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Flashpoint (album)
Flashpoint is a live album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, their first since 1982's Still Life. Compiled from performances on the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour by Chris Kimsey with the assistance of Chris Potter, it was released in 1991. Steel Wheels Live (2020) includes a complete 1989 concert along with a selection of live rarities.
The tour and the two studio tracks recorded for Flashpoint were the last for bassist and long-time member Bill Wyman as a Rolling Stone.
Recorded across North America, Europe and Japan, Flashpoint is also the first Rolling Stones release of the 1990s and, unlike previous live sets, includes two new studio tracks. "Highwire" had been released as a single earlier in 1991 and was a comment on the Gulf War. "Sex Drive" was described by Chris Jagger – Mick's brother – as "basically a dance-track", and got a release in July of that year as the third and last single from the album.
Although the live selections are mostly familiar hits mixed in with new tracks from Steel Wheels, Flashpoint also includes lesser-known songs like "Factory Girl" from 1968's Beggars Banquet and "Little Red Rooster", originally a No. 1 UK hit single in 1964, featured here with special guest Eric Clapton on guitar. According to Chris Jagger, some of the backing vocals were re-recorded and Ron Wood added guitar to three tracks afterwards.
Flashpoint was recorded using binaural recording. This gives the effect that the concert audience is behind the home listener when heard on headphones.
A snippet was taken from the band's 1970 live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, where a fan shouts: "'Paint It Black', 'Paint It Black', you devil". It is audible between "Ruby Tuesday" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want".
As Flashpoint was the Rolling Stones' final release under their contract with Sony Music, the band signed a new lucrative long-term worldwide deal with Virgin Records in 1991, with the exception of Bill Wyman.
After 30 years with the band, the 55-year-old Wyman decided that he had other interests he wanted to pursue and felt that, considering the size of the recently completed Steel Wheels project and tour, it was fitting to bow out at that time.
Flashpoint (album)
Flashpoint is a live album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, their first since 1982's Still Life. Compiled from performances on the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour by Chris Kimsey with the assistance of Chris Potter, it was released in 1991. Steel Wheels Live (2020) includes a complete 1989 concert along with a selection of live rarities.
The tour and the two studio tracks recorded for Flashpoint were the last for bassist and long-time member Bill Wyman as a Rolling Stone.
Recorded across North America, Europe and Japan, Flashpoint is also the first Rolling Stones release of the 1990s and, unlike previous live sets, includes two new studio tracks. "Highwire" had been released as a single earlier in 1991 and was a comment on the Gulf War. "Sex Drive" was described by Chris Jagger – Mick's brother – as "basically a dance-track", and got a release in July of that year as the third and last single from the album.
Although the live selections are mostly familiar hits mixed in with new tracks from Steel Wheels, Flashpoint also includes lesser-known songs like "Factory Girl" from 1968's Beggars Banquet and "Little Red Rooster", originally a No. 1 UK hit single in 1964, featured here with special guest Eric Clapton on guitar. According to Chris Jagger, some of the backing vocals were re-recorded and Ron Wood added guitar to three tracks afterwards.
Flashpoint was recorded using binaural recording. This gives the effect that the concert audience is behind the home listener when heard on headphones.
A snippet was taken from the band's 1970 live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, where a fan shouts: "'Paint It Black', 'Paint It Black', you devil". It is audible between "Ruby Tuesday" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want".
As Flashpoint was the Rolling Stones' final release under their contract with Sony Music, the band signed a new lucrative long-term worldwide deal with Virgin Records in 1991, with the exception of Bill Wyman.
After 30 years with the band, the 55-year-old Wyman decided that he had other interests he wanted to pursue and felt that, considering the size of the recently completed Steel Wheels project and tour, it was fitting to bow out at that time.