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Summary: Great Comments, Stories and Concert footage
Review: This is a great video to watch if you love The Who or if you just want to find out what they are all about(well a good deal about anyway) . My favorite part is when Pete talks about the competition for the spot light. He says something like: Me and Keith won. John never tried and Rog, well, he just lost. There are tons of other great stories, comments, and concert footage. So I totally recomend it, although I belive The Kids Are Alright to be better.
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Summary: Bare Bones
Review: This is a mediocre DVD version of an excellent home video. The sound has not been upgraded in any way from the VHS version, and the "eight page booklet written by John Atkins..plus detailed liner notes" referred to on the back of the package are nowhere to be found inside. It seems the old VHS package was simply reproduced without thought to actually including a booklet. Seems like a quickie release. All of that said, there is is some wonderful material on here for the serious Who fan. Worth buying if you don't already have the VHS. If you do, you might want to wait for the (hopefully) inevitable corrected/upgraded re-release of this DVD.
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Summary: A wonderful peek at rock-n-roll's greatest live band!!
Review: This video more than adequately convinces the viewer that The Who were, and still are rock-n-roll's GREATEST live band then, now, and forever more, in perpetuity! (a deliberate overusage of grammatical tenses, but what the hell, I enjoyed it immensely!) Whether seeing Keith Moon bash the living hell out of his drumkit to the tune of "So Sad About Us" early on or the entire band playing the hell out of their set at the Tanglewood Music Shed gig or their wonderfully blistering performance at The Isle of Wight Festival attests to The Who's exponential talent for playing live on stage. Pete Townshend's stingingly nasty guitar playing (including a number of trademark windmill guitar chords) is nicely complemented by Roger Daltrey's fearless vocals, John Entwistle's incredibly fluid bass riffs and Moon's maniacally yet timely drum assaults all throughout-and trust me, as an ardently passionate Who fan, this video MORE than cuts it- is someting that even non-Who fans will love! Of special note is the gig at 'The Tanglewood Music Shed' where it all comes together so wonderfully that you'll be left absolutely stunned! And, of course, the interspersed commentary by the three surviving members is also quite interesting; Pete Townshend's mention of the fact that The Who were "..scruffy, ugly , noisy horrible, loud, inconsiderate bunch of ---holes " and that in conclusion, "We became successful because that's what the AUDIENCE were like TOO." adds balance to this more than intriguing video. Do I recommend it? Take a guess.
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Summary: If you can find it, GET IT.
Review: This was available in DVD a few years ago, but seems to have gone out of print. The piece is a good companion to The Kids Are Alright, as its concert clips don't overlap TKAA at all, and in fact the two complement each other nicely in some cases. It brings the published concert clips up to 1989, the last Who tour before the 30th anniversary mark, and includes some nice Kenney Jones clips. The major omission, in my opinion, is the surviving clips from Live Aid. Sure they sounded rough that day. Sure they hated being in the same arena together. Sure John blew up the preamp in his main bass seconds before going on, and can be heard tuning his backup bass during My Generation. Wouldn't that be fun to see/hear? I think it would... In any case, if you can find the 30 Years DVD, get it by any means necessary. Same goes for the VHS version. You won't regret it.
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Summary: The Who 30 years of maximum R&B
Review: Well, I would have liked to review it, but unfortunately, I was not able to even watch it. The tape was twisted inside, so I will be sending it back for a refund. I wish that the person who sent it would have taken a moment to look it over and see that it was defective. I purchased this video for my daughter who has been looking for this particular video for quite awhile. She was very disappointed after waiting for it to arrive and then not even able to view it when it did finally.
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Summary: The Who 30 years of maximum R&B
Review: Well, I would have liked to review it, but unfortunately, I was not able to even watch it. The tape was twisted inside, so I will be sending it back for a refund. I wish that the person who sent it would have taken a moment to look it over and see that it was defective. I purchased this video for my daughter who has been looking for this particular video for quite awhile. She was very disappointed after waiting for it to arrive and then not even able to view it when it did finally.
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Summary: GREAT LIVE PERFOMANCES BY THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAND!
Review: What can I say? The Who turns in one stellar performance after another on this amazing video. This concentrates on The Who's live performances of the 70's-90's, where-as The Kids Are Alright was a melange of a bit of everything.The only complaint I have is that for me(being an avid moon fan), there was a bit too much post-Moon footage. all-in-all I thoroughly enjoyed this, with Keith's performance of Bell boy being a highlight.
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Summary: The Amazing Journey
Review: Wonderful! Get it! I admit I was skeptical, being a tremendous fan of The Kids are Alright, I wasn't sure how this could be any better. In many ways it is a companion piece, focusing more on showing full live performances, with a few current interviews from Roger, Pete, and John. There are some wonderful moments, especially the old film of So Sad About Us live at the Marquee Club...it is great...even though the harmonies are a bit flat! But as Pete said, the sponitnaity of live is what makes the performance, not the quality! ALso, there is a great version of The Music Must Change, with an extended jam sequence that is great. The only sad part is realizing that there must be so much more footage and I HOPE IT WILL BE RELEASED!
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