Rolling Stones
Take No Prisoners Live 1972
0:00 Brown Sugar (1972-07-20 Phila)
3:20 Bitch (1972-07-20 Phila)
7:41 Rocks Off (1972-07-06 Charlotte)
11:25 Gimme Shelter (1972-07-20 Phila)
16:11 Love In Vain (1972-06-24 Ft. Worth 1st show)
22:25 Sweet Virginia (1972-07-21 Phila 1st show)
26:30 Happy (1972-06-24 Ft. Worth 1st show)
29:15 Tumbling Dice (1972-07-20 Phila)
33:40 All Down The Line (1972-06-03 Vancouver)
38:15 Bye Bye Johnny (1972-07-20 Phila)
41:18 Rip This Joint (1972-07-20 Phila)
43:22 Jumpin' Jack Flash (1972-07-20 Phila)
46:41 Street Fighting Man (1972-06-24 Ft. Worth 1st show)
50:38 Uptight/(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (with Stevie Wonder & Wonderlove)(1972-07-20 Phila)
Compiled from classic boots Very Ancient Thank You Kindly, Unreleased Decca Live Album, Philly Special about 20 years ago.
Excerpt from Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles-A Biography, by James L Desper Jr., an excellent history of the band. Edited by Flip.
Allen Klein had entered the music business as an accountant, ferreting out sums owed to recording artists by their record companies. From there he'd progressed to artist management and what became his specialty: he helped successful acts break or renegotiate their existing recording/publishing agreements. He would then sign these artists to even more arcane and punitive contracts, but since they hadn't understood the original contracts they didn't pay that much attention to the new ones either. They just knew they were getting a nice chunk of money, many of them for the first time. Then they would wake up one day and realize he owned them. That's what happened to the Rolling Stones. By 1968, Mick Jagger had realized they'd been screwed, and good. A few weeks before John's meeting with Klein, merchant banker Prince Rupert Loewenstein had been approached about handling the Stones financial affairs. "Mick's strategy in dealing with Allen Klein was fairly diabolical," Marianne Faithfull later wrote, "He would fob Klein off on the Beatles. It was a bit of a dirty trick, but once Mick had distracted Klein's attention by giving him bigger fish to fry, Mick could begin unraveling the Stones ties to him." Paul said in Anthology that Jagger told him, "Oh, he's all right if you like that kind of thing." If Jagger said that, he was lying. By then he knew what Klein had done to the Stones. Why wouldn't he do it to the Beatles as well? It's been reported that Mick had a last-minute change of heart and sent Paul a note about Klein that said, "Don't go near him." There was also the story of the meeting at which he was supposedly going to tell John to avoid Klein, but since Klein was present Mick held his tongue. Tony Bramwell said that both Mick and Keith warned John about Klein, but John ignored them. Once again, the truth of the matter is difficult to discern.
The Stones hardly escaped unscathed from Klein's clutches, the price being ownership of all their '60s master recordings and the publishing rights to all of their songs from that period. When they finally parted company with Klein in 1970, the Stones' accountants figured that Klein owed them $17 million, but they finally settled for only $2 million. Why did they give up $15 million and all they'd worked so hard for in the last seven years? They told the press it was because they didn't want to go through years of litigation, but there was another factor at work: Intimidation, pure and simple. Klein had connections with some very powerful, very bad people. They may have been familiar with the story of Sam Cooke, Klein's first management client, who'd been killed under mysterious circumstances while Klein ended up with the rights to his publishing and master recordings for a measly $500,000. Then there was the sorry fate of the Stones' former guitarist Brian Jones. When Brian left the band he was promised a one-time payment of £100,000 and then £20,000 a year for as long as the Stones stayed together - money that would have to be paid out of what Klein was "holding" for the Stones. Jones got a phone call from Klein's office saying that his £100,000 was on its way, but ended up dead on the bottom of his swimming pool that same night. There's no evidence directly tying Klein to either death that I am aware of, but the coincidence, and the implications, were obvious and ominous.
At first, the Stones benefited from Klein's hard-nosed style. Keith Richards later credited Klein with breaking them worldwide, saying, "Allen Klein made us and screwed us at the same time." There were rumors that certain pressures were brought to bear that resulted in Mick and Keith escaping prison as a result of their drug bust in 1967. They even joked about Klein's record promotion guy, Pete Bennett, being their "Mafia Promo Man." But when push came to shove, they wanted out, and to stay in one piece, so they paid the price...
