywood Concerts Examiner: November will mark historical Rolling Stones 40th anniversary for concerts and album releases
- Hollywood Concerts Examiner: 40th anniversary edition of Rolling Stones 'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out' will coincide with L.A. Forum shows
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