Sunday, May 11, 2008

It's only rock'n roll


Old for those of us who were young in the 80's, washed up in the 90's, decrepit in the new century, the Rolling Stones are still in there, making faces, making moves, playing their old repertoire as if it was new. Look at Shine a Light: altogether a disastrous movie...even the sound is bad...at the beginning Jagger & Co look like a pastiche of themselves. But as the concert moves along, the power of the music gradually takes over. Those old songs still have the capacity to move you ...and to move them. Gradually a trance like atmosphere is established. The Stones rock. They still do. 

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