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Title: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letterbox
Post by andrews27 on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 7:13am

"Brief Excerpt for Review Purposes" from the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) schedule for July 30, 2010:

30 Friday 8:00 PM Let the Good Times Roll (1973) Fifties rock stars reunite 20 years later for a concert. Cast: Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry, Little Richard. Dir: Robert Abel, Sidney Levin. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 PM Elvis on Tour (1972) Extensive concert footage highlights this documentary about the King's touring in the early '70s. Cast: Elvis Presley, James Burton, Glenn D. Hardin. Dir: Robert Abel, Pierre Aldridge. C-93 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM Let's Spend the Night Together (1982) Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones perform 24 songs during two 1980 concerts. Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts. Dir: Hal Ashby. C-90 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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Post by Heart Of Stone on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 9:42am

andrews27 wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 7:13am:

Thanks for letting us know, looking forward to this.

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Post by Ginda on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 11:04am

Thanks!

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by texile on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 4:53pm

I still can't watch this movie again after all these years. I don't know if its Ernie Watts piercing, really high clarinet-sounding sax or Charlie's tinny drum sound, or Keith and Ronnie's thin sound and sloppines or Jagger's silly tights and almost manic crotch-grabbing and singing.....It was the first Stones I had ever seen so its got a slightly nostalgic value, but remains my least favorite Stones live musical documentation. And it led to the worst Stones period.

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Post by Paranoid Android on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 6:49pm

Honestly...That Elvis tour of 1972 doc...is so cool!!! The best of the three!!!

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by andrews27 on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 7:04pm

Yeah, I saw the Elvis doc last time it was on TCM, and I was skeptical - but it was enjoyable and moving. You have to be some kind of soulless churl to not love Elvis.

I remember seeing "Let the Good Times Roll" when it came out. It's great, but it presents Chuck, Bo, and company like they were old men in '72 - when they were barely 40!

And, yeah - Ernie Watts does play like he's in a beer commercial...

Apologies to all Europeans and South Americans who have to miss out.

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Post by corgi37 on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 4:51am

Got it on dvd. Why should i care?

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by Some Guy on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 6:45am

TCM? awesome, I'll watch that! No commercials.

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by andrews27 on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 6:13pm

corgi37 wrote on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 4:51am:

Got it on dvd. Why should i care?

When you see ads for tranny hookers in the backs of tabloids - do you leave similar messages on their voicemail?

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by BILL PERKS on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 8:50pm

texile wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 4:53pm:

PERSONAL TASTE, I KNOW ,BUT ERNIE WATTS WAS FANTASTIC IN 81..THE MOVIE SUCKS IN TERMS OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH THE TOUR..BUT IN 1981 THEY WERE THE COOLEST MOTHERFUCKERS ON THE PLANET, AND EVERYBODY KNEW IT. :smilestu

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Post by Zack on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 10:57pm

[quote author=BILL PERKS link=1279023207/0#9 date=1279158611

..BUT IN 1981 THEY WERE THE COOLEST MOTHERFUCKERS ON THE PLANET, AND EVERYBODY KNEW IT. :smilestu[/quote]

Perks, I like the cut of your jib.

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by Some Guy on Jul 15^th, 2010 at 6:38am

BILL PERKS wrote on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 8:50pm:

texile wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 4:53pm:

BILL PERKS FUCKING ROCKS!!

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by Holden on Jul 15^th, 2010 at 8:27am

BILL PERKS wrote on Jul 14^th, 2010 at 8:50pm:

texile wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 4:53pm:

Agreed. They were 10 times as good in '81 as they were in the mid 70's. Very tight. I listen to Still Life very often and I love it. I'd say the three best tours were '72, Licks, and '81.

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by texile on Jul 15^th, 2010 at 2:47pm

To each his/her own, but this was the band going through the motions....and Jagger just shouted the lyrics, with keith and ronnie playing all over each other. I mean, I was a relatively new fan and young, but I don't think i listened to Still Life again after I first bought it. Jagger was also doing alot of coke according to Wyman, and you can tell...it was missing that manic, punky energy of the 78 tour, when Mick was still singing.

