Musical Concerts DVD Collection
Originally performed and broadcast for A&E on May 7, 2004 from Manhattan's John Jay College, Blondie: Live by Request finds New York City's cherished punk-popsters older, rounder, and still in possession--if not always in complete control--of the fire needed for credible performances of classics like "Dreaming," "Rapture," "Call Me," and "Heart of Glass." The 2004 Blondie includes founders Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, and Clem Burke solidly backed by Paul Carbonara (guitar), Kevin Topping (keyboards), and Leigh Foxx (bass). The disc's 17 tracks comprise Blondie's biggest hits, with "Atomic" notably absent and four cuts from 2003's Curse of Blondie (including a touching tribute to Joey Ramone) holding their own against the tried and true. Harry remains her flamboyant self, compensating for a diminishing vocal range with fresh phrasings and boundless pizzazz. Lead guitarist Stein seems lost at times, while drummer Burke plays tighter than ever, cementing the songs with a mix of disco sass and punk fervor. Keep your remote handy: caller requests and the show's vapid emcee get old fast.


Blur, one of Britain's premier bands, presents all the videos from the band's 10 year history in chronological order with Blur: The Best of , including their biggest U.S. hit, "Song 2." Songs: She's So High, There's No Other Way, Bang, Popscene, For Tomorrow, Chemical World, Sunday Sunday, Girls And Boys, To The End, Parklife, End Of A Century, Country House, The Universal, Stereotypes, Charmless Man, Bettlebum, Song 2, On Your Own, M.O.R., Tender, Coffee And Tea, No Distance Left To Run.
Recorded in 1994, Bob Dylan: MTV Unplugged is a brilliant, quietly impassioned performance by one of pop music's most significant figures. Fronting his empathetic five-piece band (Bucky Baxter excels on dobro, mandolin, and pedal steel guitar; Bob himself plays frequent "rhythm leads" on his Martin), Dylan performs four of his best-known and potentially most overdone tunes in the 73-minute show; but "All Along the Watchtower," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" all sound great, with Dylan, as is his wont, re-casting both the arrangements and melodies. Even better is the obscure "John Brown" (written in the early '60s but apparently unreleased by Dylan until now), a driving, biting war protest song of the kind that made him famous, while "Dignity," a lesser-known tune from the '90s, is filled with great lines ("Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues... said he was abused by dignity"), and "Shooting Star" revisits Oh Mercy, Dylan's best '80s album. Through it all, Dylan says nary a word, although he does smile and shake some hands (even removing his shades) at the end. And as good as it may be, this show is most likely different from every Dylan concert before or since, a sure sign of an artist in no danger of becoming irrelevant

Don't despair entirely if the Roxy Music reunion skipped over your town in the summer of 2001. There's always this DVD to watch, featuring a wildly enjoyable and often unexpected concert performance by Roxy frontman and prolific solo artist Bryan Ferry: Live in Paris .The setting is Paris in the spring of 2000, starring Ferry and about a dozen musicians mixing the avant-garde, Tin Pan Alley, and a delirious pop mélange for the kind of passionate European audience that during the early '70s gave Roxy Music its first commercial and critical boost outside the U.K. Backed by brass, piano, percussion, the occasional guitar, and a string section comprised of beautiful Muses (you must see it to understand...), Ferry glides through a handful of Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, and Kern & Fields standards, then hits the ground running on a slate of his own classic compositions from the last three decades: "Chance Meeting," "The Only Face," and "Avalon," among others.
Singer Cesaria Evora: Live in Paris is the cultural ambassador and greatest star of her native country, Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the Northwestern coast of Africa. She excels at the highly stylized and emotionally intense ballad style known as the "morna," a melodramatic, mournful romantic music that is much like the Portuguese fado, full of beautiful, melancholy guitars and impassioned lyrics of love lost and life both savored and endured. For those of us unlucky enough to be unable to attend any of her concerts, here is a splendid presentation of Cesaria and her band, recorded live at the Zenith Theatre in Spring of 2001. The music is all heavenly, a selection of favorites drawn from several albums, including sleek ballads such as "Sodade," "Miss Perfumado," and "Angola." Hovering behind Cesaria are images of Cape Verde's hills, beaches and towns, while onstage, some of the country's finest musicians strum out gorgeous melodies. The one trouble with this video is the editing: the French producers seem to favor montages, including crossfades and overlays of the rear-projected images and the musicians onstage. This technique quickly becomes intrusive and detracts from the beauty of the performance -- personally, I would have preferred a few more lingering close-ups of the singer and her guitarists as they sank into the melancholy depths of the music. But still, this is a lovely glimpse at one of world music's great modern divas.
