THE ROLLING STONES - STEEL WHEELS SESSIONS: AIR STUDIO 1989 2DVDR [Uxbridge 2141]

"THREE DAYS IN MONTSERRAT"

Writing Sessions For Rock And A Hard Place & Mixed Emotions
Montserrat Air Studio 25th - 27th April 1989

Disc 1(91:40)
1. Intro
2. Dinner In Montserrat (25th April 1989)

- during the dinner: banter over Continental Drift with RW adding some percussion with his cigarette box!
- banter ‘after the dinner’: KR, RW, Jo & Patti talking
“So now we make a record or a movie? … or both?”

Writing Sessions For Rock And A Hard Place

3. Warm Up And First Rock And A Hard Place Try-Outs (25th April 1989)

- banter “Welcome to another fabulous session”
- from Malaguena to Rock And A Hard Place
- RAAHP riff
- banter
- RAAHP #1 with MJ indications, cut abruptly

4. In The Studio (26th April 1989)

- banter & warm-up (CW drums)
- banter and Spanish flavored warm-up (Malaguena citation)
- RAAHP #2 part 1
- RAAHP #2 part 3 (part 2 is missing) stopped by KR
- banter with instructions by KR ‘to G’
- RAAHP #3 cut, end is missing

5. Check In The Control Room

- banter and & MJ clapping hands over RAAHP #3
- banter ‘rushes’

6. Other Checking And Try-Outs In The Studio And The Control Room

- banter in the studio with some RAAHP parts
- partial RAAHP #4
- RAAHP #4 part 3
- banter ‘wise’
- checking 4 extracts
- banter ‘Feeling was great’
- checking a last short RAAHP extract
- banter MJ with Charlie
- ‘We gonna get his movie’


Writing Sessions For Mixed Emotions

7. First Mixed Emotions Riff And Ideas (Keith Solo, Ronnie With An Acoustic Guitar)

- warm-up KR blues improvisation
- Mixed Emotions-riff & banter
- bonus: beginning of RAAHP #3
- bonus: blues improvisation/Hellhound On My Trail (coming from 25X5 video outtake)

8. Keith Showing Mixed Emotions Riff And Idea To Mick
(Writing Sessions For Mixed Emotions For Mixed Emotions Part 1, Keith & Mick On Guitar)

- work in progress 1: KR showing his ideas to MJ
- banter ‘Chris 2 and Chris 1’
- work in progress 2
- banter ‘I never smoke…’
- work in progress 3
- Work in progress 4 ‘E minor’
- Work in progress 5
- banter ‘we left here’
- work in progress 6
- work in progress 7 (KR improvisation)

9. Keith & Mick Searching Ideas Around Mixed Emotions Riff

- work in progress 8 - KR on guitar & MJ vocal

Part IX: joining by the band.
- work in progress 9: ‘new beat’ with first keyboard try-outs
- work in progress 10: KR showing his ideas to RW (on acoustic guitar) with drums and first ideas for a bridge
- work in progress #11 with chorus
- work in progress # 12 ‘I like the way that’s going’

PRO-SHOT COLOUR NTSC Approx.92min.


Disc 2(70:47)
Writing Sessions For Mixed Emotions (Cont.)


1. Joining by the band.

- work in progress 9: ‘new beat’ with first keyboard try-outs
- work in progress 10: KR showing his ideas to RW (on acoustic guitar) with drums and first ideas for a bridge
- work in progress #11 with chorus
- work in progress # 12 ‘I like the way that’s going’


2. New work in progress extracts of Mixed Emotions

- a short work in progress extract cut abruptly
- short extract & banter ‘Mister compromise’

3. Working on the 2nd chorus.
- work in progress more elaborated version broken off by MJ on the 2nd chorus
- discussion about 2nd chorus
- restart on 2nd chorus

4. More reworkings in the studio
- banter ‘the last only one’
- new try-out for Mixed Emotions stopped by KR & banter
- short banter shown from the control room
- more banter shown from the control room ‘out of question’

5. From the control room
- banter over an elaborated version of Mixed Emotions #1
- banter ‘bonjour ma colombe’
- 2 short banters

6. Back in studio
- rehearsing Mixed Emotion’
- banter & warm-up ‘You’re not the only one’
- more elaborated music, approximative lyrics Mixed Emotions #2 very long version
- final studio banters, separated by a gap

7. Checking the result in the control room.
- banter over the previous recorded long version (beginning is missing)
- banter "I @#$%& up a little bit", "I think we could repair that"
- the last banters and laughs

8. Mick Jagger vocal overdubs (very partial)
- short MJ voice overdub extract #1
- banter from the control room
- short vocal overdub extract #2
- short control room comment
- short vocal overdub extract #3

9. Bonus Footage
- Mixed Emotions #1: 2 segments reconnected

PRO-SHOTCOLOUR NTSC Approx.71min.

PRO-SHOTCOLOUR NTSC Approx.162min.(Total)