The Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun - Hyde Park Live
(2013)
The Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun - Hyde Park Live Blu-ray delivers stunning video and audio in this excellent Blu-ray release
The Rolling Stones historic and triumphant return to Hyde Park was without doubt the event of the summer. Over 100,000 delirious fans of all ages packed into the park for two spectacular outdoor concerts to watch Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood do what they do best. The Stones delivered a five star performance that had both fans and critics singing their praises. The set packed in hit after hit and saw the band joined by former guitarist Mick Taylor for a special guest appearance on two songs. This stunning concert film is the perfect way to celebrate the return of The Rolling Stones back where they truly belong: live on stage in their hometown.
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They say that timing is everything, and if that's true, my wife and I seriously blew it this summer. We took a trip to Europe
with our teenage sons (and lived to tell the tale), and we were actually in London staying at a hotel right around the
corner from Hyde Park when The Rolling Stones were slated to perform. Unfortunately, we hadn't done our homework
before we planned our itinerary, and our flight back to New York City was in the middle of the night the night The Stones
greeted a throng of several thousand, and so we were unable to see the show, even if we did see the rather mammoth
preparations for it spread out over the course of several days. The Stones are still going strong despite the fact that Mick
is 70, Keith is 69 (but doesn't look a day over 90), Charlie is 72 and Ronnie is a relatively youthful 66. Sweet Summer
Sun � Hyde Park Live finds the band in surprisingly energetic shape, obviously loving the fact that they're once again
performing in front of London crowds.
There are admittedly a few rough edges on display here. Mick's voice occasionally can't quite find the right note and
Keith frankly seems kind
of lost on a couple of occasions, but considering their age and the length of this concert, the boys prove that these
Rolling Stones have
gathered little if any moss. The track list for this concert is:
1. Start Me Up
2. It's Only Rock and Roll
3. Street Fighting Man
4. Ruby Tuesday
5. Doom and Gloom
6. Honky Tonk Woman
7. You Got the Silver
8. Happy
9. Miss You
10. Midnight Rambler
11. Gimme Shelter
12. Jumpin' Jack Flash
13. Sympathy for the Devil
14. Brown Sugar
15. You Can't Always Get What You Want
16. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Finally we have a concert video that takes place in natural lighting, and it makes a world of difference, making this AVC
encoded 1080i transfer in
2.35:1 sharp, well defined, and free of even minor combing artifacts. The concert is caught with a variety of great angles,
including a lot of
cameras which are right up on stage with the boys. The video does feature a few archival snippets which are in markedly
worse shape than the
bulk of the live concert outing.
Both the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and the LPCM 2.0 tracks sound vibrant and accurate, delivering the somewhat chaotic
sound of the concert
with very lifelike acuity. The mix is well prioritized, with Mick's gravelly vocals rising above the din of the band and
(especially) the omnipresent
crowd noise). Some of the guitar solos sound just slightly brittle and bright, but otherwise this is a spectacularly well done
set of mixes.
There are occasional interstitials here that have Mick revealing a bit of the inner turmoil the band has gone through over the
past decades, and
what being in front of an audience again means to the Stones. The guys may have been a little nervous, but they come
through here with mostly
flying colors, delivering a hugely energetic and enjoyable performance. Highly recommended.
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