Gimme Shelter-Rolling Stones-Keith sings Lead Vocal 1969

[miramar9999]

it is a from a russian bootleg cd i sold it on ebay 3 years ago and sound was so great there are about 25 cds like this from russia with tracks never released !!!

[thepixieful]

one of the strengths of this piece and every thing on Let it Bleed is what we call syncopated percussion....actually two lead lines in a way.......the song vocal and guitar line and the separate complexed sounds with double beats......has stood the test of time.

[thepixieful]

thank you....also don't you just love brian's coat, some things are always classic.

[SophieBlueCat]

Here's the link to my post below:

on youtube.com:

watch?v=7jw2LMUaehU&feature=re­lated

[SophieBlueCat]

If you not already did, you should also watch Keith Richard's version of the song with the X-pensisve Winos in Boston in 1993. It's truly great, better than this one, I think! But not only Keith Richards is very good there, the whole band plays so fantasticly tight and it has a very dark sound, also thanks to Richards' rough voice he got within the years and which does not only sound rough there but tough, too.

[straybeat]

If a band has the money for the studio time, every song is tried with every possible combination you can imagine. That's why "Dark Side of the Moon" took over 6 months to record. You should hear some of the killer guitar that was dropped for the finished product. Sometimes it just makes you shake your head?

[DustyBinBoy]

Still the greatest intro to a song ever... it sends chills up my spine every time I hear it. This is really interesting to hear it with Keef on vox. Not as good as Mick, but the song is so good that it doesn't make much difference to the overall enjoyment.

[blauzypern]

Love this song forever! it dosnt matters who sings the song.... Awesome!

[blauzypern]

Seltsam,

[velocity90]

I'm calling bullsh_t on this being an early version of Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones.

This sounds like a bad overdub with a number of very obvious and amateur splices in it, that someone is claiming to be an early recording of "Gimme Shelter"

Listen to Keith's real vocals on "Happy" or any song from the 60's where he's singing back up.

His voice has a much higher pitch to it.

It wasn't until the 70's that his voice started getting deeper when he sang.

[rajem]

@velocity90

There appear to be other voices in the mix that don't sound like Mick Jagger.

Interestingly enough, this week, Rolling Stone magazine online, put this up: "Gimme Shelter Deconstructed"

If you read the article, you will see that several tracks from the original recording were removed for copyright infringement.

[velocity90]

The fact is, that The Rolling Stones watch over their archives very carefully and would not release something that they didn't think up to par (like they did for over 30 years with the The Rock n Roll Circus).

If this recording was actually real and not a poorly manufactured fake, it wouldn't be released on YouTube by some anonymous nobody without it being removed for copyright infringement (like all of the tracks from your quoted R.S. article).

[honkydudeman]

@velocity90 i bought a version of beggars banquet "the termite mix"12year ago,its 18 unreleased tracks various versions of all on the studio version ,its fantastic +unreleased tracks on it too,ive never copied it or even lent it out for fear of it becoming "common",,,,......but im tempted now as so many share rare stuff on utube ,so the quality bootlegs are out there ,just well hidden ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,­,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[societyforrealmusic]

@velocity90 Yeah, it's the recorded version exactly, with vocals thrown in.

[swiggy58a]

@velocity90 The fact is, Genius; that this IS the Rolling Stones; wherever it came from.

Nobody can sound quite like the Stones.

You just ain't nearly as smart as you thought you was.

Probably can't carry a tune in a bucket; either.

[christianalexlea]

@velocity90 Happy was from the seventies though

[buki1452]

Their were the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, it doesnt get any better than that!

[TheBSxperience]

@buki1452 I actually prefer the who over the beatles. The reason I LOVE the stones so much like second in favorite bands to the who is because the stones are so anti-christ compared to the beatles. Like when I think of the beatles I think that the stones would probably beat the crap out of the beatles in a fist fight.

[XtrmMcjohnson]

KEEF!

[Luarrangel]

AWESOME!

[55pogue]

keef sings

[TonyCook2012]

all i can say is holy shit. what a great fuckinh version.

