"The Rolling Stones" Thread

[Angel]

....though I swear I only saw him playing a Strat when they were at the Kingdome on that tour...... but then, I was in the nosebleed seats

I still regret missing that one. They had a sweet deal in Victoria. $100 for ticket, bus and ferry, and a t-shirt.

[chefcraig]

Some news bits...

CROSSFIRE HURRICANE – A NEW FILM FROM THE ROLLING STONES

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The Rolling Stones, the rock ‘n’ roll icons who have defined creativity, daring and durability, are to be chronicled in a kaleidoscopic new film that documents the key periods of their career and their incredible adventures.

Crossfire Hurricane, directed by Brett Morgen, provides a remarkable new perspective on the Stones’ unparalleled journey from blues-obsessed teenagers in the early 60’s to rock royalty. It’s all here in panoramic candour, from the Marquee Club to Hyde Park, from Altamont to Exile, from club gigs to stadium extravaganzas.

The film in the UK will receive a theatrical release and can be seen by Stones fans in selected cinemas across the country in October. It will also be premiered on HBO in the USA and broadcast on BBC Two later in the year.

With never-before-seen footage and fresh insights from the band themselves, the film will delight, shock and amaze longtime devotees, as well as another generation of fans, with its uniquely immersive style and tone. Crossfire Hurricane places the viewer right on the frontline of the band’s most legendary escapades.

Taking its title from a lyric in “Jumping Jack Flash”, Crossfire Hurricane gives the audience an intimate insight, for the first time, into exactly what it’s like to be part of the Rolling Stones, as they overcame denunciation, drugs, dissensions and death to become the definitive survivors. It’s the backstage pass to outdo them all.

The odyssey includes film from the Stones’ initial road trips and first controversies as they became the anti-Beatles, the group despised by authority because they connected and communicated with their own generation as no one ever had. “When we got together,” says Wyman, “something magical happened, and no one could ever copy that.”

From the outset of the film, viewers know they’re in for a white-knuckle ride. No sooner had the early Stones line-up first played live under that name in the summer of 1962 than they were bigger than the venues that tried to hold them. Wyman remembers how the crowds were soon inspiring manic behaviour, especially among screaming girls, whose uncontrollable excitement was obvious as stardom beckoned for the band already earmarked as the bad guys with press headlines, “Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?”

Riots and the chaos of early tours are graphically depicted, as is the birth of the Jagger-Richards songwriting partnership. The many dramas they encountered are also fully addressed, including the Redlands drug bust, the descent of Brian Jones into what Richards calls “bye-bye land,” and the terror and disillusionment of 1969’s Altamont Festival.

The band’s rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle is also discussed with extraordinary forthrightness, including at the time of their seminal 1972 album Exile On Main St, which topped the British charts both then and 38 years later with its deluxe reissue. Their very survival repeatedly under threat, we see how the Stones survived with a backs-to-the-wall spirit. “We may be going down,” says Keith, “but we’re not going down your way.”

The film illustrates the Stones’ evolution from being, as Mick vividly describes it, “the band everybody hated to the band everybody loves”: through the hedonistic 1970s and Keith’s turning-point bust in Canada to the spectacular touring phenomenon we know today. Richards also reveals the song that he believes defines the “essence” of his writing relationship with Jagger more than any other.

Asked in a formative interview in the film what it is that sets them apart from other groups, Jagger says with quiet understatement: “A chemical reaction seems to have happened.” Keith Richards added, “You can’t really stop the Rolling Stones, you know when that sort of avalanche is facing you, you just get out of the way”. It’s been happening ever since, and the life and times of the Rolling Stones have never been as electrifyingly portrayed as they are in Crossfire Hurricane.

Director Brett Morgen added, “Crossfire Hurricane invites the audience to experience firsthand the Stones’ nearly mythical journey from outsiders to rock and roll royalty. This is not an academic history lesson. Crossfire Hurricane allows the viewer to experience the Stones’ journey from a unique vantage point. It’s an aural and visual roller coaster ride.”

Worldwide distributors of Crossfire Hurricane are Eagle Rock Entertainment in London, with Tremelo Productions and Milkwood Films as the production companies.

Eagle Rock Entertainment Chairman and CEO, Terry Shand said: “We are very pleased to continue our association with the Rolling Stones visual rights agenda and their collaboration with such great filmmakers.”

As befits the first rock band to reach the 50-year milestone with their global stature now greater than ever, the film combines extensive historical footage, much of it widely unseen, with contemporary commentaries by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. Period interviews, extensive live performance material and news archive give the production a truly kinetic aura and no-holds-barred approach. Crossfire Hurricane has taken over a year to make and produce with the full cooperation of The Rolling Stones and will be released in November.

Get a load of the prices for these boxed sets. YIKES!


