tavm Having seen their previous documentary, Gimme Shelter, I decided to check The Rolling Stones' next one that's uploaded on YouTube: C*cksucker Blues. There's a reason it has never been officially released and it has to do with all the drugs and sex depicted here that must have been embarrassing to them even then despite the more liberal time they were in during the making of this film. With all that, there's also plenty of boring talking scenes concerning people I didn't recognize. I did like seeing famous people like Dick Cavett-whose interview portions with Mick Jagger and Bill Wyman are some of the most interesting parts of the film, Tina Turner, and Atlantic Records head Ahmet Ertegun not to mention Andy Warhol in some scenes. And Mick's then-wife Bianca was also fascinating to watch. Otherwise, it was just one boring stretch after another when it wasn't on the concert footage of which the most entertaining parts were when opening act Stevie Wonder dueted with the group on "Uptight/Satisfaction" and when Mick sang with bandmate Keith Richards on "Happy". So on summary, this film with the unmentionable title is a mixed bag for me.

jc-osms Watched this on my Ipod on a holiday flight as a real dyed in the wool Stones fan. However, the copy I saw had obvious editing problems and may have been a rough-cut, but then again maybe not...John Lennon once likened the madness around the Beatles mid-60's tours as like Fellini's Satyricon, well here it's certainly made flesh as we get a more candid than candid fly-on-the-wall insight into life on the road with the Rolling Stones around the time of their 1972 US tour. It's not an edifying sight, with groupies being treated as casual sex-objects to the amusement of the leering male entourage, drugs openly ingested by needle and inhalation and of course the classic "rock-star" cliché of Keith Richard ceremoniously dumping a TV out of the band's high-storey hotel window.In between these scenes of madness are odd shots of, or sequences with celebrity hangers-on like Truman Capote and Dick Cavett, as well as star support turns Tina Turner and Stevie Wonder and endless static non-shots of Mick and a gap-toothed Keith (Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor and Charlie Watts barely get a look-in) and other grainy shots of producer Jimmy Miller well on his way to his early drug-overdose death, if the footage here is any guide. At times in fact the whole sometimes looks like some cheap, almost "snuff"-type exploitation movie.Somehow though, the endless boozing and schmoozing doesn't affect the band on stage and they look like the great louche rockers they were by this point. Thus there's the odd occasional musical interlude where the "film" flickers to life (an exciting encore of Stevie's "Uptight" spliced with the Stones' "Satisfaction") and a rollicking "Happy" but watching this monument to decadence, hedonism and self-indulgence left me at the end actually liking the Stones less, certainly as people. No, for me the whole sex and drugs and rock roll mystique is shot to bits here and I can only hope that the Stones themselves are a bit older and wiser now. To paraphrase John Lennon again, you shouldn't ought to have been there!

hacktek The film is excellent, is uncensored, but with good breeding. That was the real life not only of the Rolling Stones, but of 90% of hippies in that period. In this film you can see the Glory of those golden years! Rolling Stones was not release this film officially, easy to figure out why! All rock stars are doing the same thing backstage, not only the Rolling Stones; When you're bored, Sex, drugs & Rock'N'Roll is the solution... The Rolling Stones had enough courage to put it on film! After seeing this movie, I've been thinking at "Fire and Loathing in Las Vegas" :) "Cocksucker Blues" was the title of a song Mick Jagger wrote to be the Stones' final single for Decca Records, as per their contract, but the track was refused by Decca and only released later on a West German compilation in 1983, although the compilation was discontinued and re-released without the song. You can find the lyrics of this track on the Internet, and you will see why Decca Records refused it... Of all the tours the Rolling Stones have made across North America, the 1972 tour is still remembered as the most outrageous, most provocative, most inventive musical outing the fab five from London ever performed. The film was shot cinéma vérité, with several cameras, making it a real masterpiece of those times. If you like real music, you must see this !

BlackJack_B CS Blues is one of the most infamous documentaries ever made. So controversial that the Rolling Stones refused to call it a documentary they were funding and wanted to be seen as just "actors". The film, directed by Robert Frank and produced by Marshall Chess, details highlights of TRS's Exile On Main St. tour from late 1972. While we see some great numbers from The Stones such as "Midnight Rambler", "Brown Sugar" and a great duo performance by Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder, the film is more known for the explicit sex and drug use. We see what many have called "real reality-TV" here. Orgies, various drugs being used, and the slice-of-life look at what the later years of the hippie generation had brought.There are some hilarious scenes, though. The woman credited as "Snatch Girl" makes some hilariously druggy comments; Keith Richards attempt to order fresh fruit from the concierge is another good bit. Later, Richards and saxophonist Bobby Keys (who still tours with TRS today) are shown tossing a T.V. out the window in the guise of T.V. repairmen. Sadly, we also see the anorexic heroin addict shooting up and you wonder if she or any of the other groupies survived.TRS are not part of any of the explicit activities; they are merely spectators to the party. However, early in the film, a man who may be Mick Jagger is seen fondling his nether regions. Also, the infamous CS Blues song is played at one point.Many originally thought that CS Blues was a lost film but enough copies survived into the digital era and have made it onto DVD. You might be able to see this huge slice of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N Roll somewhere. It is certainly something else.