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Date Posted: 19:06:46 07/10/05 Sun
Author: Rob Weingartner
Subject: Rolling Stones TRUE STEREO Petition

In 2002, Abkco Records released �The Rolling Stones Remastered Series� on a new format called SACD (Super Audio Compact Disc). When Abkco did this they released several songs for the first time in true stereo. Albums like 12 x 5 and The Rolling Stones, Now!, were done this way. Every song that appeared in stereo on these two albums were the only songs recorded in stereo. The other songs that are in mono were recorded that way. In other words, stereo versions of those songs simply don�t exist. My question is how come Abkco did this for 12x5 and The Rolling Stones, Now!, but not for Out Of Our Heads (US and UK), December�s Children (and everybody�s), Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), Flowers, Through The Past, Darkly, Hot Rocks, and More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies)? The latter six albums have some songs in stereo and some they left in mono, but were recorded in stereo. Abkco states in their press release at the time that the true stereo mixes will replace the mono counterparts on (I Can�t Get No) Satisfaction and Heart Of Stone. No they don�t. This version of Satisfaction is dreadful. It has no sound separation like a true stereo mix should have. You should hear different instruments come out of each speaker. It sounds slightly different than the original mono version but is still not the true stereo version they claim. And Heart Of Stone is in true stereo on every album except the UK Out Of Our Heads. Mother�s Little Helper is only in true stereo on the UK Aftermath, but is in mono on every other album. I have never seen a collection done like this before. Whenever a record label remasters a catalogue of a particular group, what they normally do is replace the mono version with the stereo version on every album in which that song appears. After all, that�s what Abkco did with Paint It Black, It�s All Over Now, and Time Is On My Side. Maybe there is a method to Abkco�s madness, but I can�t figure it out for the life of me.

This is where it gets mind boggling. Three other songs, Play With Fire, (I Can�t Get No) Satisfaction, and Get Off Of My Cloud were released in true stereo on the German and Japanese Hot Rocks which came out on Compact Disc in 1985, so why wouldn�t Abkco include them on the �Remastered Series� from 2002? On the �Remastered Series� these three songs are nowhere near as clear as on these CD�s and do not have the sound separation like a true stereo version should. Also, in 1985 Abkco released a box set called �The Rolling Stones Original Master Recordings� which also included the true stereo version of Get Off Of My Cloud. Over the years there have been several bootlegs which have included the true stereo versions of these three songs, plus others. The sound quality is not all that great but at least you can hear them in stereo. Why would these songs appear on bootlegs of all places? I find this to be quite baffling.

I am asking for your help. I have started on Online petition for people to sign to encourage Abkco Records to release the songs listed below in true stereo. We need to let Abkco Records know there is a demand to release the true stereo versions of these songs. It has been over 40 years since these songs were released, but we have never heard them the way they were actually recorded - in TRUE STEREO. Over the years, other record labels have remastered records by other Sixties artists, and in doing so have completely expunged mono versions from their catalog and replaced them for true-stereo versions. Why doesn�t ABKCO Records do this with The Rolling Stones catalogue?

The petition can be signed at the following link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/brian69/petition.html

Listed below are the following songs the Rolling Stones recorded in true stereo that were not included on Abkco�s �Rolling Stones Remastered Series:�

The Last Time
Play With Fire
(I Can�t Get No) Satisfaction (Abkco claims it�s in stereo)
Get Off Of My Cloud
As Tears Go By
Mercy Mercy
Hitch Hike
That�s How Strong My Love Is
I�m Free
The Singer Not The Song
She Said Yeah
Blue Turns To Grey
Gotta Get Away
The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
Good Times
Cry To Me
The Spider And The Fly
One More Try
19th Nervous Breakdown
Sad Day
Long Long While
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?
Who�s Driving Your Plane?.

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