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The Rolling Stones, with Eagle Rock Entertainment today announce the DVD and Blu-Ray release of The Rolling Stones Sweet Summer Sun – Hyde Park Live. Available from 11 November 2013, Sweet Summer Sun – Hyde Park Live chronicles the Rolling Stones’ historic and triumphant return to London’s Hyde Park with a 2-hour live concert and highlights package including new and unseen backstage footage.

This summer, over 100,000 delirious fans packed into Hyde Park for two spectacular outdoor concerts to see Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood do what they do best. The Stones delivered a five star performance packed full of hits such as ‘Start Me Up’, ‘Brown Sugar’, ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’, ‘Miss You’, ‘It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll’, ‘Gimme Shelter’, ‘Doom And Gloom’ and ‘Sympathy For The Devil’, as well as one or two surprises.

Mick Jagger said: “It was a great gig…It was beautiful with the sun going down over Hyde Park. I can’t think of a better way celebrate the Rolling Stones’ 50 than doing it on our home patch in front of 100,000 people on a glorious summer night…enjoy it… we certainly did.”

Keith Richards commented: “Coming back to Hyde Park was like a full circle being drawn, and the band were in top form. We thought what could be more appropriate than having a great summer in London!”

From the second the Rolling Stones stepped out onto the stage each night, through to the dazzling firework and pyrotechnic display that heralded the end of the concert, fans old and new were treated to a non-stop, hit after hit performance, which took them through the Stones’ huge back catalogue. Keith Richards wowed the crowds by weaving his charismatic guitar licks with Ronnie Wood’s immense solos, Mick Jagger was on spectacular form, his boundless energy on stage matched by a number of stunning outfit changes, and Charlie Watts the unflappable heartbeat of the band, driving the band on through the set.

Former guitarist Mick Taylor – whose live debut with the Stones took place at the original 1969 Hyde Park concert – joined the band on stage to guest on the bluesy ‘Midnight Rambler’ and on closing track ‘Satisfaction’, whilst long-term live band members Lisa Fischer, Darryl Jones, Chuck Leavell, Bernard Fowler, Bobby Keys and Tim Ries all added their inimitable flair and finesse.

The Rolling Stones Sweet Summer Sun – Hyde Park Live is the perfect way for concert-goers to relive their favourite memories from the gigs, and for their fans to see the band back where they truly belong: live on the stage in their hometown.

TRACKLISTING:

DVD & Blu-ray

1) Start Me Up 2) It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll 3) Street Fighting Man 4) Ruby Tuesday 5) Doom And Gloom 6) Honky Tonk Women 7) You Got The Silver Happy 9) Miss You 10) Midnight Rambler 11) Gimme Shelter 12) Jumpin’ Jack Flash 13) Sympathy For The Devil 14) Brown Sugar 15) You Can’t Always Get What You Want 16) (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

CD

Disc One: 1) Start Me Up 2) It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll 3) Tumbling Dice 4) Emotional Rescue 5) Street Fighting Man 6) Ruby Tuesday 7) Doom And Gloom Paint It Black 9) Honky Tonk Women 10) You Got The Silver 11) Before They Make Me Run

Disc Two: 1) Miss You 2) Midnight Rambler 3) Gimme Shelter 4) Jumpin’ Jack Flash 5) Sympathy For The Devil 6) Brown Sugar 7) You Can’t Always Get What You Want (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

LP

Side A: 1) Start Me Up 2) It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll 3) Tumbling Dice 4) Emotional Rescue

Side B: 1) Street Fighting Man 2) Ruby Tuesday 3) Doom And Gloom 4) Paint It Black

Side C: 1) Honky Tonk Women 2) You Got The Silver 3) Before They Make Me Run 4) Miss You

Side D: 1) Midnight Rambler 2) Gimme Shelter

Side E: 1) Jumpin’ Jack Flash 2) Sympathy For The Devil 3) Brown Sugar

Side F: 1) You Can’t Always Get What You Want 2) (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

TECHNICAL INFORMATION:

Formats:

DVD

Blu-ray

2CD + DVD

3LP + DVD

Deluxe Edition: 60 page book + DVD + Blu-ray + 2CD

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bluesinc.
this is absuletly a rip of. hyde park, only available.... on itunes, i´m bored to death with this. yes, i know, don´t buy it bla bla bla... if this is everything they could do for us, instead of releasing something from the tour, guest spots etc..., they really should retire. and not because of their playing etc, because of this. i don´t want another leg of their tour, giving us some product we don´t need/want.. they just put something out, made for the masses without honesty or quality, they f+u+c+k their legacy, and us. now i´m going to listen to play with fire, ´cause they do.

