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Set I
Cocksucker Blues
Brown Sugar
Midnight Rambler
Uptight*
Happy
Street Fighting Man
Set II
 
Set III
 
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A 1972 Unreleased Film By Robert Frank

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor, Danny Seymour, Bianca Jagger, Tina Turner, Truman Capote, Stevie Wonder, Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett, Terry Southern, Princess Radziwell & Cynthia Jones

* - w/ Stevie Wonder
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richard (5/5) dvd / 1 View  
Gary (5/4.3) VCD / 2 View  
Notes: http://www.culturecourt.com/Ajo/media/CBlues.htm
infected_by_sound (5/5) DVD / 2 View  
Notes: TV
Phil Shrout (5/4.1) DVD / 2 A A View  
Notes: 4REEL PRODUCTIONS UPGRADE BIG Cocksucker Blues 2 DvD Set Video: NTSC 720x480 @ 29.97 fps Aspect Ratio: 4.3 Fullscreen Interlaced: Yes - BFF Constant Birate: 8000kbps Audio: Dolby Digital AC3 5.1 Surround 48000 Hz @ 448kbps MD5 Checksums Included - REMOVE BEFORE BURNING Newly Transfered Print - Best Available Interactive Menus/Song Selection BONUS Material Saville Theatre 1969 Australian Tour Documentary 1973 Promos Brown Sugar Clip 1973 David Frost Show 1969 Interviews With Mick Jagger Mick And Biancas Wedding :Comment from Cover: With all the versions of this floating around out there,we decided to put out the best possible version we could find and here it is! The video and the audio were re-mastered entirely along with all the bonus material making this THE definitive version. ENJOY 4REEL PRODUCTIONS Liberated by KoolKat Entertainment
Damian (5/5) DVD / 2 View  
Notes: taken from Culturecourt.com: Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor, Danny Seymour, Bianca Jagger, Tina Turner, Truman Capote, Stevie Wonder, Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett, Terry Southern, Princess Radziwell, Cynthia Jones, various groupies, roadies and scalpers. Directed by Robert Frank Produced by Marshall Chess Editors: Robert Frank, Paul Justman, Susan Steinberg Camera: Robert Frank, Danny Seymour Sound: Danny Seymour 1972, Unreleased; 95 min, color (no video release) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ojo says: Drugs, Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll (and drugs & more sex) Of all the tours the Rolling Stones have made across North America, the 1972 tour is still remembered as the most outrageous, most provocative, most inventive musical outing the fab five from London ever performed. I was fortunate enough to see this juicy juggernaut when it made its stop in Vancouver on Saturday, June 3rd, 1972. As Stones expert Harold Colson has written elsewhere… "The fabled summer 1972 tour through the U.S. and Canada is revered by Stones fans worldwide as arguably the band's greatest ever, and it remains enshrined in the annals of rock lore and popular imagination as the masterpiece speedball of indoor triumph, outdoor maelstrom, and backstage debauch. In powerful testament to this enduring sway, vast quantities of audio recordings, books, magazines, photographs, films, videos, and other memorabilia have since issued through licit and sub-licit channels to keep the coveted sights and sounds of the Stones Touring Party alive, rolling, and fresh to this very day." Cocksucker Blues is one of those enduring sub-licit channels which not only celebrates the fore, middle and background of this tour, but which also presents itself as one of the very best rock tour movies ever made, and never seen. Have You Heard About The… It's Not One Of Those Here's the scene: the Stones have not visited the US since the 1969 disaster of Altamont -- also immortalized by the Brothers Maysles in the tour/performance flick Gimmie Shelter -- and the group is riding high and hard on the success of their definitive album, Exile On Main Street. Myth-mad Mick, despite the surprisingly frank shots of Gimmie Shelter, decides to do the film thing one more time and enlists the talent of famous photog/filmmaker Robert Frank (he shot the pix on the Exile album cover, and shot a brutal documentary on madness, called Me and My Brother). In comes producer Marshall Chess, who, early in the movie, gives the plotline: Mick has already written a song called Cocksucker Blues, about a gay hooker in London, to fulfill the group's contractual obligations to Decca records, which was run at the