Rating: 
Summary: Macca at his best
Review: After reading some other reviews I was a bit apprehensive about buying this dvd . I'm a big fan of Sir Paul ,so I gave him the benefit of the doubt . . . I was not disappointed . I have seen Paul , live , three times before , but was not able to see this tour . I now feel like I've experienced the concert and then some . The editing was very pleasing , typical of what I expect from this consummate professional .What I was most impressed with was the raw emotions invoked throughout the film .The footage of the incredibly diverse audience , so obviously stirred by each song , brought me back to my earliest concert memories . The choice of songs , all about love and positive reinforcement , was a great departure from most of the pathetic attempts at music found in todays music scene . Paul's energy , his new band , and his new relationship were truely inspiring for this aging Beatle fan. Judging from the huge varieties of age groups , all singing along with every song , this would be a great dvd for anyone who appreciates real music . If your idea of music is an angry , no talent clown , talking quickly over stolen melodies , don't bother with this dvd . . . you won't get it . But, if you want to see a true musical genius , I recommend this highly . I am a photographer and was very impressed with the way this concert was shot , I wouldn't change a thing . I am forty eight ,I gave it to my eighty year old mother and eighteen year old niece , they both loved it .
Rating: 
Summary: Let's Start Over on This One
Review: Note to Paul: you are one of the greatest musicians of all time and your last tour was a masterpiece. Now, please, create a DVD that captures this incredible experience. This DVD is not worthy of you and your contribution to music (poor video quality, mediocre sound, terrible hyper-kinetic editing, too many crowd shots, also needs a separate DVD for the extraneous stuff). Write this initial DVD off as a "TV Special". My suggestion is that you go back to the drawing board and produce a DVD worthy of what you and this concert represent. You, your fans and history deserve so much more. The concert DVD benchmark has been set by many others (Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Band, James Taylor to name few). You could easily raise the bar. You have the content - now just repackage it in the format it desrves. You obviously focused on creating a great concert - now simply put that same effort into creating a great DVD.
Rating: 
Summary: I tought it was about a concert!!
Review: I did not even know that there was a CD about this tour. I just saw the DVD in a store and went for it, thinking that it would be about a live concert, be it: song after song until the end, that's all. I was hoping to enjoy Paul's band at their best. No. Nothing like that. Then I learned this is a TV special. Full of breaks. Songs cut off. Songs interrupted along their way. Bad lightning. The only thing you can have for sure is that Paul is still amazing. Therefore, my one-star rating is not for the performance, but for this product's concept.
Rating:
Summary: Paul is still wonderful
Review: But whoever produced this video showed too much footage of the fans and not enough of Paul. It is an excellent concert but I wanted to see more of Paul McCartney, who I have loved since the Beatles first invaded the U.S. All in all, it is worth owning this DVD because the music, Paul, and the band are so great.
Rating:
Summary: Do not buy this DVD
Review: This would have to be the worst music DVD i have ever seen. First i am a huge Paul McCartney fan & after he pulled the plug on his Australian tour i wanted to see what the US has been enjoying.The problem is that this DVD is so bad that it leaves you with the thought that Paul McCartney has got a serious ego problem & that he is so intoxicated with himself, it will make you throw up. You may ask why?.Watching this DVD & you can see McCartney is the best Beatles tribute band around (certainley the most
expensive one),he is living off past glories & if you are a fan of his solo stuff you better look elsewhere. The problem is with Paul's tours it does not matter if you miss a tour as he will perform the same songs tour after tour.Once again on this DVD we have Yesterday,Let it Be,The Long & Wind ing Road so on & so on.He even does the same songs in soundchecks that he has been doing since 1989. As people have mentioned the DVD is poorly put together.The concert is not the full show,songs are edited (We can work it out,Something,My Love) & are out of sequence.The picture qaulity is bad VHS & is in Pan & Scan,the sound is also flat & does not have any clarity to it.In between songs you have footage of stupid fans who should know better,saying how much they love Paul YAWN!.Also spaced out in between songs we have Paul being Paul (which is laughing at his own jokes,making sure he has all his hangers on around so they laugh with him,this is so Elvis it is scary).As well as songs being edited some of the songs have talking through them or in Hey Jude's case come on around the second verse.When you do get a complete song the camera angles switch so fast it is hard to know what is going on.As well during songs you have alot of audience reaction shots so you get to see more people making fools of themselves GREAT!. All in all this makes for a very bad concert film.Paul McCartney should know better or people around him should.There are plenty of concert DVD's around & many production companies to do them it is not that hard.It obviously was in this case.
Rating:
Summary: Too many clips - not enough concert
Review: I would have love to have seen this concert without all the chit-chat, interviews, etc. When they played they were amazing - Paul's voice held up fabulously and his band is outstanding, but it was extremely annoying to have to listen to all the other self-serving filler that should have been relegated to the "special features" portion of the dvd. Also, some pretty poor production.
Rating:
Summary: Just Simply Fantastic
Review: Paul's concert is simply fantastic. This DVD will certainly entertain, and bring tears to those who are truly Beatle fans. A must have!!!!
Rating:
Summary: Lovely performance, lousy DVD
Review: Could you please help me? Am I perhaps the victim of sheer bad luck? Murphy in action? I've been waiting for this DVD for ages, and just when I get it, the physical product is A FAILURE (technically speaking, because artistically it is wonderful). I was able to see just once the second part of the concert. The quality of the product is awful. Has anyone out there suffered the same twist of fate? Is it only poor me? Please let me know. It has been tantalisingly painful to see Paul's wonderful show only once. Must I order a new DVD? I live in a far away corner of the world so it is rather complicated to ask Amazon for a replacement. Opinions, please??????
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Summary: My review of Back in the U.S. DVD by Gary Parent
Review: I saw the show at the Pond in Anaheim, CA. I am a musician since
the age of 5, I'm now 48 so I feel I can give a worthy review. First of all the show I saw literally had 0 mistakes in both the music and the vocals. Paul's voice was simply "on" that night. The sound was very full and powerful (thanks Abe) but still clean. When I first saw the TV version of this I was disapointed that they showed so much of the crowd, but after viewing it realized that Paul was trying to show the feeling of what it was like when Beatle mania was happening, as well as demonstrate the
fact that everyone from 5 to 60 new all the words and liked the
music. I'd say about 1/2 the songs on the DVD are great songs, I like the older one's and some of the wings stuff. I'm sorry Paul but I don't care for what you're doing now. The show I saw he did "She's leaving home" which was absolutely amazing sounding. That wasn't on the DVD. On "We can work it out" the keyboard player came down and played the acordian while paul played the acoustic, sounded amazing. On the DVD no acordian? I'm confused about the selections he used? Literally every song "I" saw them do was flawless. They should have used just the show I saw. On the DVD Pauls beautiful voice has some cracking on the highs which it didn't do at the Pond. Finally, one of the most irritating things about the DVD is that for the price of tickets, though well worth it I can't believe the format is "Dolby Surround" and not "Digital Surround 5.1" Even with all these observations just being a Beatle and McCartney fan as I am it's worth buying just to add to your Beatles collection. Sorry if I bummed anybody out,
it's just that I have a great ear for all aspects of music. I'm
just really happy in my opinion, I saw the "BEST" show!
Yeah Yeah Yeah....
Rating:
Summary: Paul McCartney's new DVD
Review: No I haven't seen it but I want to know if its in wide-screen
format. I've looked everywhere and can't get an answer. I now
buy only 16.9 widescreen format. And I will buy anything.
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