Bridges to Babylon  

• 1998 
• DVD 
• Rolling Stones, The 
• DVD 

1000047

DVD / Video / Blu-ray

Bridges to Babylon

The Rolling Stones: Bridges to Babylon Tour '97-98 (1997)

1998

1997

Chaplin, Blondie, Davis, Michael, Fischer, Lisa, Fowler, Bernard, Jagger, Mick, Jones, Darryl, Keys, Bobby, Leavell, Chuck, Matthews, Dave, Redman, Joshua, Richards, Keith, Rolling Stones, The, Smith, Kent, Snitzer, Andrew, Watts, Charlie, Wood, Ron

120

1

Z9 36440

7321931364409

Engels, Nederlands

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. Met gastoptredens van Dave Matthews en Joshua Redman. Chapter Index: 01: Opening 02: (I can't get no) Satisfaction 03: Let's Spend The Night Together 04: Flip The Switch 05: Gimme Shelter 06: Wild Horses 07: Saint Of Me 08: Out Of Control 09: Waiting On A Friend 10: Miss You 11: I Wanna Hold You 12: Across The Bridge 13: It's Only Rock'n'Roll (but i like it) 14: Like A Rolling Stone 15: Sympathy For The Devil 16: Tumbling Dice 17: Honky Tonk Woman 18: Start Me Up 19: Jumping Jack Flash 20: You Can't Always Get What You Want 21: Brown Sugar 22: Applaus en Eindgeneriek