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Not just the Stevie Wonder duet .All the clips of the live performances aregreat too.No band ever playedwith such ferocious energy .The rest of the movie is garbage.Too bad Martin Scorsese didn’t film one of their 1972 showsQuote
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Anyone here seen it? Pretty rubbish I thought - though the Stones/Stevie Wonder performance of Uptight seguing into Satisfaction was pretty great. Otherwise a study of how tedious touring can be between the high of the actual concert and then some pathetic drug use which I’m pretty sure they’d like to forget
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Taylor1
Too bad Martin Scorsese didn’t film one of their 1972 shows
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jbwelda
Actually, I quite liked "the rest of the movie". Rolling Stones, warts and all, whats not to like? Yeah thats how it was more or less (some scenes were staged supposedly).
Its like Bobby Keys said, something like, 30 years in the music business and what do people recognize me for? Throwing that TV out the window with Keith. HEY, you're the guy pitched the TV out the window!
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Javadave
Supposedly, the Stones barred it’s wide distribution because the were worried that the images of rampant sex and drug use would lead to them being banned from performing in the U.S. Can’t see that as even a remote possibility anymore. Time to end the censorship and officially release it as the artifact of a long ago, cherished time that it is.
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I missed the chance of seeing CS BLUES in proper setting some 20 years ago... It was supposed to be shown in a film festival here in Tampere, Finland, but unfortunately Frank got ill and the showing was cancelled. Damn.
Like mike567 I also think the film is fantastic in its own right. It probably do not much favors for the Stones, or give any romantic or glorious representation of 'sex and drugs and rock and roll' in its most legendary days (and I understand why the band wasn't much into it), but as an ambitious - and unique - document it says a lot of the times and of a rock and roll band on the road.
I hope to see it on the screen some day. So the issue of thread is very relevant.
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Taylor1Not just the Stevie Wonder duet .All the clips of the live performances aregreat too.No band ever playedwith such ferocious energy .The rest of the movie is garbage.Too bad Martin Scorsese didn’t film one of their 1972 showsQuote
exhpart
Anyone here seen it? Pretty rubbish I thought - though the Stones/Stevie Wonder performance of Uptight seguing into Satisfaction was pretty great. Otherwise a study of how tedious touring can be between the high of the actual concert and then some pathetic drug use which I’m pretty sure they’d like to forget
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Taylor1
Too bad Martin Scorsese didn’t film one of their 1972 shows
Shine A Light is an abomination.
Shine A Light is a failed amalgam of a Stadium show with some stadium effects IN A SMALL VENUE.... and it's a grotesque and artificial shambles.
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Javadave
Supposedly, the Stones barred it’s wide distribution because the were worried that the images of rampant sex and drug use would lead to them being banned from performing in the U.S. Can’t see that as even a remote possibility anymore. Time to end the censorship and officially release it as the artifact of a long ago, cherished time that it is.
I agree, but some of its contents are really explicit and I can understand if Mick and Keith still wouldn't want it to be officially distributed. Although Mick has said that he loves the movie in some interview.
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loog droogNo it’s not.The band sounds good especially on She Was Hot and Loving Cup.Better IMO than the MSG2003 shoe ,Hyde Park 2013,and most other post 2007 showsQuote
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Too bad Martin Scorsese didn’t film one of their 1972 shows
Shine A Light is an abomination.
Shine A Light is a failed amalgam of a Stadium show with some stadium effects IN A SMALL VENUE.... and it's a grotesque and artificial shambles.[/
Nailed it.
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Supposedly, the Stones barred it’s wide distribution because the were worried that the images of rampant sex and drug use would lead to them being banned from performing in the U.S. Can’t see that as even a remote possibility anymore. Time to end the censorship and officially release it as the artifact of a long ago, cherished time that it is.
I agree, but some of its contents are really explicit and I can understand if Mick and Keith still wouldn't want it to be officially distributed. Although Mick has said that he loves the movie in some interview.
If they were that uptight about the drug footage, they wouldn't have used the clip of Mick snorting coke off a switchblade in the 'Crossfire Hurricane' doc.
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Javadave
Supposedly, the Stones barred it’s wide distribution because the were worried that the images of rampant sex and drug use would lead to them being banned from performing in the U.S. Can’t see that as even a remote possibility anymore. Time to end the censorship and officially release it as the artifact of a long ago, cherished time that it is.
I agree, but some of its contents are really explicit and I can understand if Mick and Keith still wouldn't want it to be officially distributed. Although Mick has said that he loves the movie in some interview.
If they were that uptight about the drug footage, they wouldn't have used the clip of Mick snorting coke off a switchblade in the 'Crossfire Hurricane' doc.
The thing is, they were upset about the drug footage back then because it could well interfere with their ability to get visas to travel. That was their number one concern from what was said back then. As the years have passed, despite attempts to sanitize their images, somehow footage about "how they used to be" still has its value, shock value if nothing else. So now, showing Mick do some blow off a blade isn't really a big problem but back then combined with all their other problems and notoriety, inability to travel would have certainly upset the bands ability to work and probably have caused the end of the whole thing.
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Taylor1Not just the Stevie Wonder duet .All the clips of the live performances aregreat too.No band ever playedwith such ferocious energy .The rest of the movie is garbage.Too bad Martin Scorsese didn’t film one of their 1972 showsQuote
exhpart
Anyone here seen it? Pretty rubbish I thought - though the Stones/Stevie Wonder performance of Uptight seguing into Satisfaction was pretty great. Otherwise a study of how tedious touring can be between the high of the actual concert and then some pathetic drug use which I’m pretty sure they’d like to forget
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jbwelda
Actually, I quite liked "the rest of the movie". Rolling Stones, warts and all, whats not to like? Yeah thats how it was more or less (some scenes were staged supposedly).
Its like Bobby Keys said, something like, 30 years in the music business and what do people recognize me for? Throwing that TV out the window with Keith. HEY, you're the guy pitched the TV out the window!
jb