Rolling Stones - I Only Get My Rocks Off While I'm Dreaming

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Rolling Stones I Only Get My Rocks Off While I’m Dreaming Recording Exile On Main St. Pt2 0:00 Rocks Off (Instrumental version) 4:12 Rip This Joint (Instrumental version with bottleneck guitar) 6:33 Tumbling Dice (Instrumental version) 9:57 All Down The Line (Early acoustic version) 14:14 All Down The Line (Instrumental version) 17:59 Soul Survivor (Instrumental version) 21:43 I Ain't Lying (Full band version with overdubs) Excerpt from Exile On Main St. - A Season In Hell With The Rolling Stones by Robert Greenfield In the spring of 1971, nine years into their existence as the world's greatest rock & roll band, the Rolling Stones learned to their great dismay that they were not only broke but would also have to leave England to avoid paying British income tax. They decamped to the French Riviera -- aptly described by Somerset Maugham as "a sunny place for shady people," where all forms of aberrant behavior had always been tolerated so long as the bill was always paid on time -- and began recording their new album in the basement of Villa Nellcôte, Keith Richards' sumptuous mansion by the sea. The result was the Stones' only double album, the classic "Exile on Main Street." On June 7th, 1971, after a four-day drive from London, the Rolling Stones' recording truck, also known as the mobile, finally arrives at Nellcote. For a solid month before Mick left on his honeymoon, he and Keith had scoured the French countryside for places where the band might record. "Of course," road manager Jerry Pompili would later say, "no one liked anything. We wasted a month, and then in the end they decided to do it in Keith's house. Typical Stones." In large part, the truck exists not just because the Stones have wasted so much money over the years by booking expensive studio time by the hour only to then show up late or not at all for sessions but also because of the residual guilt Mick and Keith still feel about allowing Andrew Oldham, the Stones' first manager, to boot original pianist Ian Stewart out of the band in 1963 because he neither looked nor acted like a pop star. "I think by way of making it up to him," recording engineer Andy Johns will later say, "they built the truck and said, 'Here ya go, Stu. You run this.' " The Stones have also pumped an astronomical 65,000 pounds into building what Johns will later call "the first proper mobile in Europe." It has already been used at Stargroves, Mick's country estate in England, to record tracks that appear on Sticky Fingers as well as "Sweet Black Angel," which eventually makes it way onto Exile on Main Street. Shortly after the mobile arrives, what in retrospect will prove to be the most significant event of the entire summer occurs. Keith and Tommy decide to spend the day driving go-carts around a local track. Based on Keith's driving record in England, it should come as no surprise to anyone that calamity results. Deciding to have a go at Tommy, who in any vehicle is by far the better driver, Keith takes a running shot at him with his go-cart. "It definitely felt like murder," Tommy recalls. "He was trying to knock into me. He drove straight at me and the thing flipped. . . . I was still trying to slow the cars down and I had him with his head in my lap, the go-cart on top of him, and his back was scraping along the tarmac. His back was like raw steak. A little later, he was looking at me and he said, 'OK, Tommy, I think it's about time you went to the doctor and get him to get us some you-know-what,' which everyone had been staying away from. And that was the beginning of it. The go-cart accident instigated the opiates." [Flip note: Keith had gone in for a “cure” for his heroin addiction before the band moved to France. Anita attempted one, but failed, meaning there was at least one member of the household still into the China White.]

[@Bluzian74]

I think it's "Tony" Sanchez, not "Tommy".

[@flipdaboid8007]

@@Bluzian74 Tommy Weber was another member of the Nellcote pleasure crew, the one Tony claimed had it off with Anita. Which may be the reason Keith allegedly tried to "murder" him here.

[@Bluzian74]

@@flipdaboid8007 Ah, right, Tommy Weber! Jake's father!

[@flipdaboid8007]

Yeah, Robert Greenfield wrote a book about their family and their relationship with the Stones and Anita. You can probably get a used copy for very little $. It's titled A Day In The Life.