time by an old fart named Sir Edward Lewis. Apparently, during a meeting, Mick gets up and plays a demo of the song to the uptight geezer… the lyrics of which are: Well, I'm a lonesome schoolboy and I just came into town Yeah, I'm a lonesome schoolboy and I just came into town Well, I heard so much about London I decided to check it out Well, I wait in Leicester Square with a come-hither look in my eye Yeah, I'm leaning on Nelsons Column but all I do is talk to the lime Oh where can I get my cock sucked? Where can I get my ass fucked? I may have no money, but I know where to put it every time Well, I asked a young policeman if he'd only lock me up for the night Well, I've had pigs in the farmyard, some of them, some of them, they're alright? Well, he fucked me with his truncheon and his helmet was way too tight Oh where can I get my cock sucked? Where can I get my ass fucked? I ain't got no money, but I know where to put it every time Needless to say, this winsome ditty had the desired effect, and the song was never released. Chess goes on to say some cat in New York was organizing a benefit for Oz Magazine, which was being hassled by the government in an obscenity trial, and the idea came up to do a porno album, with rock stars contributing "adult" material to raise dough for the underground magazine. Cocksucker Blues was one song, and there were others, like Dr John (The Night Tripper)'s "You Can Never Eat Too Much Pussy". Then the idea expanded from an album to a film… which this isn't. Shot cinema verite, docurocku style, Cocksucker Blues is a pinball machine of images -- soft, warm, harsh, exploitive, funny, sad, boring, stupid and smart, jammed with images of excessive hard drug taking, nodding-off Stones, roadies fucking groupies, backstage parties, naked women, heroin shoot-ups, and, yes, some great concert footage. It was, however, so over the top that the Stones banned its release and obtained a court injunction against its distribution. Cinematographer Frank finally got the rights to screen the flick once a year, but one can only obtain this movie on video in bootleg form. I'm Bored. How About Some Sex & Drugs? Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, commenting on Cocksucker Blues, called it "definitely one of the best movies about rock and roll I've ever seen. . . . It makes you think being a rock and roll star is one of the last things you'd ever want to do." Amen to that. One has the feeling these guys are soldiers, waiting for the next battle, the next opportunity to feel alive. In the meantime, there's the tedium, confusion, boredom, and good old angst & ennui of being locked into a big money, big stadium, big everything rock tour. Director Frank unblinkingly reveals these patterns of unrest behind the Stone's bulletproof window of fame, showing us the ever-present drugs and groupies, Keith Richards' addiction to heroin, Mick Jagger's problems with the high-maintenance Bianca (who looks like Sade at a Nirvana concert) and, most interestingly, just how adroit the Glimmer Twins are at concocting and manipulating their outlaw reputations. One of the sadder themes Frank also films is the degeneration of his friend and co-cameraman Danny Seymour, who finally succumbs to the temptations of drugs and sex around him. While not downplayed, Frank underscores the concert performances with his fascination of the backstage world, and allows the mundane sounds of the tour to set the film's themes and feel: raw and inconsequential conversations; Bianca's tiny music box; a bluesy, poignant piano theme; yammering local disc jockeys; and the nervous practice of antsy musicians just prior to going onstage. Some Great Music. But Not Much Of It. For a 90-minute flick, only about 15 are concert shots. We watch the boys perform the opening song for pretty well every night of the tour, Brown Sugar, as well as Midnight Rambler, Uptight (with Stevie Wonder), Happy, and Street Fighting Man. Midnight Rambler is notable for Mick's haunting harp opening, and the band, blitzed as they are, still play very well, with Keith laying down his usual heavy chops against Mick Taylor's intelligent fills. Mostly Classic Self-Indulgent Stuff. No doubt shocking when shot, but now mostly cliches, given the excesses of bands which followed - Led Zeppelin being first and foremost -- Cocksucker Blues reads like a litany of rock high priest thou shalt's: watch