The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon

The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon
by Bruce Gowers

The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon
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Actor: Bobby Keys, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards (II), Mick Jagger, Ron Wood
Director: Bruce Gowers
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Description of The Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon

A VIDEO/AUDIO SPECTACULAR CAPTURING THE 1997/98 TOUR OF THE ROLLING STONES IN ALL ITS GRANDEUR AND GLORY. SCORCHING PERFORMANCES OF 19 GREAT STONES TUNES FROM SATISFACTION TOGIMME SHELTER TO YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT.
Like any good brand, the Rolling Stones know to preserve the formula even when updating the package, and this long-form concert video underscores that market strategy. As with each of their tours since the early '80s, the quartet, augmented by a discreet auxiliary of backup musicians, gives the fans new eye candy while dishing up a familiar set list spiked with Mick Jagger's lip-smacking vocals and Keith Richards's signature guitar riffs. The visual twists are at once spectacular and conservative: a cyclopean main stage design with massive pillars (presumably the Babylonian connection), a vast oval video screen (shades of Big Brother), and a hydraulic bridge enabling a midconcert sortie into the audience, with the Stones playing a more stripped-down, intimate set on a small satellite stage.

That huge physical setting doubtless made the live shows eye-filling rock spectacles, but the video crew necessarily accepts the limitations of the small screen, focusing more on close-ups of the band, rapid cuts, and racing, hand-held tracking shots to convey excitement while keeping the viewer close to the action. The evening's repertoire sticks to the band's most familiar hits, and if the Glimmer Twins occasionally slip their masks to let the routine show, the real wonder is how effectively they keep the playing focused. During the first half of the program, the band's newest songs (especially "Saint of Me" and "Out of Control") elicit conspicuously higher energy from the band, if not the audience. But just as the show seems doomed to a certain anomie, the escape onto the smaller, no-frills stage pumps up players and crowd alike, particularly when they launch into "Like a Rolling Stone," a cover that winds up sounding like a great idea too long deferred. --Sam Sutherland

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