While the performances on this tour are generally considered to be the Stones at the absolute peak of their maturity and power as performers, the set list varied only nominally from that of the previous year's summer tour of the United States. Gone were 'Rocks Off', 'Love In Vain', and 'Bye Bye Johnny', with 'Bitch' being played for the first couple shows in Vienna along with '100 Years Ago' and 'Silver Train' (which was dropped for being too similar to 'All Down the Line' and wasn't played again until decades later (2017 in Japan).
The real curios from this period are the Goat's Head Soup tracks that were rehearsed but never played live including 'Hide Your Love' and 'Can You Hear the Music'. There exists very shoddy recordings of these tunes in rehearsal that are nonetheless fascinating...if a little meandering...jams.
The greatest live recordings of their entire career, in terms of both recording and performance, are far and away the 1973 Brussels and London recordings that were broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour (thanks to that copyright anal retentive / cultural Philistine Allen Klein, no Stones tune recorded before their departure to Atlantic in 1971 could be released on record). Bootlegged for decades with varying degrees of quality, under names like Nasty Songs, Nasty Music, Brussels Affair, Rock Out Cock Out and Bed Spring Symphony among innumerable others, the recordings were finally cleaned up, remixed and remastered and officially released as part of the From the Vaults series of 'official' bootlegs.
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