1968-February  (possibly continuing into March)

Rolling Stones		1968 Surrey Rehearsals  (Vinyl Gang)

R.G. Jones Studios	Surrey, England


Disc 1  -  43.34
1	Rock Me Baby			 .41
2	Stray Cat Blues			5.34
3	Untitled			5.50
4	Hold On, I'm Coming		4.08
5	Jumpin' Jack Flash		2.17
6	Untitled			2.42
7	Some Satisfaction		2.49
8	Rock Me Baby			 .40
9	I'll Coming Home		7.38
10	Untitled			2.19
11	Conversations			8.51


These sessions probably represent the biggest turning point in the 
Stones' career.  Prior to this, the Stones' had experimented with 
mid 60's psychedelia (Satanic Majesties) and prior to that, mid 60's 
pop rock.  These sessions were the debut of the Jumping Jack Flash 
sounding Stones and the beginning of the most fruitful, yet 
decadent period of their career.



	Below review is courtesy of:	John Mazcko



"1968 Surrey Rehearsals" captures the Stones doing some of their rawest 
sounding jams of their career!! For the most part these tracks are 
continuous and unedited as well!! However you can't hear the vocals and a 
few tracks will hurt your ears a bit if played a little loud!! Most of 
these songs are early in their stages of development so they don't really 
sound "good", but it is an interesting bootleg!!

"Rock Me Baby" starts out sounding like one of the greatest blues covers 
the Stones ever did, but then the song is unfortunately cut. Then the song 
pops up later in the et and the same thing happens. Each time, only about 
a minute of each song is heard.  "Stray Cat Blues" may be the best track 
on here. This is an early version with great and loud guitar playing. 
This song came a long way!! Then the band stops and slowly gets into a 
hard rock song similar to "Stray Cat Blues" which is the first "Untitled". 
"Hold on I'm Coming" is a pretty good unreleased hard rock song based 
around Charlie's drumming. In the background, you can hear Jagger spitting 
lyrics out left and right!! "Jumpin Jack Flash" sounds like crap. There is 
staticy sounds coming from the guitar and the monitors sound awful! The next 
"Untitled" is a jam song. After that is "Some Satisfaction" which has 
nothing to do with the song "Satisfaction". This song has some lyrics at 
the beginning and has a lead guitar playing that is the same one found on a 
famous R&B song from 60's. "I'll Coming Home" is a cool blues song with 
lots of guitar, harmonica, as well as some developed lyrics, however it 
stops playing after a couple of minutes and the band does a little of 
their own experimenting with their instruments.  The last "Untitled" is 
a rolling guitar track that doesn't go anywhere!