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Summary: Ther Best Concert of the Decade!
Review: Silver Clef Award Winners Show present in his 15 years at the best of bands of England, Tears For Fears, Status Quo, Cliff Richard & Shadows, Phil Collins, Elic Clapton, Dire Straits, Elton John, Robert Plant, Genesis, Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd. 194 min. of the best music in live!. Live at Knebworth! 1990. Unfortunate this video in DVD format is discontinued, for this reason, it's your last chance that you can get it in VHS format.
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Summary: Could be better
Review: The best macro-concert from "Live-Aid". It was an unique event. This DVD is ok but I miss the full-version of Genesis' "Turn it on again medley" (it's almost half-length of original version and anybody can see and hear the cuts) and more Pink Floyd show.
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Summary: Knebworth '90...what a great day in the park.
Review: The concert itself was great. If you listened to the radio broadcast then you were able to hear the entire concert without the edits as is on this box-set. The performances by most of the acts were great and to see Jimmy Page and Robert Plant playing in concert again was THE highlight of the day. To hear them do "Wearing and Tearing" is fantastic. If you are looking to get a copy of this show on video and can't get a hold of the full show then this is for you. Paul McCartney's set was great to see, as well as Pink Floyd's mind blowing set. Too bad Cliff Richard got invited to this show, other than his cheesy performance it's a great set. There is so much more that is not included on this , that hopefully the BBC or VH1 with air the concert un-cut to celebrate it's ten year anniversary. But until then pick this up and play it LOUD! It's great to have just for the archives if not to listen to the greatest artists of rock together in one concert.
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Summary: Same bad video as earlier DVD plus serious audio sync issues
Review: The earlier stereo release DVD was a disappointment because of the annoying video artifacts. The editing was pretty much a hack job with most of the best performances from each artist eliminated. In spite of that, I decided to purchase this version. This has the same faults as the other along with a major audio sync problem most of the time. Its so bad you may wonder at times if the audio recording was from the same performance. There is no excuse for audio sync problems this severe.
What a shame!! This could have been a great DVD had someone taken the time to correct the technical and editorial issues. Perhaps somebody will see the sales potential and release a new longer version in the future without the technical problems. Anyone who recorded the MTV airing years ago on VHS has better video than this DVD has.
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Summary: Good but not nearly enough
Review: The quality of the DVD's is good, and the new sound mix is excellent. However, there are problems. First, during Status Quo the voice track is not in synch with the video, this continues throughout Eric Clapton's set. Also, compared with the original broadcast in 1990 on MTV, much is missing. Pink Floyd's set, McCartney's set, Robert Plant, and the Clapton supergroup all had long sets on MTV, but for some reason are edited down here to almost nothing. Why it is so watered down is a mystery, and a total disappointment. The festival itself is 5 stars, remarkable, but this DVD can't generate more than 2 becuase of the poor effort. I'll have to take my MTV tape and make a DVD-R out of it, I guess.
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Summary: Boooo.
Review: The selections are questionable. I have almost the whole thing on tape from when it was aired. Also, the most visually and musically striking performance by far was Pink Floyd's finale. Even better than the moment when Sir Paul McCartney played "Hey Jude". Pink Floyd played five songs at the end. Not two.
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Summary: doesn't include the whole Cliff/Shadows set
Review: This concert is basically mediocre, and really misses the mark since it did NOT include the whole Cliff Richard / Shadows set. They were Britains first real rockers, and were strictly a first-class act. Their inclusion on this DVD is the only reason I purchased it. The rest of the stuff is sticctly take-or-leave, mostly leave.
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Summary: What's up with the mix?????
Review: This DVD is worth the money just because of Tears for Fears' "Badman's Song," "Change," Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's "Wearing and Tearing," and Pink Floyd, but it sounds [bad]! I remember watching this concert on PPV and the memory of it made me buy the DVD, but it sounded so much better on the live broadcast than in the "newly mixed 5.1" version. There are thousands of volume drops throughout the two discs, and it's just generally poorly mixed. I tried several fixes for the volume drops, including putting the 5 channels of audio into a Yamaha O1v mixing console, and it didn't help. Then I tried gates and those didn't work either. Finally, I tried a limiter, and only boosting it to +10db and leaving the gate open, I was able to "semi-fix" it.
If you're an audiophile, try just buying the CD.
P.S. Status Quo is the British equivalent of Creedence Clearwater Revival or Georgia Satellites, and I think it's funny that the Brits also have redneck music.
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Summary: Knebworth '90 Concert
Review: This is probaly the best vintage Pink Floyd music since Roger Waters left the band. An absolutely flawless perfomance by David Gilmour and a spectacular laser show. The rain only adds to the spectacle.
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Summary: HUGE LET DOWN
Review: This is the one single biggest concert of all time and finally they bring it out on dvd and they mess it up they show more of the artist that arent really known and less of the best stuff
especialy PINK FLOYDS ENTIRE CORE OF THERE PERFORMANCE LIKE WISH YOU WERE HERE SORROW AND THE BEST SONG,COMFORTABLY NUMB I THINK THEY SHOULD RE-RELEASE IT WITH MORE OF PINK FLOYD BECAUSE THATS THE BEST OF THE WHOLE SHOW WITHOUT THE ENTIRE PINK FLOYD SHOW THE DVD IS WORTHLESS AND ALSO THEY NEED TO SHOW MORE CLAPTON.PLEASE TELL THEM TO MAKE A SECOND DISK WITH MORE PERFORMANCES IT WOULD MAKE MORE MONEY AND IT WILL BE WORTH IT
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