Concert dvd recommendations - Page 264

As always, when picking up a few things at Walmart, I stopped at the DVD section and see whats new or cheap for BD/DVD movies and concerts.

They had a Styx concert I never seen before (just like the Bachman/Turner one I got from there) and it was showcasing 2 complete albums. Pieces of Eight and my favorite Styx songs from the timeless classic, The Grand Illusion.

I havent played it on the HT system as I just sent my tweeters from my Studio's to Paradigm for an upgrade but I went thru a few songs on the computer. Picture and sound was excellent and the songs reminded me of days gone by.

Dont miss it if you're a Styx fan.

Thanks for the review Yosh. I've had my eye on that one a little while now.

The audio and video are excellent on that new Styx Bluray.

No matter what you think about classic rock bands in the year 2012 or the absence of Dennis DeYoung, this is still a pretty good concert DVD.

I was quite impressed by Gowan and his keyboard finesse.....he got the tunes pretty well right on as well!

I picked it up Tuesday, watched Grand Illusion that night and Pieces of Eight last night, excellent disc!

Ok, I'm running out of material.......... so stopped by BB yesterday and picked this up..



I like these guy's.......... watched the entire show, gonna watch it again tonight. It didn't seem as sterile as some Soundstage concerts.

Alter Bridge: Live at Wembley Blu-ray

Alter Bridge At Wembley is a stunning show shot in HD and 3D on November 29, 2011 at the historic Wembley Arena in London in front of a sold out crowd of over 10,000 die-hard fans. The show is the most significant moment in the band s 8-year career, as their goal from day one was to play Wembley. The band ripped through a 21 song set featuring songs from all 3 of their albums including the hits: Rise Today , Watch Over You , Blackbird , Ghosts Of Days Gone By and Isolation . The film was Directed by Award-winning Director Daniel E Catullo III, who also produced and directed the band s previous DVD Live From Amsterdam . The package also includes a one-hour documentary The Road To Wembley , a photo gallery and a live CD with 14 songs.

Disc 1
1. Slip To The Void
2. Find The Real
3. Ghosts Of Days Gone By
4. Come To Life
5. All Hope Is Gone
6. Metalingus
7. I Know It Hurts
8. Coeur d Alene
9. Blackbird
10. Wonderful Life
11. Watch Over You
12. Ties That Bind
13. Isolation
14. Rise Today
Disc 2
1. Slip To The Void(DVD)
2. Find The Real(DVD)
3. Ghosts of Days Gone By(DVD)
4. Before Tomorrow Comes(DVD)
5. Come To Life(DVD)
6. All Hope Is Gone(DVD)
7. White Knuckles(DVD)
8. Brand New Start(DVD)
9. Metalingus(DVD)
10. Broken Wings(DVD)
11. I Know It Hurts(DVD)
12. One Day Remains(DVD)
13. Coeur d Alene(DVD)
14. Buried Alive(DVD)
15. Blackbird(DVD)
16. Wonderful Life(DVD)
17. Watch Over You(DVD)
18. Ties That Bind(DVD)
19. Isolation(DVD)
20. Open Your Eyes(DVD)
21. Rise Today(DVD)

BB has the new Alter Bridge DVD in stock, my bluray copy should be in the mail box tomorrow as I pre-ordered it from Amazon.

Also, BB has the new Iron Maiden and Joe Bonamassa DVD in stock. Today was an expensive day.......... as I picked up both.

Yep just received my Joe Bonamassa Live At The Beacon today straight from Joe's online store. We saw them twice on this tour and I am ready to relive the moment.

Imo, the absence of DeYoung is addition by subtraction. Most of the stuff Tommy Shaw fronted was honest to God rockin', while most of the stuff DeYoung did was girly-man shlock. A true Jeckyll 'n Hyde band. YMMV.

I actually lost most of my interest in Styx about the time that Shaw replaced John Curelewski. I'm sure DeYoung going completely schmaltz ruined them for a lot of others, though. But they had already kind of lost me by then.