Recorded in December 1999 before a massive and wildly enthusiastic French audience, this Cranberries concert is remarkable testimony to the Irish band's seasoning, evolving confidence, and heightened sense of fun in the years since the release of their breakthrough hit singles ("Linger," "Zombie," "Ode to My Family," all performed here). Fans who saw the Limerick-born group's early- '90s tours recognized in singer-songwriter Dolores O'Riordan equal parts gamine, witch, and an inspirational incarnation of W.B. Yeats's Glimmering Girl. Now, however, Beneath the Skin: Live in Paris underscores O'Riordan's more relaxed, womanly stage presence, as well as a rounder, fuller sound from founding members Mike Hogan (bass), his brother Noel Hogan (guitar), and drummer Fergal Lawler.
Recorded live in Live at Union Chapel captures David Byrne at his most irreverent. Performing 18 songs spanning four decades, Byrne effortlessly weaves lyrically potent compositions and compelling arrangements to create an unforgettable evening. Among the performances are stunning versions of David's Work, as well as Talking Heads favorites. Backed by a full band and a string section, Byrne's stage presence is matched by his masterful delivery.
Freed from the shackles of what Pink Floyd has become, David Gilmour sounds positively liberated on his new live DVD, David Gilmour in Concert. The years have snuck up on him, as it inevitably does to all of our heroes, but his voice is even more expressive now than it has ever been. He's actually becoming more like his long-estranged counterpart Roger Waters, and that's a good thing, a great thing in fact.
They are both world-weary veterans having finally arrived at similar crossroads in their lives after drifting apart in their not-so-distant youth. Both men's voices are thinning, sometimes straining to reach notes. While Waters is still the bleeding-heart poet, and Gilmour still the guitar virtuoso, both seem tired of the bloated excesses of the rock n' roll machine that had welcomed them with open arms all those years ago, instead opting to embrace a more deconstructed approach to performing.
Historico concierto realizado en california en 1974 ante 300,000 espectadores, además de Deep Purple participaron Black Sabbat, EL&P, Eagles. Ampliamiente recomendado, exelente sonido y calidad de imagen, muestra a un deep purple explosivo. MK III Blackmore, Paice, Lord, Huges, Coverdale. Canciones: Burn, Migh Just Take Your Life, Mistreaded, Smog on the Water, You Fool no One y Space Truckin. El Maestro Blackmore destroza su guitarra contra una camara de television (ABC) e incendia el escenario. El mejor DVD de deep purple para mi gusto.
For Doors completists only, this shapeless gathering of rare film clips of the band performing in Europe is hampered by the same old, frustrating problems with attempting to convey, through lousy camera work, the band's power as a live act. The packaging tells us the Doors swept through London, Stockholm, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam during a 1968 tour documented here, but there's no way to appreciate that save for a random clip or two of Jim Morrison milling about outside concert venues, talking with fans. Otherwise, we see the same sort of obfuscating on-stage close-ups of Morrison you can see in any footage of a Doors gig, stumbling around, crooning, and reciting poetry to minimalist accompaniment by Ray Manzarek on keyboards, John Densmore on drums, and Robby Krieger on guitar. Unless one can see, in the mind's eye, what the band is up to from the point of view of a kid in the 30th row, there's no way to really get the hypnotic, Dionysian effect for which the Doors were justifiably famous. Thus, for anyone who can imagine such a thing, or take it on faith, there's good reason to enjoy performances of "Spanish Caravan," "Five to One," and two versions of "Light My Fire." There's even a relic of pre-MTV, pop promotion: a silly-looking performance of "Hello, I Love You" shot before a baffled crowd on a London street.
