The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together - concert film! * - Page 3

JonMcK · 08-31-2009, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daglesj

The later half of the film is an indoor arena gig on the 'revolting stage' as it became known.

Ah, my memory doth fail me...it has been a while.

GLUDFSSR · 08-31-2009, 10:22 AM

The film was shoot at both outdoors Arizona and indoors New Jersey venues.

The guitar incident took place in Virginia on the pay-perview.

Beauvoir · 08-31-2009, 04:22 PM

I actually like this film.

Yeah Mick looks pretty bad in the outfits but I think the band sounds good and loose.

Plus its the band without so many extra musicians that they have had now for quite a while.

And Ronnie & Kieth's guitar interplay & backup voclas are so raw, I love it!

Beauvoir · 08-31-2009, 04:22 PM

I like the album too!

leopoldstotch · 08-31-2009, 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glenn Christense

Yep. That's Mick, er..I mean Barney.

I think outdoor shows are generally the kiss of death for trying to be "dark and rebellious" in general, even forgiving the kneepads.

Try to picture, say..the Doors or The Velvet Underground trying to create their typical atmosphere in a football stadium on a nice sunny day in the afternoon. It's just not going to happen, IMO.

Morrison starts singing: "This is the end..beautiful friend...''
The crowd, entranced... responds: HEY! Here comes a giant beach ball ! That thing is HUGE !

Once the bands like the Stones cash out for the enormodome paydays, they trade their previously hard earned "evildom" for a giant wad of money.
They can still put on great shows, but it becomes more LIKE a football game , and LESS like a rock and roll concert, IMO.

They should have done it like Led Zeppelin did it at the Bath festival.

fabtrick · 07-24-2010, 04:06 AM

ALL TIMES SHOWN ARE EASTERN. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS

8:00 PM Let the Good Times Roll (1973)
Fifties rock stars reunite 20 years later for a concert. Cast: Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry, Little Richard. Dir: Robert Abel, Sidney Levin. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

10:00 PM Elvis on Tour (1972)
Extensive concert footage highlights this documentary about the King's touring in the early '70s. Cast: Elvis Presley, James Burton, Glenn D. Hardin. Dir: Robert Abel, Pierre Aldridge. C-93 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM Let's Spend the Night Together (1982)
Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones perform 24 songs during two 1981 concerts. Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts. Dir: Hal Ashby. C-90 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

JuanTCB · 07-30-2010, 06:45 AM

Keith whacks the guy during "Satisfaction" - I've got the Hampton PPV show on DVD. It's the last song of the show... all the balloons are falling, Mick's in his Stars & Stripes/Union Jack cape, definitely "Satisfaction".

Let's Spend The Night Together, IMO, needs a total recut. The Phoenix show (the outdoor stadium - the indoor arena is E. Rutherford, NJ) is especially hot... it's too bad that most of the songs were heavily edited & sped up. The 10 minute "Just My Imagination" from '81 needs to be seen in all its glory.

Nothing in the world will change Football Mick or Bill Wyman's array of track suits and that canary yellow number, but Keith looked great and it was the final stand of the juiced up and sloppy Stones. I'd love it if this got the That's The Way It Is treatment.

hutlock · 07-30-2010, 06:56 AM

My take is a lot like Colin's (Oatsdad) upthread... I was too young to see the Stones at that point but I went to see this movie in the theatres... TWICE! LOVED it.

Hadn't seen it since then, so my memories of it were great ones... until I saw it on TV a few months ago and realized they actually sounded pretty horrible. But my nostalgia runs deep and I still have a soft spot for it. I DO also appreciate hearing the band for the last time (pretty much) without the Cast of Thousands backing band. I like it being raw and stripped down like this, and I wish they would do more like that today, but it'll never happen.

Ah, memories!

MikeP5877 · 07-30-2010, 07:25 AM

I don't remember the movie so much - saw it once on cable in the 80's and that was it - but I have a copy of the last show from that tour (12/18/81) which I think is quite good. It has a killer version of "Just My Imagination". Even throwaway songs like "Let Me Go" and "Neighbors" sound pretty good.

prognastycator · 07-30-2010, 08:37 AM

The resemblance is striking, particularly their singing...