DeYoung didn't really start out that way, though. Many, if not most of his tunes were actually pretty good back in the earlier days, and the band rocked more overall at that time. I actually saw them live then, once at my high school, and 2 more times at other, local ones, and they were pretty much a different band. Not heavy metal or anything like that, but definitely a bit harder-edged and more party-rockish, and not as slick, over-produced and calculating. The music was centered more around a "dual-guitar" sound. They had lost that entirely when they got Shaw (which, to be fair, really started being put into place a couple of albums before that, after they left Wooden Nickel records. It wasn't so much Shaw himself - I mean, he is good at what he does - it was that they chose him to take them specifically to where they were trying to get, and it just wasn't what I had been into the band for up until that time).

Release date: 04 June 2012

Stone Temple Pilots : Alive In The Windy City

Format : Blu-ray Music
Video : 16:9
Audio : DTS-HD Master Audio, LPCM Stereo
Publisher : Eagle Rock
Other Information : Running Time: 92 mins approx


Filmed at a sold out Riviera Theatre in Chicago in March 2010, Alive In The Windy City is the first Stone Temple Pilots live concert to be authorised for video release. The band are in top form and the show both looks and sounds spectacular. The concert was held shortly before the release of their recent Stone Temple Pilots album and the tracklisting combines new songs interspersed with their classic hits. This is a great live concert by one of the most successful rock acts of the last twenty years.


TRACK LIST

1. Vasoline
2. Crackerman
3. Wicked Garden
4. Hollywood Bitch
3. Between The Lines
6. Hickory Dichotomy
7. Big Empty
8. Sour Girl
9. Creep
10. Plush
11. Interstate Love Song
12. Bagman
13. Huckleberry Crumble
14. Sex Type Thing
15. Dead And Bloated
16. Lounge Fly
17. Piece Of Pie
18. Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart

Think I'm done with Iron Maiden. Matter of fact, think I'm done with metal music period.

Thanks, release day purchase for me. Love STP

Someone wrote this review on Amazon - I agree totally.

Iron Maiden's new DVD

Maiden have probably reached the peak of what is unbearably self-aggrandizing behaviour. At this point it's really about letting you know they're a big popular band. From the start there's the shots of the usual fans who will shout you down telling you that "OMFG MIADINE BEASZT EVAER!! FLACK OFF!!!!" with an over produced and numbingly senseless montage of some sci-fi sort set to Satellite 26. The music from Final Frontier was about the most pointless of their career but that doesn't matter when there's a great show to put on. It's not about the music. Throw in the comic relief elements of Janick and Nicko and you have the best entertainment a candy floss bearing kid could have. To see Janick doing pirouette after pirouette in close shot HD, and a midget singer doing split leaps and just managing to avoid soiling his pants on the not really high notes is worth the price of this disc and more. Maiden has everything Steve and Rod wanted, status, fan numbers, money, mock prog rock music. If you look at Maiden's real picture of Dorian Gray, you'll see a Fat Elvis, about to keel over on the toilet. This video is really the most shallow garbage released by Maiden and a step down even from the previous videos of the last decade. The split screens are like a tv show preview, just worsening the whole effect. It's like heaven for those who are faithful to a brand and have no brains or taste.

Looks like Amazon pulled this review? So much for being honest. Looks like Amazon cooks the books somtimes....?

Sounds like crap but sometimes a review like that might actually sell a product to people who love to watch train wrecks.

No...Steve Harris simply found the guy that posted the review & bashed his face in w/ a sparkle blue P-Bass, Jay & Silent Bob-style. Then Janick pirouetted over the reviewer's mortally wounded skull while shredding on an old Stratocaster, Nicko cracked a joke about it being "just a flesh wound", then Bruce dropped his shorts & attempted his Number of the Beast shriek while squatting over the bleeding "fan"...and you probably know what happened next..

Been a fan of Maiden since first discovering them in 1981 @ the age of 11. Been a fan club member for just slightly less time. Have seen them live many times over the years - and will again this August (and once again....killer seats...the real payoff of FC membership).

One thing I have known since around '81 is that IM will put out at least one live recording between each studio album/tour. I believe the Druids used to use the IM concert album/home video release schedule to mark the passing of time.

