Another year, another vintage Stones concert: this one hailing from the Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth, TX, on July 18, 1978, when the bad boys of British rock performed a 17-song set that included seven tunes from their latest LP, Some Girls. Today (nearly 35 years later) the Stones are much the same: Mick Jagger remains the quintessential rock ‘n' roll frontman, Keith Richards and Ron Wood are still guitar heroes, and Charlie Watts continues to lay down the blues rock beat on drums. The only difference is the absence of stone-faced bass player Bill Wyman, who left the band in 1992. Well, it's also highly unlikely that during a contemporary performance of “Tumbling Dice,” you will see Jagger reach down and cup Woods's dice the way he does here, deep in the heart of Texas. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Rolling Stones during their cock rock heyday, a time when concerts weren't choreographed to within an inch of their life: Jagger staggers, struts, pouts, shakes an ass he doesn't really have, and generally commands the screen as the band works its way through then-brand-spanking-new songs like “Shattered,” “Beast of Burden,” “Miss You,” and “When the Whip Comes Down,” coupled with earlier hits such as “Happy,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Brown Sugar,” and “Jumpin' Jack Flash.” A wonderful highlight here is the loving-but-irreverent cover of The Temptations' “Just My Imagination” (with the slightly revised Jagger punch line: “but in reality, she doesn't fooking know me”). Of course, for many viewers, the whole concert will be a blast-down-memory-lane highlight. Presented in DTS-5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and stereo on DVD, and DTS-HD 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, and LPCM stereo on Blu-ray, extras include a new interview with Jagger, archival ABC News 20/20 interviews with the band, and four Saturday Night Live performances. Highly recommended. (R. Pitman)
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls—Live in Texas ‘78
(2011) 86 min. DVD: $14.98, Blu-ray: $19.98. Eagle Vision (avail. from most distributors). Volume 27, Issue 2
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls—Live in Texas ‘78
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