THE ROLLING STONES - "Southern Quotations"
Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina
June 26, 1978

Source: No label

Sound Quality: Fair Audience

Lineage: CDR received in a trade -> flac via TLH -> You



01 Honky Tonk Women
02 Star Star
03 When The Whip Comes Down
04 Miss You
05 Lies
06 Beast Of Burden
07 Just My Imagination (fade out and cut)
08 Respectable
09 Far Away Eyes
10 Love In Vain
11 Shattered
12 Tumbling Dice
13 Happy
14 Sweet Little Sixteen
15 Brown Sugar
16 Jumping Jack Flash


According to collectorsmusicreviews.com:

"Southern Quotations" is an interesting Rolling Stones silver title.
It presents two tapes from the 1978 Some Girls tour taken from the deep south.

The first of the two, from Greensboro North Carolina, was released on the vinyl boot "Southern Quotations" (Smilin’ Ears SE 27722).
This is the first time this show has appeared on silver pressed CD.
The master cassette is lost so the manufacturers transferred it from a pristine vinyl copy with no hint of its origin.
The sound quality is fair since it is distant from the stage and contains noticeable distortion in louder passages.
The sound quality improves a bit with “Shattered” to the end.
It is listenable and, once one gets past the limitations, can be appreciated.
The first two songs of the show, ”Let It Rock” and “All Down The Line,” are missing and “Just My Imagination” fades out in the end.

Some argue that Greensboro is the worst show on a generally mediocre tour.
While there could be some merit to the argument, listening to this tape doesn’t really support that.
It is a briskly paced show with very little interaction from Jagger and the audience.
The opening five songs on the first disc go by very quick, slowing down for a languid “Beast Of Burden” (which Jagger pronounces ”beast of buuuuuuuuuuuuurden.”)

“It’s great to be back in the south” Jagger says before “Far Away Eyes.”
“It gives us an excuse to do a country number.”
His intonation suggests extreme sarcasm as he sings the song.
On “Love In Vain” Wood plays the solo with a heavy vibrato.

“Shattered” was the most popular song from the album in Greensboro judging by the amount of requests made within earshot of the recorder, and they react loudly when it comes up in the set.
The show ends with the double shot of “Brown Sugar” and “Jumping Jack Flash” which is most common for this tour.

"Southern Quotations" duplicates the old Smilin’ Ears artwork on the front.
The back of the LP is reproduced on the flip side of the front cover.
Overall this is a nice production with very rare material and is recommended.


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Ozzy64 - Janvier 2012.