Terry
04-23-2006, 08:30 PM
Well, after many years of hearing about this legendary bootleg and wanting to see it, finally broke down and bought it along with some other rare flicks (including the Runaways Live In Japan 1977)...
Had heard a lot of it was boring and some of it was staged (in terms of the drug use depicted in the bootleg), but the several live performances from the 1972 tour were worth wading through the rest of it (man, whatever Keef Riffhard paid his dentist in the 80s was worth it, 'cuz that junkie had some of the worst teeth back then, even for a Brit).
Some great performances of Brown Sugar, Street Fighting Man, Stevie Wonder jumping onstage with the band and doing some great jamming, All Down The Line...this was the Stones still going for it live. Even though their performances are more consistent now (and at $100 + a pop they'd bloody well better be), none of what they do these days has that quality...back before the image and size of their celebrity overshadowed the music, and the Stones became just basically a money-making enterprise...not that they weren't in it for a buck back then, either, but the performances were fresh because those tunes were still fresh (I'm sorry, y'all, but seeing them at the SuperBowl churning out Start Me Up and Satisfaction for the millionth time was boring)...
Basically back at a time when they may well have been the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band.
Am now on the lookout for Ladies And Gentleman, The Rolling Stones, a 1973 bootleg of the same tour, which was supposed to be released as an official concert film but got shelved. Once I get my dvd burner, I'll whip up some copies for whoever wants them, particularly those here who have sent me stuff over the years and I haven't been able to reciprocate because all I can copy is dvd to vhs.
Had heard a lot of it was boring and some of it was staged (in terms of the drug use depicted in the bootleg), but the several live performances from the 1972 tour were worth wading through the rest of it (man, whatever Keef Riffhard paid his dentist in the 80s was worth it, 'cuz that junkie had some of the worst teeth back then, even for a Brit).
Some great performances of Brown Sugar, Street Fighting Man, Stevie Wonder jumping onstage with the band and doing some great jamming, All Down The Line...this was the Stones still going for it live. Even though their performances are more consistent now (and at $100 + a pop they'd bloody well better be), none of what they do these days has that quality...back before the image and size of their celebrity overshadowed the music, and the Stones became just basically a money-making enterprise...not that they weren't in it for a buck back then, either, but the performances were fresh because those tunes were still fresh (I'm sorry, y'all, but seeing them at the SuperBowl churning out Start Me Up and Satisfaction for the millionth time was boring)...
Basically back at a time when they may well have been the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band.
Am now on the lookout for Ladies And Gentleman, The Rolling Stones, a 1973 bootleg of the same tour, which was supposed to be released as an official concert film but got shelved. Once I get my dvd burner, I'll whip up some copies for whoever wants them, particularly those here who have sent me stuff over the years and I haven't been able to reciprocate because all I can copy is dvd to vhs.