Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sat down with Today Show’s Matt Lauer to discuss tomorrow’s reissue of 1972’s enduring Stones classic, Exile on Main Street.
The album was primarily recorded in the notorious makeshift basement studio of Keith Richards’ villa in the south of France, where the Stones headed in the spring of 1971 in order to avoid paying taxes.
A consistent seller since debuting at number one in June 1972, tomorrow’s reissue will be available in a standard remastered 18-track CD, a double-vinyl edition and two deluxe issues — a double-CD edition set and a super deluxe set containing two CDs, a DVD, box two vinyl discs and a book. View pre-order purchase options here.
But its biggest selling point is the addition of 10 never-before-heard tracks that accompany both deluxe additions.
“I think there’s kind of six tracks that were never released and then alternate versions of some of the songs,” Jagger tells Lauer.
"Tumbling Dice"! This from the new (June 2010) issue of Guitar World … "Exile is awash in great guitar hooks based around Richards’ signature five string open G tuning (omitting the low E string and tuned, low to high, G D G B D). He’d first used this tuning on "Honky Tonk Women" in 1969 and had integrated it into his approach more and more thoroughly on "Let It Bleed" and "Sticky Fingers". But it really explodes on "Exile" and and is the secret behind riff-mad classics like "Rocks Off". "Tumbling Dice" and "Happy". – Alan Di Perna
"I was really bathing in that stuff at the time, finding out more and more about tunings as I was going along." Keith Richards
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