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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ccperkdog on June 25, 2006, 08:13:00 pm
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Hey, I am interested in some opinions on the best concert DVD's available out there. I just got a big ass tv and the only music vid stuff I have are the Jimmy Eat World DVD shot at the 930 Club a couple years back (so,so) a Dave Matthews Concert in Central Park (pretty good) and a bootleg vid of a Pearl Jam concert in Orlando, Fla. (poor quality but it was shot with a camcorder). Anyways, curious to see what is suggested.
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I love Ben Folds' stuff. I don't know, he is one of my favorite live performers, but he also just cracks me up. The Ben Folds Live dvd is awesome.
Some of the Burn To Shine stuff is also very cool.
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if you like greenday, bullet in a bible is great. they play mostly old songs which is a good thing
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I REALLY like this:
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Imagine you've been given a carte blanche pass to follow Pearl Jam on their 2000 North American tour. Now take 28 songs performed in 19 different cities (with the band's hometown, Seattle, getting the lion's share of five songs), and capture them for posterity, courtesy of three PJ crewmembers, who formed a kamikaze documentary unit with handheld video cameras. In the words of frontman Eddie Vedder (whose liner notes are dated February 14, 2001), this three-hour DVD is "in some ways the visual equivalent of the bootlegs that have been released in the past year... a basic document of what may occur at any given Pearl Jam concert." Well, it's all that and more. The gritty, homespun approach is totally appropriate for the band's no-frills performance of straightforward, superlative rock & roll, and the sound recording is nothing less than spectacular, especially if you honor Vedder's request to "PLEASE PLAY THIS MOVIE LOUD."
Singling out highlights is like trying to pick a favorite child; every viewer will have favorites, and every choice is justified. The death of grunge is Pearl Jam's blessing. Having proven its endurance, the band flourishes in the absence of overexposure. Everyone's in peak form (we like the beard, Eddie), and the DVD's bonus features are both fun and substantial, including city, band, and fan montages from PJ's earlier European tour, Todd McFarlane's outstanding animated "Do the Evolution" video, and three songs featuring "Matt Cam," fixed on drummer Matt Cameron, with percussion mixed louder on the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. The only possible complaint is the absence of interviews or backstage footage, but that's a trivial quibble. It's the music that matters, and as an audiovisual record of PJ's 2000 tour, this DVD was created with all the right priorities.
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A couple off the top of my head:
Jeff Buckley-Live in Chicago DVD (a full headlining show recorded at the peak IMO of his short-lived career, filmed by a local cable access show in Chicago for broadcast it is a pretty well-shot w/o a lot of bullshit MTV style cuts and effects).
Parliament/Funkadelic-Mothership connection DVD (a pro shot show from the Houston Summit in 1976, a little dark in spots as it was originally filmed by the in-house crew to broadcast in the arena but a fucking amazing performance complete with the Mothership landing onstage).
As far as reissues go, I wish they'd make "Urgh! A Music War" available on DVD. That shit changed my life being exposed to that many bands in an hour and a half, most of whom I wasn't familiar with at the time.
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Bonus Points (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysics): Kewl title
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Goldfrapp's "Wonderful Electric" DVD
PJ Harvey's "Please Leave Quietly" DVD
Belle and Sebastian's, "Fans Only" DVD
That's all I can think about right now...
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netflix has an ok selection if you just want to rent a few. in the last few months we checked out the last Rage against the machine show, a 2001 depeche mode in paris, morrissey's who put the m in manchester, etc. the RATM dvd was the best of the 10 we rented.
some other live notables (depending on taste):
the cure -trilogy: all of disintegration, pornography, and bloodflowers performed in italy, plus encores.
neil young-live rust
rolling stones-four flicks: 4 dvds, theatre/arena/stadium show
audioslave in cuba (although cornell's voice goes partway thru)
coldplay live 2003 (surprisingly strong for a 'twee pop band')
kraftwerk-minimum/maximum
peter gabriel-
who-kids are alright
pixies ?forget title offhand?
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netflix has an ok selection if you just want to rent a few. in the last few months we checked out the last Rage against the machine show, a 2001 depeche mode in paris, morrissey's who put the m in manchester, etc. the RATM dvd was the best of the 10 we rented.
some other live notables (depending on taste):
the cure -trilogy: all of disintegration, pornography, and bloodflowers performed in italy, plus encores.
neil young-live rust
rolling stones-four flicks: 4 dvds, theatre/arena/stadium show
audioslave in cuba (although cornell's voice goes partway thru)
coldplay live 2003 (surprisingly strong for a 'twee pop band')
kraftwerk-minimum/maximum
peter gabriel-
who-kids are alright
pixies ?forget title offhand?
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Gorillaz - Demon Days Live. Great video and great DTS audio.
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Originally posted by jeffnar:
neil young-live rust
George Lucas stole the Jawas from Neil.
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FINALLY coming to DVD in September
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Roxy Music "Live at the Apollo"
Pretenders "Loose in L.A."
Bowie "A Reality Tour"
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i think this is concert dvd.
i believe the word is that camcorders where handed to a bunch of fans and they shot the concert...
has anyone seen this?
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Originally posted by eros:
FINALLY coming to DVD in September
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I liked U2 a lot more before they all started wearing sunglasses 24/7/365. I'm not sure if there's any correlation really. Just saying.
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Originally posted by definitivedoodle:
i think this is concert dvd.
i believe the word is that camcorders where handed to a bunch of fans and they shot the concert...
has anyone seen this?
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If you have trouble with motion sickness, I would avoid (smackette got through about a song and a half). Otherwise, I fully enjoyed both the concept and the performance.
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This is something I will never get tired of watching. Like listening to any Pogues album, impossible to get tired.
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Maybe I missed it, but has no one mentioned the greatest concert dvd ever, "The Last Waltz"? The Band's last concert? Everyone and their mother played at it - Dylan, Van Morrison (who stole the show), Clapton, Neil Young, Ronnie Wood, Ringo, even Neil Diamond was there for some reason. Martin Scorsese directed it too. It's so good.