The Rolling Stones: From The Vault - Live In Leeds 1982

As part of the From The Vault series, Live In Leeds 1982 has had the footage carefully restored and the sound newly mixed.This was a summer (July 25, 1982) concert that took place during daylight hours and so there are some very good and very clear and close up shots of the band. Although the concert footage appears on a squarer shaped screen compared with more up to date television and cinema, with the performance that the Stones gave and the restored footage that can be seen and the sound that is heared, the screen shape is almost irrelevant but if anything it helps to appreciate that this is basically from a third of a century ago!Sound quality wise, like the others in the Vault series, it is excellent. There is a good mix of songs in the concert from what was then recent songs from Tattoo You, nearly half of the Tattoo You album songs are played, and as well as the more familiar there is also some perhaps unfamiliar such as Eddie Cochran’s Twenty Flight Rock.Helping the band on stage are Ian Stewart on piano, Chuck Leavell on keyboards and backing vocals, Gene Barge on saxophone and Bobby Keys on saxophone, and together with Keith, Mick, Ronnie, Bill and Charlie they all sound (and look) superb!The CD/DVD package is very elegantly presented with a cardboard and plastic case that opens out and opens out again like a sort of four-sided book with pictures of the band and of the concert shown. There is also a sixteen-page booklet with more imagery and information.All of the songs that are performed in the concert are presented on the DVD and all the songs are presented over the two CD’s.Track listCD I01 Intro The A Train02 Under My Thumb03 When The Whip Comes Down04 Let’s Spend The Night Together05 Shattered06 Neighbours07 Black Limousine08 Just My Imagination09 Twenty Flight Rock10 Going To A Go Go11 Let Me Go12 Time Is On My Side13 Beast Of Burden14 You Can’t Always Get What You WantCD II01 Little T & A02 Angie03 Tumbling Dice04 She’s So Cold05 Hang Fire06 Miss You07 Honky Tonk Woman08 Brown Sugar09 Start Me Up10 Jumpin’ Jack Flash11 (I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionTo sum up - great concert and superb footage and sound reproduction.

If like me you aren’t too sure about buying this because they (who? Eagle) decided to just use the only available video hence no choice, that is that used for the giant screens around the stage, hence mainly the heads of the band are seen, then put the doubts behind you and buy this. The sound for starters is fantastic and although a lot of the band from chest up are seen, the video does from time to time pan to the audience and is quite varied in showing all the musicians. The quality is really good for a restored video from 1982! Some say it’s visually dull but come on, it aint that bad,in fact I in my humble opinion thought it was fine. It’s a great historical document! The sound is great for an outside concert, best I’ve heard anyway. For me it is a bit nostalgic, and although I never got to see this concert, I was living down the road at the time, and my mate got to see it. I prefer the band paired down to just the lads with support on piano and sax and very little else which this is. The tracklist is good, the guitar work is fantastic, the two saxophonists work their arses off, and the lads appear to be in a great mood, I also got the Hampton Coliseum one from the same tour but a bit earlier and indoors across the pond, they’re both great in their own way. After watching the whole of this concert I found it very satisfying and a great change from the usual indoor arenas. So get this...it’s the Stones maaaann!!!

This was my first Rolling Stones gig. I was 19 and travelled from North Wales to Leeds with a work mate the day before. It was the first time i realised how big the Stones were. As we drove to the gig on the day i remember all the passing cars spewing out Stones tunes and everyone being so exited. Inside the park and down the front hordes of hells angels and bikers gathered and we stood sort of just behind them. I remember Mick in his leggins and Keith and Ronnie looking so cool. It hit me instantly at the time how good they sounded and how good Charlie was on the drums. The atmosphere was superb and weather nice. J geils band were a good support band.After the gig we found the car had been stolen so had to get a train back missed tge connection in Manchester so slept a bit on the platform at Picadilly. But i will always remember looking at the front page of the Daily Mirror first edition at the station..with a big pic of Mick in yellow and headline..still got it at 40!!!

I am bit of a fan of the Rolling Stones 'From The Vault' series of archive live releases. Other reviewers have commented on how up for it the band were on this date, and the performance that ensued was top drawer. My only complaint is that the track listing to this is very similar to the Hampton Coliseum set - inevitable, really, because it's from the same tour. I don't like music DVDs, so can't respond to the critique of the actual filming, however the vinyl version - which is what I bought - sounds wonderful, and I am very pleased with the acquisition. Maybe it's for a diehard fan rather than an occasional browser, but I enjoyed this greatly

I was there on the day it's said that there was 80,000 at the park there was a lot more than that the people on the gates was letting fans in without tickets for a couple of quid, the place was ram packed. A warm sunny day with a cool breeze, which kept the temperature down or people would have been fainting all over the place. The concert was not one of there best but for a long time fans thought it would have been there last, there was a lot of speculation in press all week that after an very successful tour of Europe and America the Stones would announce there retirement on stage. How wrong was that? They came back nine years later stronger than ever. A great day and watching the film brought back good memories.

Had to get this as I was at the concert with my then girlfriend, now my wife, so, for nostalgia reasons 5 stars all day long.