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gotdablouse
No 3D ?! Why did they have all these fancy cameras then ? Glad I've got my 3D 25' and 52' compilations then ;-)

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No 3D ?! Why did they have all these fancy cameras then ? Glad I've got my 3D 25' and 52' compilations then ;-)

Maybe they will hold back the release of a 3D version so people will have the pleasure of buying it after they've already paid for the usual format.

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Reasons why I have a difficult time enjoying the sound...

- Charlie's kit.. the snare has no top end, no crack. Just sounds like a loud thud. Cymbals, ride all seem buried.

- Guitars have NO low end. It sounds like everything below 400 was cut from the mix. Keith's riffs all sound thin but he is playing with tons of effort! It should sound great but instead sounds thin.

- Bass is way too loud in the mix. This is a popular mixing technique... thin guitars, fat bass. Unfortunately it ends up sounding boomy and muddy simultaneously. If you take an EQ and drop 250Hz by 1db, it helps but adversely effects the kick drum and guitars.

-Ambient sound... for such a huge concert the audience does not have that sound. The ambient mics do not give us a big sound spectrum but instead a narrow one. Way too mid-heavy as well. Also too dang loud at the wrong moments. Volume is used for effect to the detriment of the music. Ronnie's solo on Start Me Up is a prime example.

Compression. The whole dang recording has been over-compressed. Every channel, every bus, every effect and the mastering. There is no room for anything to groove. You only get to 'feel' the atmosphere between songs. During songs the dynamics follow the bass since it is mixed too loud. This means that Charlie, in the mix, plays second to Darryl. I respect Darryl greatly but he is way too loud on this.

Go listen to Light The Fuse... another great performance destroyed by this same style of mixing. Fat loud bass, thin shrill guitars.

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flacnvinyl
Reasons why I have a difficult time enjoying the sound...

- Charlie's kit.. the snare has no top end, no crack. Just sounds like a loud thud. Cymbals, ride all seem buried.

- Guitars have NO low end. It sounds like everything below 400 was cut from the mix. Keith's riffs all sound thin but he is playing with tons of effort! It should sound great but instead sounds thin.

- Bass is way too loud in the mix. This is a popular mixing technique... thin guitars, fat bass. Unfortunately it ends up sounding boomy and muddy simultaneously. If you take an EQ and drop 250Hz by 1db, it helps but adversely effects the kick drum and guitars.

-Ambient sound... for such a huge concert the audience does not have that sound. The ambient mics do not give us a big sound spectrum but instead a narrow one. Way too mid-heavy as well. Also too dang loud at the wrong moments. Volume is used for effect to the detriment of the music. Ronnie's solo on Start Me Up is a prime example.

Compression. The whole dang recording has been over-compressed. Every channel, every bus, every effect and the mastering. There is no room for anything to groove. You only get to 'feel' the atmosphere between songs. During songs the dynamics follow the bass since it is mixed too loud. This means that Charlie, in the mix, plays second to Darryl. I respect Darryl greatly but he is way too loud on this.

Go listen to Light The Fuse... another great performance destroyed by this same style of mixing. Fat loud bass, thin shrill guitars.

Well, this is not only due to mixing. It also has to do with the actual sound which is recorded.
I really don't understand much of your "downpoints" either. What stereo-system are you listening through?
The sound of guitars were never meant to go down and interfere with the bass frequenses. If you want that, you can listen to doom and death metal played on 7 and 8-strings guitars... People on here have been nagging for years about the guitars buried to deep in the mix. Here the guitars are sharp and very much up front, and of course that leads to less space for other instruments. Still I think Charlies snare is quite up front and bright enough. His toms are also more prominent than usual although his tim could have been tuned lower, but I guess he likes it that way just now.

