Rating: 
Summary: Very enjoyable
Review: Great sound, great picture, excellent performance. Jagger is in fine form, and his vocals are very good.
Sometimes a singer will sound less than enthusiastic when doing a song for the 1000th time, but that is never the case here (well, almost never).This two-hour concert recording includes Keith Richards doing a wonderful "I Wanna Hold You" (a non-album track) in a surprisingly strong voice, and a fine set list with "Satisfaction" as an energetic opener, as well as several well-executed classics.
The band is excellent; Richards' guitar work is tight, and bass guitarist Darryl Jones and the other backing musicians help drummer Charlie Watts keep things in place. A very enjoyable performance. 4 1/2 stars.
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Summary: An excellent snapshot of the Stones
Review: I didn't see this concert live, only saw the DVD, but as a long time Stones fan I was impressed. The version of Gimme Shelter is the best I've seen - PLAY IT LOUD.
Rating: 
Summary: great, almost like being there again
Review: I first bought the VHS of this tour, right when it came out and already enjoyed it although the sound quality in some parts left room for improvement. Well, the DVD version is awesome. The camera work is consistently great, the sound quality is as good as on the Stones IMAX movie (also highly recommended) and overall the guys show that they still have the right stuff. The movie also highlights and gives credit to their excellent additional stage musicians and singers, most of all the fabulous Lisa Fisher who does the female vocals on "Gimme Shelter", definitely one of the absolute highlights of this concert. This was the first tour where the Stones used the smaller second stage to showcase some of their old R&B tunes, and one could have had a bit more of that, but then again: choices and cuts have to be made from a stage show that is usually well over two hours long and the selection is overall pretty satisfying, a good balance of new stuff from the "Bridges to Baylon" album and old favorites.
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Summary: Rolling Stones get better like good wine
Review: I had lost contact with the Stones for a while throughout the 80s. but when I saw them live in Holland in Sept 98 I was gobsmacked. This video simply proves a point in case. Jagger, Richards, Wood and Watts seem to be ageing like a bottle of good wine. If this is what it's like to be a pensioner then I am looking forward to it. Superb, powerful, entertaining and a good lesson to a lot of "young bands". You need to work hard and love your music to be this good. Nick
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Summary: WOW!
Review: I had never seen the Rolling Stones in concert until I saw this video. It blew me away! I love it! It's amazing!
Rating:
Summary: almost like being there
Review: I loved it.. It brings back memories from seeing the stones do Bridges at soldiers field in chicago. I have tried many ways to listen to the old stones tunes and they just do not sound right but now I have hit a gold mine. I purchased this used and it was fine.
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Summary: you CAN always get what you want with this dvd
Review: i saw the stones' bridges to babylon concert in detroit a few days before this one was taped in st. louis and this one is a carbon copy of the one i saw. this video captures the controlled, frenzied atmosphere of the concert and really shows you what a rock concert is like from the point of view of the performers, support people and the audience. this video has tremendous sight and sound. if you do not yet have surround sound and a big screen tv then this video alone is rationale enough to go out and buy that. afer seeing this, you will feel as if you were at the stones' concert and will agree that mick, and not james brown, is the hardest working man in show business. he was unreal and took geezer rock to new heights. the song selection was great, with the stones playing almost all of their golden hits. they open with "satisfaction" and go right into "let's spend the night together" and keep going from there. the "bridge" -- to babylon, evidently -- was sort of gimmicky and 2001ish, but "like a rolling stone" done on the mini stage and "sympathy for the devil," done by mick in a mandarin warlord coat, on the way back, are worth the gimmick. mick and dylan are a good match. the supporting backups are great, including a black female singer whose name (lisa?) escapes me but who is fantastic and dave mathews, who has a solo, and blondie chaplin, who evidently needed the work and was content to bang on a tambourine and sing harmony. watch for keith doing a snazzy turn on the keyboard. mick and keith are outta sight, as is ron woods, and charlie watts looks like an ad for clean living, being in great shape and wearing a golf shirt and pounding the skins all night long. i regret that the stones did not do "paint it black" but you can't have everything and it gives me a reason to see them live and in concert again. where can you get one of those full-length leopard or cheetah coats that keith walked out in? and who were the amply endowed twin 35ish babes in the audience, captured boogeying to brown sugar at the end? give this video five stars and definitely add it to your concert dvd collection and take it home and start it up.
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Summary: shows it as it was
Review: I saw this show in person in dec of 1997. I wasn't much of a stones fan at the time, and actually went in the first place because a buddy of mine said it would be worth the drive to see the world's greatest rock and roll band. Well, he wasn't far off, and this DVD caught it all pretty well. The colors are bright and punchy, the camera work is exciting, and the music is great. The only complaint I have would be that the really loud parts of the concert tend to flinch in the mix and don't add the complete punch one might expect when viewing it turned up. Otherwise it's great fun and totally worth your time!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I'm a huge Stones fan, but maybe it's because I don't have the Dolby Digital setup yet, but I found the atmosphere as described by others to be somewhat lacking on this DVD. It's often hard to make out the crowd noises which usually add so much to the atmosphere of a live concert. The sound track serves to highlight Jagger's not so great performance. It was also fairly shocking to see how old Mick Jagger and Keith Richards look. Keith appears somewhat lacklustre, wandering about the stage as if he's just going through the motions. He looks positively bored in places. Once I have the proper sound setup, I may re-evaluate this, but my recommendation would be, if you don't have a good sound setup, give this a miss and buy the studio recorded album of the same title. It's much better. (Of course, you only get the new tracks, but you have the older ones already, don't you?)
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Summary: Excellent audio and video quality
Review: I'm not a huge Stones fan but I'm buying most concerts I can find on DVD. My experience is the newest one are much better than old ones from a technological point of view, for obvious reasons. This one is real good with excellent camera work and digital audio. I would recommend to anyone.
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