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Summary: The greatest of his greatest songs.
Review: This album is for the die hard McCartney fans. This vidoe shows all of Paul's talents and his great sing voice. However Linda is still off key. This a must for all fans.
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Summary: VHS quality DVD
Review: This dvd is like vhs quality. The director also switches from black/white to colored. This dvd is terrible.
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Summary: Sound is great, video truly SUCKS!!!
Review: This DVD makes clear why the Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" DVD should be manditory watching for all wanna-be concert movie makers. Stop Making Sense provides clear instructions how to make awesome concert movies. Lessons include no stupid cut-away interviews, few crowd shots, and clear, non-jumpy shots of band members.This is DVD is just the opposite. Instead of supporting camera work that emphasizes the performance, we get a "HOW TO" on what not to do. In this DVD we get the "artsy" grainy black and white shots for half the performance along with interdispersed stupid video scenery (This scenery is taken from the large screens from the stage that were played during the concert). As someone who saw this tour live, I can testify that the video cuts of the screen material DOES NOT make one feel closer to the original performance. Worse, the camera almost NEVER focuses on anyone for more than 2 seconds at a time. Occaisionally you will get Paul singing, but NEVER do you get to see the finger-work on any musician including Paul (with the possible exception of the first stanza of "Yesterday"). This is bad, but truly annoying is the extra junk that has been added to "spruce up" songs that just don't need the extras. The worst example of htis was during the Beatles classic, "Paperback Writer." One might think that Paul singing this classic could stand on its own, but no, the movie makers decided during this song, see-through paperback book pages should cover the screen with ever increasing rapidity. If you concentrate hard, you can see Paul through the pages, but if you were like me, you were too pissed to care. Magical Mystery tour also apparently can't stand on its own, needing wierd "acid colors" to dominate the display. As a final annoying aspect to this DVD, it provides a tribute to Linda at the back that shows lots of home movies of Paul's life, along with Beatles and Wings concert footage. Unfortuately you can only get to it after the end of the credits, and there is no dividing chapters for it. The ONLY reason I give this 2 stars is because they did not destroy "Live and Let Die." When I saw this tour in DC, that song, with the fireworks and all was awesome, easily the high point of the concert. It provided me with a fond memory of the show.
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Summary: Sound is great, video truly SUCKS!!!
Review: This DVD makes clear why the Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" DVD should be manditory watching for all wanna-be concert movie makers. Stop Making Sense provides clear instructions how to make awesome concert movies. Lessons include no stupid cut-away interviews, few crowd shots, and clear, non-jumpy shots of band members. This is DVD is just the opposite. Instead of supporting camera work that emphasizes the performance, we get a "HOW TO" on what not to do. In this DVD we get the "artsy" grainy black and white shots for half the performance along with interdispersed stupid video scenery (This scenery is taken from the large screens from the stage that were played during the concert). As someone who saw this tour live, I can testify that the video cuts of the screen material DOES NOT make one feel closer to the original performance. Worse, the camera almost NEVER focuses on anyone for more than 2 seconds at a time. Occaisionally you will get Paul singing, but NEVER do you get to see the finger-work on any musician including Paul (with the possible exception of the first stanza of "Yesterday"). This is bad, but truly annoying is the extra junk that has been added to "spruce up" songs that just don't need the extras. The worst example of htis was during the Beatles classic, "Paperback Writer." One might think that Paul singing this classic could stand on its own, but no, the movie makers decided during this song, see-through paperback book pages should cover the screen with ever increasing rapidity. If you concentrate hard, you can see Paul through the pages, but if you were like me, you were too pissed to care. Magical Mystery tour also apparently can't stand on its own, needing wierd "acid colors" to dominate the display. As a final annoying aspect to this DVD, it provides a tribute to Linda at the back that shows lots of home movies of Paul's life, along with Beatles and Wings concert footage. Unfortuately you can only get to it after the end of the credits, and there is no dividing chapters for it. The ONLY reason I give this 2 stars is because they did not destroy "Live and Let Die." When I saw this tour in DC, that song, with the fireworks and all was awesome, easily the high point of the concert. It provided me with a fond memory of the show.
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Summary: Sound is great, video truly SUCKS!!!
Review: This DVD makes clear why the Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" DVD should be manditory watching for all wanna-be concert movie makers. Stop Making Sense provides clear instructions how to make awesome concert movies. Lessons include no stupid cut-away interviews, few crowd shots, and clear, non-jumpy shots of band members. This is DVD is just the opposite. Instead of supporting camera work that emphasizes the performance, we get a "HOW TO" on what not to do. In this DVD we get the "artsy" grainy black and white shots for half the performance along with interdispersed stupid video scenery (This scenery is taken from the large screens from the stage that were played during the concert). As someone who saw this tour live, I can testify that the video cuts of the screen material DOES NOT make one feel closer to the original performance. Worse, the camera almost NEVER focuses on anyone for more than 2 seconds at a time. Occaisionally you will get Paul singing, but NEVER do you get to see the finger-work on any musician including Paul (with the possible exception of the first stanza of "Yesterday"). This is bad, but truly annoying is the extra junk that has been added to "spruce up" songs that just don't need the extras. The worst example of htis was during the Beatles classic, "Paperback Writer." One might think that Paul singing this classic could stand on its own, but no, the movie makers decided during this song, see-through paperback book pages should cover the screen with ever increasing rapidity. If you concentrate hard, you can see Paul through the pages, but if you were like me, you were too pissed to care. Magical Mystery tour also apparently can't stand on its own, needing wierd "acid colors" to dominate the display. As a final annoying aspect to this DVD, it provides a tribute to Linda at the back that shows lots of home movies of Paul's life, along with Beatles and Wings concert footage. Unfortuately you can only get to it after the end of the credits, and there is no dividing chapters for it. The ONLY reason I give this 2 stars is because they did not destroy "Live and Let Die." When I saw this tour in DC, that song, with the fireworks and all was awesome, easily the high point of the concert. It provided me with a fond memory of the show.
