The Rolling Stones - Live At Rupp Arena 1981 (1981-12-11)FLAC

GENRE: Rock | Rock'N' Roll
FORMAT: Lossless (Flac) 
SIZE: 979 mb (3% Recovery) 

Soundboard  Live Recording at Rupp Arena, Lexington Kentucky in December 11, 1981
(Empress Valley EVSD401/402)

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1:
Take The A Train
Under My Thumb
When The Whip Comes Down
Let’s Spend The Night Together
Shattered
Neighbours
Black Limousine
Just My Imagination
Twenty Flight Rock
Going To A Go Go
Let Me Go
Time Is On My Side
Beast Of Burden
Waiting On A Friend
Let It Bleed

Disc 2:
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Band Introductions
Little T & A
Tumbling Dice
She’s So Cold
Hang Fire
Miss You
Honky Tonk Women
Brown Sugar
Start Me Up
Jumping Jack Flash
(I Can't Get No)Satisfaction

NOTES:
The Rolling Stones played two shows in the state of Kentucky during the Still Lifetour in 1981.  The first was in Louisville on November 3rd.  They returned five weeks later for a show at the Rupp Arena in Lexington.  On the simply named Live At Rupp Arena 1981, Empress Valley presents the same virtually complete soundboard recording that first surfaced on Kentucky Fried Rockers Vol. 2 (Dog N Cat DAC-024).

The soundboard is very clear and has a nice balance between the rhythm section, vocals and guitars.  There are times when the soundboard misses cues like when the saxophone comes in during “Miss You” and sometimes the guitars are buried like in “Shattered.”  There are two small gaps in the tape.  The first starts five seconds in “Let Me Go,” right after the opening riff, to 1:46 and the second is in “Tumbling Dice” from fifty-two seconds to 3:29.      

The performance is okay although this is a show where the band sounds a bit tired and hazy.  Mick Jagger mocks confusion about the location:  “I woke up this morning and where was I?  Shidoobee, Shidoobee Shidoobee.”  It sounds as if someone off mic tells him and he then greets Lexington.  The band tune their instruments a bit before starting “Shattered.”

The show achieves some intensity with the longer jamming numbers such as “Just My Imagination,” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Miss You.”  Listening to Wood and Richards interacting with the saxophone of Ernie Watts belies the assessment of the Stones on this tour as “pure entertainers.”  Nevertheless, this late in the tour the performances were extremely slick and professional which describes much of this performance. 

Empress Valley employ a basic double slimline jewel case with photos from the tour and tour poster’s painting.  A third title with this tape was released from Europe titled Lexington, Kentucky, December 11, 1981 on Crossfire Hurricane which is probably the same edit of the two sources in the same sound quality. 

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