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With the advent of the Big Rock Show in the 1960s came the companion Big Rock Live Album: Within a year or two of the Stones releasing <i>Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!</i> in 1970, The Who, Allman Brother, Cream, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Grand Funk Railroad, and Joe Cocker all had them, and by the end of the decade it wasn’t uncommon for live albums—think Ki, Peter Frampton, and Cheap Trick—to outshine their studio counterpart. Did you need proof that The Rolling Stones could sound as powerful onstage as they did on record? Here you have it, with unusually untamed Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger banter to boot. The addition of Mick Taylor earlier in the year—after the firing and then sudden death of Brian Jones—gave the band a more elastic, improvisational edge: Taylor had come from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers (where he’d replaced Peter Green, who replaced Eric Clapton) and, at just 20, probably had more experience with improvisation than the rest of the Stones combined. .

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