Back From Ireland With Some Outtakes

She Belongs To Yesterday- The Rolling Stones MP3


Paint It Black (Instrumental)- The Rolling Stones MP3

9/5/11

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Sierra Nevada Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale- Brouweji Lane- Greenpoint, Brooklyn- 32 oz- Poured in to Snifter Glass- 5.5% ABV

Head- About a a half finger of dense tan colored head. Some small clusters of lacing.

Color- Dark brown but when held to the light there quite a bit of red highlights.

Mouthfeel- Medium to medium heavy mouth feel. Smooth, good texture. Actve carbonation.

Aroma- Malty, breadieness. Sweetness.

Taste/ Overall- A smooth beer and very easy to drink. Though it is the unofficial last day of summer I chose a seasonal, autumnal beer because none of the other offerings at the store really interested me. There was a pumpkin beer but I felt like it was a bit early for that, but, I am looking forward to drinking some of those again soon. This is ale is really enjoyable. A definite sweetness and an unabashed maltiness. Probably not the perfect beer for today but give it another 4-6 weeks and this will be a go to ale for a late fall afternoon while watching football or listening to music. I will definitely pick this up as a six pack if I see it in a local store.

On the turntable is As Time Goes By- Brilliant Outtakes From The Early Years- The Rolling Stones- Its been over three weeks since my first post but that wasn't due to apathy or fading interest. More specifically we were in Ireland for the last two weeks and the week prior to leaving I was running around preparing for the trip. It was a great trip but its good to be home. Below I added a picture of my Guinness Stout from the Guinness Brewery Gravity Bar following our brewery tour. Definitely the freshest Guinness I will ever have!



Visiting the brewery renewed my appreciation for this marvelous stout and in my opinion Guinness does taste just a tad better in Ireland. They don't have many varieties of beer over there but we did get to drink Smithwicks, Beamish Stout, Carlsburg and Carling while we were there and enjoyed them all.

Onto the music. I didn't find much in the way of records while I was in Ireland but in all honestly I was not really there to dig for records. However I did buy one record our first day there at a small store which was closing up shop in Temple Bar, Dublin . The stores vinyl stock was mostly bootleg LP's for some reason, at least when I was there. I was hoping to find some interesting Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison or The Pogues boots but I didn't really see anything which really grabbed me. Additionally most of the LP's were 20-50 Euros which is expensive and I did not really want to spend more than 15 Euros which is basically like $20. So I picked up the above mentioned LP of early Rolling Stones outtakes for a discounted price of 12 Euros which wasn't bad and I was genuinely intrigued by the LP. The tracks range from 1963-1966 and were recorded at Chess Studios, Regent Sound In London and RCA Studios in Hollywood.





First off this seems to be a high grade pressing. Maybe 180 grams, feels like it. It also includes some nice photos on the labels. I don't often listen to early 60's era stones but this is a great reminder of how good they were then and even at that time had a pretty polished sound. Polished in the sense of a group who could really swing and had already had taken great steps in crafting both an attitude and sound even when covering other musicians material. The track Good Bye Girl is a great example of the boys finding there groove with some tasty keyboard licks, Chuck Berry styled guitar riffs and some nice call and response vocals. A real oddity here is the inclusion Con Le Mie Lacrime the Stones Italian version of Heart Of Stone. Odd indeed. I have include two tracks above. First is This Girl Belongs To Yesterday which was written by Jagger and Richards but never released as a Stones tune and was given to singer Gene Pitney and proved to be a hit for him in 1964. I think it is a well written song and shows the direction the two principal songwriters in the Stones were headed to in the mid sixties. Lyrically it demonstrates a psychedelic feeling even though musically it has all the hallmarks of song produced in the early 60's. The second song is a instrumental version of Paint It Black one of my all time favorite Stones tunes. I was introduced to this song as a grade school kid when it served as the theme song for the CBS television show Tour Of Duty which was about a platoon during the Vietnam War.