From Billboard.com:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/artic ... 1000625354
As tipped here last month, ABKCO will on Oct. 12 offer the first DVD release of the Rolling Stones' "Rock and Roll Circus." The December 1968 concert was filmed for a television special but was never broadcast. It was finally released on CD and VHS in 1996.
The DVD edition is sourced to the original 16mm negatives, while the audio has been remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound. Commentary tracks are offered from Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman, plus Yoko Ono, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Marianne Faithfull and director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, among others.
Among the previously unreleased clips are a backstage meeting between Jagger, Ono and John Lennon; an alternate take of Lennon performing the Beatles' "Yer Blues" with Mitch Mitchell, Richards and Eric Clapton; three additional Taj Mahal songs; an interview with the Who's Pete Townshend; and Fatboy Slim's 2003 remix of the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil."
"Rock and Roll Circus" features the Stones performing tunes that had just appeared on their "Beggars Banquet" album: "Parachute Woman," "No Expectations," "Sympathy for the Devil" and a giddy version of "Salt of the Earth." They also performed their current hit at the time, "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and premiered "You Can't Always Get What You Want," which would debut the following year on the album "Let It Bleed."
-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Stones Return To "Rock And Roll Circus"
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Thanks for the heads-up, Jah! 
That is a favorite CD I've had many years now
Next to JB (well, honestly, even more so than..) the Stones are my #1 rock'n'roll good-times band. As a young artist and musician, I idolized the Glimmer Twins as the ultimate in rockstar excess. Amazingly, I have somehow turned out just fine!
Even more amazingly, so, it seems, have they!
That is a favorite CD I've had many years now
Next to JB (well, honestly, even more so than..) the Stones are my #1 rock'n'roll good-times band. As a young artist and musician, I idolized the Glimmer Twins as the ultimate in rockstar excess. Amazingly, I have somehow turned out just fine!
Even more amazingly, so, it seems, have they!
$#@&...only Vegas again?? Padres ...gotta start believin'!Bring on '14 Spring Training!
From RollingStone.com:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... layer=true
Stones Go to the Movies
"Rock and Roll Circus" hits theaters for one night only
To coincide with its release on DVD, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus will screen in fifty theaters nationwide on October 11th. This will be only the second screening of the performance film since its 1996 premiere at the New York Film Festival.
In December of 1968, the Rolling Stones rounded up some of rock's biggest names (along with aerialists and fire-eaters) for a two-day shoot intended as a BBC TV special and limited theatrical release. Performances included the operetta "A Quick One While He's Away" by the Who; songs by Yoko Ono, Jethro Tull and Marianne Faithfull; and John Lennon's first solo material, backed by Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell and Eric Clapton (Cream had split the previous month). The rambling, free-form concert culminated in the Stones' renditions of six songs, the highlight of which was a particularly intense "Sympathy for the Devil."
But the hour-long film was shelved because co-producers the Stones were dissatisfied, feeling that the Who, fresh off their Magic Bus tour, had upstaged them. This was one of the Stones' last performances with founding member Brian Jones, who was found dead in his swimming pool the following summer after exiting the band.
The Rock and Roll Circus DVD, which hits stores October 12th, has been remastered in surround sound and features new commentary from Mick Jagger and Richards and an interview with Who guitarist Pete Townshend.
ALEX MAR
(Posted Sep 16, 2004)
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... layer=true
Stones Go to the Movies
"Rock and Roll Circus" hits theaters for one night only
To coincide with its release on DVD, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus will screen in fifty theaters nationwide on October 11th. This will be only the second screening of the performance film since its 1996 premiere at the New York Film Festival.
In December of 1968, the Rolling Stones rounded up some of rock's biggest names (along with aerialists and fire-eaters) for a two-day shoot intended as a BBC TV special and limited theatrical release. Performances included the operetta "A Quick One While He's Away" by the Who; songs by Yoko Ono, Jethro Tull and Marianne Faithfull; and John Lennon's first solo material, backed by Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell and Eric Clapton (Cream had split the previous month). The rambling, free-form concert culminated in the Stones' renditions of six songs, the highlight of which was a particularly intense "Sympathy for the Devil."
But the hour-long film was shelved because co-producers the Stones were dissatisfied, feeling that the Who, fresh off their Magic Bus tour, had upstaged them. This was one of the Stones' last performances with founding member Brian Jones, who was found dead in his swimming pool the following summer after exiting the band.
The Rock and Roll Circus DVD, which hits stores October 12th, has been remastered in surround sound and features new commentary from Mick Jagger and Richards and an interview with Who guitarist Pete Townshend.
ALEX MAR
(Posted Sep 16, 2004)