Stones at the Max
Rolling Stones: Live at the Max | |
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Directed by | Julien Temple David Douglas Roman Kroitor Noel Archambault Christine Strande |
Produced by | Michael Cohl Nicholas J. Gray Toni Myers André Picard Martin Walters Robbie Williams |
Starring | The Rolling Stones |
Cinematography | David Douglas Andrew Kitzanuk |
Edited by | Daniel Blevins Jim Gable Lisa Grootenboer Toni Myers |
Distributed by | IMAX |
Release dates | June 1992 re-released 1996 |
Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $3 million (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
Rolling Stones: Live at the Max, or simply Stones at the Max, is a concert film by the Rolling Stones released in 1991. It was specially filmed in IMAX during the Urban Jungle Tour in Europe in 1990.[citation needed] It was the first concert movie shot in the IMAX format.[2]
Rolling Stones: Live at the Max premiered 25 October 1991 in Los Angeles at the California Museum of Science and Industry. In the UK it was shown at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1992. The tagline was "Larger than life."[citation needed]
Production
Rolling Stones: Live at the Max was the first feature-length film ever to be filmed in IMAX format.
Imaging fed to the jumbotrons at concerts came from trucks where switching equipment was used to control live feeds from an army of video cameras. Midway through post-production, the request came to use some of this video that had been recorded on 3/4" tape in the final IMAX film. This required a series of tests to improve the fidelity of this video footage so that it could be mixed in with the footage captured on IMAX 70 mm film without a significant drop in quality. Test negatives were processed in New York and prints were returned to Toronto for screening at the IMAX theatre at Ontario Place. After many tries, a process was created to improve the video enough to be used. The final release included approximately 6 minutes of this footage.
Originally shot with 8 IMAX cameras outfitted with the first long load film magazines, 5 concerts were recorded in 3 cities. The band's repertoire was so extensive and the setlist so variable that it was impossible to ensure that every song would be played in every show, despite the large number of magazines and the difficulty of loading them. Trying to cut the film on a traditional flatbed editor proved impossible, so an Edit Droid, an early digital non-linear editing system developed, and custom configured by Lucasfilm, was used. 35mm work prints were assembled, transferred to video, and recorded to laser video discs that the Edit Droid could work from. The 8-headed Droid could load all databases and imaging for a single song in all concert locations. The editors could jump to any point in a song, see what was available (or not), and then jump to the same spot in all subsequent concerts.
Home video
VHS, DVD and Blu-ray versions were released under the title Rolling Stones: Live at the Max.[3]
See also the live album Flashpoint, released in 1991, from the same tour.
Track listing
All tracks by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
- "Continental Drift"
- "Start Me Up"
- "Sad Sad Sad"
- "Tumbling Dice"
- "Ruby Tuesday"
- "Rock and a Hard Place"
- "Honky Tonk Women"
- "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
- "Happy"
- "Paint It Black"
- "2000 Light Years from Home"
- "Sympathy for the Devil"
- "Street Fighting Man"
- "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
- "Brown Sugar"
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Stadium venues and dates
The list below reflects the sound recording dates.[4][5] The video is a mix of the listed shows and plus footage from 29 July 1990.[5]
Song Title | Date Played | Venue |
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Continental Drift | ||
Start Me Up | 24 August 1990 | London, England |
Sad Sad Sad | 28 July 1990 | Turin, Italy |
Tumbling Dice | 24 August 1990 | London, England |
Ruby Tuesday | 25 August 1990 | London, England |
Rock and a Hard Place | 28 July 1990 | Turin, Italy |
Honky Tonk Women | 28 July 1990 | Turin, Italy |
You Can't Always Get What You Want | 25 August 1990 | London, England |
Happy | 14 August 1990 | East Berlin, German Dem. Rep. |
Paint It Black | 28 July 1990 | Turin, Italy |
2000 Light Years from Home | 28 July 1990 | Turin, Italy |
Sympathy for the Devil | 28 July | Turin, Italy |
Street Fighting Man | 25 August 1990 | London, England |
It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) | 14 August 1990 | East Berlin, German Dem. Rep. |
Brown Sugar | 25 August 1990 | London, England |
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | 13 August 1990 | East Berlin, German Dem. Rep. |
Personnel
The Rolling Stones
- Mick Jagger – lead vocals, guitars, percussion
- Keith Richards – vocals, guitars
- Ronnie Wood – guitars
- Bill Wyman – bass guitar
- Charlie Watts – drums
Additional personnel
- Matt Clifford – keyboards, backing vocals, French horn, percussion
- Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals, percussion
- Bobby Keys – saxophone
- The Uptown Horns: Arno Hecht, Paul Litteral, Bob Funk, Crispen Cioe – horns
- Bernard Fowler – backing vocals, percussion
- Sophia Jones – backing vocals
- Lorelei McBroom – backing vocals
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[6] | 2× Platinum | 30,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
- ^ "Feature films shot, released domestically in 70 mm process". Daily Variety. May 21, 1992. p. 22.
- ^ Radel, Cliff; DeChick, Joe (24 November 1991). "Stones - to the max!". The Cincinnati Enquirer. p. 49. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
- ^ "Rolling Stones – Live At The Max (1994, MPEG, CD) - Discogs". discogs.com. Discogs. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
- ^ "1990c". rocksoff.org.
- ^ a b "The Complete Works of the Rolling Stones – Database". www.nzentgraf.de.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2014 DVDs" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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- At the Max at IMDb
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