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Let's Spend the Night Together Reviews:
Hack Job
2007-07-23 - Hal Ashby could've been a great filmmaker, but you can't tell by watching this nightmare of the Stones on stage. Granted the boys themselves play too fast and wear some of the most ridicilous outfits of their career, but ultimately it's the non-musician friendly photography (no musical performance is high-lighted, it's just Jagger jogging, "Keef" posing and funny faces all the way through), and horrible edits made on many songs that sink this ship. For example: Let It Bleed starts mid-song, Jumpin' Jack Flash and Tumbling Dice loose whole verses, choruses and solos, and Brown Sugar is truncated from both the intro and the ending.
It's good to hear the Stones without too many additional musicians drowning out the guitars, and Keith still doing plenty of backing vocals, but the song edits just get too distracting. I don't know what they were thinking. They haven't been able to include all the songs from the setlist anyway.
What they should do now is remix the sound, get rid of the edits and release footage of a whole show, including all the songs they played on those nights. And the original Ashby hack job as a bonus no one would ever watch again.


Raw, Tough, Sloppy (in a good way) Stones!
2005-07-08 - Anyone who has been to a Rolling Stones concert in the last 15 years, will watch this document of the Stones 1981 tour and probably claim that this wasn't their finest moment. But I, who prefer bands when they are raw and slightly imperfect live, absolutely love this release. I've actually never seen a DVD of this, and I just recently came across a used version on VHS. I hadn't seen it since it aired on television in late 1982, and it still is as good now as it was then.

What you get here is the Stones without 5 backup singers and a dozen guys on horns. Backup vocals are actually still being sung by Keith, and to a lesser extent, Ron Wood, and the difference from say, watching 4 Flicks (another excellent product) is that you really feel like you're just watching the band play, and not listening to some engineer at a mixing board. Keith looks haggered and obviously is not completely past his drug days, but he rocks relentlessly, and we get a smoking version of one of his best tunes, "Little T n' A". Mick runs around the stage like a wildman, and his vocals are all Mick. No echo, no, ahem, enhancement, that many artists these days use in concert. There's obviously not been any overdubs in the studio for this film. You have wonderfully stripped down versions of "Under My Thumb", "Shattered", "Beast of Burden", among many of their classics. You have songs from the early 80's era, that are overlooked in concert today- "Black Limosine", "Waiting on a Friend", "Hang Fire" and one of their best tunes from those days, "She's So Cold".

Yes, the playing is a bit sloppy. But, they play with passion and grit, and they seem to be having fun, despite the fact that Mick and Keith weren't getting along particularly well at the time. I highly recommend this little piece of early 80's rock and cinema!

Going To A Go-Go '81 Style
2005-02-20 - This was a very exciting release for The Rolling Stones in 1982. It was released in theatres in the US and was great on the big screen. They played it loud & it was as close to the band as you could get at the time. I for one had a great time watching it & the packed theatre was screaming for more!
The Stones Played Live & Raw...And The Energy Was certainly There! Jagger Alone was Running at least three miles a Show! It was A kick ass tour and They Learned Alot From that tour about playing in huge stadiums & making adjustments to deliver the sound (especially in stadiums).They know better than most that there's alot of ways to deliver a tune & That Tour was a learning experience for many bands to follow. Four Flicks Wouldn't be as great if it were not for this ground breaking tour..(Live & Learn)

The Year: 1981 / The Album: Tatto You / The Tour:The Rolling Stones Playing Live Raw Rock n Roll (In Huge Stadiums)..Not An Easy Task!

Music bad.
2004-11-19 - I bought this on import and I consider it a waste of money. I was excited about the song selection but I was very disappointed. I really enjoyed the Stones live versions of old rock-n-roll classics twenty flight rock and going to a go-go on their live album of the same time but the versions on this film are terrible. I sold this to a used cd/dvd store at a big loss because I knew I would never watch it again. Avoid!

This Is The Stones?!
2004-07-18 - By 1981, The Rolling Stones had lost a lot of the magic. Their singles were hardly making the top 20 and their albums still sold high ("Black And Blue" was number one for nine weeks in a row) but were not as good as "Sticky Fingers", "Exile On Main Street" or anything from the peak period. Also suffering was their live shows. Once a group whose concerts were full of energy and theatrics, they now are boring and don't even do most of the songs that good.

The main problem I have with this dvd is the songs themselves. They don't sound like Stones songs at all. "Beast Of Burden", "Shattered" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (to name a few) could have been done by any hack tribute band. Their performance of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" is good, but you can tell by the way they just jump right into the second verse when you go to it that it's been edited. "Miss You" is bland despite some great sax work, and "Let It Bleed" (a song I was intially looking forward to) doesn't work live. If you want to see a great live performance of this song, buy the "4 Flicks" boxed set, watch the Madison Square Garden concert (which I happened to attend). See how well they do this song in an indoor venue rather than an outdoor stadium.

The only redeeming momenst in this film are "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" and the models on "Honky Tonk Women". Otherwise, this dvd is a total waste of time and money. Also, I advise to stay away from "Still Life", the 1982 live album that was culled from the same tour.