The fingers (not to mention the hands they're attached to) are flying as the music of violinist and fusion pioneer Jean-Luc Ponty gets a first-class treatment on Jean-Luc Ponty in Concert, a 70-minute performance recorded in Warsaw in 1999. There's absolutely no doubt that the French musician can play (it's not for nothing that he once toured and recorded with both Frank Zappa and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, among many others), and his bandmates, especially electric bassist Guy Nsangue Akwa, are excellent as well. But while the music is undeniably impressive (and beautifully recorded), with its demanding rhythms and time signatures and angular, contrapuntal melodies, there just isn't much there there, so to speak; it lacks the compositional brilliance of both Pat Metheny and Weather Report, two giants of the genre whose music Ponty occasionally evokes. Ponty and band do get their groove on, and their quieter moments ("Pastoral Harmony"--lame title, nice tune) easily eclipse pretty much anything in the smooth jazz category. Add to that some fine bonus features (including "Touring Memories," an interesting collection of video from the group's travels in Europe and Asia, as well as a very detailed biography and discography section), and you've got a nice package that nevertheless falls well short of indispensable
Reluctant rock hero J.J. Cale takes the spotlight for this 80-minute session, recorded in Los Angeles in 1979 but virtually unseen until 2001. The reclusive, Oklahoma-born Cale is probably best known for writing songs made famous by others ("After Midnight" and "Cocaine" by Eric Clapton, "Call Me the Breeze" by Lynyrd Skynyrd). Those are among the some two dozen tunes heard here (five of which, including "Breeze," are audio-only bonus tracks), as is Cale's own minor hit, "Crazy Mama." The latter is a good example of the witty, laconic groove that Cale, a superb guitar player and laid-back vocalist, brings to much of his music, an appealing style that's been an obvious influence on Mark Knopfler and others. All of that, plus a good band that includes Leon Russell on organ, is just enough to overcome the amateurish, public access feel of the DVD's sound and visuals
I've been waiting for a release like this for years! Mike Oldfield's promo videos finally on DVD. Until now, the only versions of these readily available were the few at the end of the old Wind Chimes video album (all on this DVD). These alone would have made the purchase worthwhile, but there are 19 promo videos and a live BBC performance of Tubular Bells from 1976 on this DVD. The extras alone would be worth a separate DVD release, including, as they do the whole of The Wind Chimes video album. As a fan of all Mike's music, this is a great DVD. I just can't believe that I haven't seen any promotion of this DVD on TV and only found out about it by accident through a Yes website, which happened to mention Jon Anderson's appearance on the Shine video. Highly recommended and definite must for any Oldfield fan. This is the best music DVD I have, and I have quite a few.
Exemplary television program with the Miles Davis Quintet featuring John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, and including the Gil Evans Orchestra. The Sound of Miles Davis (New York, April 2, 1959): Miles Davis (tp); John Coltrane (ts); Wynton Kelly (p); Paul Chambers (b); Jimmy Cobb (d); Ernie Royal (tp); Clyde Reasinger (tp); Louis Mucci (tp); Johnny Coles (tp); Emmett Berry (tp); Frank Rehak (tbn); Jimmy Cleveland (tbn); Bill Elton (tbn); Rod Levitt (tbn); Julius Watkins (french horn); Bob Northern (french horn); Bill Barber (tuba); Danny Bank (bass clarinet); Romeo Penque (woodwinds); Eddie Caine (woodwinds). So What, The Duke, Blues for Pablo, New Rhumba
The DVD version of Moby's multiplatinum CD Play is an almost perfect audiovisual synthesis of personality and uncompromised creativity, and, best of all, Moby never takes any of it too seriously. It's a given that Moby fans will totally dig the music, but it's Moby's hilarious 20-minute home video ("Give an Idiot a Camcorder") that everyone will be buzzing about, since it's as giddy as a Monty Python highlight reel and almost as inventive, with Moby himself hosting on his 2000 European tour, appearing in multiple guises and voices (Scottish, German, French, and classic dude-speak), and playing a variety of wacky interviewers with himself as their subject. Who knew the guy was this funny?
New Order was too "bizarre" for me as a high school kid and I want to say: I was wrong, I missed out, and Thank God for DVD that I get to see them performing in 1981, their first year as New Order. Bernard Sumner is so unbelievably cool, the guitar sound and other experimental sounds they brought into their music is so light-years ahead of its time. Happily on this DVD the 1981 New York show is not plagued by the ridiculous quick-cut editing that marred so many concerts that MTV ran in its early days. Happily the editor is content to stay with one band member for longer than two notes and it views much like I would watch a live show. Anyway I was immature and not musically adept when New Order made their arrival-- They left me in the dust. Sorry it took so long to catch up. New Order could release many more concerts (and I'm hoping for a comprehensive video clip DVD, remixed in 5.1) and I would get them immediately.

