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Written by James M. Tate / 10/20/2023 / No comments / 2023 , album , bill wyman , charlie watts , keith richards , mick jagger , mick taylor , music , rolling stones , ron wood

NOSTALGIC REVIEW OF NEW ROLLING STONES 'HACKNEY DIAMONDS'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0U9vhePMm3EtfokBgUJerDeCS3Cu-xbWBVQBe-uOAYysPNNE9SitndxFmhTvbGnh6_anPozVJQeJompEu3QgL58ulXaCa41lADr3Qr2k3m589j5epvbRxjA2HpmZWews524KP-8yaaOcDar9qIVuAN5UYB2Xh3_qKlEKJhFQkEn8Iy2ASJkiRg_dW590/s1500/A1fXb71fhAL._SL1500_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia0U9vhePMm3EtfokBgUJerDeCS3Cu-xbWBVQBe-uOAYysPNNE9SitndxFmhTvbGnh6_anPozVJQeJompEu3QgL58ulXaCa41lADr3Qr2k3m589j5epvbRxjA2HpmZWews524KP-8yaaOcDar9qIVuAN5UYB2Xh3_qKlEKJhFQkEn8Iy2ASJkiRg_dW590/s16000/A1fXb71fhAL._SL1500_.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> THE ROLLING STONES: HACKNEY DIAMONDS Year: 2023 Grade: A</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After several uneventful new wave attempts of solo stardom, many forget or won't admit how good Mick Jagger's third album WANDERING SPIRIT was... leading to THE ROLLING STONES' brand new HACKNEY DIAMONDS, which sounds like a well-produced, finely-crafted progression of a Jagger album done correctly... <br></p><p></p><p>Loaded with familiar guest stars, like original bassist Bill Wyman on one track, the late Charlie Watts on two, and, well... Keith Richards and Ron Wood seem to be guesting throughout... yet without their usual gritty double-ax attack, despite Wood turning in his usual country-rock solo he puts into almost every song since joining the band (that Mick Taylor invented on STICKY FINGERS)... The best songs are as follows...</p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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NOSTALGIC REVIEW OF NEW ROLLING STONES 'HACKNEY DIAMONDS'

THE ROLLING STONES: HACKNEY DIAMONDS Year: 2023 Grade: A After several uneventful new wave attempts of solo stardom, many forget or won...

ANNE ARCHER HIRES RYAN O'NEAL IN THE NEO-NOIR 'GREEN ICE'

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Binder while directed by Bond franchise Second Unit Director Ernest 
Day), with sexy emeralds in place of women, GREEN ICE is a breezy 
seventies Neo-Noir starring Ryan O'Neal as a New York transplant in 
Mexico who meets his damsel in distress, rich girl Anne Archer...<br>
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Her
 hippie sister (Tara Fellner) had been slain by the same crooked third 
world officials she and her gang were hiding emeralds from, and so big 
sis uses O'Neal to find out what happened: Which turns out it has to do 
with... guess what? GREEN ICE, which millionaire Omar Sharif collects 
like loose change while exploiting the locals.<br>
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ANNE ARCHER HIRES RYAN O'NEAL IN THE NEO-NOIR 'GREEN ICE'

Anne Archer in GREEN ICE Year: 1981 Original: 1977 Rating: **** Following a James Bond style opening (created by Bond opener Maurice Binde...

ARCHIVE VIDEO REVIEW OF THE ROLLING STONES 'VIDEO REWIND'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stars Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Anita Morris</u></td></tr>
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Bass guitar maestro Bill Wyman, with his signature deadpan charm, plays a security guard at a museum containing artifacts from rock n' roll history: Among these are Mick Jagger in drag, locked inside dusty displayed glass, reanimating and thereafter, he and Bill watch various 
Stones videos on a computer monitor and even a freezer door (<i>She's So Cold</i>). What's really fun is seeing both Bill and Mick act, doing a surprisingly decent job (Wyman in particular)... introducing videos with actual stories being told and/or the band performing their groovy tunes outright: mostly in the then-current 1980's, with a few <i>rewinds</i> from their previously reining, semi--youthful decade...<br />
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edited down but still seem complete...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>VideoScore: ****</u></td></tr>
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This was really a promotional piece for the Stone's then-new 1983 album <i>Undercover</i> and includes exploitation style Film Noir inspired videos for <i>Too Much Blood</i>
 and <i>Undercover (of the Night</i>), both creatively shot yet trying too hard to push the envelope...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Keith part of the Noir Exploitation Video for Undercover</u></td></tr>
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At this point the band were struggling with both middle age and frustration amongst Jagger and Richards, heading for an inevitable (yet ultimately short-lived) creative divorce: Although the lightweight rocker <i>She Was Hot</i>, more befitting to the band's Chuck Berry-inspired origin, provides the best of the <i>Undercover</i> songs and video, involving the band coming unglued in the presence of red-headed siren Anita Morris, co-star of the following year's RUTHLESS PEOPLE, a comedy film that Jagger would provide a forgettable New Wave title track for, and sporadic 
excerpts of concert footage and interviews are thrown in for good 
measure, making this a pleasurably nifty gem for those rabid Rolling Stones fans who have everything else. <br />
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ARCHIVE VIDEO REVIEW OF THE ROLLING STONES 'VIDEO REWIND'

Stars Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Anita Morris Bass guitar maestro Bill Wyman, with his signature deadpan charm, plays...

Written by James M. Tate / 10/04/2012 / No comments / action , adventure , bill wyman , eighties , heist , neo noir , omar sharif , philip stone , ryan o'neal , seventies

GREEN ICE

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GREEN ICE

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Written by James M. Tate / 12/14/2010 / No comments / bill wyman , charlie watts , concert film , keith richards , mick jagger , mick taylor , music , rolling stones , seventies

ROCKING WITH 'LADIES AND GENTLEMAN: THE ROLLING STONES'

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<div>You can't always get what you want, but if you try some time... You know the rest. Because if you <i>need </i>The Rolling Stones performing at the height of their reign, this is what the doctor ordered. But I <i>wanted </i>more close-ups of lead-guitarist Mick Taylor's fret-prancing fingers during his cascading solos (which does happen on LOVE IN VAIN), or Keith Richards playing five chords for the price of one, or Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman keeping it all steady... Instead of the camera glued mostly on Mick Jagger who, although mesmerizing at the helm of this rockin' Texas concert, often makes you forget they're a band. No matter, it's a show you can watch over and over: being that the only other way to hear the boys live during their early-seventies peak is through hard-to-find but worth-the-search imports. But Taylor's solo on Love in Vain is proof that, at one point, The Stones had their own guitar god... which was needed in the late sixties/early seventies guitar god era. Only wish he'd stayed. <u>Year: 1972 Rates: ****</u><br /></div></div></div>

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