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Rolling Stones From the Vault: Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990

by Doug Collette
January 16, 2016

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 ...

Album Review

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Live

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by C. Michael Bailey
October 17, 2015

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 ...

Album Review

Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Deluxe Edition

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by Doug Collette
August 29, 2015

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, ...

Album Review

Rolling Stones: From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971

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by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2015

From The Vault: The Marquee Club Live In 1971 documents the end of the Rolling Stones' tour of the United Kingdom that year. The band had not toured at home since 1966 and touted this tour as the concert-equivalent of good bye to Great Britain before becoming tax exiles and absconding to the South of France and the historic recording of Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones, 1972) at the Villa Nellcôte. Both events were recently the subjects of author ...

Extended Analysis

From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971

by Doug Collette
July 18, 2015

Somewhat late to the archival exploration of their fifty-year plus vault, the Rolling Stones are making up for lost time with titles like this. The Marquee Club Live in 1971 reaffirms the notion the conic British group were never a better band than at this juncture of their career. Recorded with impeccable sound by long-time Stones collaborator Glyn Johns and artful camera work for American television at the intimate London club a month prior to the release of ...

Extended Analysis

Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe Box Set

by C. Michael Bailey
June 27, 2015

Year in and year out, much is made of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street (Universal Music Group, 1972/2010) (EOMS) being the “greatest rock and roll album." It is traditionally beaten out in most critics' and readers' polls by either The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone, 1967) or Rubber Soul (Parlophone, 1965). Even the Clash's London Calling (CBS, 1979) has made it even or ahead of EOMS in some polls. But EOMS is not the issue ...

Book Review

The Rolling Stones by Taschen

by Nenad Georgievski
April 11, 2015

The Rolling Stones Reuel Golden (editor) 522 Pages ISBN: 3836552027 Taschen 2014 There is an old joke where in case of nuclear war the only ones that will survive the nuclear holocaust would be cockroaches and the Rolling Stones. For more than 50 years since the band began its active career it has created music that has spawned the ages, generations, fashions. The band did not invent rock and roll, but ...