Rolling Stones to Release ‘Brussels Affair’ Vinyl Box Set

by: Dave Lifton UCR

Last year, the Rolling Stones offered the first official release of ‘The Brussels Affair,’ a much-bootlegged performance from their 1973 European tour, as a digital download. Yesterday (Aug. 29), the band announced that they are issuing the concert on vinyl in the form of three limited-edition box sets.

All three sets contain the concert in 180-gram vinyl, a book about the tour by Nick Kent that is signed by Mick Jagger, a book of rare photos from the shows, a lithograph and a watch with the Stones “Tongue and Lips” logo. The Platinum Edition features Jagger’s signature on the lithograph, and the Art Edition includes a silver gelatin print signed by official tour photographer Michael Putland.

Although the digital download can be bought for the low, low price of $7, the vinyl box sets will range from $750 for the Collector’s Edition to $1,500 for the Art Edition. But unlike the mp3s, quantities of the box sets are very limited. There are 1,727 copies of the Collector’s Edition, with even fewer copies of the Platinum (173) and Art (73) Editions available for sale.

The Stones are accepting pre-orders for the sets, which are expected to ship on or around Nov. 16, on their website.

[FORD]

$750 is the "cheap" version??

Think I'm gonna pass on this one, Mick. Even if you used the ORIGINAL mix, and not the Clearmountain mutation with Mick Taylor virtually inaudible (except for the solos) that would still be way too much.

[Zing!]

Mick Taylor better be involved with the 50th, that's all I'm sayin...

[FORD]

Mick Taylor better be involved with the 50th, that's all I'm sayin...

If they're only doing 4 shows in two cities, there's no excuse whatsoever for him and Wyman not to be there.

[VHscraps]

750 bucks? Wow. This trumps any special collectors reissue box-set I'm aware of. Last year's U2 Zoo reissue maxed out at somewhere around a couple of hundred, but I think that got you anout 20 items in the box.

It's a slightly disturbing trend towards pricing the good stuff at levels more suitable to unique, one-off, art objects.

That's not to say it's not art, and it's not fine stuff - just that by definition (and no matter how small the edition), it is mass-produced. It might cost a few percent of the selling price to actually produce this.

You kinda imagine that to a collector of the future an original vinyl version of the boot will be closer to the authentic, sought-after object.

[FORD]

Yeah, the Grateful Dead put out a $500 box set last year, but it was their entire 1972 European tour. Not just one concert that every true fan's already had in their bootleg collection for years.

[Mr Walker]

Rolling Stones Announce Greatest Hits Album with Two New Songs
Read more at http://www.billboard.com/news/rollin...Y83AMWIWMmK.99

The first new Rolling Stones recordings since 2005's "A Bigger Bang" will be included on "GRRR!," a new greatest hits collection set for a Nov. 13 release that will continue the band's 50th anniversary celebration.

"GRRR!" will be available in four formats: a 3-CD, 50-track collection with a 24-page booklet; a 3-CD, 50-track deluxe edition with a 36-page hardback book and five postcards; a 4-CD, 80-track "super deluxe edition" with a bonus CD, poster and other goodies; and a 50-track 12-inch vinyl box set. All formats will include classic Stones cuts like "Start Me Up," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Honky Tonk Women," "Jumping Jack Flash" and many more fan favorites.

"Gloom And Doom" and "One Last Shot," two new songs recorded by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood in Paris, will also be part of "GRRR!," as will new artwork from longtime band collaborator Walton Ford.

The November release of "GRRR!" coincides with four special shows that the Rolling Stones will play that month, two at London's O2 Arena and another pair at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. A source told Billboard last week that the shows, which will toast the band's 50th anniversary, will net the Stones $25 million.

Adding to the band's busy autumn is the release of "Crossfire Hurricane," a documentary from director Brett Morgen that traces the Stones' five-decade history. The film includes commentary from all four members of the group and will premiere on HBO on Nov. 15.

In September 2002, the Rolling Stones released "Forty Licks," a double-album compilation commemorating the group's 40th anniversary. The 40-song set has sold 2.5 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The veteran band has notched a record 36 top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart, including nine No. 1s. Its most recent chart-topper was 1981's "Tattoo You." Since then, they've racked up eight top five albums, with five of those reaching the top three. (That doesn't count the 2010 reissue of "Exile On Main St," which re-entered the chart at No. 2. "Exile" of course spent four weeks at No. 1 upon its initial release in 1972.)

In terms of singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the group has claimed 57 entries -- the second most among rock bands. (Only the Beatles have more, with 71.) The Stones own 23 top 10 singles, with eight of them going all the way to No. 1. Those include "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Paint It, Black," "Honky Tonk Women," "Brown Sugar" and "Miss You" -- all which will presumably be on the "Grrr!" compilation.

[FORD]

Here's the cover art......



Not sure what vampire gorillas have to do with a 50th anniversary, but what the Hell....

