Ladies and Gentlemen...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones", the 1974 film of The Stones' 1972 tour has never been officially released for home video, but fortunately there are currently excellent bootleg copies available. This is one of the best, if not the best, concert film ever. Seriously. This is The Stones in their prime, when they really were The Greatest Rock'n Roll Band In The World. The energy, raw power, and sense of purpose on display here are awesome. Why this is still not commercially available is beyond me.

I found these links on a message board a few days ago, and have since seen the same links on two other blogs, so I don't know where they originally came from. The eight files for the main movie open as a single 700MB avi file, and it looks and sounds great. The bonus material is the '72 tour rehearsals, and there are links for the artwork also. The password for all files is "purgatory". Many many thanks to the original uploader!

Rolling Stones - Ladies and Gentlemen 1972 DVD rip DivX

http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/stones/ladies-and-gentlemen-dvd-4-reel-1.jpg
http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/stones/ladies-and-gentlemen-dvd-4-reel-2.jpg

pw = purgatory

Main movie :
http://rapidshare.de/files/29458600/RSLG_main.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29463257/RSLG_main.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29468300/RSLG_main.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29473667/RSLG_main.part4.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29480026/RSLG_main.part5.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29486297/RSLG_main.part6.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29491990/RSLG_main.part7.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29492738/RSLG_main.part8.rar.html

Bonus material :
http://rapidshare.de/files/29380622/RSLG_Bonus.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29391107/RSLG_Bonus.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29397243/RSLG_Bonus.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/29403150/RSLG_Bonus.part4.rar.html

UPDATE 8/26/06: I finally got to watch the "bonus material" and it turns out I had some bad info from somewhere - its not the '72 tour rehearsals, its actually another "Midnight Rambler" - still good stuff though - sorry about that!

UPDATE 8/27/06: I'm now told that "Ladies and Gentlemen" was released on video, at least in Australia, at one time. Thanks for the info Rick!