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There were legal issues tailing Keith Richards. Toronto would be the group’s only slated show for ’77. This was a changed group in the previous few years, adding Ronnie Wood, and emphasizing reggae and funk, particularly on the Black and Blue album that had them rolling on the road for much of ’76. With a superlative mix from Bob Clearmountain, this is the proud representative of a Stones’ ‘70s experience an intimate show unleashing a force in the band- as though they’ve got something new to prove- that shows up only more sporadically on Love You Live. If Love You Live was the smoke, El Mocambo 1977 is the fire. Now, after 45 years, a plentiful rendering of the El Mocambo stint, on two discs, gets its due. By the time the boys took the stage, instead it’d morphed into a full-fledged Stones concert set, with a handful of blues folded in. The premise of the undercover gigs was to recall spirit of the group’s youthful nights at London’s Crawdaddy Club, loading the repertoire with blues standards. Though mostly comprised of tracks pulled from tours in ’75 and ’76, Love You Live also had a few excerpts from two “secret” club shows the Stones got away with at Toronto’s El Mocambo Tavern in ‘77, in front of a shocked crowd of 300. Like most Stones live albums, it had plenty of bright spots, but also like most Stones albums, it didn’t quite measure up to the pinnacle of 1969’s Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out.

It was a setlist for all seasons, from Muddy Waters' 'Mannish Boy' and Bo Diddley's 'Crackin' Up' to staples such as 'Let's Spend The Night Together' and 'Tumbling Dice,' and back to the blues with Big Maceo's 'Worried Life Blues' and Willie Dixon's 'Little Red Rooster.' There was the live debut of 'Worried About You,' not heard in studio form until 1981's Tattoo You, and more highlights from 'Honky Tonk Women' to 'Hot Stuff.' Forty-five years on, this is a trip back to the intensity of the Crawdaddy Club in the Stones' earliest days, as revisited by the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world.Ostensibly, The Rolling Stones represented the best of the band’s mid-1970s performances with the 1977 double album, Love You Live. Against all the odds, the band produced two nights of exhilarating music that they still talk about in Toronto, and in Rolling Stones legend, to this day. On the nights, naturally, April Wine were themselves the opening act, and so it was that the Stones rolled back the years to the exhilarating club incarnation of their early years. A radio contest was organised in which the prize was tickets to see Canadian rock heroes April Wine, supported by an unknown band called the Cockroaches. The gigs became reality after the El Mocambo was identified as the potential home for a secret booking. Over two nights, in an intimate space in one of their favourite cities, they were about to make that prognosis look foolish indeed.

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It is previewed by the release of two powerful tracks from the shows, 'It's Only Rock 'N' Roll' and 'Rip This Joint’, available on all digital services today.Īs the Stones took to the stage of the “El Mo,” a fixture of the Toronto music scene since the 1940s, punk and disco were both rearing into full view, supposedly ready to see off a band who had already been at the top of their game for 15 years. Only four of the performances found their way onto the Love You Live album that followed in September 1977, which was dominated by tracks captured on the band's 1975 and '76 tours, with the full set having never been heard before.Īs the Rolling Stones gear up for their 60th anniversary celebrations, Live At The El Mocambo is available for pre-order now.

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It features the Stones' full set from the March 5 show, plus three bonus tracks from the March 4 gig, newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain. The album will be available on double CD, 4 LP Black Vinyl, 4 LP Neon Vinyl and digitally. Live At The El Mocambo marks the first official appearance of the group's two famous secret concerts at the 300-capacity Toronto club in March 1977.

A legendary event in the incredible 60-year history of the Rolling Stones is being released in full for the first time on Friday, May 13th.