[twonabomber]

All formats will include classic Stones cuts like "Start Me Up," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "Honky Tonk Women," "Jumping Jack Flash" and many more fan favorites.

you know, the songs you've bought five or six times before...

hard to get psyched up for this one. too bad Demonoid is down.

[FORD]

Yeah. I wonder if there's going to be anything in the 80 track "super deluxe" version that's worthy of note. Checked the Stones website (which is where I found the cover) but there's no track info yet. (for any of the editions)

[FORD]

Meanwhile, the Stones have released the 4th concert in their archive series......



Tokyo (Live 1990)

Denied permission to play in Japan in 1973, the band were finally welcomed with open arms in 1990, when they played a ten night residency at the 55,000 capacity Tokyo Dome. This album was recorded at the show on 26th February, and features Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and Bill Wyman, who in August of that year, would play his last ever show with the Rolling Stones. The touring band included Bobby Keys, Chuck Leavell, Lisa Fischer, Cindy Mizelle, Bernard Fowler, Matt Clifford and the Uptown Horns. The Steel Wheels/ Urban Jungle tour became the highest grossing tour of all time. But it’s not just the figures that set this show apart from others, the Rolling Stones revisited songs from their psychedelic period such as “2000 Light Years From Home” and “Ruby Tuesday”, with cosmic results. In 2012 Bob Clearmountain applied the mix.

Track Listing:

1. Start Me Up
2. Bitch
3. Sad Sad Sad
4. Harlem Shuffle
5. Tumbling Dice
6. Miss You
7. Ruby Tuesday
8. Almost Hear You Sigh
9. Rock And A Hard Place
10. Mixed Emotions
11. Honky Tonk Women
12. Midnight Rambler
13. You Can`t Always Get What You Want
14. Can`t Be Seen
15. Happy
16. Paint It Black
17. 2000 Light Years From Home
18. Sympathy For The Devil
19. Gimme Shelter
20. Band Introductions
21. It`s Only Rock `n Roll
22. Brown Sugar
23. Satisfaction
24. Jumping Jack Flash

http://www.stonesarchive.com/bootlegs/tokyo-live-1990

Bad news of course, is that you can only get the REAL version outside of the US. Only the lossy MP3 shit on this side of the pond. Guess I'll have to find it elsewhere, just like I did LA Friday........

[FORD]

Actually kinda surprised they didn't go for the Atlantic City show from Steel Wheels tour. Maybe AxHole Rose wouldn't let them include his duet with Mick on "Salt of the Earth". He would be the kind of douche who would fuck something like that up.

[chefcraig]

Crap. For me, all ya need to buy are three Stones compilation albums (OK, you won't get a version of "The Last Time"). Yes, there are some tracks duplicated, sue me.

Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (1971)

1. Time Is on My Side
2. Heart of Stone
3. Play with Fire
4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
5. As Tears Go By
6. Get Off of My Cloud
7. Mother's Little Helper
8. 19th Nervous Breakdown
9. Paint It Black
10. Under My Thumb
11. Ruby Tuesday
12. Let's Spend the Night Together


1. Jumpin' Jack Flash
2. Street Fighting Man
3. Sympathy for the Devil
4. Honky Tonk Women
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Midnight Rambler [Live] - (live)
7. You Can't Always Get What You Want
8. Brown Sugar
9. Wild Horses

Made in the Shade (1975)

1. Brown Sugar
2. Tumbling Dice
3. Happy
4. Dance Little Sister
5. Wild Horses
6. Angie
7. Bitch
8. It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It)
9. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
10. Rip This Joint


Sucking in the Seventies (1981)

1. Shattered
2. Everything Is Turning To Gold
3. Hot Stuff
4. Time Waits For No One
5. Fool To Cry
6. Mannish Boy
7. When The Whip Comes Down (Live Version)
8. If I Was A Dancer (Dance Pt.2)
9. Crazy Mama
10. Beast Of Burden

Arguably, you could add this one as well, but I really don't see the point all that much if you already have copies of Black And Blue, Some Girls, Emotional Rescue orTattoo You laying around.

Jump Back: The Best of The Rolling Stones (1993 worldwide-U.S. release 2004)

1. Start Me Up
2. Brown Sugar
3. Harlem Shuffle
4. It's Only Rock N' Roll
5. Mixed Emotions
6. Angie
7. Tumbling Dice
8. Fool To Cry
9. Rock And A Hard Place
10. Miss You
11. Hot Stuff
12. Emotional Rescue
13. Respectable
14. Beast Of Burden
15. Waiting On A Friend
16. Wild Horses
17. Bitch
18. Undercover Of The Night

[FORD]

One of the highlights of the Steel Wheels tour (in my humble Stones loving opinion) was Midnight Rambler. How the fuck they left it off Flashpoint (the original "official" live album from that tour) remains a tragic mystery. But at least it's on the archive release, and sounds great.....