everybody snort coke & shoot heroin marvel at Bobby Keyes and Keith Richard as they toss a TV off their hotel balcony (first they check to see no one's below) thrill as Dick Cavett asks Bill Wyman, "what's running through your nervous system right now?" smirk as Wyman doesn't answer leer as Mick Jagger rubs his dink through his pants, then undoes them and gets his hand in for a better feel gasp as a girl trying to get into the concert complains her baby was taken from her because she's always on acid laugh to discover a scalper is charging $10 for a $3.50 ticket chuckle as a totally stoned Keith tries to order room service for some strawberries, blueberries and "three apples" look at your watch as the boys play some very drunken poker. See Keith win. ooh as Charlie Watts makes a very difficult pool shot in a southern diner moan as a naked groupie rolls on a bed, legs spread, fingering her pussy make notes as Keith tells Mick it's best to snort coke through a rolled up dollar bill guffaw as Mick turns to the camera after a brief meeting with Tina Turner and says "I wouldn't mind…" look at your watch again as the tour crew packs the group's suitcases and cleans out their hotel rooms wonder in amazement as Bianca sits sullenly, smoking a cigarette and playing a little music box over and over. The Picture Quality Sucks As Much As The Groupies. OK, we're talking bootleg here. Gawd knows how many times this video has been copied before falling into my quivering hands. It's not pristine 35mm, that's for sure. On the other hand, the film itself is so zany that the highly degraded picture quality (the sound has remained pretty good) can actually add to the ethereal nature of this strange trip. My copy shows massive colour shifts to mostly blue, and the definition between colours has degenerated to almost a posterized effect. In some shots you can't really tell who the people are anymore -- but does it matter? This ain't Spielberg, this is hardcore rock 'n' roll, and it still has the backbeat, so you really can't lose it. I think this is the greatest rock movie ever made -- probably that ever will be made, combining a talented, artistic filmmaker with the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band at the height of their glory on their craziest tour. Doesn't get much better than that. © Rick "Ojo" McGrath July/2001
NonPartisan2 (5/3) DVD / 1 B+ View   ProShot
Wiserphil (5/5) / 1 A View  
Notes: DVD
Mike D's (5/5) DVD / 1 View   Pro/Aud Shot
Notes: Unreleased Tour Video from 1972
Billywantsshows (5/5) DVD / 1 A A View  
Deano's Video List (5/4.6) DVD / 1 A- View   Pro Shot Documentary Of 1972 US Tour
Notes: Video Quality: EX-
Jamie (5/5) DVD / 2 B View   PRO
Notes: NTSC - pro shot
chnactsnflwr (5/5) / 1 View  
chnactsnflwr (5/5) DVD / 1 View  
jeff (5/5) DVD / 2 View  
wedsong1 (5/4.9) DVD / 1 A- View   PRO SHOT
Notes: http://www.culturecourt.com/Ajo/media/CBlues.htm
Dave (5/0) PRO / 2 View  
Notes: Extended edition
ritchiem4812dvd (5/0) DVD / 1 View  
Eric Ortiz (5/0) DVD+R / 2 View  
Notes: Mine is the 4 reel 2 disc version
Dan Nelson (5/0) CDR / 2 Yes B+ View   VCD
Notes: Cocksucker Blues VCD
Jeff (5/5) DVDR / 1 A A View   CATV>HDD>DVD+R
Notes: http://www.culturecourt.com/Ajo/media/CBlues.htm
Dan Karan (5/4.9) cdr / 1 B+ View  
Notes: "Touring Party 1972 Volume 3: Burning At The Garden" / Rattle Snake / RS 054 (disc 7 of a 7 disc set). Tracks 1-2 7/25/72 Madison Square Garden 1st show; tracks 3-8 Montreux Switzerland 5/21/72; track 9 5/72 Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank CA; tracks 10-13 6/3/72 Canadian Pacific coliseum, Vancouver, Canada; track 14 6/24/72 Tarrant County Convention Center, Forth Worth, TX 1st show
Toto (5/5) DVD / 1 View   Video: Pro Shot > Low Gen VHS > DVD / Audio: SBD
Notes: Unreleased Documentary Of US '72 Tour
Sean (5/0) DVD / 2 A A View  
johnbutler (5/5) DVD-R / 1 A A- View   CATV?
Notes: http://www.culturecourt.com/Ajo/media/CBlues.htm
ed c (5/5) DVD / 1 View  
tvc15 (5/5) dvd / 1 View  
Matt Carner (5/0) DVD / 1 View  
Notes: This isn't a concert, but a banned Rockumentary. Click show date for details and cover art link.
Thurman (5/0) shn / 1 View  
HalloweenJack (5/0) DVD / 90 B View  
Notes: PAL
Carlos (5/0) DVDR / 1 A A View   VHS(?)>?>DVD
Notes: The Unreleased Cinema Verite Esq documentary that the Stones didn't want you to see.. The definitive depiction of sex drugs and rock and roll...