The Rolling Stones From the Vault: Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre

Sticky Fingers Live! Brings back memories. Favorite song is Moonlight Mile, good purchase, highly recommend!!

The Rolling Stones perform the entire Sticky Fingers LP live, the only time they did. It's really quite a good performance. I watched the blu-ray and I must point out that for the first time in decades, a modern concert was filmed without constant camera sweeps and cuts 10 times a second. Now, mind you, the camera was constantly moving, and there were cuts - but all this was very slow and not distracting. This is the way live concerts should be filmed.I'm pretty sure that the cameras were moving slow because of the perception that most of the songs from the LP were ballads. Mick Jagger has stated that this is the reason they didn't perform the entire album on tour, and I agree with Jagger that this show wouldn't have worked that well at a big stadium show. The audience would have been way too restless. But it worked in the small venue, and it works great on your TV at 1 AM. I'll also point out the the less distracting slow camera movement and cuts were also in place during the fast songs, both from the LP ("Brown Sugar" and "Bitch") and the extra songs, such as "When the Whip Comes Down" and "All Down the Line." There are also two brand-new cover songs for the band, "Rock Me Baby" and "I Can't Turn You Loose."Highly recommended.

I was born in 1958, I have been listening the Original Vinyl album Sticky Fingers since I was 13. As time went on I bought it on 8-Track, (dated myself a little there) I had it on cassette, then CD, n Collectors edition CD w/Original album packaging, so naturally I had to buy the 2 CD Deluxe version. Seeing the Stones in concert many times, I'll always remember the first time in '78, listening to Brown Sugar played live & feeling & hearing a packed stadium going/yelling Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Whooo!!! in unison to Jagger's lead. a fantastic exhilarating mass sing along & release. I have heard at least six of the cuts live, some of the remaining live on film, but to hear the whole album live & to see the Stones play it on stage is a great thrill for me 45 years later (Still kinda miss Mick Taylor's input on Can't You Hear Me Knocking? but I heard a Keith solo version and it worked just as well), Keith said of the Rolling Stones 2 guitarist assault you can't really tell who's playing lead

The Rolling StonesIsn’t that enough?

The Audio: Exceptiona! Very crisp when listening in 5.1 surround and 7 channel stereo, voice was perfectly in sync with video.The Video: Outstanding! Picture detail was sharp and accurate.The Performance: Superb! Mick’s vocals were powerful, Ronnie played like a boss, Charlie never skipped a beat, and Keith surprised me, because this was the best I’ve ever seen/heard him play. Normally, he’s upstaged by Ronnie at every turn, but Keith played with authority and clarity. I enjoyed the short interviews between songs, that was a nice touch, because you got to listen to their inspiration for some of the songs before they played them.Overall: My favorite Stones live performance to date. But, maybe it’s because I’m a little bias, in that Sticky Fingers is my favorite Stones album. It was pretty special be8ng able to watch the Stones play that entire LP. Awesome!

...(DVD) - The Rolling Stones are serious in this performance, smiling very little during the songs. Ronnie Wood, Darryl Jones, and Karl Denson respect the original musicians sticking close to the parts. Denson on sax is fully engaged in "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" taking the song up a couple of levels during the jam section. Mick Jagger is a rare handful of lead singers from the 1960s, who still has a voice that has held up. Interviews between songs on camera do ruin the flow of the show. There should have been a performance only option. On the flipside, one of best things about this concert is the audience is not flashing lights back at the band. With personal devices not allowed, the focus becomes the music of "Sticky Fingers". The Stones and the enthusiastic crowd are connected as one, breaking down that imaginary barrier. Professional film work delivers that same excitement for home watching. I also like seeing the band members playing closer together on stage as compared to the outdoor shows and large arenas. No clowning nonsense or props. Watching in my opinion their greatest album performed live, interviews aside is a dream come true. (CD) - The warm up songs are O.K. Changing the "Sticky Fingers" order of the songs is not. After all these years can't the band trust the fans by opening the album properly with "Brown Sugar"? So what if there was a fair amount of slow, drug numbers. This concert is getting played in a theatre for doggone sakes. Deal with it and show some confidence after forty plus years! On the positive side of things, listening back live to: "Sway", "Sister Morphine", "I Got The Blues" and "Moonlight Mile" is a treat. The sound quality as it should be for modern times is quite good. The Rolling Stones were ON for most of the night. They've never come close to "Get Yer Ya-Yas Out" live on album. A distant second is the recent "El Mocambo" . Charlie Watts R.I.P.