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The Worst.
I have now watched all episodes. There are some great moments in all four episodes, but I’m not fully satisfied. My initial feeling is that this could have been so much better if they only had let someone with actual knowledge of the Stones’ history and music to write the narration, choose the music and edit the clips. This happens time and time again. Why on earth do they have that background music when they obviously have the rights to use Stones’ own music?! An unforgivable choice by the BBC producers. But most annoyingly, what the narrator tells us doesn’t always match with what we see and hear. When they are talking about riots in 1968 and how this influenced Mick, the only logical thing is to play Street Fighting Man, but no, they rather show a dull moment from the Goddard film instead. When they go in depth on open-G tuning, they play Gimme Shelter – which, of course, is not an example of open-G. Keith talks about the power of a great riff, and they go on to show him playing Sitting’ on a Fence on his acoustic guitar. Max Weinberg tells about Charlie’s drumming on Rocks Off and asks us to listen to all the fills, but they play a segment from the song more or less without fills. Stewart Copeland talk about how Charlie could rock so hard but play so loose, and have a relaxed style for a high energy type of music. I guess they could have played Bitch or something, but they use this slow, low energy (but still beautiful) rehearsal version of Tumbling Dice as an example. Brian Johnson says Mick’s greatest gift as a frontman is to control a huge stadium, but they zoom in on Mick performing standing still in an arena. They talk about New York’s 52nd street, but show pictures from London. Mick is talking about crazy stage ideas in the 'modern' era, and they go on to, not show anything from Babylon or A Bigger Bang, but the 1981 stage. Etc. etc. etc. And there’s a lot of factual errors that are of minor importance, but still… facts are facts. The Montreux rehearsals were not done in 1974. When they show the Lotus stage from 1975, the narrator says that the band will be a travelling carnival for the next TWO decades. The Stones didn’t end their touring circus in 1995, they are STILL doing it – almost five decades later. According to the script, Stones have played for a total of 15 million people. The actual number is far higher. Okay, that's my rant for today. But I’m still waiting for the perfect Stones documentary!
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More Hot Rocks
You know this is on Youtube for free
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IrixQuote
More Hot Rocks
You know this is on Youtube for free
Links?
Or do you mean this fake one - [www.YouTube.com] ?
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thomashanck
hi,
tonight at ZDF (0:00)...
mein leben als rolling stone, keith und ron (1:00)
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thomashanck
tonight at ZDF (0:00)... mein leben als rolling stone, keith und ron (1:00)
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MAF
Didn't know anythig about Charlie's collection of historical drum sets.
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MadMetaphoricalMax
The use of generic music rather than Stones music is bizarre, given the BBC has rights to use any music for no fee.
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MadMetaphoricalMax
The use of generic music rather than Stones music is bizarre, given the BBC has rights to use any music for no fee.