[jon]

I was actually thinking about that album tonight and how difficult it must have been to get a decent sound out of that chateau basement...

As I understand it, the Stone's albums were mostly long, very drawn-out affairs. It took them forever to come up with the goods sometimes. One of their engineers commented on how difficult it was for him to watch the world's finest rock'n roll rhythm section fall apart, night after night, going around the song a hundred different times and ways.

I wonder, though, how much editing (tape splicing) was involved as opposed to just overdubbing or doing many takes until the feeling was there on the basic tracks.