A FOUR HOUR INFOMERCIAL WITH NO STONES MUSIC! 1 1/2 STARS!
I'm sure at least a few Stones fans were curious about this 3 disc DVD set. I took one for the team this week and ordered this cheaply made, but equally cheaply priced infomercial.
Disc 1 clocks in at about an hour and twenty minutes and covers the Jones years and most of the Taylor years. There are some on screen interviews with Mick Taylor and Anita Pallenberg among others, producers and other musicians etc. You will hear audio snippets from Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, but I doubt they were present for this project. There is footage from every source imaginable on this thing, but none of it has any weight without the original soundtrack. It really is a shame that they didn't acquire the rights to use the Stone's music!???....I know!... please don't stop reading yet!......soooo we get a bunch of studio musician sound a like Stone's songs throughout this suspect production. The documentary has some OK moments, but it loses a lot of credibility without the Stone's...
How Can You Review The Rolling Stones Without Actually Playing Any Stones Music?
I should have paid closer attention to the reviews of this product that warned about the lack of actual Rolling Stones music in this video set. Over 3 hours of Rolling Stones footage and information and not a song. Bleak.
The information offered and some of the video is nice, but true fans will chafe at the lack of concert footage (46 years of touring, there is a ton of footage available) and potential fans looking to find out what makes the Stones the Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World will leave the room wondering what the fuss is all about.
There are a lot of interviews with assorted characters-some of value and some that make you scratch you head (who is Penny Arcade and what does she have to do with the Stones?). Bernard Fowler has some interesting stories despite appearing to be stoned to the gills and this is the most footage of Mick Taylor I have seen, but the rest of the interviews come across as footage of people who have read about the Stones...
Complete screen anthology
This is the history of one of Rock n' Roll's finest bands,and certainly the longest lived.3 DVD set shows the very beginning to the present,with the main events and all band members.A knockout.I would recommend to all music fans to get it now!
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