....and during "You Can't Always Get What You Want"....I immediately thought of the two London concerts last year...what a goose bumps moment that was

...then there was Hyde Park...but that's for later this year maybe, hopefully

.....love watchin' Crossfire Hurricane ... it's such a rush...



ROCKMAN

Just watched it now for the first time. I remember reading some of the more critical reviews talking about how they relied too heavily on the Charlie is My Darling footage, or the c*cksucker blues reel...I noticed a bit of that of course but by the time Dick Cavett made his appearance I was fully immersed.

I have watched this a couple of times. How can anyone who grew up with the band not? Part 1 is the Brian years and that is appropriate enough. The film's handling of Brian's death was touching. The video of him wandering around the studio breaks your heart. Keith's comment puts his foot in his mouth again. It occurred to me that Jagger's comments may have been an antidote to Keith's callousness. But nonetheless his comment caught my attention. Jagger is not a good interview for me. He's too guarded, too defensive, he's learned to screen everything. Like the band, he is much about appearances. But his comment about Brian's death seems unusually candid and sincere. You rarely hear him express any remorse such as that. Charlie also expresses his regret. Interesting how that moment has stuck with the band even after all these years. Part 1 ends with a delicious teaser...Taylor's "baptism under fire" at Hyde Park. Part 2 is 38 minutes of the Taylor years and 15 minutes of the Woody years to '81 or so. That seems about right to me as well. What else needs to be said after that? As Jagger said about the Taylor years "That was a really good band." I am a sucker for that time period. Photos or video of Keith and Taylor walking to the stage with their guitars still give me a thrill. Again I point out how many times you see Jagger and Taylor together. I just think he gave the band a musical gravitas that it hasn't had since. Taylor's explanation about why he left doesn't fly. By many accounts his heroin addiction lasted long after he left the band. I'd feel better if he just told the truth. How hard it must be for him to live with that? I liked his comment at the beginning of Part 1...."the band was about fun" or some such words. I wish he would have realized that then.



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