''Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert'' is the second live album by
the Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular, influential, and enduring bands of the Album era, rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pione ...
, released on 4 September 1970 on
Decca Records
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in the UK and on
London Records
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in the United States. It was recorded in New York City and Baltimore in November 1969 prior to the release of ''
Let It Bleed
''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 ba ...
''. 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. Subsequent releases were made under the band's own label
Rolling Stones Records.
History
The Rolling Stones 1969 American Tour's trek during November into December, with
Terry Reid
Terrance James Reid (born 13 November 1949), nicknamed "Superlungs", is an English rock vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist best known for his emotive style of singing in appearances with high-profile musicians as vocalist, supporting act and s ...
,
B.B. King
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, sh ...
(replaced on some dates by
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and de ...
) and
Ike and Tina Turner as supporting acts, played to venues with all tickets sold out. The tour was the first for guitarist
Mick Taylor
Michael Kevin Taylor (born 17 January 1949) is an English guitarist, best known as a former member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1967–1969) and the Rolling Stones (1969–1974). As a member of the Stones, h ...
with the Stones, having replaced
Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and founder of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to sing backing vocals and played a wide variety of instruments on Rolling Stones r ...
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
''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 ba ...
''. 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
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, except for "
Love in Vain
"Love in Vain" (originally "Love in Vain Blues") is a blues song written by American musician Robert Johnson. Johnson's performancevocal accompanied by his finger-style acoustic guitar playinghas been described as "devastatingly bleak". He reco ...
," recorded in
Baltimore
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on 26 November 1969. Overdub sessions took place in January 1970 in London's
Olympic Studios
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. The finished product featured overdubbed lead vocals on all tracks except "
Love In Vain
"Love in Vain" (originally "Love in Vain Blues") is a blues song written by American musician Robert Johnson. Johnson's performancevocal accompanied by his finger-style acoustic guitar playinghas been described as "devastatingly bleak". He reco ...
" and "
Midnight Rambler," added back-up vocals on three tracks, and overdubbed guitar on two songs ("
Little Queenie" and "
Stray Cat Blues"). However, this album is widely recognized as one of few actual 'live' albums during this era.
Though the album's title is said to have been taken from "Get Your Yas Yas Out," a song recorded by
Blind Boy Fuller, no member of the Rolling Stones has ever addressed its meaning. In Fuller's recording, "yas yas" appears to be a euphemism, in warnings directed to an unwelcome, drunken visitor: "Here you come, raising hell, know what you been doin' by the way you smell. Now you got to leave my house this morning, don't I'll throw your yas yas out o' door ... Look at you drinking, went right through your head, had to drink a belt before you went to bed. Now you got to leave my house this morning, don't I'll throw your yas yas out o' door".
Stones drummer Charlie Watts has said his wardrobe on the album cover was his usual stage clothing, complemented by Jagger's striped hat.
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
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician. He is known as the lead singer and one of the founder members of The Rolling Stones. Jagger has co-written most of the band's songs with lead guitarist Keith Richards; Jagge ...
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. 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
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...
'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".
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."
Release and reception
In the ''
Rolling Stone
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The magazine was first known fo ...
'' review of the album, critic
Lester Bangs
Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for ''Creem'' and ''Rolling Stone'' magazines and was also a performing musician. The music critic Jim DeRogatis called ...
said, "I have no doubt that it's the best rock concert ever put on record."
''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 and number 6 in the United States, where it went platinum. Except for compilations, it was the last Rolling Stones album released through
Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis after his acquisition of a gramophone manufacturer, The Decca Gramophone Company. It set up an American subsidiary under the Decca name, which bec ...
in the UK and
London Records
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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
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Jewel case
A ...
by
ABKCO Records.
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.
"Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones 2009 Edition"
iorr.org, 4 September 2009
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
Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer. He founded and was the editor-in-chief of ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music''. Along with the ten-volume encyclopedia, Larkin also wrote the book ''All Time Top 1000 Albums'', and edited th ...
's ''All Time Top 1000 Albums
''All Time Top 1000 Albums'' is a book by Colin Larkin, creator and editor of the ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music''. The book was first published by Guinness Publishing in 1994. The list presented is the result of over 200,000 votes cast by the ...
