Interesting they included Aussie footage from the January 73 tour. It's been on tv here before when RAGE had a Stones night. Not a bad doco either. It features the famous line of Keith saying he knew Brian would die, as "Some cats just dont make it". It's all b&w too. Jagger is very charming to June, the interviewer. There is not alot of live footage, and what there is, is from (sniff) my home town of Melbourne. The played at the Kooyong tennis arena. It's a nice little snapshot of Aussie land in the early 70's. We were getting our own identity by then and the Stones were no longer the be all and end all of rock. The Stones were based at an artists colony in Eltham, which in 73, was like a million miles away from the 'burbs". Jagger goes off at David Johnston (who went on to be a hugely successful newsreader) about "rumours of people smuggling pot". Jagger is livid, but just look at Keith!!! He's out of it.

And after this, they didnt bloody tour here for 22 years and wonder why they are not as huge here as they could/should be!

I wonder how much this deluxe thing costs?

P.S. Why the fuck put Stones in Exile on it? We just paid...Oh yeah, it's the Stones we're talking about innit. lol

2 weeks to go!!

This movie is gonna rule all you crazy bastards

currently in the SF Bay Area, will probably go to Mountain View, no cool theater in the list like those in Palo Alto or Los Gatos...

Link's on page 1 of this thread.

It's also on page 2.

And page 3.

Need a volunteer for page 5...

Noticed this on the Facebook page.

Hope it's not Stones in Exile.

Australia & New Zealand
DVD/ BLU-RAY release date is
November 26 2010 and comes with a Bonus Disk!

Bill and family at the 'L&G' "premiere" tonight in London:




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Rolling Stones again at their peak in rerelease

By CHRIS LEHOURITES, Associated Press Writer
9/7/2010

LONDON — The Rolling Stones have hit their peak again in 2010, this time in the form of a rarely seen rereleased movie of a 1972 concert.

"Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Rolling Stones" was originally released in late 1973 in Britain, but the film was not widely shown. The digitally remastered version, which made its global premiere on Tuesday in London, shows the Stones at their best, belting out classics like "Brown Sugar," "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash" along with "new" songs like "Tumbling Dice," Sweet Virginia" and "Rip This Joint."

The latter songs were all on the 1972 album "Exile On Main St.," which was also remastered and rereleased this year to great acclaim.

None of the current Rolling Stones members that are in the movie — Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts — made it for the premiere, but former bassist Bill Wyman was in attendance. Wyman was with the band for 30 years but quit in 1992 to explore other musical opportunities.

Although Jagger wasn't there, a short interview with the lead singer was played on screen before the movie began.

"Everyone's very together and on," Jagger said in the interview, which was recorded about six weeks ago in London. "I can remember the Rolling Stones being very, kind of, lackadaisical, very sloppy band on stage. But this was obviously not the case on this day."

The 1972 tour was the Stones at their peak, or at least at the tail end of it.

The five-year period leading up to that year is generally regarded as the band's prime. From "Beggars Banquet" in 1968 through "Let It Bleed" in '69 and "Sticky Fingers" in '71, the Stones were the ultimate rock n' roll band, playing hard and partying harder.

The movie, pieced together from several different concerts played in Texas, was digitally remastered and will be shown in theaters around the world in the coming weeks. The DVD and Blu-ray versions are set to be released in October, according to Eagle Rock Entertainment chief operating officer Geoff Kempin.

The Stones also released "Stones In Exile" this year, a documentary about the making of "Exile On Main St."

"(Jagger is) very strategic about where and when he wants stuff released," Kempin said.

The movie opens with a black screen and some background noise. Soon, though, the lights come on and Watts starts banging on his drums as the band breaks into "Brown Sugar."

Throughout the movie, the clothes change as the concert footage switches from show to show, but the music remains crisp and tight. Before they start playing "Midnight Rambler," Jagger personifies the attitude of the band at the time by taking a couple of swigs from a big bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey.

The footage also harkens back to the days when playing concerts was more intimate for the band because the stage was so small, especially compared to later tours when Jagger would constantly be on the move, sometimes even running through the crowd with security guards all around him.

