Crossfire Hurricane[Blu-ray]

Seeing the performances from the beginning of their career that spanned 50 plus years was incredibly exciting! The scenes showing how unruly the audience of teen boys got in the 60's was unbelievably exhilarating! What happened in Frisco was sickening when the Hells Angel's were approved as security not to mention scary. Nevertheless I loved seeing all The Rolling Stones have experienced in the face of absolute fame! Mick is so endearing and charismatic and the responses of his and Keith Richard's showed so much class while being asked in an interview a question comparing them to the Beatles.

A wonderful history and analysis of the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world, ever.

The best review of this film will likely come from someone whose seen all the rockumentaries on the Stones. I have not, but starting in soon...This movie opens with a sound only recording of the Stones retrospecting their careers at 50 years in. No cameras were allowed, so the film blends in archive footage of the Stones dating all the way back to the starting point. The cameras were out for the Stones' first tour, and even before. You are immersed in mostly B&W footage of the band... on the stage, backstage, in the streets, at the airports. You see and hear how the boys reacted to the fame as it rose up to overcome the group, as well as society around them. You take a ride on the Rolling Stones roller coaster through the years via a unique backstage pass.The closeups of a very young Mick Jagger are revealing. Even though I grew up with the Stones I was reminded as never before what a lamb Jagger was; gentle, soft spoken, soft skinned, baby-faced and girlish. But the lamb turned into a lion when Mick picked up a mic! What a startling juxtaposition!One fascinating passage is when one of the Stones comments on the pea running down the aisles during concerts. Young girls getting so worked up they lost control of the bladders. That was how the 60s characterized the phenomenon, but of course today we are wiser regarding the inner workings of female plumbing. Hmmm.Definitely worth watching if for no other reason than the footage of the 60's.

Fun and concise history of the stones. Lots of interviews mixed with some good concert footage. If you are a Stone's fan you should have it. I saw them get tear gassed in Lynn MA at the Manning Bowl during Satisfaction in 1966. Concert lasted maybe 20 minutes in the rain before the crowd rushed through the perimeter gating and the kids up front rushed the stage. Cops were trying to drag Keith off the stage and he was running around hitting them with his guitar. Saw them three years later at the Boston Garden during the Get yer ya ya's out tour in '69 again in 72 and 75 then twice for Steel Wheels in Foxboro, Ma. I could feel the heat from the gas torch explosions while sitting in the fifth row. and one more time where the Florida Panthers play NHL hockey. I AM A STONES FAN. If you are buy this and put up with vintage footage.

As a lifelong Stones fan, having instantly switched allegiance from The Beatles with the release of "Satisfaction," I was hoping that this project would be the unvarnished account of the Stones' fifty-year history that all the others haven't been. While it is better than most (while maintaining that current annoying fascination with quick-cutting that doesn't allow your eye to rest on anything), it is still being seen through the sanitizing eyes of Mick Jagger, who was a producer on the film. It's brilliant at covering the first seven or eight years of the band, but then underplays Brian Jones' death by misadventure, the huge contribution of Mick Taylor, Keith's addictions and the impact that had on the band, the feud between Mick and Keith in the early 1980s, and basically the entire history of the band for the last thirty years, which is a pretty deep trench.Still, there is archival footage here that I've never seen, particularly from the first five years, and the delivery of the story is well-told and well-paced for what it is. And yet, I still have this hope that a great director like Martin Scorsese will come along and do for the Stones what Scorsese did for George Harrison and Bob Dylan, and give us a real warts-and-all comprehensive study of this greatest rock and roll back of all time. That probably means waiting until Mick doesn't exercise control over content, which mean I could be very old by then.

My Daughter's 1st concert @ 16 I took her to see The Stones @ Shea Stadium in NY, we had grass seats. I heard on the phone talking to a friend, she said " My Mom is taking me to see The Rolling Fossles, @ least Living Color is opening for them" I screamed "Sacralege!" How a 1 hit wonder could compare to this band??Anyway 1/2 way thru Honkey Tonk Woman, I looked @ my daughter & she was standing on her chair DANCING! I tugged @ her & sais "Not bad for a bunch of fossles?"She replied, "Mom They Are Great!"After that she was all in my cassests of Janis, Jimmy & OMG! The Doors! After the movie came out MIND NUMBING!I introduced her to my young world, which I lived thru my older Sister. & she LOVED IT!Music, real music & there's Blues, R&B, Rock, Pop & Soft Rock that is just the Joint! & Not's forget Pastey Cline! That Woman could Wail!

I have a number of Stones' videos - this is one of the few that feature Brian much of the time; sometimes on stage and sometimes off stage. As as early Stones an in England from about 1963 onwards, this brought back a lot of happy memories

Die Stones über sich selbst: Richards, Jagger, Watts, Wood sowie Wyman und Taylor plaudern mal so richtig aus dem Nähkästchen, was der Doku ein weit besseres Feeling gibt, als zahllose lieblos zusammengeschnittene Berichte über die Stones von dritten. Der Film behandelt schwerpunktmäßig die Mittsechziger bis Mittsiebziger und geht dabei mitunter richtig in die Tiefe, anstatt nur oberflächlich alles schnell abzuhandeln, klasse. Schade ist nur, dass über die 80er und 90er Jahre kaum berichtet wird, sicherlich gab es während dieser Zeit weniger (Zünd-)Stoff als in den so genannten Jones- und Taylorjahren, jedoch wirkt es so, als würde die Doku mittendrin aufhören. Wie wär's also möglichst bald mit "Crossfire Hurricane 2"?

Gelunge Dokumentation über die Geschichte der Rolling Stones. Auch das schwärzeste Kapital der Stones -Altamont- wurde nicht ausgelassen. Man kann den damaligen Stand der Technik nicht verbergen - oder man wollte es auch gar nicht erst versuchen. Die Herschaft der Fans ist mit diesem Werk aber immer noch gut versorgt - nicht so ein absolut billiger Zusammenschnitt wie viele andere DVDs.

Wer mehr über die beste Rockband aller Zeiten erfahren möchte , der sollte sich diese DVD zulegen .Ich habe die Band von 1964 bis zum heutigen Tag verfolgt und kenne mich wohl ganz gut aus .Einige Szenen in diesem musikalischen Lebenslauf sind mir auch noch nicht begegnet. Schöne Überraschung !

Hole punch through back of case which went right through to the disk. Sent back