DVD music concerts

YES - Live at Montreux 2003

Watched on Bluray -what a fine performance.
Sonics very decent.

What impressed me was the (vitually) note-for-note recreation of their hits without the aid of sheet music!

Sure, they wrote and have been playing the music for some time but I find it astonishing.

Somehow, Shadorne hasn't mentioned "My Name is Maceo" by Maceo Parker. He recommended this DVD on an earlier thread and it has claimed a place in my top four, along with three displays of guitar pyrotechnics:

Jeff Beck PTW (already mentioned)
Richard Thompson in Autsin Tx.
Lindsey Buckingham at Bass Hall.

Thompson's a marvel and his overall performance elevates an otherwise unremarkable video production into something special. Buckingham is a brilliant performer (with an utterly unique voice on electric guitar) and a terrific songwriter, too. The sound/video/production is first rate. Fire these two up up after the Jeff Beck dvd and you will marvel at the range of the guitar as an expressive instrument.

Caution: If you play, you may be forever discouraged at the height of the bar these guys set.

I note that "My Name is Maceo" isn't -strictly speaking- a concert dvd. It contains non-performance documentary footage as well. Probably why it wasn't listed.

Marty

Marty,

I agree with My name is Maceo - It is a great DVD for those who like funk. It is a film documentary that has great music and is also fun to watch - these artists are mostly down to earth yet brilliant performers (a big contrast to Sting "Bring on the Night", where you have this pervasive atmosphere throughout of the most ugly Monsters from Sting's ID prowling around - that guy gives me the creeps).

For those who do not know what they are missing here is a taste.

That ain't Maceo...that's Fred Wesley. A legend on the trombone and it is pretty obvious from this clip why. (If you are not a musician then you may not realize how extremely difficult this is)