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Rolling With theStones

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once again a DVD for which the producers did not manage to negociate the music rights.

Lots of boring footage of the Stones doing small talk. Not very interesting, and there is no music even when you see them perform on stage. Reserved for the harcore fans

The whole film is more a study about the athmosphere and spirit of the early sixties in Ireland at the time when the stones played there than about the group itself. Apart from a few interviewes (one with each member)it goes on and on about the opinion of the fans. And during the whole film you don't hear one single song from the Stones! You really have to be a "hardcore-fan" to enjoy this.

This is a documentary about a band who played in Sweden at

the same time as Rolling Stones. We have an interview with

some people from that band, and we see a clip from a concert.

The only pictures of the Stones is from an 8mm camera with

no sound, taken summer 1965 in Malm, Sweden. Those clips

lasts for 2 minutes, and are sent over and over.

And we get an interview with a woman Brian had an affair with, in Malm, Sweden 1965.

So for those who lived in Sweden in the sixties, it's a good movie. But to Stones fans around the world... I don't think so.

Look, this documentary of the Rolling Stones' 1965 Irish tour is rubbish. The live concert footage has no accompanying sound, visual quality is poor and it looks like it's never been edited - shots of oblivious bystanders seem to go on forever and there is far too much of the Stones sleeping, or just sitting around.

The only sequence of any interest, and even then only to hardcore completist Stones fans like me, are two illuminating interviews with Bill Wyman and Brian Jones: Wyman makes a distinction between being a pop star and being a musician; while the expression of sheer panic on Jones' face when the interviewer interrupts his dissertation on surrealism by asking him to define surreal is priceless.