Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones

Ladies and Gentlemen The Rolling Stones is a concert movie featuring the British rock band The Rolling Stones that was first released in 1974. Directed by Rollin Binzer and produced by Binzer and Marshall Chess, it was filmed in 16mm by Bob Freeze and Steve Gebhardt of Butterfly Films during four shows in Fort Worth, Texas at the Tarrant County Convention Center and Houston, Texas at the Hofheinz Pavilion, from the bands 1972 North American Tour in support of their classic 1972 album Exile on Main St.

The film was sold by The Rolling Stones as a taxincentive based venture capital investment. Nine investment groups competed to acquire the film and the winning group formed Dragonaire Ltd., a onefilm distribution company that was formed to fourwall the film throughout the United States. In accordance with the Rolling Stones contractual requirements, Dragonaire Ltd. proceeded to rent theatres on a fourwall basis for limited engagements in major markets commencing at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City onApril 1974 and sell tickets not only at the theatre but also through concert ticket vendors such as Ticketron for the limited engagements. The objective here was to create a limited access single venue event that fans could access from any ticket seller in town.The Quadraphonic presentation of Ladies and Gentlemen... required a 44 JBL driver sound system four systems were built and used by Dragonaire in its road show performances of the film. Each sound system was capable of generating 3300 Watts RMS, and was transported to each venue in a 14ft. bed truck. Played at 100 dbA in evening and midnight performances, the sound track had to be mixed by a sound engineer based on the number of people in the audience in order to achieve optimal clarity. Sound engineers accompanied the road show presentations. ........

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