It’s the summer of 1978 and the Rolling Stones are at it again with their 16 album called Some Girls. Going on tour to promote their newest album the Rolling Stones show that even after 14 years together as a band they still know how to create songs that will become number one hits. Songs like “Shattered”, “Beast of Burden”, and “Brown Sugar” are just a few examples of how this band has been able to last for years and how a great song will last just as long.

Some Girls Live in Texas ’78 is the recording of that concert that features 17 tracks, some from the Rolling Stones album Some Girls and songs from other albums of theirs. This concert is amazing to watch and listen to being that it features some of the songs that I like the most from the band. “Shattered” is one song that I liked from the first time I heard it many years ago with it’s thumping guitar riffs, the increase and decrease in volume, the speed of Mick Jaggar’s vocals, and just how it’s got so much energy that it makes me want to yell and dance in wild movements. These guys know how to rock, they have so much energy, the songs reflect this energy and project it out on the listener, and the best yet, it’s fun to sing along with the songs.

I don’t have to go on about how good the band is, them being around for right at 50 years come 2012, that along speaks for how good the band is. What I’m hear to mainly talk about is Some Girls being on Blu Ray and the quality of a concert that’s 33 years old. Being that it is 33 years old I wasn’t expecting much out of this Blu Ray, oh I knew I would like the concert and the songs, which I do, they are great but the having it look good was a whole other idea. Once I did see it I got what I expected and what I didn’t expect in how this Blu Ray looked.

For a concert that was filmed 33 years ago I thought that even with it being put on Blu Ray it would look bad. I was wrong, though it don’t look great it has been improved enough that I can tell this is not what it would have originally looked like. What improvements have been made are in the sharpness and some in the colors. Now the colors are still a little flat and dull, the levels have been brought up a lot making them have some brighter tones to them. Also it has a brighter look, bringing out the colors and making the stage easier to see in the darker areas. However, there is some noise and grain that is in the picture quality. It’s easily seeing the black and dark areas of the concert, which there are a lot of. There’s also a hint of some old film scratches in the picture quality, it has been taken away enough that it’s nearly not there, but there is some that can be seen. Still though, as a whole, the picture quality looks good for such an old concert.

What makes this Blu Ray good, aside from the songs, is the audio levels. I’ve had a lot of concerts on Blu Ray and DVD before and the one thing that will hurt them the most is the audio levels. When a concert has to be turned up to high levels to be able to be heard it gives the songs a distorted sound because of the speakers having to work more to produce a higher sound. Not on this Blu Ray though, in fact it’s completely the opposite of that, and I actually had to do something for the first time, turn down my volume to level 5. If I had surround sound I would bet that it would have felt like I was at the concert, that’s how sharp and crisp the audio is on this Blu Ray. But that’s not all that is good about this Blu Ray, there’s the special features that include a interview with Mick Jaggar from 2011 but what I liked the most was the feature of the Rolling Stones on Saturday Night Live. There’s one skit with Dan Aykroyd called “Tomorrow” that’s so funny that it had me laughing with tears in my eyes. On a closing note, I got to say that one underrated feature that will be given on this Blu Ray is seeing the clothes from the 70’s, just awesome and laughable cool.