Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird The Movie / Tribute Tour (1996) Review

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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird The Movie / Tribute Tour (1996) ReviewWow, this DVD is incredible and a gift from the Heavens. How can anyone complain about this. People like Perbes from Spain and Kevin from Missouri need to shut their mouth about audio quality this, video quality that. Listen, if you are sitting on anything better we can watch of the original Skynyrd, then by all means start whining. But last time I checked, this release contains probably the best video and audio of the Ronnie fronted band around. So that makes me happy to see. Lastly, the video is from 1976, 28 years ago. If you're a true fan, you take what you can get, and leave the bitching to the losers with the $10,000 TV's and Audio systems who can't get this in 16:9 picture ratio and 5.1 dolby surround sound! Long Live Skynyrd.Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird The Movie / Tribute Tour (1996) Overview

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Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010) Review

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Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010) ReviewSaw "Beyond" last night at a one-night special showing in a Minneapolis theater, and it is without a doubt one of the most interesting and entertaining films I've seen this year, and beyond. And yes, yes, I'm a Rush fan...but I'm not a RABID Rush fan. I'm missing a few of their albums and while I have a ticket to see them in concert this fall, that will be the first time. I say this only by way of stating for the NON-Rush fan: Don't let that deter you from seeing this great documentary. There is so little actual music in it, that anyone, even those just interested in human interest stories and biopics, will find plenty to love here. There is close friendship, tragedy, very comical moments, inspiration...the whole package. And how great is it to see "rock stars" who are intelligent and generally lacking an over-inflated sense of ego? I think my favorite moment in the film might have come when the trio was aboard a plane, heading, if I remember right, to their next concert, and they all three pulled out books and began to read. I didn't see what everyone was reading, but Alex was half through Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. I have a hard time picturing just about any other rock stars doing something like that--with the possible exception of Bad Religion's Greg Graffin.
One funny thing from the film showing of "Beyond." I arrived fairly early, and then three other guys sat down to my left, and then a few minutes later another guy was about to sit in the single seat remaining to my right, and I asked him, "Couldn't get your girlfriend to come either, huh?" And he said, "No, my wife wouldn't come." And the guys to my left said, "Yeah, ours either." So there we were, a row of middle-aged, none-too-thin white dudes, enjoying the hell out of this movie. It had a good tribal sort of feeling to it, bonding with like-minded strangers like this. So when you pop this into your DVD player, maybe have some buds around to enjoy it with you.Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010) Overview2011 GRAMMY NOMINEE: BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEORush is one of rock's most influential bands. Ranked third in consecutive gold or platinum albums after The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the band enjoys a devoted following by legions around the world and is revered by generations of musicians. Yet, their incredible success story has, up to this point, remained largely untold. Now comes the new documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, the first comprehensive exploration of the extraordinary power trio. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with notables such as Jack Black, Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor, Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Kirk Hammett (Metallica) and Gene Simmons, this film explores the forty-year career and phenomenon behind what could be the world's biggest cult band. This Blu-ray DVD in deluxe packaging features over 3 hours of video, including a 1.5 hour bonus disc of never-before-seen live performances, special features, and deleted scenes from the film. A 12 page color booklet of rare and unreleased photos is also included.

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The Police: Certifiable - Live In Buenos Aires (2-DVD 2-CD Set) Review

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The Police: Certifiable - Live In Buenos Aires (2-DVD 2-CD Set) ReviewThe Bad: The packaging is weak because the discs keep sliding out.
With that out of the way this CD/DVD package is a miracle of great mixing and whatever post production fixes they did. I saw them twice on the '07-'08 tours and own bootlegs of them playing in various countries on this tour. This package sounds better than anything I ever saw live or heard in a bootleg format. They also play their set list better on this DVD package than they ever did from what I heard. It was recorded live in Buenos Aires over two days so the editors had some brilliant performances to choose from.
This piece of product is everything a TRUE Police fan would want them to sound like. They're not arrogant, ambitious and faux punk-rock-reggae guys hungry to make it anymore. They're mature, famous, top-notch musicians, playing excellent songs.
The overall sounds, guitar tones, bass, drum sounds and mixing is top of the food chain. The video coverage and shot composition is superb. Purists who still think it's 1983 may not dig all the song modifications such as the lowered keys, modulations and new-fangled textures, but they can bite me. Sting isn't 27 anymore and he sings those old songs with the honesty of a guy in his 50's the way he should.
Summers got raked over the coals on guitar forums for playing too much outside stuff during his solos on this tour. It was like he forgot what a pentatonic scale was. He was also hitting a lot of clams (bad notes) and sounded under rehearsed. In this package he brings it all together and wails with precision, great ideas and wild abandon. His patented shimmering chord textures are ungodly. Whoever helped him design his pedal board needs to get The Nobel Prize. He fades in perfect synth parts over muted guitar lines and gets great dirty tones. He's a joy to listen to on this package. He is a true guitar innovator. It doesn't even matter that he rarely played his trademark Telecaster. The Strat/Whammy combo gives him a lot more expression and he expresses a lot on these discs.
Copeland has calmed down in his maturity and refrains from rushing, speeding up, or over playing like the old days. I miss the old Copeland. It's what made The Police such a rhythmic force of nature. He still replicates a few of his signature reggae/ska/rock fills but he's much more in service of the singer these days. He plays wonderfully but I miss the tension and shameless virtuosity he use to create. The days when Summers would scream at him on stage to, "Slow down!" are long gone. Today he sounds like a normal drummer imitating Stewart Copeland on Xanax. His current style of drumming works much better musically and it's not like Sting is demanding him to "rawk" harder either. It's a different band. Sting lost the rawk long ago as well. This is a smooth rawkin' band.
Sting is a Golden God. His voice is in rare form. He hits all the high notes (Thanks to some lowered keys.), holds them forever, improvises vocal passages and plays perfect bass. He actually sings high parts while improvising funky melodic lines at the same time. He plays bass like a songwriter; tasteful and always in service of the song. His bass tones are rich, full and never muddy. His ideas for filling out some of the songs with Taurus pedals and pre-recorded backing tracks works like a dream. It compliments the songs while still maintaining the spaciousness that is part of the Police sound. It all works!
If you're a true Police fan you deserve to pleasure yourself with this package. The accompanying documentary of the behind the scenes rehearsal stuff is great. If you missed the tour, it's ok. This package sounds a lot better than actually being there. It's The Police the way they deserve to be heard.
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