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Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun & Havana Moon DVD/CD
by Doug Collette
It might be fair to say that any concert appearance by a band with fifty years plus history is an occasion in itself and doubly so (or more) to offer that observation about the Rolling Stones. Who would've guessed in 1963, 1973 or 1983 that the group would not only still be together in 2016, but playing regularly around the world? Or remain a sufficiently popular draw to attract the huge crowds that attended the concert(s) in London's Hyde Park ...
Continue ReadingAltamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hell's Angels and The Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
by Doug Collette
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hell's Angels and The Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day Joel Selvin 368 Pages ISBN: # 0062444255 Dey Street Books2016 The best books on rock and roll have invariably been comprised of layer upon layer of information interwoven with insight and Joel Selvin's Altamont is exactly that kind of book. Formally and informally ensconced in the San Francisco scene for decades, he brings his knowing perceptions to ...
Continue ReadingRolling Stones: Totally Stripped
by Doug Collette
Rolling Stones Totally Stripped Eagle Vision 2016 Eagle Rock's release of the Rolling Stones Totally Stripped is not another entry From the Vault but it may as well be because it's just as compelling and revelatory, if not more so, than Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990 (Eagle Vision,2015) or Hampton Coliseum Live in 1981) (Eagle Vision, 2014). The DVD/CD package in itself is a broad expansion of the content in the original titles as ...
Continue ReadingRolling Stones From the Vault: Live at Leeds Roundhay Park 1982
by Doug Collette
Rolling Stones From the Vault: Live at Leeds Roundhay Park 1982 Eagle Vision 2015 Since they began to suck in the Seventies, the Rolling Stones have turned the concept of a band hiatus into an effective modus operandi for consistent rediscovery. And that, in turn, has presented an opportunity they've maximized with a increasingly high-tech stage production that presents perfect fodder for their archiving series. The steady stream of From the Vault releases ultimately ...
Continue ReadingRolling Stones From the Vault: Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990
by Doug Collette
Rolling Stones Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990 Eagle Vision 2015 As stylized as are the Rolling Stones' 'From the Vault' packages of CD's and DVD/Blu-rays, the uniformity of their design also reflects the care the iconic British band is applying to their archiving project. From video restoration to new mixes from the renowned Bob Clearmountain, their now steady stream of releases accurately documents that progressive reinvention of the Rolling Stones as a band, within ...
Continue ReadingThe Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Live
by C. Michael Bailey
Orbiting somewhere close to the 45th anniversary of the release of Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones, 1971) the “Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World" opened their 2015 “Zip Code" tour on May 20th at Los Angele's intimate 1,300 seat Fonda Theater where, in the middle of a standard Stones show, the band played the entire Sticky Fingers for their first time. It has recently become fashionable for bands to perform in their entirety recordings deemed seminal by the passage ...
Continue ReadingRolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Deluxe Edition
by Doug Collette
In combination with the 2015 'Zip Code' tour, on which the band played the album in its entirety more than once, the reissue of the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones Records, 1971) is a valiant and fully-justified effort to restore the significance of the album, the importance of which has suffered over time in comparison to its followup, Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones Records, 1972). And the initiative may be altogether legitimate, despite the fact that, ...
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