Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | ||||
Live album by | ||||
Released | 4 September 1970 | |||
Recorded |
| |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 47:36 | |||
Label | ||||
Producer |
| |||
the Rolling Stones chronology | ||||
|
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert is the second live album by the Rolling Stones, released on 4 September 1970 on Decca Records in the UK and on London Records in the United States. It was recorded in New York City and Baltimore in November 1969 prior to the release of Let It Bleed . It is the first live album to reach number 1 in the UK. It was reported to have been issued in response to the well-known bootleg Live'r Than You'll Ever Be . This was also the band's final release under the Decca record label and not under its own label Rolling Stones Records.
The Rolling Stones 1969 American Tour's trek during November into December, with Terry Reid, B.B. King (replaced on some dates by Chuck Berry) and Ike and Tina Turner as supporting acts, played to packed houses. The tour was the first for guitarist Mick Taylor with the Stones, having replaced Brian Jones shortly before Jones's death in July; this was also the first album where Taylor appeared fully and prominently, having only played on two songs on Let It Bleed . It was also the last tour to feature just the Stones – the band proper, along with co-founder, road manager and session/touring pianist Ian Stewart – without additional backing musicians.
The performances captured for this release were recorded on 27 November 1969 (one show) and 28 November 1969 (two shows) at New York City's Madison Square Garden, except for "Love in Vain," recorded in Baltimore on 26 November 1969. Overdub sessions took place in January 1970 in London's Olympic Studios. The finished product featured overdubbed lead vocals on all tracks except "Love In Vain" and "Midnight Rambler," added back-up vocals on three tracks, and overdubbed guitar on two songs ("Little Queenie" and "Stray Cat Blues"). [ citation needed ] However, this album is widely recognized as one of few actual 'live' albums during this era.
The title Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! is taken from Blind Boy Fuller song "Get Your Yas Yas Out". [1] The lyric in Fuller's song was "Now you got to leave my house this morning, don't I'll throw your yas yas out o' door". [2] In the context of Fuller's original song and its use in other blues music, "yas yas" appears as a folksy euphemism for "ass". [3] [ circular reference ] However, Charlie Watts' T-shirt worn on the album's front cover shows a picture of a woman's breasts, suggesting an alternative explanation. Watts said that his wardrobe on the album cover was his usual stage clothing, along with Jagger's striped hat. [4]
Some of the performances, as well as one of the two photography sessions for the album cover featuring Charlie Watts and a donkey, are depicted in the documentary film Gimme Shelter , and shows Watts and Mick Jagger on a section of the M6 motorway adjacent to Bescot Rail Depot in Walsall, England, posing with a donkey. This is adjacent to where the RAC building now stands. [5] The cover photo, however, was taken in early February 1970 in London, and does not originate from the 1969 session. The photo by David Bailey, featuring Watts with guitars and bass drums hanging from the neck of a donkey, was inspired by a line in Bob Dylan's song "Visions of Johanna": "Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule" (though, as mentioned, the animal in the photo is a donkey, not a mule). The band would later say "we originally wanted an elephant but settled for a donkey". [6]
Jagger commissioned the back cover, featuring song titles and credits with photographs of the group in performance, from British artist Steve Thomas, who said he produced the design in 48 hours and that Jagger's response was "I really dig your artwork, man." [7]
Aggregate scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 81/100 (deluxe edition) [8] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Christgau's Record Guide | B [10] |
Entertainment Weekly | B [11] |
MusicHound Rock | 2/5 [12] |
NME | 7/10 [13] |
Pitchfork | 5.4/10 [14] |
Q | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Uncut | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Record Collector | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
In the Rolling Stone review of the album, critic Lester Bangs said, "I have no doubt that it's the best rock concert ever put on record." [17]
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! was released in September 1970, well into sessions for the band's next studio album, Sticky Fingers , and was well-received critically and commercially, reaching number 1 in the UK [18] and number 6 in the United States, [19] where it went platinum. Except for compilations, it was the last Rolling Stones album released through Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the United States before the band launched its own Rolling Stones Records label.
