Stones in Exile

[andrew coombs]

Just watched this doco on ABC. Without doubt the best music documentary I have ever seen. The photography and footage taken of these legendary sessions were pure magic as was the music. Loved the interpretations of the whole scene by everyone involved. What a band!

 

[Bruce Monteath]

Brilliant. Loved the way it came together in Keith's basement. Wish I could have been there.

 

[JimDocker]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I knew there something I was going to watch last night !

I will have to go and buy it I guess.

The Last Waltz is still the best music doco that I have seen, but I haven't seen this yet.

 

[mansize rooster]

angry i forgot to watch this
gonna pick up re-issue,looks badass

 

[E Shed]

I loved the quote from the producer / engineer about how The Stones would play a song badly for 2 or 3 days and then suddenly Keith would stand up and start making eye contact with Charlie and Bill would shift the bass to the 87 degree angle round his neck and all of a sudden this "God Given" music would start pouring out of them.

Keith will be remembered as one of the truly great artists of our time. There has really been no one like them before or since. Only The Beatles can touch them for sheer output of amazing songs over the journey but The Stones have been able to keep it together through such incredible circumstances of drugs, death, police / government harassment.

I found it quite sad / moving looking at the incredible vigour / raw beauty of their (and the women like Marianne's) faces and seeing the ravages of time on them all.

What an era it was.

 

[materamagic]

This is an album is it's own genre isn't it, unique record and one of rock's very best.

Mick wrote and recorded new vocals on some of the songs on the second disc. He is singing much more like Mick of headier times on this material.

The band could have done a Tattoo You and released some of these on a new Stones record, rather than several questionable plodders on the hit and miss A Bigger Bang.


Plundered My Soul

 

[materamagic]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I knew there something I was going to watch last night !

I will have to go and buy it I guess.

The Last Waltz is still the best music doco that I have seen, but I haven't seen this yet.

Love the Last Waltz, picked it up for under $10, score! Neil obviously scored with the sizeable chunk of coke having to be rotoscoped out of the film, rock and roll!

 

[mansize rooster]

blasting this right now!
JUST ONE DRAAANK and i'll fall down drunk

 

[Sebastian Balboa]

Damn, I missed the doco. Will it be available, packaged up, from the ABC soon?

Also, did anyone see the Uncut magazine feature on Exile? Pretty good read. Plus, the CD that came with the mag, an Ok compilation of Stones-inspired sounds. Seriously dig track 8, Chuck Prophet's Hot Talk.

The Stones, one of rock's great bands, and I love metal!

 

[bunsen burner]

Pretty good doco. Actually, really good. It really explained a fair bit of what was going on during the making of this album. Previously I had read about it and pictured it in my mind, but now that I've seen so more in depth content. They actually match quite closely.

The "new" tracks:

The picks are the alternate version tracks, Loving Cup, Soul Survivor, and Good Time Woman. The first two sound like they were iniating around the Let It Bleed time whilst Good Time Woman sounds very Sticky Fingers.

Soul Survivor has Keith on vocals. Pretty good verion.

If there's one album I could have on a deserted island it would be Exile. So layered and doesn't get boring.

 

[graingerg]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I knew there something I was going to watch last night !

I will have to go and buy it I guess.

The Last Waltz is still the best music doco that I have seen, but I haven't seen this yet.

You can still watch it on ABC iVIEW.

 

[graingerg]

Ive always loved the 60's/Brian Jones era of the Stones the most,they were at their most inventive.But i got Exile out after seeing this and was reminded how powerful they were in the early 70's.Mick Taylor was just a superb guitar player.He complimented Keith perfectly.