Concert dvd recommendations - Page 6

which one did you get? the one in the small cd case or the one in the larger dvd size case? both say 4:3
did you watch it on a widescreen tv or a regular tv????
thanks

I also like "Stiff Upper Lip".

The Donnington concert was taped in 1991??

If so, does that mean it has the ORIGINAL LEAD SINGER?

I am unsure when that guy died. But his voice was haunting and great.

The new U2 concert, slane castle, has better sound and more energy than the one in boston. But I like the song selection better in boston, get the one in the jewel case if you only care about the concert. You pay 5 bucks more for the other version which I believe has more extras.

Based on this review I bought this DVD. I agree its very high quality sound and video. Coldplay is a real band, with their own non-commericial style, and some individuality. That says something in this day and age.

I use the word "some" because they remind me of U2, which to me, is not necessarily a good thing. I can handle male-vocal crooning for 1 or 2 songsin a row, maybe even 3 songs, but them I am crooned out! This singer croons the whole show...

The video editing is also too fast. they rarely hold a shot for longer than 2 seconds, and there are too many 1 second shots ... quite annoying when your watching a full concert, to have the editor relentlessly changing shots the whole time.

Anyways, I will watch this band develop a bit more, they are pretty good, and if you like U2, you may may well like Coldplay...

Being a huge concert DVD fan, here's my top 3 thus far. The DD 5.1 on all 3 discs is outstanding, although the video might leave something to be desired.

1. John Mayer- Any Given Thursday (Check out track #13 "Covered in Rain" and turn it UP. My reference concert DVD material).

2. Dave Mathews- Listener Supported

3. Coldplay- Live 2003 (Clocks is always a crowd pleaser!).

Ok lets try this one...has anyone experienced Styx:Return to Paradise?
I enjoy(ed) their music immensely but hafta know that for $30 after taxes, Im getting my moneys worth.....

Arrrrgghhhhh... I truly hate you for making me admit this but: I have this one on VHS and I like it. Tommy Shaw sounds great, the new drummer is really solid and J.Y. keeps the cheesy posing to a minimum. Plus, the setlist is good- not to much from after the 70's hey-day and some nice classics like Suite Madam Blue. The biggest problem I have watching it is that Dennis DeYoung now looks just like Paul Reiser and it weirds me out. I don't know how it looks or sounds on DVD but it ought to be fine.

Hah thats funny about Dennis DeYoung. I had to sell my "Steely Dan Plush TV" DVD because the singer guy was just sooo ugly. It sounded great, but the constant closeups of his mug was just too much for me to take hah

One more thing. Phil Hendrie recently did a hillarious skit on Dennis DeYoung, on his popular syndicated AM radio show. Basically Phil's producer played hookie from the radio show because it was Dennis DeYoung's birthday.

So, he calls his producer to find out why hes not at work, and the guy starts talking about how great Styx is, and why he had to take the day off....

Oh well, guess you had to be there, haha

I watched this tonite, its still great because Prince is the consumate performer ..but when any performer plays in Las Vegas, they tend to tone down their show, because they usually have to do it several times a month, sometimes 5-6 nights a week.

Prince was no exception, he added alot of jazz and a little blues, sung less, did far more covers, and danced less and a bit slower. No flying splits like he is still capable of. It was good musically, and the 2 channel Stereo PCM soundtrack was AWESOME, with real nice bass and ... simply the best sound i have heard from a 2-channel only soundtrack. I think the case is mislabeled, i saw no " Dolby Digital" soundtrack.

Its a simple concert DVD, nice performance, the venue is a bit of a problem, the RAVE concert is still the best Prince DVD by far....

the styx return to paradise dvd's looks good and sounds good but the newer one[arch allies with reo speedwagon]is better imho

That may be, but REO Speedwagon is a line I wil NOT cross.

Saw the Journey, REO, and Styx, tour twice this summer and all bands kicked major a**, and never seeing REO live, i wasn`t sure of what to expect,. and i thought they were good enough to wan`t to see them again someday. And i have zero REO in my cd collection, in fact i rarely hear them at all even on local radio anymore.

I watched Hall & Oates: Live in Concert. It is a very good concert and is filmed in wide screen. The sound is also excellent PCM & Dolby 5.1!
I found it at Wal-Mart for $13.88.

David

Welshed: I am pissed off also, having Irish blood in my, I saw a bit of it at Best Buy and just qouted what I saw sounded great. The sale guy had me convinced it was in England also, till Kevin J pointed out it wasn't.

The one I throw on the most is James Taylor, live at the beacon.. The sound of this DVD alone is what made me a James Taylor fan. By the way, I'm mostly a metal head.

Bobby

My wife and I saw Hall & Oates live this past July while at Mytle Beach, S.C. While we were waiting in line to get into The House of Blues for the concert, my wife passed out from heat exhaustion. Fortunately, there were some very helpful people in line behind us who had some EMT training (I do as well, but it was good to have some dispassionate assistance ) to help me out. Long story short, we got her a seat inside the SRO hall for the show and she loved it. They gave out free CDs of the current comeback release and it's not bad. But, their oldies are much more to my liking. Maybe I'll have to see what's on their dvd release.

I am at this moment listening to and watching The Dave Mathews Band Live in Central Park concert, which I got because of this thread. Never heard him before. While it is very good, Mathews' inarticulate mumblings makes me reminisce and wish there was a good dvd of Tom Waits' oldies. Well, that's what Dave Mathews kinda reminds me of, a so so immitation of Tom Waits with the brief scatological vocalizations, but with more jazzy improvizations and funk. Maybe it's Al Jarreau I should be thinking of; no, at least Jarreau is articulate. Oh well. Excellent concert performance anyway. The percussionist is boss.

