Early in the Millenium, when I had a rare day off, I'd wander over to Jmall and Suncoast Video to see what was new in the concert video section. I'd always find something a bit unexpected. One such find was Ronnie Wood's "Far East Man", It was a concert video that included a strange mix of family and guest musicians. While nothing could be as loose as the New Barbarians live at Largo, Ronnie's gig seemed a bit shambolic. In the making of doc, you can see alcohol is present so that might explain some of it.
The biggest revelations were that Andrea Corr was the sexiest Irish lass of the early 2000s and Slash could jam some really hot Faces riffs. Though I haven't watched it much over, it's a keeper that I pulled out in the past week. This led me to putting in the Hal Ashby film of "Let's Spend the Night Together". I was always a bit put out by the 1981 Stones tour because I couldn't get a ticket. I remember this girl I used to have a crush on (and at the time it was past tense, cause she alledged dissed me when my "friends" gave her an apocryphal love note from me), bragged about going. I thought "fuck the Stones, I'll stay home with my Clash records."
Ashby was known for his Burt Reynolds car crash movies, the closest we get to that is the scene of Mick admonishing Ronnie to come out of his freebase fog and get ready (Rick James indeed), while a montage of "neighbors" juxtaposes the backstage drama. Maybe it was the coke. While I enjoyed their covers of "Twenty Flight Rock" and "Going to a Go-Go" everything is just a little too fast. I think they used varispeed because I can usually jam along with a Stones concert and the keys are all off. So overall, not my fave concert film. "Far East Man" is a better view. It did yield "Go Go" as part of the Eardamage repertoire since we were always on the lookout for top 40 we liked and could play with our rudimentary skills.
Anyway, that's one way I like to spend a bit of time.