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As promised, here are some more golden nuggets from the great Martin Scorsese. His latest, the Rolling Stones concert movie Shine a Light, opens today. Scorsese has been a Stones head longer than he's been a filmmaker: "Over the years their music had meant a great deal to me, in particularly the sound they create with the vocal and the instrumentation. It's important to note that I didn't really see them in performance until 1970 or so. So the music I heard prior to that and after that - Exile on Main Street and many of the other albums - whatever impressions I needed to have of them and their music had already been formed in my head through the records." And he's been a music fan ever since he listened to his dad's records a young boy: "I've long been obsessed with string instruments and guitars. My brother played guitar, and my father had 78 RPM records. The first records I remember hearing, and going into my own little private world of imagining what music looks like, were the records of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. I was 4 or 5 years old, maybe younger, and I imagined abstract images and movement and color and tone to what I heard. I didn't know which instruments were playing, but my ears were attuned to that sort of music and that sound. It translated to the music that they created, and the use of the guitars were very, very important, the instrumentation of guitars." For Scorsese, Shine a Light was always about the stage show, not the history of the band: "The dominant factor was always the stage show. They're the most documented band in history next to the Beatles. I think everything that could be said about them has been said. So what would be new? It's always the music, and the stage show. But we still thought it be interesting to get some archival footage in there. We had 400 hours of material. But once they got past a certain point in their development as a group they began to be asked the same question, which is, 'How long will you continue to perform?' So you're watching 30 hours of that question. To me the question becomes meaningless, because it's in the performance. I hope there's just enough archive footage in the film to suggest who they were in the past and who they are now. And if you want to know more about them there are others films out there. There's "Gimme Shelter," there's "Let's Spend the Night Together," there's Mick Jagger's work in "Performance." |
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