ROLLING STONES
- DVD
COCKSUCKER BLUES-Mayflower
LABEL: |
Mayflower 130 |
SOURCE: |
early June-late July 72 US Tour |
FORMAT: |
1 picture DVD |
RUNNING TIME: |
1.31.29 |
SOUND/SOURCE: |
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo |
PACKAGING: |
single slimline jewel case |
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SOUND 9 / PACKAGING 10
/ PERFORMANCE 10
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TRACK LIST: |
1. Opening, 2. You Can t
Always Get What You Want, 3. It s called …,4. Cocksucker Blues, 5. Keith On
Piano, 6. Mick On Piano, 7. Meeting And Discussion, 8. Brown Sugar 9. Airport,
10. Inside The Plane, 11. Satyricon Party, 12. Outside The Arena, 13. Backstage,
14. Midnight Rambler, 15. Stuff Room, 16. All Down The Line, 17. Hotel Room, 18.
Love Me Tender, 19. Mick In A Car, 20. Pool Bar, 21. Happy, 22. Up Tight, 23.
Satisfaction, 24. Happy, 25. Hotel Room, 26. Security, 27.TV Broken, 28. San Francisco, 29. Street
Fighting Man; 30. End Credit-Brown Sugar
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REVIEW: |
There have been countless
releases of this famous documentary featuring footage from the Stones 1972 tour,
an unreleased documentary film directed by Robert Frank & David Seymour
chronicling the RS North American Tour in 1972 in support of their new
album Exile On Main Street; the tour fulfilled its promise of tremendous rock
and roll performances on stage while behind the scenes the tour embodied
debauchery, lewdness and hedonism. The film was cinéma vérité with several
cameras used and plenty of film left lying around for anyone in the entourage
to pick up and start shooting, this allowed the audience to eyewitness
backstage parties, drug use, roadie antics and the Stones with their defences
down. The film was under a court order that forbids it from being shown unless
the director was physically present, this stemming from the conflict that arose
between the band that commissioned the film and then decided that its content
wasn t appropriate and didn t want it to be shown, hence the fact that it has
never been released officially, but with the death of Robert Frank chances to
see it released officially fell. Even the Stones themselves had used portions
of it in their documentaries
like 25 x 5.
Some years ago it came out on IMP as printed silver disc presenting all the
film on DVD however marred by obtrusive Japanese subtitles and with two
channels PCM audio, the next best thing to proper stereo. This time Mayflower
has printed it on a silver DVD housed in a single jewel case after having
digitally remastered, claiming to have full colour footage as well as stereo
soundtrack
and in fact we get the best
version of this film that has ever circulated, sporting many (not all) clear
colour images where there used to be blurred footage and a real stereo
soundtrack. Track 6 Mick On Piano is actually Jagger playing the refrain of the
famous lost duet with Carly Simon Funny funny funny…(heard also at Track 28
with more lyrics and song s title Fragile mentioned). The previous IMP version
had sex scene on the plane having a black box covering explicit parts, not the
case here, it is even possible to see a groupie with cream on ! Andy Warhol,
Truman Capote, Dick Cavett,
Ahmet
Ertegun, Marshall Chess and Tuna Turner are among those that visited the band
backstage; Bianca Jagger is filmed in her hotel room playing a carillon and
then filming Jagger, Richards and Taylor inside a car and outside .Great is the
footage of a backstage jam with Stevie Wonder and his band, full colour for
Uptight on stage with special mention for Jagger accompanying S.Wonder at
centre stage for Satisfaction. There is very thorny footage in the hotel room
where first a groupie and then a roadie shoot their arms with a syringe. This
film is
somehow charming because of the
fact that many scenes that were previously hard to see can now be seen in full like
Jagger and Richards preparing their drugs backstage as well as sniffing in the
stuff room, it is amazing to see how stoned were even the camera assistants. At
times it is hard to understand if director s intention was to show them in
black and white or if there is still some discoloration; in fact the famous
scene when the tv is thrown out of the balcony by Richards and Keys was not in
colour on 25 x 5 but it is here. All live songs footage is anyway in colour.
This is a nice release and an
effort finally
released on printed format, for the pleasure of many collectors.
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