[@paulwells4203]

All.........A.............Lone. thanks for this.

[@Jamesmehigan]

...Proving how the Mick Taylor years were the BEST!

[@matthewcrich5951]

Nicky Hopkins. Jim Price. Bobby Keys. Pulling it all together.

[@bjones8470]

I love these instrumentals because they showcase just how great a songwriter Keith is and highlight his contribution to the band. You can hear just how great the band is

[@JKentF]

That piano is lifting the whole song to a higher level.

[@tzezontle]

Unmistakable Mike Taylor's guitar

[@Nestor-vk5cu]

Aint lying excellent version!!

[@pas7293]

The whole set is great!. Really loved how the band flew thru rip this joint, locked in!

[@danfuller478]

19:49 There's a spot where the piano and horns give Soul Survivor a swing it never had on the release.

[@bjones8470]

My best friend that was killed a few years ago always said Soul Survivor was his favorite tune on the record. Wish he could have heard this. Thanks for pointing it out. What a treat, to have people to share this great stuff with

[@kingbreck4648]

Damn your right

[@MrKeithwelsh]

flip, rocks off with no vocals awesome out take, your the king, i just got tickets to the last show 2024. on the us tour in good old ozarks usa ...i allways sit in the nose bleeds, no more im 65 and im in the 4th row, 850$ right in front of keef.

[@flipdaboid8007]

Congratulations! Enjoy the show!

[@littleglimmer2325]

Fabulous energy in All Down The Line. Exile is the definitive guitar and drums rock album. I notice from many studio jams and rehearsals that Mick Taylor sometimes struggles to find the groove. But off course when he gets it he's spot on.

[@flipdaboid8007]

Interesting observation. I'm not a big fan of the rehearsal stuff, so I can't agree or disagree. Anybody else?

[@lfader]

@@flipdaboid8007 Ditto the Montreux stuff vid audio rehearsal stuff (Dallas?) .....meh. Interesting to watch them in a relaxed or controlled setting but for me not a real standout bit to unplugged ..... I start fixing on gear get hypnotized I go into a different state of mind which is beyond any normal state to begin with So we'll drop it 🤣

[@TheBlackbelair]

Ok, well let me just say this, about that... @@flipdaboid8007

[@maxsno]

@@lfader huh ? again huh ?

[@mjp96]

All I know is Mick Taylor turned that band on its head. A talent they never had, and haven't since.

[@mikeberg5003]

Different key than on the album but it's great to hear this.

[@lfader]

Looks like Taylor is playing Keith's Plexi sitting on that Fender Twin ?!? Nice wiped tracks / pix 👍😎 !!!

[@patdwyer5204]

Thanks... sounds great. Can hear a few things that got buried in the mix, but also shows how good the vocals are/we're on Exile.

[@flipdaboid8007]

You can hear Nicky Hopkins a lot better. Bunch of stuff buried in the Tumbling Dice mix.

[@Bluejay1999ad]

Pretty cool to listen to...thanks!

[@janarvenyaas85]

Except for the last song this is pure gold. Nothing less. They probably didn't know themselves how good they were back then.

[@flipdaboid8007]

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that one either but that version was new to me. I left off the version that appears on several boots from that era. And put this one at the end so it wouldn't spoil the flow of the good stuff. The outtakes from Exile are particularly bad because they put everything good on the album. So I left them off. I won't miss any of the official outtakes on the Deluxe version if I never hear them again, either.

[@maxsno]

The still long arm of Stones Inc reaching into every ones billfold . Outtakes pretty weak background noise while painting the ceiling.

[@bjones8470]

I can dig it but I see why it wasn’t on the record. Just sounds like a fun jam session. It’s not often I’m surprised by Stones outtakes. They were really good at sorting the wheat from the chaff so to speak

[@robertparker4833]

From 24:00 MT just let it rip ! ! Absolutely sensational outtake which was cleaned up and released. . But this version is my fave. 🎸👍🏻

[@MrKeithwelsh]

soul survivor is great

[@lfader]

Really Love Soul Survivor - never featured live - Rock's Off was in n out of the setlist Exile standouts to me ..... Nellcote' pics that was some party pad ... Yoko had to "come get" John ??? 🤣

[@flipdaboid8007]

Don't know if she had to retrieve him or not. She hated his partying because he was a mean thug when drunk. A creative genius, but just another punter who couldn't hold his liquor. Hendrix was a bad drunk too.

