The recording truck used for recording the Stones had just dropped off the tapes and as the crew gave them to me,  I loaded them onto our Studer 24 track tape machines, in straggled Ian Stewart, Keith,Mick, Ronnie,Charlie and Bill, to hear the fruits of their El Mocambo dates…

It was early the next morning after the Stones last performance, but everybody..well almost everybody, were anxious to hear what was recorded. Keith saw our famously comfortable couch, lay down and slept, (I think) for the initial session. We played a lot of reels , listening to the two evenings performances, , which Mick, Eddie Kramer and the engineer, studio owner Jeff Smith, would confer about..then they seemed to decide on what the next steps should be…