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Gimme Shelter: Deconstructed

The intertubes provided the separated tracks from one of the Stones’ most iconic songs (and recordings) of all time. I took those and built a little player that lets you turn each individual track on and off while you listen.  Don’t like Charlie’s drums? Turn them off. Want to hear only the lead guitar? Turn everything else off.  Want to hear Mick tell Keith to go f**k himself when he flubs a note? Sorry, that’s not on this recording… or any recording that I’m aware of.

But seriously, I love the little imperfections. Just goes to show how unimportant it is to deliver a 100% flawless performance.  The little mistakes give it life.

And around the 3:00 minute mark if you isolate the two vocal tracks you can hear Merry Clayton’s voice crack (twice)… that just gives me chills. Immediately after Mick cries “Whoo!”.  Damn right, Mick.

posted on Thursday, June 9th, 2011 at 6:45 am in Interweb, Jukebox, Music, Wow
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5 responses to Gimme Shelter: Deconstructed

  1. Sally says

    AMAZING!!!!

    June 9th, 2011 at 8:03 am
  2. Paul says

    So awesome. It would be cool to have this so that you could save different presets (and possibly share). For example… I turned on only the bass and lead guitars and that would be a perfect elevator version…

    June 9th, 2011 at 9:16 am
  3. steve says

    that’s a cool idea, paul.

    June 9th, 2011 at 9:27 am
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