That said....I saw IM on the 1st US leg of the Final Frontier tour, which was about 2 months before that album was released. Great show- but only 1 tune from TFF (El Dorado) was played that night. I for one found TFF to be another great Maiden record - but then I have been a fan of the "melodic prog-metal w/ 3 guitars" thing they've been up to since the return of Dickinson & Smith in 2000. Hell..if a "fan" cannot tell you that they find 2006's A Matter of LIfe or Death not only one of IMs best records, but one of the best metal records on the last 10-15 years....they are not a true fan and their metal man-card must be revoked ASAP!! IM have grown as songwriters in the last decade+ (esp since Steve is not writing EVERYTHING these days). The music has evolved - but unlike Metallica's attempts @ musical evolution, Maiden pull it off (Metallica, when not playing fast, heavy thrashing metal can sound rather amateur-ish - esp Ulrich, one of the worst "great" drummers in rock).

(Boy - hope I pissed off a Metallica fanboy or 2 with that!!)

Anyway - the show documented on EN VIVO!, which I picked up on BD yesterday, contains a few more tracks from TFF that I missed out on hearing live, as well as being just different enough from the setlist I saw them play last to make it worthwhile to own for me. What I won't need to purchase is the accompanying CD...outside of maybe the TFF tunes that I can get a la carte via iTunes, I have more than enough live Maiden recordings in the library at this point to hold me over 'til Armageddon....

If you love or even just like Maiden....and you maybe have not owned every live recording they have issued in the last 10 years or so....this is a solid purchase. I liked the multicamera thing they had going on. The documentary bits were interesting, too. And the DTS & PCM audio tracks sound great. If you dig Maiden, go get it!! A nice addition to the Maiden live collection, IMO But be warned....some random Amazon douchebag will claim you have neither brains nor taste when you buy it.

And Steve Harris will cry his way to the bank.

I'm just tired of the whole devil horns thing,,,,,,,,,, guess I'm just getting to old for these kinds of shenanigans.

Joe Bonamassa makes Iron Maiden look like another Kiss.

"OMFG MIADINE BEASZT EVAER!! FLACK OFF!!!!"

This.......

To each their own. At 42 as of today, I still enjoy my NWOBHM.

Of course, I find Bonamassa to be the reincarnation of Clapton....and I F@&KING HATE CLAPTON! Yeah, I know...blasphemy from someone who has played guitar for most of his life. Chops? Yes. Sleep inducing? Bigger yes! Only time a Clapton lick has really turned me on was when Ed Van Halen played them.

I love me some Maiden. Havent got a chance to see the new disc yet but I did watch the new Bonamassa. Damn good show! He's great and his band is really tight. I really like the new drummer as well. Great performances by Hart, Hiatt and Rodgers.

Live Iron Maiden is a over the top rock show with rich old rockers playing the same stuff as 20 years ago, anyone buying the new concert DVD should know that by now. I find nothing wrong with that I enjoy see all the old fart rockers on the new high quality Bluray releases.

If I didn't just buy their concert DVD last year I would have picked up this new release.

No flippn' way Bonamassa sounds like Clapton take a listen to Black Country Communion sometime.

I'll take another listen to the new IM when in the right mood, but yeah, these guy's seem to be playing the old card from 20 years ago.

I have. If there was a project JoeB was involved in that I sort of tolerated, it was BCC (saw a live recording on Palladia recently). But that had more to do with being a fan of Glenn Hughes and the sound of a Bonham on the drums.

My issue w/ JoeB is not his chops or lack thereof.....the guy can certainly shred. Hell, you're gonna pick something up if your first proper guitar teacher was Danny Gatton. But to me, his playing sounds very clinical & textbook. Spectacular control over the instrument, but all ersatz soul. Just my 2 cents.

Clapton has soul.....but 99.9% of his material just bores me. Much prefer his contempararies Hendrix, Beck, Page, Townsend, Harrison, etc.


Maiden's "historical" tours have been rotated in every other road jaunt since 2005, the most famous of course being the Somewhere Back in Time tour documented in FLIGHT 666. The alternating tours tend to however favor newer material. In 2006, when touring behind A Matter of Life & Death, they did that album front to back, followed by a couple of classics in the encore.

