Forget what critics say about this one, it's a rock 'n' roll concert NOT
cinema verité and that's all I want from The Stones. Filmed at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona (outdoors segment) and
the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey (indoor segment) by
director Hal Ashby ("Harold And Maude", "Coming Home") in the fall of
1981 on the Stones' very successful Tattoo You Tour. This is the last tour to feature the basic meat and potatoes Stones lineup
(guitar, bass, drums, piano, sax) as every subsequent tour since has featured an musical entourage of 3 or 4 backup singers, big horn sections and
multiple keyboardists. The material is great although I wish they'd have
played "Gimme Shelter", "Monkey Man", "Street Fighting Man", "Bitch"
but hey, those songs were not performed on that tour so what are you
gonna do? I would have liked more backstage activity but then again that's what the
"C*cks*cker Blues" 1972 film by Robert Frank does to excess. "Let's Spend The Night Together" perfectly captures the Stones as they
were in 1981 in their late 30s and early 40s and is a must for any Rolling
Stones fan.
4 - 1/2 STARS out of 5
cinema verité and that's all I want from The Stones. Filmed at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona (outdoors segment) and
the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey (indoor segment) by
director Hal Ashby ("Harold And Maude", "Coming Home") in the fall of
1981 on the Stones' very successful Tattoo You Tour. This is the last tour to feature the basic meat and potatoes Stones lineup
(guitar, bass, drums, piano, sax) as every subsequent tour since has featured an musical entourage of 3 or 4 backup singers, big horn sections and
multiple keyboardists. The material is great although I wish they'd have
played "Gimme Shelter", "Monkey Man", "Street Fighting Man", "Bitch"
but hey, those songs were not performed on that tour so what are you
gonna do? I would have liked more backstage activity but then again that's what the
"C*cks*cker Blues" 1972 film by Robert Frank does to excess. "Let's Spend The Night Together" perfectly captures the Stones as they
were in 1981 in their late 30s and early 40s and is a must for any Rolling
Stones fan.
4 - 1/2 STARS out of 5