I've always preferred the old 60s Stones and especially Paint It Black. While much acclaim has always been given to the Richards/Jagger songwriting duo, I feel they lost something with the exit of Jones they never recovered.
I think the tragedy of Jones life is covered fairly well in this documentary thanks to Bill Wyman, but at the same time, I feel he left a lot out that might color the views of Richards and Jagger and his they behaved at the time. It's covered, but there's very little about how toxic Andrew Oldman was to their success. It also is extremely unfair that very little was included from the Hendrix recordings. While nothing came of those tapes, not including anyone that knew both men seems more like downplaying intentionally the very thing that could be considered amazing successes of Brian playing with Hendrix and honestly even the Beatles.
Even more ironic is how even in reflecting, seems only Wyman was willing to even beat about the musical talent, with extraordinary effort to make it sound like Jones never tapped that talent. You can hear the drastic shift with Jones exit, the spark went commercial. As Madonna said once of her stage shows, sex sells and that's pretty much all the Stones were after Jones. Commercial garbage with just a couple truly memorable songs after.
What makes music spectacular isn't just being able to put it to paper, but that strange thing that comes from freeform. And why the Lemonheads version of "Mrs. Robinson" is better than the original. It's a downright shame they didn't know this then, and maybe don't even now.
It's just a shame that so many lives ended in tragedy back then. And the toxicity of Anita is downplayed while sharing a pic of Brian dressed as a Nazi.... when she was the German- Italian. It clearly downplayed this because Richards was with her for so long, but obviously reeked havoc.
8/10. Interesting for a true fan of Jones or the Stones, but I think a bit misleading in certain sections. The victors get to write the history and all that.
Review by Alexandra EBlockedParent2024-05-11T04:09:24Z
I've always preferred the old 60s Stones and especially Paint It Black. While much acclaim has always been given to the Richards/Jagger songwriting duo, I feel they lost something with the exit of Jones they never recovered.
I think the tragedy of Jones life is covered fairly well in this documentary thanks to Bill Wyman, but at the same time, I feel he left a lot out that might color the views of Richards and Jagger and his they behaved at the time. It's covered, but there's very little about how toxic Andrew Oldman was to their success. It also is extremely unfair that very little was included from the Hendrix recordings. While nothing came of those tapes, not including anyone that knew both men seems more like downplaying intentionally the very thing that could be considered amazing successes of Brian playing with Hendrix and honestly even the Beatles.
Even more ironic is how even in reflecting, seems only Wyman was willing to even beat about the musical talent, with extraordinary effort to make it sound like Jones never tapped that talent. You can hear the drastic shift with Jones exit, the spark went commercial. As Madonna said once of her stage shows, sex sells and that's pretty much all the Stones were after Jones. Commercial garbage with just a couple truly memorable songs after.
What makes music spectacular isn't just being able to put it to paper, but that strange thing that comes from freeform. And why the Lemonheads version of "Mrs. Robinson" is better than the original. It's a downright shame they didn't know this then, and maybe don't even now.
It's just a shame that so many lives ended in tragedy back then. And the toxicity of Anita is downplayed while sharing a pic of Brian dressed as a Nazi.... when she was the German- Italian. It clearly downplayed this because Richards was with her for so long, but obviously reeked havoc.
8/10. Interesting for a true fan of Jones or the Stones, but I think a bit misleading in certain sections. The victors get to write the history and all that.