I found this on my harddisk in a file called "Down to the Wire"

The artwork says 11 track but my file has 21 tracks so the artwork and the tracks don't belong to one and other ....... or there must be artworks for cd #2 missing.


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Thanks Vox for this info;

What the Critics Say
This bootleg should be better than it is. Touted as a collection of "alternate studio instrumentals 1966-1971," some of it sounds like single-stereo-track knock-offs from the odd non-American Stones Decca CDs. On the other hand, some of it sounds really cool, especially if you like Keith Richards, Nicky Hopkins, Bill Wyman et al, and part of it is a karaoke enthusiast's dream. The instrumental tracks off Between the Buttons are the best part -- the Stones were running on seven cylinders at that point, with Brian Jones mostly having put aside his guitar, and the prominence of the bass, and of piano and organ in their mixes, is one consequence of this. The Kinks were starting to go through a similar transition, and their Face to Face has numerous similarities to Between the Buttons. "Complicated," "She Smiled Sweetly" (where the piano is the lead instrument), "All Sold Out," "My Obsession," and "Cool Calm Collected" reveal this new configuration to the Stones' music, which carried them for two albums. "Miss Amanda Jones," by contrast, represents the old Stones, with Keith Richards' manic guitars incredibly crisp and completely unbridled. And the presence of "Stupid Girl" from Aftermath, before their sound fully changed, shows just what they lost between 1966 and 1967. The Satanic Majesties tracks sound are a weird bunch, partly finished tracks with backing vocals, as near as this reviewer can tell -- "Citadel" has all kinds of strange stuff on it, including what sounds like a Mellotron subbing for an oboe. The Beggar's Banquet stuff is just plain uneven. The Let It Bleed songs are fun, and show the Stones getting their old loud guitar sound back again. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi

Review

by Dave Thompson

Hello, children, and today on "How to Make a Ripoff Bootleg" we're going to show you how to create an album's worth of instrumental studio out-fakes. Follow these instructions and, before you know it, you too could be taking candy from babies. What is it about the Rolling Stones that encourages so many clumsy fakes? All those Bill Wyman-produced End tracks that once reappeared as rare Beatles/Stones collaborations, the 1966 "live" album with the screaming omitted, masquerading as rare studio outtakes, and so on and so forth -- until listeners hit rock bottom, the stax'o'trax karaoke boom that has been exposed so many times that it's impossible to believe people are still trying it on. First, take one of those old mock stereo Stones albums that London used to specialize in, with instruments in one channel, vocals in the other. Record the instrumental channel alone, then have your computer convert it into its own type of stereo. Dim the levels for any obtrusive vocal passages -- the a cappella bit of "Let's Spend the Night Together," for instance (but watch out for that static crackling when you turn down the sound). Ignore the fact that sometimes, on "She's a Rainbow" for instance, there are disembodied vocals hanging around in both channels, and hope no one actually listens to this on headphones, where the vocal bleed is in any case so pronounced that listeners might as well be hearing the original record. Slam through every track you can think of where there's a degree of separation, and what do you have? Down to the Wire -- which is, of course, simply another way of saying "reaching the end," or "scraping the barrel," or any one of a dozen phrases that ultimately denotes last-ditch desperation. Much of this has already appeared on other boots, where the sting is usually partially removed by the inclusion of a few bona fide rarities. By that token, then, Down to the Wire does serve some purpose, compiling together the worst of a lot of other albums, and if Colosseum is stuck for a follow-up, how's this? Record the other channel off the original albums, the music-less vocals that are such fun on headphones, run a few tapes together, then add a bit of echo. Hey, presto! The great lost Stones' Gregorian chant album.



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Thx for the upload.

here the links for the 21 track cover

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Outfakes - read the links vox12string posted!

Nice fakes though