Music News
5/13/2010
Rolling Stones producer Don Was says that there are easily enough gems in the band's vaults to release 10 new high quality studio albums. Was, who remixed and co-produced the newly finished tracks on the upcoming Exile On Main Street reissue due out on May 18th, told Rolling Stone that if he had his druthers he'd dip next into the band's late '70s Paris sessions, saying, "There's a lot from the Some Girls and Emotional Rescue period. There are eight or nine really good songs that don't go on the album each time for some reason -- maybe there's too many ballads or something like that. But they could make a lot of albums from unused material."
Was says that the songs could make up a new collection -- rather than be tacked onto past Stones classics: "I don't know if it's got to be linked to a specific album -- It doesn't have to be for musicologists. Maybe you just put 10 great songs together from a long time ago, like 'Give Me A Hamburger,' which was recorded a little to early to make the new Exile. You could do 10 albums like that, easy."
The Stones are a band with no shortage of unreleased material. Was told us that he was presented with days worth of unreleased tracks from 1970 to 1972 while picking the 10 outtakes for the revamped Exile On Main Street: "I went through hundreds of ours of tape, I don't even know . . . Y'know, initially they sent me, Mick (Jagger) and Keith (Richards) sent me at least 40 songs or song fragments, so we really tried to choose the things that we wouldn't have to do much to."
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