Cocksucker Blues DVD bittorrent download

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I've never seen it, but I've always been intrigued. Be warned it's 4gig and you'll either need a DVD burner or a program to re-encode or play the VOB files, but anyway here's the link:

http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/attachment.php?s=&postid=246074

To the uninitiated, you can then use a Bittorrent client such as: http://bt.degreez.net/ to download it, but please try and share at least as much as you download.

For help with playing it or reencoding it: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:05 (twenty years ago) link

It's okay.

TEH ONE AN ONLEY DEANN GULBAREY (deangulberry), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

how does it relate to the rest of robert franks work (connect to the beats, if so inclined.)

anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:21 (twenty years ago) link

Can't help you there. It's been a while since I've seen PULL MY DAISY and that's about it as far as Frank goes for me. A SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL vs. COCKSUCKER BLUES thread would be interesting though.

dean gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 07:22 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
Does it still work?

I'd still rather be in Tokyo (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

If you mean the dvd, it is on dime a dozen.org

svend (svend), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks! grabbing it now -- hopefully it's better than the crappy vhs copy i have at home.

president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

well i like CB but it doesn't totally live up to the myth. actually, jagger is right to prevent it from being officially released as it's much better to keep the myth going ..

AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha, agreed! 'What was all the fuss about' I said. The performance of 'Uptight' by Stevie Wonder is phenomenal though.

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a Lennie Tristano DVD thing up there too now (w. Warne Marsh, Lee Konitz, Nick Stabulas and Sonny Dallas)

Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost there's actually music on it?

When I eventually saw "Rock and roll circus" I was surprised by Brian Jones! Umm, a bit podgy but basically looked OK/functioning.

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link

it's nice to see them hang around, doing nothing, getting bored, though !
actually, i think the main thing about CB is not the sex, drugs & rock n roll thing but the boredom of touring...

AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Brian jones in rock n roll circus : are you kidding ? he looks like a living dead. totally fucked up and out of it. almost as pathetic as in "one + one" !

AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link

the best thing about CB is how clear it is that mick is running the show and everyone else (including the rest of the band) is just in it for the money, the chicks, and the drugs. this film also reminds me that mick's a shrewd enough businessman to be unfailingly polite to EVERYBODY he deals with, no matter how insignificant -- he knows what he has to do to stay successful. it also reminds me that mick, like a lot of well-meaning baby boomers, was trying a little too hard to be "down" with black folks. it was like a deep-south far from heaven.

president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Be warned it's 4gig and you'll either need a DVD burner or a program to re-encode or play the VOB files

or just download daemon tools.

president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link

God it's boring!

piscesboy, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, Alextc, after how wasted/fucked up/etcet, I was expecting him to be, at least, lying down!

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

is there a robert frank thread? a few of his films have just been released, and this calls for some frank discussion.

cocksucker blues is a little masterpiece, i think; like a tapestry of really beautiful shots and cuts (the footage he chooses to depict people kills me - like warhol blinking, the plane pilot stumbling, etc).

schlump, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link

I love cocksucker blues, it's my favorite rock documentary cuz it trains such an unblinking eye on the music world - captures the decadence *and* the banality, examines how they feed each other, creating a narcissistic emptiness out of which these huge performances spill.

when I see people complaining about how boring it is I suspect they want the movie to sell them some exciting rock image in a sleazy new package, but it's strength is in that it lays the whole enterprise bare for all to see, warts n all. it really is a documentary.

Edward III, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

I was expecting awesome mixed with tedious and was surprised it was almost all awesome .... the performances and the in-between parts

dmr, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link

four months pass...

is this from cocksucker blues?

velko, Sunday, 26 October 2008 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Just found out from a friend there's a free screening of this tonight at TIFF. Expect I'll be lining up for two hours minimum.

clemenza, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link

I love cocksucker blues, it's my favorite rock documentary cuz it trains such an unblinking eye on the music world - captures the decadence *and* the banality, examines how they feed each other, creating a narcissistic emptiness out of which these huge performances spill.

when I see people complaining about how boring it is I suspect they want the movie to sell them some exciting rock image in a sleazy new package, but it's strength is in that it lays the whole enterprise bare for all to see, warts n all. it really is a documentary.

― Edward III, Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:35 AM

this really sums it up for me

sleeve, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link

Not just decadence in addition to banality, but decadence AS banality.

Simon H., Friday, 17 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link

Hannah Arendt...Maybe I won't be seeing it after all; e-mailed my friend about how soon I should be downtown, reply was "now" (the screening's at 6:30).

clemenza, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link

Sorry. Worth seeing even if it doesn't quite live up to the hype

curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link

Does this mean that Robert Frank will be there? iirc, the stipulation for a screening is that he's present.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 17 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link

yikes!

Other Robert Frank films will also be showing over the weekend, also free! Again, at TIFF (in Toronto). Maybe lesser lineups for the less infamous stuff? http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2014/2440005773

pauls00, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link

naw that ~stipulation~ is kinda outdated/unenforced, i've seen this screened w/o him. it is a cool fact tho. i love this movie.

mustread guy (schlump), Friday, 17 January 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link

Very glad I got to see this (friend ducked out of work to get tickets). I wasn’t surprised or disappointed that it has some dead patches--I fully expected that it would. I was a little surprised that everything was clean and visible--maybe I was thinking of Eat the Document, but I was ready for a lot of really murky footage, and there wasn’t. Jagger and Stevie Wonder sharing a stage in 1972, especially on “Uptight,” is monumental. The backstage celebrity lurkers are hilarious. (This is something that has really interested me the past few years--when exactly did this moment arrive?) The decadence is...very matter-of-fact, maybe less than I expected (less of it, I mean), and appropriately unpleasant. The guy who walked out behind us was laughing about how terrible it was. I’m not sure what he went there to see. Looking forward to Frank’s Peter Orlovsky film on Monday.

clemenza, Saturday, 18 January 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link

To answer velko's question from five years ago, yes--but it's just a jumble of stuff, and "Tumbling Dice" itself isn't in the film.

clemenza, Saturday, 18 January 2014 03:16 (ten years ago) link

Re: Screening Rules--The Stones & Frank reached an new agreement a few years ago that he could distribute a digital copy of his personal print for a certain limited number of screenings each year. I saw it last year (sold-out screening, $20 ticket) at the MFAH, which happens to be where Frank's archive--iirc both photography & film (sans CS Blues, which the Stones own)--resides. Some of the less-salacious footage, such as Kieth and Bobby Keys throwing the tv out the hotel window, reappears in Stones In Exile.

Ah, interesting. Thanks for clearing that up. When I first read about the initial agreement I was shocked -- I only knew of it as a more-rumored-than-seen bootleg, an the idea that it would be officially screened anywhere struck me as odd.

Clemenza otm re: "Uptight." There were rumors of a live (and studio?) Stones/Stevie record from '72, but obviously it never happened.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 18 January 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link

five years pass...

I just watched this…does anyone ever remember coming across an annotations as such and have any tips where it might be? I can't find any… It would very cool to find out who everybody was …like the Mickey Hart looking dude who's shooting up allatime…isn't that Mike Blomfield talking jive a mile a minute towards the end… of course, many YT comments mention the abundant pubic hair…

veronica moser, Monday, 19 August 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link

There's some stuff about it (Keef talking about various scenes etc) in this

https://img.discogs.com/Mugc0R5wHNQXVCRotL7NRo5Khe0=/fit-in/600x461/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4668581-1431001106-3385.jpeg.jpg

piscesx, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link


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