[@lfader]

@@flipdaboid8007 Saw a video of Hendrix rambling drunk - not good. Thought John was doing drugs w Keith Bobby + Graham? 🐒 I've been sober a loooong time - no fun 🤣 👍

[@flipdaboid8007]

@@lfader Congratulations on your sobriety. It ain't easy. Yoko didn't care about John doing coke or heroin. She enjoyed those drugs herself. It was the alcohol. Hendrix was a strange cat, the only artist I know of who intentionally gave obviously slipshod performances. Most people who are phoning it in at least pretend to be taking care of business. Maybe that was the wine talking, too. But being a Black genius in the lily white Rock biz must have put him through some seriously bizarre head trips. Add that to the routine humiliations that any performer who holds his hand out to the public for a living has to endure, and it must have been hard to take sometimes.

[@lfader]

@@flipdaboid8007 Hey thx it's automatic now but that fork+ road always looms 😉 For sure about Jimi and the industry The pressures craziness explains a lot of the drug drinking but I remember hearing and not understanding when it was Billy Cox and Buddy Miles all this Black panther stuff came up and all this politics about Hendrix being approached pressured from the Black Panthers and community like a mafia kind of interference That's just nuts and who knows what really went down in private?? I never thought black and white that whole time artists were artists you could play that's it You don't need to qualify it any other way. Like Ravi Shankar & Allah Raka tablas - that's it they jammed intense love it 👍😎

[@flipdaboid8007]

Speaking of Mafia, his manager was hooked up somehow with some bad people who supposedly kidnapped him at one point. They'd been siphoning off money from his manager's acts (The Animals) before Hendrix came around and shipping it to a holding company in the Bahamas, Yameta. The musicians were told it was an investment/ retirement thing but all the money disappeared, of course.

[@letitbleedadam]

In the exile doc, there’s a quick shot in the basement footage of someone strumming fast and playing with a slide (close up hand shot). Maybe that was taken during this version of Rip this joint?!

[@flipdaboid8007]

Who knows? Anything's possible, I guess. They probably tried slide guitar parts for many Exile tunes.

[@reagn]

pretty sure that's just modern footage shot to look old and used for fills. notice that no one's face is ever visible in those shots

[@DiaperDandy33]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@370gt2]

なにこれ すげえ！

[@flipdaboid8007]

Glad you like it!

[@David-s3k8t]

De dónde sacas esto amigo???

[@flipdaboid8007]

Through the cooperative efforts of many people, my friend. Join us!

[@David-s3k8t]

@@flipdaboid8007 Gracias es espectacular !!!!

[@David-s3k8t]

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[@Nestor-vk5cu]

Yo me pregunto lo mismo, esa versión de aint lying es espectacular. Ojala los stones liberen más material a los fans

[@tommywomack9530]

I think Taylor played the rhythm part live, but Keith played it on the record.

[@flipdaboid8007]

Which song?

[@flipdaboid8007]

Which song?

[@maxsno]

Arguably the last great rock and roll album effort of the era , sorry Led Zeppelin close but no champagne.

[@bjones8470]

Agreed I love Physical but it just doesn’t quite have the energy that’s on Exile. Just that Rocks Off even without the vocals the band is just steaming through it.

[@mrmister7488]

No other band than the Stones has got that incredible swinging groove. Its just remarkable how crazy good they play. Dance little sister dance forever

[@deeg8849]

Totally. Stones grooved. Zep went boom, big difference

[@pas7293]

Zep is right at that lofty second tier rock band with the Beatles...

[@deeg8849]

Sped up a bit too much

[@flipdaboid8007]

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