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Bridges to Babylon
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1000047
Rubriek
DVD / Video / Blu-ray
Titel item
Bridges to Babylon
Oorspronkelijke Film-/Serietitel
The Rolling Stones: Bridges to Babylon Tour '97-98 (1997)
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Release jaar item
1998
Release jaar film
1997
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Cinematografie
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Speelduur (min.)
120
Aantal disks / tapes
1
Artikelnummer verpakking
Z9 36440
Barcode / EAN / UPC verpakking
7321931364409
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Like any good brand, the Rolling Stones know to preserve the formula even when updating the package, and this long-form concert video underscores that market strategy. As with each of their tours since the early '80s, the quartet, augmented by a discreet auxiliary of backup musicians, gives the fans new eye candy while dishing up a familiar set list spiked with Mick Jagger's lip-smacking vocals and Keith Richards's signature guitar riffs. The visual twists are at once spectacular and conservative: a cyclopean main stage design with massive pillars (presumably the Babylonian connection), a vast oval video screen (shades of Big Brother), and a hydraulic bridge enabling a midconcert sortie into the audience, with the Stones playing a more stripped-down, intimate set on a small satellite stage.
That huge physical setting doubtless made the live shows eye-filling rock spectacles, but the video crew necessarily accepts the limitations of the small screen, focusing more on close-ups of the band, rapid cuts, and racing, hand-held tracking shots to convey excitement while keeping the viewer close to the action. The evening's repertoire sticks to the band's most familiar hits, and if the Glimmer Twins occasionally slip their masks to let the routine show, the real wonder is how effectively they keep the playing focused. During the first half of the program, the band's newest songs (especially "Saint of Me" and "Out of Control") elicit conspicuously higher energy from the band, if not the audience. But just as the show seems doomed to a certain anomie, the escape onto the smaller, no-frills stage pumps up players and crowd alike, particularly when they launch into "Like a Rolling Stone," a cover that winds up sounding like a great idea too long deferred.
Met gastoptredens van Dave Matthews en Joshua Redman.
Chapter Index:
01: Opening
02: (I can't get no) Satisfaction
03: Let's Spend The Night Together
04: Flip The Switch
05: Gimme Shelter
06: Wild Horses
07: Saint Of Me
08: Out Of Control
09: Waiting On A Friend
10: Miss You
11: I Wanna Hold You
12: Across The Bridge
13: It's Only Rock'n'Roll (but i like it)
14: Like A Rolling Stone
15: Sympathy For The Devil
16: Tumbling Dice
17: Honky Tonk Woman
18: Start Me Up
19: Jumping Jack Flash
20: You Can't Always Get What You Want
21: Brown Sugar
22: Applaus en Eindgeneriek
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