When I saw them last, during the 1st leg of the Final Frontier tour, they did close out the show with the a few classic tracks (cannot end a Maiden show w/o Number of the Beast or Run to the Hills, followed by Hallowed Be Thy Name), but 80% of that set was made of of tunes from 2000 forward with nothing "old" played until the initial set came to a close with Fear of the Dark & Iron Maiden. The next tour commencing this summer will be another historical one, based off of the 7th Son tour in the late 80s (documented in the Maiden England VHS release, hence the name of the 2012 tour). Quite a few older IM deep cuts are on tap this time - songs they have not played in about 20+ years. Looking forward to that!

So, yes - Maiden does play the 20 year old card....usually on every other tour.

Has "no soul" is such a overused term IMO, I hear it all the time about guitar players. I really do not understand the term for a guitar player and really think it’s just something to use when people don't like a player. I have seen this term used for just about every player out there.

It seems that the only players that escape this label are players that...

1. Came up with a certain sound or way of playing the guitar.
2. Were fortunate enough to be around at the start of certain genre of music.
3. Die at an early age in their career.

For me, the "soul" comment breaks down like this...bear with me....

When a guitarist plays - whether it be a billion notes @ Warp 9 or 1-2 well chosen notes - if the sound, feel, tone as well as the song itself outside of just the guitar - trigger a positive internal feeling...makes the hair on the neck stand up or otherwise feels like it has literally stroked my DNA.....that is what I consider "soul". That could be one wildly shaking vibrato/feedback note from Buddy Guy. It could also be the psychedelic prog/blues of David Gilmour. Or maybe anything the late great Randy Rhoads played. It was certainly something that happened the 1st time I heard EVH's Eruption (those first VH albums are the reason I picked up a guitar back in 1983-ish just before entering high school). But here are also plenty of shredders whose music also does little for me. Satriani is a flippin monster, but his solo work leaves me a tad flat in terms of the songs themselves. My fave Steve Vai material is not his wacky solo stuff, but rather his contributions to things like the Public Image Ltd record he played on back in the mid-80s, or the 1st 2 David Lee Roth solo albums.

Now, the effect the aforementioned work had or did not have on me will not be the same for others. We are all individuals. If JoeB makes the hair on your neck stand up...great! Crank that **** up & enjoy it!

He simply does not have that effect on me personally. I respect his abilities, but have no real interest in buying his stuff. Would not mind playing thru his live rig...and it was his playing thru Marshall's little Class 5 combo amps when the company debuted the line a couple years back @ a trade show (saw it on YouTube) that did help convinve me that Marshall's 5 watt "mini-Plexi" was exactly what I was looking for in an amp I could crank @ home to either jam or record without annoying/deafening the family or killing every small animal within 100 yards. I guess I can thank the guy for that at least!

Other than Buddy Guy, the guitarist you mention aren't blues players. Is it possible, you just don't like the blues? I mean where do you mention Derek Trucks, BB King, Albert King, Freddie King? First and formost, I think Joe B is a blues player. His work with that white chick singer that was just released as an album (she is on his latest live bluray as well), is in my opinion very tasteful and tasty if you will. That said....everyone has their opinions and it is interesting to read others.

By the way, when I met Clapton back when he was with Cream, he had a little portable record player in his hotel room and all the records he had were Motown so he may not have had soul but he was into soul music.

I was going more for guitarists in general that I have enjoyed or been influenced by. I dig the blues just fine. Guy just happens to be one among the top of my list of blues faves. Also dig the 3 Kings, Lonnie Mack, Hubert Sumlin, SRV. Of the "wonder kids" in modern blues, I far prefer Trucks over JoeB. Again, just my opinion.

While not a guitar player, I also copped a few banjo licks back in the day from the recently late & always great Earl Scruggs & adopted them to loud rock guitar as best I could.

With most popular guitar slingers, you really need to differentiate between their live performances and their studio recordings. Most of them tend to over-polish things in the studio, and you really don't hear their raw talent like you do live. The same can sometimes be said of live performances recorded on video/audio, simply because they are aware they are being recorded.

Off hand, I can't think of a single great guitarist of whom this is not true. Studio recordings by nature tend to be "lacking soul". That's not to say that it's impossible to impart "soul" on a studio recording, it's just not done very often by very many artists.