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Along with Nicolas Roeg, Co-Director and cinematographer, Cammell managed to capture the fin de siecle of the nineteen-sixties like no other film maker.
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If you want to encapsulate the end of the sixties and its 'Love and Peace' ideology who better to use as a vehicle.
And it was soon after the making of this film that the Altamont Free Concert took place; captured in the movie Gimme Shelter; a film released in the same year as Performance (Warners got nervous about releasing Performance, hence the delay); identifying Jagger as an icon who really did represent the death of an era.
The selection of James Fox as Chas, the hard-boiled gangster, was also very astute.
He's so disgustingly horrible; he's pure authentic.
Considering Fox had not played a bad guy before, Cammell obviously saw something dark within him that he really brought out in his portrayal of Chas.
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Chas is representative of a new breed.
A performer; a performer of violence; of violent acts, of intimidation.
And he loves it, he gets a real buzz out of it.
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Turner finds this strange new type of performer fascinating, and attempts to find out what it is that makes him 'tick'.
Turner knows that Chas is the new rock star; his own time is over; violence is the new rock n roll.
He attempts to break him down by drugging him; freaking him out; trying to blow his mind.
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(A sequence from the film that is now considered instrumental in the development of the performance rock video.)
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So Chas wins out.
And it's Turner who has his mind blown.
Death symbolising change and progression.
For who is it who really knows where they are going?
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Well what I am presenting here is what can only be titled The Performance Soundtrack, The Rocket Mix.
It's not that I want to be presumptuous or dare I say it, pretentious; no, it's just my original source for the soundtrack was for some reason incomplete.
So, to beef this up a little, I've taken the original tracks and mixed them up with some movie samples.
(O and just for a bonus I added my favourite version of 'Memo From Turner', lifted from the Stones' boot Pro Masters - Outs & Alts.)
I think it sounds real good.
All segueing together rather nicely; even creating a bit of a narrative.
But hey, if you haven't seen the movie, you must.
At least half a dozen times; believe me it just gets better and better.
Various Artists - Performance Soundtrack (1970) Rocket Mix (2010)
Gone Dead Train
Chas at Work*
Performance
Business*
Rolls Royce and Acid
Dulcimer*
Powis Square
Wake Up Niggers*
Chas Meets Turner*
Natural Magic
Chas Tripping*
Memo From Turner
Hassan I Sabbah*
Poor White Hound Dog
Blues For Chas*
Turner's Murder
Turner's Murder*
Hallucinatory sequence - Memo From Turner*
Memo From Turner (Rolling Stones)#
All from Soundtrack unless indicated
* Sampled from film
# Bonus track
Performers include Jack Nitzsche, Mick Jagger, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Lowell George, Merry Clayton, Buffy Saint-Marie and others.
Soundtrack ripped from cassette @320kbs
Samples ripped from DVD @320kbs
Stones' track ripped from CD @224kbs
Excellent quality throughout.
Identify with Chas and Turner here