Best Concert Film
Miner42 wrote... "Richard Manuel commited suidice shorty afte the film" Actually, it was seven or eight years after the film. I lived in Kingston, NY between 1984-1986. There was a little bar called the Getaway Country Inn in Woodstock that I believe Levon at least partly owned. The Band was playing there in the middle of the week. My buddy and I worked second shift, so at midnight we raced up there to catch the show. We got there just as they were wrapping up. I did manage to talk to Rick Danko for a couple of minutes. A few months later I heard on the news that Richard had died in Florida. |
yes the usual suspects from "Woodstock","Moterey Pop",and "The Last Waltz" are mnetioend but I was blown aweay at seeing the Stax concert at LA Colluseum.Meaning to get that on DVD.Alsoi I'd add "Jazz On a Summers day","Buena Vista Social Club",Calle 54",and Monks sad yet beautifull documentary "Straight No Chaser" for the jazz-bo's out there.And if you dig great jazz get the DVD of "The Paris Reunion Band" which is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! Chazz |
Not to everybody's taste, I'm sure, but Nine Inch Nails "All That Could Have Been" is the best recording on a concert DVD that I've heard. I love the music, and from the moment the first electric guitars start up, with the subterranean bass, it's off and running for 2 hours of non-stop energy. They're coming out with an HD-DVD version of their latest tour. My guess is that it will go straight to the top of the list. Trent Reznor has always been a fanatic for great sound - the CDs, the DVDs and the concerts all sound great. |
Folks, Unfortunately it is not on video, but one of the most enjoyable live recordings of the rock era (IMHO) is the Tubes 1978 effort "What do you want from live!". I had it on 8-track back in the day and received the reissued version on CD this past Christmas. I think I've listened to it about 100 times since then! I don't know what happened to the tubes after this album, but I can say that if they had continued as they were up to 1978, they should have become one of the greatest rock groups of all time. Enjoy, TIC |
Black Eyed Peas "Live from Sydney to Vegas". Superb recording and superb editing of the video. The tracks from Sydney are the best recordings of a concert I have heard so far. If you want a concert that really takes you there with audiophile sound quality then I recommend this one....oodles of dynamic range and extremely well balanced between quiet passages and loud passages creating great contrast; crank it to at least 100 DB SPL continuous without any hint of the usual audible harshness of pop music. (unfortunately this kind of dynamic range is missing from BEP's studio CD's which can sound harsh, as they fell victim to the loudness wars) BTW; if you live in an appartment or somwhere you can't listen loud then this concert will not really blossom for you... If you are interested this is the man behind it all Tal Herzberg |
Ray Charles, "A Fool For You", 1988, PBS Dance In America Telecast, Unfortunately not available in any format. (Incredible performance, Ray was still in his prime) Fool for You, the closing ballet of the 1988 American Music Festival, is the only Ray Charles ballet in existence! A modern ballet set to twelve songs performed on stage by Ray Charles, his orchestra, and the Raelettes. Georgia on My Mind, Ain't That Love, Don't You Know, It Should've Been Me, Hit the Road Jack, Rockhouse, Mess Around, A Fool for You, I've Got a Woman, Drown in My Tears, What'd I Say, Ol' Man River, America the Beautiful, by Ray Charles and various composers |
