There's been the suggestion made, on another website, that
it can't be a music video shoot because of the boom mike in the
picture. But that is incorrect. Here's the approximate script...
We open inside a huge modern studio/soundstage in Tribeca NYC.
There is an elaborate hell-like set design, sorta post-apocalyptic.
Keith and Darryl are joking about all the arty types hustling about
with their cellphones and clipboards. Mick is bitching to one of
his assistants about all the cost overruns, and how they are
already behind schedule. Finally the band assembles on the
set, the director yells "Action!", Keith slashes out the first
few chords and...
The power goes out. Keith and Ronnie laugh, but Mick is furious.
Keith and Ronnie however have the right perspective, as the whole
city is blacked out. We see Mick barking out orders and giving
his phone a workout...
One of the assistants (one of the guys Mick was yelling at) runs
back in with a plan. There's a firehouse a block away with a huge
emergency generator. Some of the fire guys (and gals), and
especially the captain, are Stones fans...
The photo above shows their whole entourage walking down
photogenic Staple St to get to the (famous) little firehouse...
Its small, its cramped, and obviously they can't do the elaborate story
that Mick and the director had planned. So the Stones just plug in their
instruments and play. And then everybody, including the fire fighters,
including of course even Mick, have a hell of a good time...
...until, soon after the song ends, an alarm sounds, a call to
duty for the fire fighters. We can hear on news radio some of
the chaos that is developing...
And fade.