I really enjoy these concerts on DVD and have seen a good number of them. I usually find that I need to watch the concert twice to really get into them, but when I bought Rem : Perfect Square on a whim and saw it for the first time, I was hooked by the second song. The scenery of the concert location is beautiful, as is the stage itself. The crowd is humongous and energized. The picture and sound are both good, and the performance is fabulous. I was very impressed. It's now an easy favorite.

Performing with the London Metropolitan Orchestra in 1994, Unledded documents the much-heralded reunion of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Among the songs performed are reworked versions of many Zeppelin favorites, including "The Battle of Evermore," "Gallows Pole," and "Kashmir," along with four new songs, such as "Yallah" and "Wonderful One." The platinum-selling Unledded cd heralded a new era or renewed popularity. Released now for the very first time on DVD, Unledded is the DVD Led Zeppelin fans have been waiting for.
Boy Howdy Tested and Creem Approved! This Creem Magazine DVD release features Iggy Pop and the original lineup of the Stooges (except for bassist, filled in by indie legend Mike Watt) performing at their first Detroit homecoming in 29 years. It is a full concert of the best songs of the first two Stooges albums from 1969 & 1970 including: Loose, Down On the Street, 1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog, TV Eye, Dirt, Real Cool Time, No Fun, 1970, Funhouse, Not Right, and Little Doll. Also included is the title track from the 2003 release "Skull Ring." Bonus materials are highlighted by the legendary NYC instore performance (minus Mike Watt) where Iggy explains the origin of the songs.
On January 20th, 2004, the classic line up of Yes: Acoustic gathered together in Los Angeles to promote the DVD release of Yes Speak. The band played an acoustic set in front of a live studio audience which was also broadcast via satellite to 50 Regal movie theaters across the United States. This DVD captures their biggest hits from that intimate, magical, exclusive live performance.
Some of Bowie's DVD concerts are good and some are great. This Reality Tour is one of the great ones. Remixed into 5.1 Surround Sound, the audio is amazingly crisp and clear. The light show is blinding in some cases (as was the actual show in person) and the director/editors use this to their advantage in splicing scenes. Some of the special effects (freeze-frame, reverse imaging, blurs, etc.) can get tedious, but it doesn't hurt the overall feel of the concert. Each band member gets plenty of close-ups and the backing vocals are near perfect. After nearly two years on the road, Bowie has connected to his audience like never before, losing any pretension. He's there to have a good time.
Decades after the death of drummer John Bonham and, for all intents and purposes, the demise of the group, Led Zeppelin's popularity continues unabated--and why not, as long as they keep coming up with offerings as worthy as No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded. Originally released on CD in 1994 and then in a remastered version simultaneously with this DVD, the 115-minute program (including bonus footage) was recorded on a London soundstage, in the hills of Snowdonia, Wales, and outdoors in Marrakech, Morocco. It finds guitarist Page, vocalist Plant, and an array of other musicians performing some new material, but for the most part, the repertoire focuses on their Led Zep legacy--not a surprise, considering that what they did together in that group was better than anything they've done separately, including some pretty good Plant solo efforts and Page's regrettable stint as a member of the Firm.
Over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, filmmaker Jonathan Demme joined creative forces with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and Talking Heads... and miracles occurred. Following a staging concept by singer-guitarist David Byrne, this euphoric concert film transcends that all-too-limited genre to become the greatest film of its kind. A guaranteed cure for anyone's blues, it's a celebration of music that never grows old, fueled by the polyrhythmic pop-funk precision that was a Talking Heads trademark, and lit from within by the geeky supernova that is David Byrne.
This 1995 outdoor concert captures Annie Lennox at the climax of her emergence as a solo performer, drawing from both her stunning, largely self-written 1992 debut album, Diva, and its immaculately crafted sequel, Medusa, devoted to gourmet cover performances. With Lennox in powerful voice, a solid live band attuned to the material's mix of pop, rock, and R&B accents, and an enraptured audience, Live in Central Park thus charms from opening downbeat to final coda, retaining Lennox's usual bracing mix of intelligence and drama. With her close-cropped, dark hair and bold tartan outfit, the erstwhile Eurythmic dials down the sharper edges and chillier mood of that band's most stylized work to focus on the haunted passions that bridge the Scot's solo and group efforts; her choice of songs from her old band's repertoire locks snugly into the spectrum of romantic obsession, heartbreak, and resignation that shape solo signatures like "Walking on Broken Glass," "No More 'I Love You's'," and "Little Bird."
