I downloaded it at the weekend. It's bloody great!

Can't help you on the rest am afraid.

Yes

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if they were left off Some Girls? I mean, come on.

can't speak for the Some Girls extra tracks as I usderstand there has been re-recording of vocals and guitar again so like Exile I have swerved it

I watched the DVD last night. It's very sharp both soundwise and visually and its a very entertaining gig, not least Jagger's stage antics and dress style (a rather lame attempt to look like a trendy King's Rd punk).

I won't review the gig in detail. The setlist says it all: Let It Rock (C Berry cover), All Down the Line, Honky Tonk Women, Starfucker, When the ship comes down, Beast of Burden, Miss You, Imagination, shattered, Respectable, Far Away Eyes, Love in Vain, Tumbling Dice, Happy, Sweet Little 16, Brown Sugar, Jumpin Jack Flash.

This particular show was recorded in a fairly sizeable but intimate enough indoor arena where Jagger was just feet away from the front row with no security (innocent times indeed). It captures The Stones just before they became the mega corporate touring behemoths of the 1980s onwards when - in my humble opion - their music began to take second place to corporate interests, stadium spectacle and bringing in the Yankee dollars by the bucketful.

The DVD extras include some rather muddy footage of performances on US Saturday Night live and a duff interview with Jagger conducted by Dan Ackroyd playing one of his characters. There's also a 10 minute interview with a relaxed looking and chatty Jagger, recorded this year, where he basically reminisces about the album and tour.

If you love The Stones half as much as I do its worth investing 17 quid in the DVD/CD box. I think you'll enjoy it.

is doing a decent impression of Tom Snyder, 70's talk show host who did that long interview with Lennon and got PIL on their usual happy go lucky form

And I don't have any problem with them polishing up demos and unfinished tracks, adding vocals or whatever. It's what they would have done anyway. Whether the difference is a week or forty years is academic, isn't it? Their music, theirs to complete as and when they want. It's brilliantly done, and worth doing.

(All available up the allotment, too.)

and perfectly good then no one wants to hear a 70 year old Jagger "improve" things. He doesn't

downloading these? A couple of days ago it kept crashing at the checkout, and today, after I've updated Java etc, it's giving me error messages next to every track in the download manager. Why do these guys make it so hard?

...you've unfortunately convinced me I should probably buy it all (but maybe not the big Some Girls box set)

....but if anyone at Word does have the ear of one M.P. Jagger could you please mention the first two Stones' albums (and their appalling state on CD) to the guy in between overs?

Mick Taylor era or later?