[PikPobedy]

The opening guitar riff. I can never get over how it sounds like an electric piano.

[mypsmells]

Anyone know how to get a hold of a bootlegged copy of this?

[tektaktyks]

@mypsmells  tpb

[mypsmells]

I love this!

[steveconn]

Funny, this vocal reminds me of Tupac (listen to the Chappelle skit about the lost Tupac song and he sounds like this).

[777spanky777]

freakin awesome dude! The stones were really on top during this period and this song is likely their greatest work.

[nickforrest1988]

What a load of crap. Its just a distorted version of the original. I don't know why people put crap like this on here

[Ashvegian]

@nickforrest1988 You're definitely right, it's a distortion. And the guy who has put this video up has almost 20,000 hits because of it ! what an asshole.

[jd111358]

theres a great expensive wino's live version out ther on an import cd

[zulibert]

best stones song-very bad-hypnotic

[colelikeslespauls]

the song was supposed to sound like that. the theme was very heavy, he wanted a heavier song. but then mick came and ruined it with the chick. lame.

[tiddlywinks98712]

@colelikeslespauls the chick was amazing! such a powerful rocky voice

[6036rebs]

The recording is terrible, the instruments are way out front of the vocals and the blend of the instruments are not mixed well.

[goonchistaw]

@6036rebs why do you think it says "unreleased" version ?????? it's an outtake

or you just dim ?

[DonaldRumsfailed]

@6036rebs yep. It's bad.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

this may be keith, also i think on the inner sleeve of the vinyl, keith is credited to vocals

also nobody is sure about keith singing you got the silver, how that came about

[avccva10]

Hey Jason89b16, it is mate. Richards put it together.

[christoJihad2]

Cool as a rarity, but not nearly as good as the released version. This is the most haunting, beautiful rock song ever written. If the Stones never did anything after this, it would have put them in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And syiu222 was right. This is just background vocals with Mick cut out.

[ShipwreckTownBand]

@christoJihad2 Although it's perhaps impossible to name the greatest rock song, if one had to, I'm with you.

[joaniebabelonie]

@christoJihad2 said: ".......This is the most haunting, beautiful rock song ever written. "

Amen.

[vintagezigg]

@joaniebabelonie AMEN.

[slideharp1]

@christoJihad2 Correction; Doris Troy (i think it's her) isn't doing that high backing voice that was on the record......and I've never noticed Keith on the record either...

[christoJihad2]

@slideharp1 The background singer is Merry Clayton, an African American vocalist. She was pregnant during the sessions and tragically, she suffered a miscarriage, apparently because the vocals were so impassioned and strenuous. Her vocals on "Gimme Shelter" elevated an incredible song to a song without peer or parallel. Only Marvin Gaye's "Heard It Through The Grapevine" comes close.

[slideharp1]

@christoJihad2 Right, Merry Clayton - that's her. I get her confused with Doris Troy for some reason - I think maybe they were both guesting on various peoples' records around the same time - and being well noticed of course. I don't know much about either of them 'cept as singers

[christoJihad2]

@slideharp1 Has it or anything with a bootleg of this song and others from the most prolific era of any band at any time, i.e. "Beggars Banquet" "Let It Bleed" "Sticky Fingers" "Exile On Main Street" come out anywhere on CD? "Goat's Head Soup" "It's Only Rock and Roll" are both excellent albums that made nearly every album released during those same times pale in comparison, but not even those two are "Classics" compared to the other four. The best four straight albums ever!

[slideharp1]

@christoJihad2 LOL!...in total agreement re. the four best consec albums ever - if I put one on I usually play one or more of the others right after it's over. I just don't know how it all works with bootlegs - someone has to have a copyright to put it out. The Stones would do that if they thought it sounded good, and would prob'ly get it from ?...of course, there are bootleg CDs... collectors, I guess would know.

[steveconn]

@slideharp1

Doris Troy did appear as one the backing singers on Let It Loose on Exile On Main St.

