A New Rolling Stones Live Album!
Grrr Live! is Actually Pretty Grrreat
A new Rolling Stones live album is about as newsworthy as any overused "breaking news" banner is on CNN or MSNBC: "Merrick Garland sneezed today..." "George Santos lied about..." Let me know when the trials start.
This by my count is the 13th official live Stones release. But Grrr Live!, recorded in Newark, NJ, at the Prudential Center in December 15, 2012, is the first to grab my attention since. . . Get Yer Ya-Yas Out in 1970. Ultimate Classic Rock magazine (UCR) ranked a dozen Stones' live albums in June 2022, and named Ya-Ya's the Stones best. The first Stones concert album, Got Live if You Want It (1966) was from the prehistoric era of stage recording. Supposedly at the Royal Albert Hall, there were out of control fans and erratic miking. Exciting for its era, but not quite authentic: Producer/manager Andrew Loog Oldham resorted to a mish-mash of other live recordings, and overdubbed crowd noises on two studio tracks for the LP release.
It figured at the time that the Stones would …
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