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 11
10thDecember 1988
-CHICAGO-
Aragon Ballroom

10th December 1988: KEITH RICHARDS. Chicago, Illinois, Aragon Ballroom
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
09 - Time Is On My Side

CD2:
01 - Big Enough
02 - Whip It Up
03 - LockedAway
04 - Little T&A
05 - Struggle
06 - Happy
07 - audience (encore break)
08 - Connection
09 - band introduction/Rockawhile
10 - It Means A Lot

Our versions were identical, mine is called ‘Talk Is Cheap Chicago’
This recording is the worst from the series: the sound in the first tracks of cd n°2 is terrible (sounds like it was recorded in an aquarium).
I equilibrated the channels (+40% or +50% for the right channel) and I phased them.
There were the same digital problems on all versions, fortunately punctual and easy to correct.
I deleted digital gapsin:
- ‘Take It So Hard’ at 1’27, 2’21 and 3’15
- ‘Big Enough’ at 2’22 and 3’16
I deleted digital noises in:
- ‘Before They Make Me Run’ at 3’21
- ‘You Don’t Move Me’ at 0’42, 1’14 and 3’02
- ‘Make No Mistake’ at 1’45, 1’48, 1’49, 1’51, 2’03, 4’36, 6’01, 6’03, 6’04 and 6’17
- ‘Time Is On My Side’ at 0’08, 0’27, 0’43, 0’45, 3’51, 4’11, 4’12, 4’13 and 4’19
- ‘Happy’ at 5’33, 5’37 and 5’39
I reworked the transitions between the tracks that now start with the song.
Note a fade out at the end of ‘Time Is On My Side’ and ‘It Means A Lot’ - some seconds are lost.

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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