Given the sheer volume and varying quality of his recorded output, not to mention his weird behavior, it's easy to overlook the fact that Prince is one of the great talents of the last quarter century--a fact underlined in earnest by this galvanizing performance. The guy has always had a preternatural ability to channel R&B and rock legends like Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and James Brown (cf. this performance's amazing "Money Don't Matter 2 Night/The Work"); now he's added more sophisticated flavors to the mix as well, ranging from George Benson to Steely Dan and Weather Report, and all without sacrificing his own voice. Add to that covers of the Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster" and Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" (really), all played by Prince and his smokin', skin tight band, and what you get is one of the best shows of 2002, or any other year. Extraordinary
If you have not seen this DVD, it must be restated thatNick Cave and his bandmates admit from the very start that they do not like doing videos. So, if you presumably already have these songs on CD and many of the reviews lean toward the negative, why own this? Well, in my view, The Videos is a great collection precisely because it is so primitive and often silly. I don't like all the songs and would rather that others had taken the place of those I don't like, hence the four stars. But overall, this is a video that any Nick Cave fan should be eager to own because actually watching Cave perform adds so much more to the songs.
Black Sabbath is one of my favourite bands and Ozzy Osbourne is one of my favourite vocalists. This DVD gives the true Black Sabbath power from the last moments Ozzy was in the band. This concert was performed in 1978. Geezer, Ozzy, Tony, and Bill made a concert that is excellent even to show to your kids. The track list is quite alright, only "Rock And Roll Doctor" could have been left off. The picture and sound quality are quite alright but not the best ones.
This DVD smokes. Nightwish is clearly on top of their game when they play live, and this perfromance is one of the best I've ever seen. You can't compare Evanescence's live DVD "Anywhere...." to this. Not even close. Nightwish makes Evenescence look like a garage band when it come to playing live in my opinion. I like Evanescence, but they're just rookies as far as I'm concerned
The Intruduction to this is really cool, Then it goes into Nightrain and Mr.Brownstone 2 Great songs. Live and Let die witch is really good here. Its so Easy is one of my favorite from Guns and Roses on the DVD along with Bad Obsession. Attitude is a great song unlike most GNR songs becouse its a misfits cover that Duff sings but it is really good.Pretty tied up is my least favorite song on the DVD, but still not bad. Welcome to The Jungle you gotta have its excellent. Axl sings Dont Cry perfectly here. Double Talkin Jive is another great song.Civil War is pretty good, Alot of changing in one song even for Axl. Slash and Gilby start soloing at the end of Civil War and it carries over into Wild Horses witch is mostly guitar and really good. Then Patience thats awesome I prefer Slashs original solo to the one in this version but still excellent. And Finally November Rain probably the best GNR performance. The DVD is Excellent no need for bonus features go get it!
Conceived by the French director Adrian Maben as "an anti-Woodstock film," Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was shot in October 1971 in a vacant, 2,000-year-old amphitheater--a venue chosen to accentuate the grandeur and spaciousness of the band's Meddle-era music. This disc contains a new, 90-minute director's cut as well as the original 60-minute concert film, whose production and effects feel inescapably dated. Maben's cut goes to great lengths to lend the film a more contemporary feel, but it's the earlier version that makes this disc such a gem, being more focused on the music and more wholistic in vision. The anamorphic, 16:9 director's cut interweaves the Pompeii performances with fascinating but distracting interviews and music snippets filmed later (mostly during the recording of Dark Side of the Moon). The movie was originally prepared in a 4:3 aspect ratio, however, and the widescreen version crops perfectly framed images like the nine-square mosaic of drummer Nick Mason in "One of These Days."
This is the long awaited critical review of the music of Genesis during the Peter Gabriel era. Drawing on rare live footage from vaults of television companies around Europe, a leading team of critics and working musicians revisits and assesses the music of Genesis to find out why this remarkable body of work has endured for over thirty years. Essential viewing for every true Genesis fan. Features rare performance footage including The Knife, Stagnation, The Musical Box. The Fountain Of Salmacis, The Return Of The Giant Hogweed, Watcher Of The Skies, Supper's Ready, I Know What I Like, Selling England By The Pound and Dancing Out With The Moonlit Knight.
Two classic Joe Cocker performances captured live! The first one taken from a classic live performance in Dortmund in 1992, the second is a new concert filmed in Cologne in 2002. All of Joe Cocker's biggest and best known songs are included!