If nothing else, after watching the Mathews dvd I had to then put on the Allman Bros Band Live at the Beacon Theatre dvd to listen to some more Warren Haynes guitar. Sweet.

Avil Lavigne - My World -2003

This Avril Lavigne DVD is refreshing, its a bunch of kids making decent music. My daughters like this band, I find them mildly interesting, no its not incredible music, but its fresh, and she has an attitude, and the band is just kids having fun...

The songs are all fairly strong pop tunage, shes a good singer, in a very normal way. In other words, she will never sing opera. The video is 4x3 but stretches to 16x9 bearably. The Audio quality is "fine", but by no means great, it has a "concert" sound to it, you know, the bass is not flat at all, kind of boomy, but similar to what you would probably hear in a big arena...

There is a full concert and a ton of extras on the DVD. The concert isnt incredibly long, but .... its a full show. I like it.

Lots of music videos on it, some nice documentary type stuff, its all there!

I rented it at Blockbuster, btw. I may buy someday though, i may miss not having some fresh faced kids in my concert collection

My vote goes to Roger Waters' In the Flesh. AMAZING!!!

Nicholas

Oh man Nick that last 7 songs, where Roger's band gets into his solo stuff.... I must have watched that 20 times... those 3 female singers he has with him can hit incredible notes.

And then Andy Fairweather Low plays those super-clean bluesy notes on that incredible red guitar, man-oh-man

Don't know if either of these was mentioned Eagles: Hell Freezes Over and Diana Krall Live in Paris

JohnR_IN_LA,
re: Avril, good pick. My daughter (2nd grader) got me started listening to Avril and her first cd is steller especially considering her age. Every song is pretty good. I may have to pick up that concert dvd.

Nich,
What kind of music does Roger Waters play? I have never heard of him.

getme,
Several have mentioned Diana Krall in Pairs. Again, I have never heard of her. Any info on her music style would be appreciated.

Not sure if it was mentioned but the new Coldplay "Live 2003" DVD is incredible! Definitely goose-bumps material.

You didnt find the ultra-fast camera switching annoying on the Coldplay DVD? The audio and video quality is nice, but I thought the director had too much coffee that day. Does he have to switch angles every 1.5 seconds for the whole 2 hours show?

Also, that lead singer croons every song, i wish he would just chill a little bit, I am not that infatuated with the male voice .... reminds me of Bono from U2. In fact, the whole band reminds me of U2

manpig,

If you've heard of Pink Floyd, you may have heard the name Roger Waters. He was one of the lead singers and creative geniouses behind PF. He has been going solo now for quite some time. In the In The Flesh Live Dvd he does play a lot of classic Pink Floyd tunes, but he does add several of his solo materal (which is also very good).

Some other good concert dvds:

Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live (widescreen and has DTS 5.1): sound is unreal (I think it was remixed).

Peter Gabriel - Growing Up Live (widescreen and DTS 5.1): better PQ and sound is also awesome.

Don't know about the prices of these in the US but up here they are around $15 CDN.

Rick.

Grateful Dead "The Closing of Winterland"

TOTO live in Amsterdam 2003 with Simon Phillips on Drums. Dts and Dolby 5.1 sound is excellent as well as picture, performance is even better.

That's about $12 US! What's with that deal? Those are about $17 - 19 here.

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I was playing a program recorded on my PVR last spring sometime, when a Johnny Cash video strangely appeared. It was "Hurt," and hit me right between the eyes (and ears). I say "strange," because I did not record anything that should have had it on, and though I did not erase it, I could never find it again on the PVR. It was as if the spirits had sent it to me. Sometimes I would see part of it while channel surfing, but I never seemed to get all of it again even though it has been nominated for out of genre awards and carried home the prize on C&W awards shows.

To the point - I bought "Hurt" on DVD for $6.99 yesterday.
The run down - It has only the four-minute video, is PCM stereo only, and appears to be 2:35 wide screen only. I love it. Even with the production shortcomings, it is IMHO the most evocative video I have ever seen, and never fails to cover me with pathos not to be found anywhere else. The look of Cash' dying wife on the stairs is chilling. Incredible, especially considering it is a cover by Nine Inch Nails, a band I would never have believed capable of such depth.

Admittedly not for everyone, but when I show it to people who have never seen it the response is silence followed by, "Wow, that's powerful."

Also, he assembles an all-star band, some incredible backup singers (women), and is actually quite a showman.

He has no less than 3 guitarists ( Not including him, he plays the bass) including the classy blues-tilted rock guitarist Andy Fairweather Low. Also a great keyboardist, a really cool drummer, and some other players here and there. He really lets them rip up their respective instruments too, lots of nice instrumentation.

Waters has been criticized as being hard to work with, hes a perfectionist. This quality makes his shows truely wondrous experiences, as the timing, the vocals, the visuals, the instrumentation, and the sound are all exquisitely hammered out beforehand.

They do not look over-choreographed though, he wouldnt stand for that. For example, when band members take a break, they sit on a table on the stage, and chill out. Once during a synthesizer solo, they even brought out a bottle of whiskey and played a game of cards.

One warning, his dad died in WW2, and he will never let Downey Street forget it. He has a fairly strong anti-war sentiment in his later PF and solo work, and will have the audience of 30,000 aging hippies all worked up by the end of the show....

Distorted,

Yeah, DVDs are pretty well priced here at stores like Future Shop, a&b sound, and sometimes HMV. But for online, I got the Peter Gabriel DVDs at dvdsoon.com (based in Canada) for $15.98 CDN (where I saw afterwards, the Growing Up Live DVD for $14.98 briefly). They do ship internationally I am quite sure.

Rick.