KEITH RICHARDS
and The X-Pensive Winos
The 1988 US shows
24th November – 17th December 1988

This is a series dedicated to Keith Richards’ shows with The X-pensive Winos in the US in 1988.
A big thank you to all the people who recorded these shows and who shared them and to my two accomplices nzb and Jaap (Stonesmuziekfan) who gave me the benefit of their versions of these shows and their advice and support ... and therefore without whom this project would not have been possible.
Volume 05
01st December 1988
- PHILADELPHIA -
Tower Theatre

1st December 1988: KEITH RICHARDS. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tower Theatre
Line-up: KR (gtr, voc)/Waddy Wachtel (gtr, bvoc)/Ivan Neville (keyb, bvoc, guitar on Happy, bass on I Could Have Stood You Up)/Charley Drayton (bass, bvoc, dr on Take It So Hard)/Steve Jordan (dr, bvoc, bass on Take It So Hard)/Bobby Keys (sax)/Sarah Dash (bvoc, lvoc on Time Is On My Side and partly on Make No Mistake, perc)


CD1:
01 - Intro
02 - Take It So Hard
03 - How I Wish
04 - I Could Have Stood You Up
05 - Before They Make Me Run
06 - Too Rude
07 - I Wanna Be Your Man
08 - You Don’t Move Me
09 - Make No Mistake
10 - Time Is On My Side

CD2:
01 - Whip It Up (fade in)
02 - Locked Away
03 - Band introduction
04 - Little T&A
05 - Struggle
06 - Happy
07 - Connection
08 - Rockawhile
09 - It Means A Lot

Our versions were identical. Mine is called ‘We Are Here To Rockawhile Philly’ (Rockin’ Rott).
The intro and 14 first seconds of ‘Take It So Hard’ are reworked from a very bad quality segment: sound was very low and almost only on the right channel. I duplicated this channel and amplified the sound: now it’s clearer but with a rumble… it’s better than nothing!
In the first tracks, the right channel had to be re-equilibrated by adding +10% … until the middle of ‘Too Rude’. In this song, at 3’48, the right channel started to be very low and had to be amplified by +60%! I rebuild the track and the result is not too bad.
I did the same for the other tracks from the cd n°1 (+60% to the right channel) and ‘only’ +40% was necessary for the right channel on the cd n°2.
I deleted microgaps between the tracks and a dozen of digital noises.
So apart from the beginning IMHO the rest is very good now!
Notes:
- the first seconds of ‘Whip It Up’ are lost
- a fade in/out between ‘Happy’ and ‘Connection’ (encore break)

As usual all the infos are taken from The Rolling Stones Complete Works Database by Nico Zentgraf: http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/works1.htm

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