Two things I wish could have been done different though, is lowering the bass especially in its low/mid spectrum and let the bassdrum get a little more meat in that same area and lower
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Thinking about the short period of time from the actual concert until the iTunes-release of the recording, I think it's really good.

Maybe with the Blu-Ray/DVD/CD/LP release the've had time to adjust it even more.
Looking forward to this, and even though I bought the iTunes release, I won't hesitate to buy this release too.

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What do YOU think?

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Rolling Hansie

I don't think that much about the Stones. I am just happy with everything they give me.
But that's just stupid little me. I like to be happy. Weird eh

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flacnvinyl
I really don't get this. The Stones are the biggest band in the world and their way of treating the fans who made them millionaires is to give them LESS? I am beginning to think Jagger resents us. What gives?

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flacnvinyl
Reasons why I have a difficult time enjoying the sound...

- Charlie's kit.. the snare has no top end, no crack. Just sounds like a loud thud. Cymbals, ride all seem buried.

- Guitars have NO low end. It sounds like everything below 400 was cut from the mix. Keith's riffs all sound thin but he is playing with tons of effort! It should sound great but instead sounds thin.

- Bass is way too loud in the mix. This is a popular mixing technique... thin guitars, fat bass. Unfortunately it ends up sounding boomy and muddy simultaneously. If you take an EQ and drop 250Hz by 1db, it helps but adversely effects the kick drum and guitars.

-Ambient sound... for such a huge concert the audience does not have that sound. The ambient mics do not give us a big sound spectrum but instead a narrow one. Way too mid-heavy as well. Also too dang loud at the wrong moments. Volume is used for effect to the detriment of the music. Ronnie's solo on Start Me Up is a prime example.

Compression. The whole dang recording has been over-compressed. Every channel, every bus, every effect and the mastering. There is no room for anything to groove. You only get to 'feel' the atmosphere between songs. During songs the dynamics follow the bass since it is mixed too loud. This means that Charlie, in the mix, plays second to Darryl. I respect Darryl greatly but he is way too loud on this.

Go listen to Light The Fuse... another great performance destroyed by this same style of mixing. Fat loud bass, thin shrill guitars.

Well, this is not only due to mixing. It also has to do with the actual sound which is recorded.
I really don't understand much of your "downpoints" either. What stereo-system are you listening through?
The sound of guitars were never meant to go down and interfere with the bass frequenses. If you want that, you can listen to doom and death metal played on 7 and 8-strings guitars... People on here have been nagging for years about the guitars buried to deep in the mix. Here the guitars are sharp and very much up front, and of course that leads to less space for other instruments. Still I think Charlies snare is quite up front and bright enough. His toms are also more prominent than usual although his tim could have been tuned lower, but I guess he likes it that way just now.

Two things I wish could have been done different though, is lowering the bass especially in its low/mid spectrum and let the bassdrum get a little more meat in that same area and lower
.
Thinking about the short period of time from the actual concert until the iTunes-release of the recording, I think it's really good.

Maybe with the Blu-Ray/DVD/CD/LP release the've had time to adjust it even more.
Looking forward to this, and even though I bought the iTunes release, I won't hesitate to buy this release too.

I don't understand your post. At first it sounds like you disagree but in the end it sounds like you agree?

In terms of my sound system I run a video & audio production company. I have HS-80Ms for loudspeakers with an HS10W sub. By far the most accurate setup I have ever had. Handsome Girls sounds perfect on it!

You say that the guitars are not supposed to interfere with the bass frequencies, which is true. I am not making that argument. Then you agree with me on the bass sound. As I mentioned the 250Hz frequency, but there is just a ton of muddy bass on the recording.

It sounds like you and I agree.. right? The guitars are thin and shrill and the bass guitar sounds boomy, muddy, and is EQ'd too heave in the low mids from 180 to 500 Hz.

And everything is too compressed in every way shape and form.

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I am beginning to think

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flacnvinyl
I am beginning to think

Always a great start