Oliver · 07-30-2010, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JuanTCB

Keith whacks the guy during "Satisfaction" - I've got the Hampton PPV show on DVD. It's the last song of the show... all the balloons are falling, Mick's in his Stars & Stripes/Union Jack cape, definitely "Satisfaction".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1bM0pp_o4

What's hilarious is that after he wacks the guy he straps the guitar back on and gets right back into guitar playing mode without missing a beat.

MikeP5877 · 07-30-2010, 11:46 AM

Keith should have whacked Mick with his guitar for wearing some of those outfits.

Shawn1968 · 07-30-2010, 11:51 AM

This could easily be a case of faulty memory, but I remember the montage of 'old' clips seen during 'Time Is On My Side' had additional clips when I saw it in the theater (those clips were the best part of the movie IMO and were the first time I had seen many of them). When I've seen the movie since then in various formats, the montage seems edited from what I remember.

Does anyone else recall this, or am I mistaken?

RockWizard · 07-30-2010, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hutlock

My take is a lot like Colin's (Oatsdad) upthread... I was too young to see the Stones at that point but I went to see this movie in the theatres... TWICE! LOVED it.

Hadn't seen it since then, so my memories of it were great ones... until I saw it on TV a few months ago and realized they actually sounded pretty horrible. But my nostalgia runs deep and I still have a soft spot for it. I DO also appreciate hearing the band for the last time (pretty much) without the Cast of Thousands backing band. I like it being raw and stripped down like this, and I wish they would do more like that today, but it'll never happen.

Ah, memories!

At the time of that tour, it was the first time seeing them, me and almost 90,000 others. Crowd so thick if you fell, you didn't touch bottom. Some told me that the 1978 was "more" sloppy than this one. I'll never know.......

Wayne Hubbard · 07-31-2010, 10:28 AM

Watched this last night on TCM, it definately is a time capsule of The Stone's
in the 1980's. Didn't think it was too bad.

mrstats · 07-31-2010, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeP5877

Keith should have whacked Mick with his guitar for wearing some of those outfits.

vinyldreams · 07-31-2010, 04:58 PM

Don't mess with Keef..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ_P1vfZYo4

quicksrt · 07-31-2010, 05:30 PM

Let it Bleed is amazing in this film. As a matter of fact, all of the nighttime footage looks fine in it, where the daylight footage looks stale.

Notice Beast of Burden (at dusk) starts the part where they do gel somewhat.

The movie is flawed, but has some strong moments.

The HBO concert from Hampton, VA is a better Stones concert experience.

quicksrt · 07-31-2010, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beauvoir

I actually like this film.

Yeah Mick looks pretty bad in the outfits but I think the band sounds good and loose.

Plus its the band without so many extra musicians that they have had now for quite a while.

And Ronnie & Kieth's guitar interplay & backup voclas are so raw, I love it!

I agree, Little T & A is very fun for this exact reason!

ksmitty · 07-31-2010, 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wayne Hubbard

Watched this last night on TCM, it definately is a time capsule of The Stone's
in the 1980's. Didn't think it was too bad.

I watched it on TCM last night as well, It was nice seeing it without any commercial breaks , the quality was was pretty nice too. I don't care for the set list on this as much as some of the other Stones concert films.

07-24-2010, 04:06 AM	#46
fabtrick Forum All Star Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NorCal Posts: 3,543	Showing on TCM Friday 30 July 2010 ALL TIMES SHOWN ARE EASTERN. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS 8:00 PM Let the Good Times Roll (1973) Fifties rock stars reunite 20 years later for a concert. Cast: Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry, Little Richard. Dir: Robert Abel, Sidney Levin. BW-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format 10:00 PM Elvis on Tour (1972) Extensive concert footage highlights this documentary about the King's touring in the early '70s. Cast: Elvis Presley, James Burton, Glenn D. Hardin. Dir: Robert Abel, Pierre Aldridge. C-93 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format 12:00 AM Let's Spend the Night Together (1982) Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones perform 24 songs during two 1981 concerts. Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts. Dir: Hal Ashby. C-90 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format __________________ "It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it’s that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable." French Novelist Michel Houellebecq

