[2009-11-10] The Rolling Stones "Live At The Max" DVD/Blu-ray remaster of 1991 concert film (Hip-O)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:17 am

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This 1991 concert film was shot in the IMAX format and was originally presented on enormous IMAX screens, with outstanding visual and audio clarity. The dimensions may have been scaled down for this DVD release, but the show is still huge in energy and talent. Filmed during a European leg of the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels tour, this production boasts 15 songs and an extraordinary stage set with inflatable floozies (for "Honky Tonk Woman") and wild dogs (rather cleverly for "Street Fighting Man"). The Stones' set emphasizes material from the late 1960s and early '70s ("Tumbling Dice," "Happy," "You Can't Always Get What You Want"), but the band's performance is so furious that the show is far from a pandering oldies act. Highlights include "Paint It Black," at once brutal and delicate, as well as a muscular "Rock and a Hard Place," a psychedelicized "2,000 Light Years from Home," and a cheeky "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll." Once kings of a gloriously sloppy sound, the Stones prove to be as effective in their artistic maturity with small, breathtaking touches as they are with chunky orchestration. Guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood play as if they are of one mind, Richards providing powerful leads while his partner captures some of the texture of the group's original recordings. Bassist Bill Wyman, still in the band at this phase, offers wit and an encyclopedic grasp of rhythm & blues history, while drummer Charlie Watts adds control and swing. Mick Jagger prowls, climbs around the set, and delivers all the charismatic goods for adoring audiences, even touching the forbidden fruit again in a feverish peformance of "Sympathy for the Devil." The DVD also includes a full Stones discography. --Tom Keogh

DVD:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002OT733M/?tag=imwan-20

Blu-ray:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002OT7346/?tag=imwan-20

Jimbo · 19 Jul 2006

I was late to DVDs, so I missed this one first time 'round. I've bid on a few on eBay, but not successfully. I am very glad to see this reissue.

P.S. It was awesome to see this on the giant screen. The Attack of the 50-Foot Mick!

NoPhoneNoPoolNoPets · 17 Jul 2007

This is great news, because the original release is just about impossible to find (as Jimbo noted).

Has the "Steel Wheels" Atlantic City show ever been released on video/DVD? That one was shown on pay-per-view, IIRC, with an edited version later broadcast on Fox with campy 3-D effects. Great show, with a scorchin' "Sympathy for the Devil"

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Had no idea this had become so obscure... used to see it lagging on store shelves all the time.

Invisible Pedestrian · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 26163

NoPhoneNoPoolNoPets wrote:

This is great news, because the original release is just about impossible to find (as Jimbo noted).

Has the "Steel Wheels" Atlantic City show ever been released on video/DVD? That one was shown on pay-per-view, IIRC, with an edited version later broadcast on Fox with campy 3-D effects. Great show, with a scorchin' "Sympathy for the Devil"

No, but I *ahem* have it on DVD. Great show with loads of guests (I hate that usually), but you've got John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton and I think it was Axl & Izzy from Guns n' Roses on "Salt Of The Earth"!

hbsbla · **Joined:** 18 Oct 2006 **Posts:** 615

I would love to get my hands on a DVD of the Atlantic City show. I ordered that pay-per-view concert and taped it on VHS at the time. I watched it over and over until the tape wore out. I've been reduced to listening to the show on CD the past decade.

Jimbo · 19 Jul 2006

Got my DVD of At the Max today at J&R. They've got all CDs and DVDs on sale.

AMW · **Joined:** 26 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 4543

hbsbla wrote:

I would love to get my hands on a DVD of the Atlantic City show. I ordered that pay-per-view concert and taped it on VHS at the time. I watched it over and over until the tape wore out. I've been reduced to listening to the show on CD the past decade.

Somewhere I have an ancient copy of the old Fox broadcast of the concert--I remember they kept running a promo for a rerun of the "Homer's Odyssey" episode of the Simpsons, back when there were only about a dozen Simpsons episodes known to man. In fact, once upon a time I had a 7-11 poster advertising the concert (7-11 was giving away the 3-D glasses) and Budweiser--in addition to the 3-D glasses, you could get a free Stones poster and 12-packs of Bud for $5.99.

Damn, I'm old.

hwk · 14 Oct 2006

The Stones have never looked or sounded better than they do on the At The Max Blu ray imho.[on my 32" LCD tv it looked very close to 3D]

[2009-11-10] The Rolling Stones "Live At The Max" DVD/Blu-ray remaster of 1991 concert film (Hip-O)

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