In August 2002, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! was reissued in a new remastered album and SACD digipak by ABKCO Records. [20]
In November 2009, the album was reissued with unreleased songs by the Rolling Stones and also by opening acts B.B King and Ike & Tina Turner. It includes a DVD and a 56-page booklet. [21]
The album has received consistent praise from critics as one of the greatest live albums ever made. In 2000 it was voted number 816 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums . [22] In 2007, NME ranked the album as the seventh greatest live album of all time. Q ranked the album as the 14th greatest live album of all time.
All tracks are written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (27 November 1969: Madison Square Garden, New York City) | 4:02 | |
2. | "Carol" (28 November 1969: MSG – first show) | Chuck Berry | 3:47 |
3. | "Stray Cat Blues" (28 November 1969: MSG – first show) | 3:41 | |
4. | "Love in Vain" (26 November 1969: Civic Center, Baltimore) | Robert Johnson† | 4:57 |
5. | "Midnight Rambler" (28 November 1969: MSG – second show) | 9:05 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | "Sympathy for the Devil" (28 November 1969: MSG – first show) | 6:52 | |
2. | "Live with Me" (28 November 1969: MSG – second show) | 3:03 | |
3. | "Little Queenie" (28 November 1969: MSG – first show) | Chuck Berry | 4:33 |
4. | "Honky Tonk Women" (27 November 1969: MSG and 28 November 1969: MSG – second show) | 3:35 | |
5. | "Street Fighting Man" (28 November 1969: MSG – first show) | 4:03 |
*Released in 2009
*B.B. King Tracks 1–5; Ike & Tina Turner Tracks 6–12
*Backstage footage shot by Albert and David Maysles with in-studio footage from album cover shoot
Audio
Video
Additional musicians
Chart (1970) | Peak position |
---|---|
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [23] | 2 |
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [24] | 3 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [25] | 2 |
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) [26] | 4 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [27] | 5 |
Italian Albums ( Musica e Dischi ) [28] | 6 |
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [29] | 30 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [30] | 3 |
Sweden (Kvällstoppen) [31] | 7 |
UK Albums (OCC) [32] | 1 |
US Billboard 200 [33] | 6 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
Canada (Music Canada) [34] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [35] 2006 release | Silver | 60,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [36] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active across seven decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader. Andrew Loog Oldham became their manager in 1963 and encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger–Richards partnership became the band's primary songwriting and creative force.
Sir Michael Philip Jagger is an English singer, rock musician, and the front man and one of the founding members of the Rolling Stones. Jagger has co-written most of the band's songs with lead guitarist Keith Richards; their songwriting partnership is one of the most successful in rock music history. His career has spanned over six decades, and he has been widely described as one of the most popular and influential front men in the history of rock music. His distinctive voice and energetic live performances, along with Richards' guitar style, have been the Rolling Stones' trademark throughout the band's career. Early in his career, Jagger gained notoriety for his romantic involvements and illicit drug use, and has often been portrayed as a countercultural figure.
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released as a non-album single in 1968. Called "supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London" by Rolling Stone magazine, the song was seen as the band's return to their blues roots after the baroque pop and psychedelia heard on their preceding albums Aftermath (1966), Between the Buttons (1967) and especially Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967). One of the group's most popular and recognisable songs, it has been featured in films and covered by numerous performers, notably Thelma Houston, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Peter Frampton, Johnny Winter, Leon Russell and Alex Chilton. To date, it is the band's most-performed song; they have played it over 1,100 times in concert.
Michael Kevin Taylor is an English guitarist, best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1967–1969) and the Rolling Stones (1969–1974). As a member of the Stones, he appeared on Let It Bleed (1969), Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert (1970), Sticky Fingers (1971), Exile on Main St. (1972), Goats Head Soup (1973) and It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974).
Let It Bleed is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 28 November 1969 by London Records in the United States and on 5 December 1969 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom. Released during the band's 1969 American Tour, it is the follow-up to Beggars Banquet (1968), and like that album is a return to the group's more blues-oriented approach that was prominent in the pre-Aftermath (1966) period of their career. Additional sounds on the album draw influence from gospel, country blues and country rock.