07-30-2010, 06:45 AM	#47
JuanTCB Forum Addict Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 1,317	Keith whacks the guy during "Satisfaction" - I've got the Hampton PPV show on DVD. It's the last song of the show... all the balloons are falling, Mick's in his Stars & Stripes/Union Jack cape, definitely "Satisfaction". Let's Spend The Night Together, IMO, needs a total recut. The Phoenix show (the outdoor stadium - the indoor arena is E. Rutherford, NJ) is especially hot... it's too bad that most of the songs were heavily edited & sped up. The 10 minute "Just My Imagination" from '81 needs to be seen in all its glory. Nothing in the world will change Football Mick or Bill Wyman's array of track suits and that canary yellow number, but Keith looked great and it was the final stand of the juiced up and sloppy Stones. I'd love it if this got the That's The Way It Is treatment. __________________ www.borntorockandroll.com

07-30-2010, 06:56 AM	#48
hutlock Forum All Star Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Cleveland, OH, USA Posts: 3,831	My take is a lot like Colin's (Oatsdad) upthread... I was too young to see the Stones at that point but I went to see this movie in the theatres... TWICE! LOVED it. Hadn't seen it since then, so my memories of it were great ones... until I saw it on TV a few months ago and realized they actually sounded pretty horrible. But my nostalgia runs deep and I still have a soft spot for it. I DO also appreciate hearing the band for the last time (pretty much) without the Cast of Thousands backing band. I like it being raw and stripped down like this, and I wish they would do more like that today, but it'll never happen. Ah, memories! __________________ Stylus Magazine - Back from the Grave! http://www.thestylusdecade.com/

07-30-2010, 11:51 AM	#53
Shawn1968 Forum Hall Of Fame Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: West Hollywood, CA Posts: 4,910	This could easily be a case of faulty memory, but I remember the montage of 'old' clips seen during 'Time Is On My Side' had additional clips when I saw it in the theater (those clips were the best part of the movie IMO and were the first time I had seen many of them). When I've seen the movie since then in various formats, the montage seems edited from what I remember. Does anyone else recall this, or am I mistaken? __________________ -Shawn

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08-31-2009, 10:22 AM	#42
GLUDFSSR Forum Addict Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 1,047	The film was shoot at both outdoors Arizona and indoors New Jersey venues. The guitar incident took place in Virginia on the pay-perview.

08-31-2009, 04:22 PM	#43
Beauvoir Forum All Star Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 3,209	I actually like this film. Yeah Mick looks pretty bad in the outfits but I think the band sounds good and loose. Plus its the band without so many extra musicians that they have had now for quite a while. And Ronnie & Kieth's guitar interplay & backup voclas are so raw, I love it!

07-30-2010, 07:25 AM	#49
MikeP5877 Micro dynamic Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Northeast Ohio Posts: 17,202	I don't remember the movie so much - saw it once on cable in the 80's and that was it - but I have a copy of the last show from that tour (12/18/81) which I think is quite good. It has a killer version of "Just My Imagination". Even throwaway songs like "Let Me Go" and "Neighbors" sound pretty good.

07-31-2010, 10:28 AM	#55
Wayne Hubbard Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Oregon Posts: 42	Watched this last night on TCM, it definately is a time capsule of The Stone's in the 1980's. Didn't think it was too bad.

07-31-2010, 04:58 PM	#57
vinyldreams Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Posts: 505	Don't mess with Keef.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ_P1vfZYo4

07-31-2010, 05:30 PM	#58
quicksrt Forum Hall Of Fame Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: City of Angels Posts: 8,250	Let it Bleed is amazing in this film. As a matter of fact, all of the nighttime footage looks fine in it, where the daylight footage looks stale. Notice Beast of Burden (at dusk) starts the part where they do gel somewhat. The movie is flawed, but has some strong moments. The HBO concert from Hampton, VA is a better Stones concert experience.