"We were really close together, super close together," Jagger said.

And with no additional vocals and only some keyboards and percussion in support, the sound was more raw.

"I haven't heard the Stones singing without backing vocals for years," said Mike Griffiths, a 59-year-old television director and longtime fan. "It took me back."

The movie features 15 songs without interruption, finishing off with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Street Fighting Man."

"It was," Jagger said, "a good choice of songs."

The Associated Press

Where's the stones at the premier ?

Anyone in the SF Bay Are game for an ounting to catcb the movie? Planning on going to the AMC in Mountain View.

Words don't do this concert film justice. Buy it. Play it loud. Invite all your friends. Get hammered. In the meantime we can all hope for a Brussels Affair Europe 73 Concert Film to follow. The mecca for all things Stones concert excellence. Mick Taylor finally gets his long overdue limelight. Bigger Bang? Shine A Light? Lets Spend the Night Together? All skeet targets.


I'm very grateful that this is FINALLY coming out, all spiffed up & rechanneled. I've had the boot for about 10 yrs but it's like looking at a Poloroid of the Mona Lisa. This is right exactly WHERE Rock & Roll PEAKED: the wave crested and broke right here tater. Once you get this, compare it that "Shine A Light" POS, you'll see what I mean. Ron Wood is NOT Mick Taylor (check out the second guitar solo on "Love In Vain"), and c leavell AIN'T Ian Stewart or Nicky Hopkins. There is no better ANYWHERE! (ok...yeah, I know, "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Satisfaction," & "Honky Tonk Women" from "Gimme Shelter," true)

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Ladies And Gentlemen… The Rolling Stones Film Shows The Band At Their Most Dangerous

09/13/10
by Aaron Brophy

Movie Review
* Studio: Eagle Rock
* Rating: 4 / 5




It's not like it's a big secret, but endless repeats of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and "Start Me Up" on classic rock radio stations, your dad's excitement about taking you to their latest stadium show, and Mick Jagger's wrinkled face make it easy to forget The Rolling Stones were once the most dangerous band in rock 'n' roll.

That time was exactly 1972.

The proof is in Ladies And Gentlemen… The Rolling Stones, the long-lost, now-back-in-theatres live concert film that compiles four Stones shows in Texas in '72.

The film was shot while the band were touring for Exile On Main Street and released after the Goats Head Soup album. At the time, the big thing about Ladies And Gentlemen… The Rolling Stones was that it was a crazy experiment in something called Quadrasound, where the film would actually get toured from theatre-to-theatre with a sound engineer and its own speaker rig set up for screenings.

That technical crap is so zzzzzzzzz, though. What's important and awesome and exciting about Ladies And Gentlemen is watching the Stones in action almost 40 years later and realizing how truly deadly they were at the time.

Mick Jagger's crazy in his eyeshadow and glitter all jumping around, and it only takes about 60 seconds to realize, "Oh, so that's why he totally impregnated, like, three of my aunts."

And it isn't until the third song in or so that you realize, "Hey, the camera work is kinda shit" and you start noticing things like the band being bathed in hard-to-see red light for whole gobs of songs.

That's because you're too busy air-punching to the horns in "Bitch," marveling at how ahead of the curve the band were with "Dead Flowers" and losing it at how Mick Taylor rips mind-bending solos essentially non-stop through every song in the whole film.

In fact, it'll actually make you angry when you're watching it to think of what constitutes present day arena-level rock in comparison. I genuinely want to stab Kings Of Leon, The Killers and Nickelback in the face for insulting what rock 'n' roll shows have become — all big screens and clapalongs and wave-your-phones-in-the-air balladry bullshit. This, because ain't none of them are ever gonna have the balls to do something like a 10-minute blues jam of "Midnight Rambler" where Jagger slowly and deliberately explains that he's basically coming to your house to rape you.

Now, that's dangerous. Probably morally inappropriate for 2010, but man... dangerous.

And in an age when so few of our biggest rock bands actually have any danger in them, Ladies And Gentlemen… The Rolling Stones is important to see so people know what the standard should be.

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