2. CONSUMER SHOPPING: THE VIDEOS

We relied upon video-dubs of films about the Stones, both official releases and unofficial bootlegs--in particular Robert Frank's Cocksucker Blues. The bootlegs are available from street vendors in the East Village: we also found some good home-compilation tapes of the Stones performances on television, in USA and UK, during their rise in the early and mid-sixties. These documents of the early performances were especially helpful in researching some of Mick's more common dance moves and to witness how he holds the microphone, how he makes faces, etc.


Robert Frank, Cocksucker Blues (bootleg) includes:
Terry Southern talking about how coke isn't addictive
Keith nodding out backstage with voice-over of him talking about how you have to get out of Switzerland and starve in order to be creative
Backstage at Madison Square Garden with Warhol, Capote, etc...
Mick complaining about the food
Keith ordering fruit from room service
A heroin monologue- discussion of the history of heroin use in Western Culture; charter flights to Marseilles
A groupie dropping cigarette ashes in Keith's hair, as he's passed out in her lap
The Stones throw a television set out the window of their hotel room


The Maysele Brothers, Gimme Shelter:
The 1969 USA tour, from Madison Square Garden to Altamont
Mick wears a Leo astrology sign on his chest
How it all went down at Altamont
The white woman at Altamont asking for donations for the Black Panthers
See the Hell's Angels--all fucked up and bashing people
Grace Slick tries to tone the audience and the Angels down, unsuccessfully
When the guy is getting murdered just feet from the stage, Keith keeps playing!


Nick Roeg, Performance:
Anita Pallenberg can't act here--this is when she was having sex with Mick, and obviously, also a really smacked out.
Mick here is dark and moody


The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
Tim Curry's parody of Mick Jagger is PERFECT


Jean-Luc Godard, One Plus One (Sympathy For The Devil):
Recording Studio Scene: Fantastic
See Brian, already in his last days--wasted, out of it, useless


R. W. Fassbinder, Beware of a Holy Whore:
Where Hannah Schygulla is getting her hair done and looks like a peasant.


Fassbinder, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant:
When Petra is on the white shag rug hugging the telephone, drunk and sobbing because Karin left her--this our Anita Pallenberg, the self pity. And how about Petra's daughter. who comes to tell her drunker mother that she has fallen in love with her first boy and mama says: "Yes, and I bet he looks just like MICK JAGGER."


Godard's Weekend:
The Mozart piano concert outdoors, one long long slow pan--and it mentions the Rolling Stones.


Sam Samore's video on Adrian Piper's Funk Lessons:
Adrian talks about how Mick Jagger and the Stones learned it all from Black R & B.