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.
14thDecember 1988
- LOS ANGELES -
Universal Amphitheatre

14th December 1988: KEITH RICHARDS. Los Angeles, Universal Amphitheatre
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)

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For this show we had 6 versions coming from 2 different recordings.
Source #1 is coming from nzb and from a rip of the master cassette (see the doc file). The sound is good and it’s almost complete.
Source #2: In this version some non-musical passages between the songs have been shortened. The more complete version is coming from nzb. Partial versions from the same source can be found on Swingin’ Pig Records (that release misses the last 3 tracks) and on my version that misses ‘Take It So Hard’, ‘Before They Make Me Run’, ‘Big Enough’ and ‘Whip It Up’.This version has the better sound (but the tapers' neighbors are very present) and runs 1,75% too quick.

I decided to do 2 versions for this show.
Volume 13a: complete show with source #1 patched
Volume 13b: with the better sounding source #2 reworked









Volume 13a
(source #1, complete show)

CD1:
01 - intro
02 - Take It So Hard
03 - How I Wish [re-started]
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- Big Enough
02 - Whip It Up
03- Locked Away
04 - Little T & A
05 - Struggle
06 - Happy
07 - audience (encore break)
08 - Connection
09 - band introduction/Rockawhile
10 - It Means A Lot (patched)
11 - outro

Source #1: The sound is good with some channel fluctuations in particular on ‘Take Is So Hard’. The left channel was amplified by 10%to 20% and the phase adjusted.
Note that1’37 seconds are lost in the start of ‘It Means A Lot’ and got patched with the second source.

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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