Sticky Fingers is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released on 23 April 1971 on the Rolling Stones' new label, Rolling Stones Records. The Rolling Stones had been contracted by Decca Records and London Records in the UK and the US since 1963. On this album, Mick Taylor made his second full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album. It was the first studio album without Brian Jones, who died two years earlier. The original cover artwork, conceived by Andy Warhol and photographed and designed by members of his art collective, the Factory, showed a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working zip that opened to reveal underwear fabric. The cover was expensive to produce and damaged the vinyl record, so the size of the zipper adjustment was made by John Kosh at ABKCO records. Later re-issues featured just the outer photograph of the jeans.
"Honky Tonk Women" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released as a non-album single on 4 July 1969 in the United Kingdom, and a week later in the United States. It topped the charts in both nations. The song was on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Love You Live is a double live album by the Rolling Stones, released in 1977. It is drawn from Tour of the Americas shows in the US in the summer of 1975, Tour of Europe shows in 1976 and performances from the El Mocambo nightclub concert venue in Toronto in 1977. It is the band's third official full-length live release and is dedicated to the memory of audio engineer Keith Harwood, who died in a car accident shortly before the album's release. It is also the band's first live album with Ronnie Wood.
Metamorphosis is the third compilation album of the Rolling Stones music released by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records after the band's departure from Decca and Klein. Released in 1975, Metamorphosis centres on outtakes and alternate versions of well-known songs recorded from 1964 to 1970.
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter. The film is named after "Gimme Shelter", the lead track from the group's 1969 album Let It Bleed. Gimme Shelter was screened out of competition as the opening film of the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
"Midnight Rambler" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. The song is a loose biography of Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to being the Boston Strangler.
"Live with Me" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their album Let It Bleed, released in December 1969. It was the first song recorded with the band's new guitarist Mick Taylor, who joined the band in June 1969, although the first record the band released with Taylor was the single version of Honky Tonk Women. Taylor later described the recording of "Live with Me" as "kind of the start of that particular era for the Stones, where Keith and I traded licks."
The Rolling Stones' 1969 Tour of the United States took place in November 1969. With Ike & Tina Turner, Terry Reid, and B.B. King as the supporting acts, rock critic Robert Christgau called it "history's first mythic rock and roll tour", while rock critic Dave Marsh wrote that the tour was "part of rock and roll legend" and one of the "benchmarks of an era." In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the tour among The 50 Greatest Concerts of the Last 50 Years.
"Stray Cat Blues" is the eighth song on the Rolling Stones' album Beggars Banquet. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Jimmy Miller. Miller's production of the song is very representative of his style, featuring a very prominent hi hat beat, droning piano performed by Nicky Hopkins, a mellotron performed by Brian Jones, all electric guitars performed by Richards and vocals from Jagger kept even in the mix. According to Mick Jagger, the song was inspired by "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground, with the intros of both songs being particularly similar.
The Rolling Stones' 1970 European Tour was a concert tour of Continental Europe that took place during the late summer and early autumn 1970.
The Rolling Stones' 1971 UK Tour was a brief concert tour of England and Scotland that took place over three weeks in March 1971.
"I'm Free" is a song by the Rolling Stones written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, first released as the final track on the UK version of their album Out of Our Heads on 24 September 1965. It was also released at the same time as a single in the US and later included on the American December's Children album.
Shine a Light is the soundtrack to the Rolling Stones' concert film of the same name, directed by Martin Scorsese. It was released on 1 April 2008 in the UK by Polydor Records and one week later in the United States by Interscope Records. Double disc and single disc versions were issued.
Live'r Than You'll Ever Be is a bootleg recording of the Rolling Stones' concert in Oakland, California, from 9 November 1969. It was one of the first live rock music bootlegs and was made notorious as a document of their 1969 tour of the United States. The popularity of the bootleg forced the Stones' labels Decca Records in the UK, and London Records in the US, to release the live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert in 1970. Live'r is also one of the earliest commercial bootleg recordings in rock history, released in December 1969, just two months after the Beatles' Kum Back and five months after Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder. Like the two earlier records, Live'r's outer sleeve is plain white, with its name stamped on in ink.
Before Stripped [in 1995], the Stones released five albums, all of them stiffs. None offer tracks that improve upon the studio originals, including … the overrated Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out …