Comments on: DVD Review: Martin Scorsese & the Rolling Stones, “Shine a Light”

By: T-Sides Elsewhere, July 30th Edition | T-Sides

T-Sides Elsewhere, July 30th Edition | T-Sides — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:02:35 +0000

[...] I reviewed Shine A Light, Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones concert documentary, the all over the place Love As [...]

By: Honorio Chincuanco

Honorio Chincuanco — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:27:00 +0000

This is the best Stones documentary EVER. Congratulations to the Stones and of course Scorsese the best……ronchincuanco

By: TP 10

TP 10 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:17:17 +0000

—Rolling Stones? —Bob Dylan? —in post 9/11 -post 45,000,000 dead babies
-and now financed by the most awesome genocidal monsters in history across the Pacific —USA?
—huh?

If he refuses to timelessly face the society we've created —like a REAL artist
-then he should have done the right thing —and retire after 'Goodfellas'.

“—Paging John Huston —Paging John Huson!”

By: TP 10

TP 10 — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:17:17 +0000

—Rolling Stones? —Bob Dylan? —in post 9/11 -post 45,000,000 dead babies
-and now financed by the most awesome genocidal monsters in history across the Pacific —USA?
—huh?

If he refuses to timelessly face the society we've created —like a REAL artist
-then he should have done the right thing —and retire after 'Goodfellas'.

“—Paging John Huston —Paging John Huson!”

By: The Rolling Stones — Scorsese concert documentary out on DVD « Musical Stew Daily

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:29:33 +0000

[...] documentary about The Rolling Stones, Shine a Light, is now available on DVD.Â Read this review to find out what song Nick and Keith didn’t like singing because it was [...]

By: TaylorTSides

TaylorTSides — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:48:46 +0000

Man, that's no fun.

By: TaylorTSides

TaylorTSides — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:48:18 +0000

Yeah, “predictable” is probably fair, but I'm not sure who better picks would have been. No one really knew about Amy Winehouse or Sharon Jones when this was filmed – it was filmed at the end of the Bigger Bang tour, which was in late 2005/early 2006. Winehouse and Jones didn't really break in the US until 2007.

By: TaylorTSides

TaylorTSides — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:48:46 +0000

Man, that's no fun.

By: TaylorTSides

TaylorTSides — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:48:18 +0000

By: Clark

Clark — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:58:29 +0000

Ha, I saw this one at the Paramount theater and as an appropriate enough here's to ya to KR I downed a whole fifth of Jim Beam during it...

I think the whole thing is pretty good and energetic if not ultimately pretty forgettable. I think it's funny that Jagger basically treats the whole thing as an aerobics class. At first I was shocked at how agile he still was, then humbled, then somewhere around the halfway point I just wanted to scream 'we GET it, you're fit!' When the showboating does grow tiresome it serves as a reminder of how wonderful the restraint and subtley of someone underappreciated like Graham Parker is, who could have shimmied and shaked this much to a lot of his early stuff but wisely didn't. Or at least not in so much of a 'look at me way.'

I thought the choices of Jack White and Christina Aguilera were kind of boring and predictable. I think she has a good voice, but I wish they had gone with someone more interesting and um.... black. Like Sharon Jones. Or if it had to be some go-to white chick Amy Winehouse. She was probably shooting up or something.

And lastly, on a side note, Keith Richards seemed off tempo a LOT, I thought. Was it just me? Is that how he plays usually?