Heartland

I was cleaning up my hard drive and found this different version of Gimme Shelter. It says it's the "single version." It's shorter than what is on SGWBM but it could just be a vinyl rip of the version on the Temple Of Love Vinyl.

Tell me what you think:
http://tinyurl.com/k4cqr
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I'm guessing it's a rip from a bootleg containing the singles. Having listened to my TOL vinyl, I can say itt's certainly not good enough to be a direct vinyl-to-mp3 rip, qualitywise.

Unless it's an pre-mastered unmixed "demo" version, otherwise, I haven't a clue.

its a crock time

nick the stripper wrote:its a crock time

Yup. I slowed it down to the original 5:55 and it sounds much more similar to the SGWBM/Temple vinyl.

Channel balance is way way off also, and dynamics are savagely compressed.

Unless I'm very much wrong and you do have some genuine gold here, I'm guessing it's either some poxy bootlegger's attempt at "manufacturing" a demo, or a dreadful recording from vinyl made with a lousy TT.

Edit: Or both.

and what about the version of TOL on "shadow of angel" lp ?
for me pretty the 7 inch version, no demo at all

Or the "Kiss The Carpet" demo? Pish, it's the original.

If nothing else, the Train demo's a bit weird, since it's only 6:59, rather than Long Train (7:24) and Train (2:37).