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Summary: No Bonus footage
Review: This DVD was a bit misleading to me. Affixed to the packaging was a sticker saying among other things "bonus footage" This is not true, The DVD has the identical content as the VHS version released in 1993. (Including the 12 minute opening concert film/ disturbing animal testing and abuse footage contained in the original) However if you DON'T own a copy of this in any form, and you like Paul McCartney, I very strongly urge you to buy this DVD! This in my opinion was Paul's BEST backing group. Unlike the drummer he is using these days with his ridiculous playing over the top, showboating, beating the drumset with reckless abandon, this line up had a little powerhouse guy named Blair Cunningham. He plays aggressivly but with style and very tasteful. The lead guitarist Robbie Macintosh is a killer on guitar. He rocks hard, can play some very mean blues, and pick "Chet Adkins" style with the best of them. (For an excellent example of the latter see Paul's 1993 cd entitled "Paul Is Live" Track 6: Robbies Bit (Thanks Chet) Hamish Stuart plays rhythm guitar and handles the bass when Paul is busy playing piano or guitar. Great job he does too..has a beautiful voice and it blends with Paul's voice so well it's scary. Wix Wickens is a total keyboard wizard. It takes a special talent to emulate different keyboard voices and making them sound authentic. With so much attention to detail and accuracy, you'll swear you are hearing REAL horn sections, full string sections, not to mention he is an amazing soloist as well. (Paul is still using Wix these days) I attended one of the shows that make up this dvd. If you are curious as to what that tour was like..trust me, this DVD is the next best thing to being there. NOTE: I'm giving this item 3 stars, ONLY on the basis that it boasts having bonus footge. The program itself is worthy of a 5 star rating.
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Summary: Don't just watch it once.
Review: This DVD, the first time you put it in the player, will stink of bad production and really weird editing. Plus, if you know too much about this particular tour you will drive yourself nuts noticing songs out of order. But that said, it gets better after you've watched it a few times. The live versions of Beatle hits are great - this tour featured Drive My Car's only live outing to date. It's also nice to see Magical Mystery Tour and Lady Madonna - Macca's 88-93 band gave these songs a great rendition. The bad news starts when you get past those songs, though. Let Me Roll It is very boring with this band. The organ is way too low in the mix on the organ solo...that doesn't help. Plus nothing will ever compare to the blistering version found on Back in the U.S. / World . The tracks from Off the Ground aren't all that bad, there are five of them on the DVD, and 3 of them are good (Lookin for Changes, Hope of Deliverance, and C'mon People). Peace in the Neighborhood and Biker Like an Icon are songs that have grown on *me*, but I don't guarantee it will do the same for you. Oh, and as a...um..."bonus", we get additional versions of Let it Be, Yesterday, and Hey Jude. Let it Be would be good except that the director chose to include the only time Robbie gave a bad LiB guitar solo. Bleech. Yesterday is it's usual self, good, but I've heard it so many times by this point. And Hey Jude is my pic for worst track on the disc...there's just no energy. An alright DVD, I still watch it occaisionally, but when it's bad, it's really bad.
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Summary: the BEST McCartney so far...
Review: This is the best McCartney DVD available at the moment...
McCartney seems to love producing concert videos with long shots of crying fans instead of film of him and his band and of the three most recent issues: Get Back, Back in the US and this one Paul is Live...his director does the best job of focusing on the band. The band is also his best since the break up of Wings and the song selection is excellent with a great acoustic set. The shifting of black and white and colour for variety is also done well...and the set list is solid. Unlike his latest concert film which requires the viewer to sit through boring backstage/backstory segments between songs everytime you watch it ....this is concert action and the performances are uniformly excellent...and at a great price....enjoy!
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Summary: fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: very cool with a wide span of musical taste.there is enough music from different "paul mccartney musical era's" to satisfy any macca fan.very happy this gem finally made it to "official" dvd status.hopefully they will release more paul mccartney and wings material in the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Well, Paul rules but menus and all info sucks...
Review: Well, the DVD in fact have a nice quality in video, and the audio sounds nice... i got a 5.1 sound system and it sounds nice (not as a lord of the rings or the dark side of the moon) but is nice, the video itself was very bad and is not fault of the DVD encoders, but the producer of the original movie... it was terrible... but better than Get Back... admit it!... the things that really disapoints me of this DVD (instead the production of the video) was that menus were too simple and seems like a copy of the Back in the US idea... IS THE SAME SONG!!!... and the "bonus" are just a bio of Macca... (nice bio, bad way to post it... 100% text) and a photo album OF THE SAME STUFF OF THE DVD... i can make a better photo album using PowerDVD or something else... xD... well, the sound was not bad... in home teather sounds nice and on the PC sounds bad, but adjust the setup to "Dolby Headphones" (this option is a plus and it really improves the "hall" stereo sound) and it will sound better. Well, for a bad movie you can't expect the best DVD... and this is the problem with Macca... his movies are not the best of the world... maybe he need more touring stuff... and not things overproduced and cheap like this, Get Back, Back in the US in some parts (audience shots, some shots of the band and interviews sucked)... maybe he need to involve more in the production and final product... maybe he do best on Red Square production. Well, is a nice product for collectors... admit it... VHS will not last forever... you have to upgrade or time will eat you!
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