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 09
07thDecember 1988
- CLEVELAND -
Music Hall

7th December 1988: KEITH RICHARDS. Cleveland, Ohio, Music Hall
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)/SteveJordan (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 - Take It So Hard
02 - How I Wish
03- I Could Have Stood You Up
04 - Before They Make Me Run
05 - Too Rude
06 - I Wanna Be Your Man
07 - You Don’t Move Me
08 - Make No Mistake

CD2:
01 - Time Is On My Side (fadedin)
02 - Big Enough
03 - Whip It Up
04 - LockedAway
05-Little T&A
06 - Struggle
07-Happy
08-Connection
09 - band introduction/Rockawhile
10-It Means A Lot

Our versions were identical, mine is called ‘Cleveland 1988’ (Barbaric Sound Experience) and both missed the biggest part of ‘Time Is On My Side’ (maybe due to a tape flip?) and were running too fast.
Another problem on this recording were several fluctuations of the recording intensity. I tried to equilibrate the sound and upgrade them by doing my best.
At the end of ‘How I Wish’ and at the end of the showI reduced the intensity of the sound during the tapers shoutings in order amplify the rest a little better.
Thanks to Jaap,who sent me the video from the show, I found a more complete version for ‘Time Is On My Side’ (1’30 min.longer) … it's still uncomplete but now less than 1 minute is missing.
The video called ‘Cleveland 1988’ (Collector’s Edition) was also interesting for finding the correct speed for the audio recording. It had to be decelerated by -4, 3%!
Note a fade in/out after ‘Happy’ (encore break).

I deleted microgaps between the tracks and I reworked the transitions between the tracks that now start with the song.

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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