ROLLING STONES: LIVE AT THE MAX

ROLLING STONES: LIVE AT THE MAX (1990, PolyGram, $19.95) This document of the Stones' 1990 Steel Wheels tour actually works better at home than it did in theaters. On a small screen, you're spared the horror of Keith Richards' wrinkles, which on a giant IMAX screen look alarmingly like a flyover shot of the Grand Canyon. Beyond that, however, Live at the Max is just another concert movie, notable only for proving that the traditionally ragtag Stones know how to mount a slick arena show on the order of Michael Jackson's. That such a spectacle might be antithetical to the spirit of rock & roll, not to mention to the Stones' best work, is an insight I, for one, would have preferred to have been spared. B -Steve Simels