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Post by buddhabone on Jul 17^th, 2010 at 4:57pm

I love the 1981 tour.

I was eleven years old.

Never forget the 2nd Coliseum show, watching the crowd turn on Prince, great sets from J.Geils and George Throughogood. Then waiting for what seemed like hours for them to show up on stage as the sun went down with the L.A. smog and haze.

I remember the summer that LSTNT came out going to see it 8 or 9 times.

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by Heart Of Stone on Jul 30^th, 2010 at 5:30pm

andrews27 wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 7:13am:

It's on tonight, starting at 8.

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Post by Pdog on Jul 30^th, 2010 at 7:41pm

Heart Of Stone wrote on Jul 30^th, 2010 at 5:30pm:

andrews27 wrote on Jul 13^th, 2010 at 7:13am:

It's on tonight, starting at 8.

7 central

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Post by Kilroy on Jul 30^th, 2010 at 11:20pm

MY FAVORITE LITTLE RICHARD QUOTE IS IN THIS SHOW.
30 Friday 8:00 PM Let the Good Times Roll (1973) Fifties rock stars reunite 20 years later for a concert. Cast: Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry, Little Richard. Dir: Robert Abel, Sidney Levin. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
CAUSE I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE IN MY HEART THAT THE WHITE, THE BLACK, THE BROWN THE GREEN AND THE YELLOW, ARE GOD'S BOUQUET, THE CHILDRENS OF LOVE!

RIP IT UP....................

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by left shoe shuffle on Jul 31^st, 2010 at 12:38pm

Hadn't seen 'Let The Good Times Roll' in years.

Little Richard was crazy good - or good and crazy - but the absolute highlight for me was Chuck and Bo on 'Johnny B. Goode'.

It don't get much better than that...

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by andrews27 on Jul 31^st, 2010 at 3:53pm

Glad you all had a good night. Me - I worked late, and forgot to tape "Let the Good Times Roll."
:forfucksake

Title: Re: Let's Spend the Night Together on TV in Letter
Post by Heart Of Stone on Jul 31^st, 2010 at 5:23pm

I saw it the first time when it was in the theatre's, so that must have been in '73, I forgot all about the split screens, Little Richard was hilarious, campy as hell, he was as high as ten kites, years later he admitted he was stoned out of his mind when that tour took place that the show was filmed from.
I was kind of disappointed in Chuck & Bo, Chuck didn't really play his guitar, none of his "Johnny B. Goode leads that he could of, & Bo didn't really play either, I was surprised no "Hey Bo Diddley" I guess when I first seen it I didn't take no notice of this, both those guys are 'known for their guitar playing not their stage antics.

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Post by stonedinaustralia on Jul 31^st, 2010 at 7:13pm

i saw let the good times roll when it came out i was 15 - as fate would have it both chuck and little richard came to town that year ('73)

i have seen a lot of rock and roll in my time but that little richard show is still one the most hi - energy shows i have ever witnessed

as for LSTNT - for me a major verging on monumental disappointment - more than anything it's the sound of the band - the guitars too weedy and the breathless vocalizing

like tex i bought still life - i may have played it three times or so

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Post by andrews27 on Jul 31^st, 2010 at 11:40pm

I saw "Let the good times roll" on its first run - and then on its second run....supporting "Ladies & Gentlemen...."

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Post by texile on Aug 2^nd, 2010 at 3:02pm

stonedinaustralia wrote on Jul 31^st, 2010 at 7:13pm:

Tried to watch LSTNT again this weekend on TCM.....I thought I'd give it another chance. Nope, didn't work - still lacking something to me....Like you said, stoned, , the sound of the band is the problem. Everything sound so trebly and thin.....that tour has a sentimental value for me, but in truth, they were sloppy and lacking intensity.