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...Jagger and his boys hedge their bets. They thought the tour's best selling point was its breadth--covering everything from the fifties to "Start Me Up"--and that's what this album offers...
...cheerful. Though the Stones have mastered the art of making studio productions sound spontaneous, they have never succeeded consistently in producing top-notch concert records. Only Get Year Ya Ya's Out (1970) comes close to preserving the on-stage hysteria and thumping power of a concert engineered by Jagger and Richards...
Preserving that wondrous mayhem may be asking too much. The two covers on Still Life are fine, funky cuts powered by the Charlie Watts-Bill Wyman rhythm machine. Jagger reminds all of his still startling ability to transform black R & B and white honk into the Stones' own unique grinding sound...
...versions of "Let Me Go" and "Just My Imagination," both off of Some Girls (1978) and refreshing in their disorganization. Richards does splendid work on "Time is on My Side," but someone goofed by not mixing his vocals in louder. Keef's incomparable moaning is only barely audible behind Jagger...
...album ends as the concerts did, with a rather hokey taped excerpt from Jim Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner." The message in person was. "No encore, but isn't this a funny cryptic way of ending the show?" Reassuring, however, is Jagger's last line before the distorted guitar begins. "Thank yew..See yew next year--bah bah!" Gray hair and all, that would be nice...