FILTER REISSUES
Smell the magic
Finally, a Stones live album with blood and guts reveals them in their prime.
By David Fricke.
Love you live: Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger perform prime-time Stones in 1976.
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The Rolling Stones
★★★★
Live At The El Mocambo
ROLLING STONES/UME. CD/DL/LP
“IT’S LIKE the movies,” guitarist Keith Richards said in 2002, summing up The Rolling Stones’ history in live albums to that point: mostly routine souvenirs doctored with overdubs and crowd noise, even on the 1969-tour landmark, Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out. “Everybody’s getting splattered, blood and bones flying about. But it all just sits there on the screen. You can’t smell it or taste it.”