''. 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.
Track listing
Original release
:
40th anniversary deluxe box set
Disc one – original release
# "Jumpin' Jack Flash" – 4:03
# "Carol" – 3:46
# "Stray Cat Blues" – 3:47
# "Love in Vain" – 4:56
# "Midnight Rambler" – 9:04
# "Sympathy for the Devil" – 6:51
# "Live With Me" – 3:02
# "Little Queenie" – 4:33
# "Honky Tonk Women" – 3:34
# "Street Fighting Man" – 4:04
Disc two – unreleased tracks
# " Prodigal Son" ( Robert Wilkins) – 4:04
# " You Gotta Move" ( Fred McDowell, Rev. Gary Davis) – 2:18
# " Under My Thumb" – 3:38
# " I'm Free" – 2:47
# "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. A product of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' songwriting partnership, it features a guitar riff by Richards that opens and drives the song. The riff is w ...
" – 5:38
Disc three – opening sets
# " Everyday I Have the Blues" – 2:27
# " How Blue Can You Get" – 5:30
# "That's Wrong Little Mama" – 4:11
# "Why I Sing The Blues" – 5:16
# "Please Accept My Love" – 4:52
# " Gimme Some Loving" – 0:49
# " Sweet Soul Music" – 1:16
# " Son of a Preacher Man" – 2:49
# "Proud Mary
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" – 3:07
# " I've Been Loving You Too Long" – 5:40
# "Come Together
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" – 3:36
# " Land of a Thousand Dances" – 2:40
Disc four – bonus DVD (2.0 and 5.1)
# Introduction (Madison Square Garden)
# "Prodigal Son" – 2:40
# "You Gotta Move" – 1:58
# Photo shoot (of album cover) – 3:30
# Keith in studio – 1:40
# "Under My Thumb" / "I'm Free" / Backstage with Jimi Hendrix
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– 6:09
# "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" / Outside waiting for transport – 10:45
# Credits
Bonus track recording dates
Audio
# "Prodigal Son" – 4:04
# "You Gotta Move" – 2:18
# "Under My Thumb" – 3:38
# "I'm Free" – 2:47
# "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 5:38
Video
# "Prodigal Son" – 2:40
# "You Gotta Move" – 1:50
# "Under My Thumb" – 3:30
# "I'm Free" – 1:30
# "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" – 6:00
Personnel
* Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician. He is known as the lead singer and one of the founder members of The Rolling Stones. Jagger has co-written most of the band's songs with lead guitarist Keith Richards; Jagge ...
– vocals; harmonica on "Midnight Rambler"
* Keith Richards
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– guitar, backing vocals
* Mick Taylor
Michael Kevin Taylor (born 17 January 1949) is an English guitarist, best known as a former member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1967–1969) and the Rolling Stones (1969–1974). As a member of the Stones, h ...
– guitar
* Bill Wyman
William George Wyman ( né Perks; born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who was the bass guitarist with the rock band the Rolling Stones from 1962 to 1993. Wyman was part of the band's first stable lineup and performed on their first 19 ...
– bass guitar
* Charlie Watts
Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English musician who was the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.
Originally trained as a Graphic designer, graphic artist, Watts developed an interest i ...
– drums
Additional musicians
* Ian Stewart – piano on "Carol", "Little Queenie" and "Honky Tonk Women"
Production
* Recording and mixing engineer – Glyn Johns
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* Mixing and editing – Andy Johns and Roy Thomas Baker
* Tape operator – Chris Kimsey
* Photography – David Bailey
* Art director – John Kosh
* Recording by Wally Heider Mobile
Charts
Certifications
References
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1970 live albums
2009 video albums
Albums produced by Glyn Johns
The Rolling Stones live albums
1970s live video albums
ABKCO Records live albums
Decca Records live albums
ABKCO Records video albums
London Records live albums
Albums produced by Mick Jagger
Albums produced by Mick Taylor
Albums produced by Keith Richards
Albums produced by Charlie Watts
Albums produced by Bill Wyman
Albums recorded at Madison Square Garden
The Rolling Stones documentary films
The Rolling Stones video albums