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3 - 4 March 1995: Place: Toshiba-EMI Studios, Tokyo,
Japan.
Producer: Don Was, The Glimmer Twins.
Recorded by: Ed Cherney. Mixed by: Bob Clearmountain.
Assisted by: Ryan Freeland. Mastered by: Stephen Marcussen.
Digitally edited by: Ron Boustead.
Engineer: Peter Brandt, Henk Van Helvoirt, Sander Nagel, Rene Suydendorp,
Ronnie Rivera, Masaaki Ugajih, Kazuaki Fujita.
Track status: UK CD LP STRIPPED: 13 November 1995: No 9 - 11 weeks
USA CD LP STRIPPED: 13 November 1995: No 9
Rolling Stones with Chuck Leavell.
After their concerts in South Africa the Stones
arrived to Tokyo and recorded tracks at the EMI studios for a new
album combining studio tracks and live performances. The idea from
the Toronto 'school' rehearsal was to show another side of the Stones.
There had been talk of them doing an Unplugged recording and this
was their way of achieving something similar stripped back to the
quick. The Spider And The Fly was a track that had only been released
in the UK as a b-side to Satisfaction and on a dodgy compilation
album. The song had not been played by them for 30 years. Mick Jagger
said that it was like a terrible Rolling Stones' game show where
you try and guess the lyrics. So, with acoustics strapped on, Charlie
Watts on the brushes, an unprecedented piano, they tackled the track
again. Mick changed the lyrics slightly to suit his preferred delivery
and the original 30-year-old girl with whom he had considered running
away became 50.
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