[slideharp1]

@steveconn Cool...thanx, I knew I was close. Of course, I Could've pulled out the album and looked! - re-bought those four albums where the Stones ruled the World - they just got better with each one

[MrRladdu]

@christoJihad2 Aren't they already in the rock and roll hall of fame?

[christoJihad2]

@MrRladdu Yeah, buddy, they're in. I was just saying that if they were a one-hit wonder band and this was their hit, they'd deserve to be inducted. That's how great this song is.

[slideharp1]

@christoJihad2 There's an old bootleg from the late '70's called "The Bedspring Symphony" which is the best bootleg ever - they were playing like friggin Bandits, and it opens with this song.....when Bill and Charlie Kick In...it's like...Whammo!!

[christoJihad2]

@slideharp1 Has it or anything with a bootleg of this song and others from the most prolific era of any band at any time, i.e. "Beggars Banquet" "Let It Bleed" "Sticky Fingers" "Exile On Main Street" come out anywhere onCD? "Goat's Head Soup" "It's Only Rock and Roll" are both excellent albums that made nearly every album released during those same times pale in comparison, but not even those two are "Classics" compared to the other four. The best four straight albums ever.

[TheBSxperience]

@christoJihad2 There is actually another version that I heard minutes before this where mick is seeing leadf but some of the lyrics are changed and its just a LOT darker. like just very depressing but its also fantastic

[manson1babe]

excellent version...I love Keith's voice and how he sings 'murder.' Pretty raw and wicked to me. Perfect for the song.

[Jason89b16]

This isnt even real... Fuck you

[syiu222]

Sounds to me the same released version with Mick and Mary lead vocal shut off. It wasn't Keith singing vocal but Mick and Keith singing backup.

[tomloft2000]

not as haunting as the released version,but pretty good.

[shelter70]

The released version is one of the greatest recordings ever. And no one can top Merry Clayton's contribution. But Keith and the X-Pensive Winos live versions are the most intense, rocking experiences ever.

[kidcalabria]

Thanks for posting this, quite a treat. Gimmie Shelter is definitely one of The Stones' greatest songs, and not just in your opinion. Well done!

[boxswana]

sounds like keith god save sir keith

[catblanket14uk]

heard somewhere that one day, keith came into the studio when jagger wasn't around. he took mick's vocals off "you got the silver", and did his own for it.

[jamal49]

True. The story goes like this: Mick was filming "Performance" with Anita Pallenberg (Keith stole Anita from Brian Jones, the band's founder) and Mick and Anita did a sex scene in the film. Keith got in a snit about it and erased Mick's vocal's off "You Got the Silver" and recorded his own in retaliation. I have a bootleg of the song with Mick's vocals on a vinyl called "Claudine".

[catblanket14uk]

Oh.. you lucky... always wanted to hear that version. People would be surprised at the amount of Let it Bleed songs are from the Beggars sessions. Can't Always Get, Midnight Rambler. Sister Morphine as well.

[castillianwagon]

Now I can understand the lyrics. It remiands me of the Russians taking Berlin !

[castillianwagon]

Where dis you ever get an unreleased version ?

[stratocasterbg]

it's a bootleg CD called "Let it bleed sessions"

[itsallhappeningtoday]

im confused what is a bootleg? because the guy who put the jimi hendrix and rolling stones video up said it was part of a bootleg, what exactly IS a bootleg? please help

[catblanket14uk]

g'day. okay then, a bootleg is an amazing GOODY we fans get to fork out that wee bit extra for at second hand shops and music fayres. the artists hate them cos they don't get a penny out the sale. sometimes the quality is good/excellant/rough/terrible. it's all stuff you'd kill for : unreleased songs, b sides that never made it, fast versions, slow versions, live versions, tv appearances etc.

[loomy112]

can you send this version with keith on vocals to me?

[kingadants1]

@castillianwagon Forever Rolling Stones

[hellogorgeousxo1]

awesome

[ray1bradbury]

Terrific, I love Keith.

[naovoulembrarmeuuser]

rare...very good !!

[1sts118]

Totally agree with you, stratocasterbg

[nichinono]

sweet