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Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970)

Where the lyrics of Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert take you, and where it was really made.

The album's title comes from a 1938 blues song, and the donkey on the cover was a compromise: the band had wanted an elephant.

Key places

Madison Square Garden shows, November 1969 (1969)

Recording site Madison Square Garden — Most performances on this album were recorded at Madison Square Garden on 27 and 28 November 1969 in New York City. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Love in Vain recorded in Baltimore (1969)

Recording site CFG Bank Arena — Love in Vain was recorded in Baltimore on 26 November 1969, the only track on the album recorded outside New York City. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Overdubs at Olympic Studios (1970)

Recording site Olympic Studios — Overdub sessions for the album took place in January 1970 at Olympic Studios in London. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Second live album by the Rolling Stones
• Released 4 September 1970 on Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the United States
• Recorded in New York City and Baltimore in November 1969, before Let It Bleed was released
• First live album to reach number 1 in the UK
• Last release under the Decca label; later releases came on the band's own Rolling Stones Records
• Issued in response to the well-known bootleg Live'r Than You'll Ever Be

Background

• The 1969 American Tour ran from November into December with Terry Reid, B.B. King and Ike and Tina Turner as support acts
• Tour venues were all sold out
• Mick Taylor's first tour with the Stones, after he replaced Brian Jones shortly before Jones's death in July 1969
• First album where Taylor appeared fully and prominently
• Title taken from the 1938 Blind Boy Fuller song Get Your Yas Yas Out

Recording

• Performances recorded on 27 November 1969 (one show) and 28 November 1969 (two shows) at Madison Square Garden
• Love in Vain recorded in Baltimore on 26 November 1969
• Overdub sessions in January 1970 at Olympic Studios in London
• Lead vocals overdubbed on all tracks except Love in Vain, Midnight Rambler and Sympathy for the Devil
• Back-up vocals added on three tracks
• Overdubbed guitar on Little Queenie, where Mick Taylor's rhythm guitar was replaced by Keith Richards

Cover

• Cover photo by David Bailey, inspired by a line in Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna
• Charlie Watts shown jumping with a guitar and bass, beside a donkey
• Cover photo taken on 7 June 1970 in London, not from the February 1970 session
• Back cover commissioned by Jagger from British artist Steve Thomas

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Formed in London in 1962 as an English rock band; their first stable line-up was Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts.
• Jones named the band after a Muddy Waters song; they were rooted in blues and rock and roll.
• Manager Andrew Loog Oldham encouraged them to write their own songs, and the Jagger–Richards partnership became their main creative force.

Members

• Current: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood (joined 1975).
• Former: Brian Jones (died 1969), Mick Taylor (1969–1974), Bill Wyman (1962–1993), Charlie Watts (1963–2021, died 2021).
• Steve Jordan became their drummer after Watts' death.

Career

• Hits included "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (1965), "Paint It Black" (1966) and "Start Me Up" (1981).
• Their 1969 Hyde Park show and Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. are key points of their career.
• Formed Rolling Stones Records in 1970, whose tongue-and-lips logo became their band logo.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989; the band has sold more than 250 million albums.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Rolling Stone: critic Lester Bangs said he had no doubt it was the best rock concert ever put on record
• Released in September 1970, well into sessions for the band's next studio album, Sticky Fingers
• Well received by critics and commercially on release
• Reached number 1 in the UK and number 6 in the United States

Reappraisal

• Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums: voted number 816 in 2000
• Ultimate Classic Rock: ranked it the best Rolling Stones live album in a 2024 list

Records

• UK: number 1, first live album to reach the top spot there
• United States: number 6, went platinum
• UK: number 1 chart position at release, reached after release in September 1970

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The band would later say we originally wanted an elephant but settled for a donkey, which is the animal in David Bailey's cover photo.
• Steve Thomas, who designed the back cover, said he produced the design in 48 hours and that Jagger's response was positive.
• Some performances and one of the two cover photo sessions with Charlie Watts and a donkey appear in the documentary film Gimme Shelter.
• The November 2009 reissue added unreleased songs by the Rolling Stones and the opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner, plus a DVD and a 56-page booklet.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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