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DVD : Shine a LightBrowse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of DVD and Shine a Light. Rating:  - Shine a LightWhat can I say, the Stones are truly amazing. Jagger prances around with the stamina of a teenager and the music is solid as a Rolling Stone. Rating:  - Where is the sound?After 50 years of listening to Rock and Roll it was a great let down to get sound quality from the 50's. Rock and Roll is all about the sound! Did they forget to plug in the bass player? No depth to the sound track at all. My mid-sixties original copy (in mono)of the Stones first US release (The Rolling Stones: England's Newest Hitmakers) is far superior in sound quality than this waste of money. The bands at my local live music venue make better sounding cd's in their garage.Shine a Light Rating: - Satisfaction Guaranteed!What a treat to watch this DVD! It's not by coincidence that an individual or a group of people become so successful at what they do that they persist over years and decades even. Behind such success of this magnitude is at least one very intelligent person. Raw intelligence, I mean. Mick Jagger had already proven his raw intelligence by having been accepted into the London School of Economics and later dropped out to pursue a career in music. This is reminiscent of Bill Gates having been accepted to Harvard and even having won a second place in a mathematics competition in that same school only to drop out later to found Microsoft. These people are not only very intelligent but they have the will power to escape from the gravity of traditional wisdom. In any case, this DVD is awesome. Specials guests like Buddy Guy and Christina Aguilera spice up the whole thing. Eclectic selection of songs stretch decades to prove their timeless quality. Finally, the dedication of this concert-documentary to Ahmet Ertegün, the Grand Turk of America, shows the band's gratitude to a man who brought together opportunity with talent. Rating:  - Make every song your favorite tuneFor over two hours these guys make you forget they've been going at on stage for more than 45 years. Mick is as silky smooth as ever. Keith and Ron work their magic on stage and Charlie keeps the rhythm as always. The energy level is so high that Mick takes a break at one point, turning the concert over to Keith and Ron who do a little trip down memory lane with "You Got the Silver" and "Connection," before he struts back on stage for "Sympathy for the Devil." Many of the cuts are off their 1978 album, Some Girls, including a very nice version of "Far Away Eyes" with Ron Wood on dobro. Buddy Guy joins the boys on "Champagne and Reefer," with other guest appearances by a sultry Christina Aguilera, who Mick can't resist feeling up on "Live with Me," and Jack White on "Loving Cup." This is first and foremost a concert film, and Scorcese did little to interfere with that. He interweaves the concert with some nice fill-ins of vintage interviews and short concert takes, having fun with the thematic question, "How Long Will You Guys Keep Going?" There isn't the backstage banter between songs that characterized his wonderful rendition of The Band's Last Waltz. You get a little pre-concert black and white footage as Martin, Mick and the boys argue over how best to capture the performance, but then the Stones never were that revealing, preferring to crack jokes or dismiss questions all together as we see in the snippets of interviews. The Stones still capture the spirit of their early anarchist days when everything they did seemed to rock the establishment, whether they meant it to or not. There are references to Mick getting arrested and having to face a board of distinguished British gentlemen as to the morality of his conduct. Also, a reference to their notorious Altamont concert that was the subject of "Gimme Shelter." The funny part is that if Mick was ever an anarchist he was a reluctant one, as he dodges question after question in the vintage interviews with an amusingly respectful tone. Keith is more brusque, and Charlie simply doesn't say anything at all. They let the songs speak for themselves. Some sound better than others over the long haul. Mick takes "Just My Imagination" back to its Temptations roots, giving it more of a Doo Wop feel. He emboldens "Sympathy with the Devil" with a hard driving rhythm and closes with a rousing rendition of "Satisfaction," the only times these guys seem to show their age as Keith appears visibly relieved that the show is over. Martin gives the camera to Mick as the guys leave through the back door of the Beacon Theatre, pulling back from upper Broadway to a moonlit light over New York. Rating:  - Any other band this sloppy couldn't get away with itI've never been an overly huge fan of the Stones because I've never been that big on the guitar players, but to me they sound sloppier than ever. They tortured "Undercover of the Night", one of my favorite Stones studio recordings, and the cavalcade of wrong notes emanating from the guitars is too much to take. Highlight would be Buddy Guy's appearance if there is one. |