A full album's worth of El Mocambo recordings circulated as a bootleg for years, but the overdue 2022 official release contains the entirety of the second night's show along with three bonus tracks from the first night, amounting to a whopping 23 tracks. Such an exhaustive portrait is welcome as Live at the El Mocambo does represent a bit of an odd moment for the Stones: it captures them caught between the over-sized jam session Black and Blue and the audacious revitalization of Some Girls, a period where Ron Wood was just getting his sea legs. Wood encouraged the group to play a bunch of blues standards and they agreed, balancing these chestnuts with some of their own oldies ("Let's Spend the Night Together," "Brown Sugar," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Honky Tonk Women"), a good chunk of Black and Blue and It's Only Rock N Roll, plus "Worried About You," a ballad that sat on the shelf until Tattoo You. This means Live at the El Mocambo presents the Stones as something between a hard-working club band and conquering heroes hawking their latest ware the set list is very much of its time, lacking such warhorses as "Satisfaction" and "Street Fighting Man," and it's better for it. The Stones often sound as if they're enjoying hunkering down on a smaller stage, giving enthusiastic performances that avoid sloppiness. It adds up to a gas, a record that belongs alongside Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! and Brussels Affair as among the best official live Stones albums.The new album includes the entirety of the latter show and three additional songs from the opening night, for a 23-song track list. It includes songs that have not appeared on previous “soundboard” bootlegs, many of which topped out at 14 numbers. The tracks have been freshly mixed for this release by Bob Clearmountain. Several of the songs were from the then-new “Black and Blue” album, and one, “Worried About You,” would not be released until the Stones pulled together their odds-and-ends album “Tattoo You” four years in the future, in 1981. But of greatest interest is the generous inclusion of covers, mostly from the blues realm, including “Little Red Rooster,” “Mannish Boy,” “Worried Life Blues” and “Route 66.” Others include classics from their long history. In his book “Rolling With the Stones,” Bill Wyman wrote, “Musically, our opening night at the El Mocambo was not good… The second night went very much better and we had a good time.” The makeup of the new album, taken primarily from night 2, reflects that believe that it took a warmup night for the group to tighten up. The shows got plenty of media attention at the time, as Margaret Trudeau, the estranged wife of Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Trudeau, accompanied Mick Jagger to the gigs, somewhat scandalously. The four-LP vinyl version of “El Mocambo” will come in two variants, black and a “neon” version with the discs in different hues.ġ. Honky Tonk Women (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)Ģ. All Down The Line (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ģ. Hand Of Fate (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)Ĥ. Fool To Cry (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)Ħ. Crazy Mama (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ħ. Mannish Boy (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)Ĩ. Crackin’ Up (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ĩ. Dance Little Sister (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ0. Around And Around (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ1. Tumbling Dice (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ2. Hot Stuff (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ3. Star Star (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ4. Let’s Spend The Night Together (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ5. Worried Life Blues (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ6. Little Red Rooster (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ7. It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It) (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ8. Rip This Joint (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)ġ9. Early in March 1977, the Rolling Stones played a pair of surprise shows at the El Mocambo, a 300-seat club in Toronto. Brown Sugar (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)Ģ0. The purpose of the gigs, the only concerts they played in 1977, was to generate source material for a live album that turned out to be Love You Live. Only four tracks from the El Mocambo performances. Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Live at the El Mocambo 1977)Ģ3.
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