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Summary: awesome
Review: a must for all dan fans!!
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I'm not going to waste your time with lots of words. Why would you be reading this review when you could be watching this DVD? Simply awesome, and much more rewarding than the AJA Classic Albums DVD, which is also terrific.Just buy it and go to heaven....
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Summary: Steely Dan: Timeless
Review: This is as it should be , another classic Steely Dan production. Not only did I like their music from the getgo, the studio production work was incredible. That funky, jazzy, blue-eyed soul could not have been done any other way. These guys are professionals in a word... The Dolby 5.1 audio is awesome, with clean crisp video and the Sony soundstage is a great place to record a DVD concert. I want to hear the music, not listen to 10,000 screaming fans. This was done as only Steely Dan could do it...
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Summary: You gotta buy this
Review: My wife thinks Donald Fagan looks slightly insane hunched behind the keyboards with the ever-present shades and vampirical incisors but I say SD is still the best band out there. The interviews are a little quirky with all the angular shots, but hey, if it aint quirky, it aint Steely Dan right? The band is as tight as ever with Walter Becker even picking up a lot of the guitar work himself. Cornelius Bumbus is still amazing on the sax. Standout: stellar version of Pretzel Logic as the closer. If your into the Dan this is a must-have. Oh yeah...
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Summary: What a great show !
Review: Being a Steely Dan fan for almost 25 years, it's great to have this DVD with such a high sound quality. It adds to my best musical DTS DVD collection with Eagles' Hell Freezes Over and Bee Gees' One Night Only. While some people do not like the interviews in between the songs, I find them interesting, furthermore, this is not a live concert coverage. If you don't like the interruption, simply press the title number on your remote control to go directly to the next song. It would be perfect if it includes my favourites songs like Do it again, Rikki don't lose that number and Haitian Divorce. Anyway it's a great DVD and I'd recommend it to my friends. Donald and Walter, what a great job you've done.
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Summary: The Glory of the Dan
Review: What an elegant piece of work this demi-documentary/concert is. It opens with the stabbing piano opener from "Two Against Nature" against a sweeping view of New York City at night, the camera descending on a river of red tail lights streaming slowly through the city. A suitably sophisticated image for this, the epitome of sophisticated bands. We hop into the musical proceedings pretty quickly with "Green Earrings." I didn't mind the lighting or the wacky camera angles--those effects seemed to me to match the music: dark, sexy, and a little off-kilter. Reminded me of an extra good Sessions at West 54th. I also didn't mind the interviews per se. Many of them were engaging, and they kept me salivating while I waited for the next song. It's funny, for example, to hear one young fan attribute "The Year of the Cat" to Steely Dan. What did bother me was the fact (on the video, at least) that the sound levels were so much lower on the mock public access show that I had to crank up the volume between songs, only to be blown away when another song came on. And the songs, ah, the songs: an impeccable version of "Babylon Sisters," surely one of the most voluptuously decadent songs ever penned and a personal favorite of mine. Cousin Dupree also proves he's here to stay, certain to be lounging around inside your cranium for decades to come. And as you'd expect, solid versions of everything abound else, too, from "Green Earrings" through "Pretzel Logic." The jazzy notes; the sultry swaying girls; the cool, crisp lyrics; and those vicious glistening incisors. There all here. Reach for your grapefruit wine and slide into the sounds.
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Summary: Proving you can go back to old school
Review: Aging like a fine wine Fagen and Becker's attention to detail and perfectionsim come through loud and clear in a medium that rivals seeing the band live. Sure the interviews and fan cams between songs can be interuptive, further evidenced by the "Janie Runaway improv segue into "Josie" and how tasty that whole sequence is, but the choice was obviously made, and for all of the other pure listening pleasure it's a minor glitch. This viewer's only regret was that it wasn't longer containing even more of the songs that are so hard to categorize. Well worth the price of admission. Hopefully enough to hold you over till the next time the Dans are in town
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Summary: Finally good sound, good music, good surround
Review: A must have if you like good music, A must have if you have a great stereo system, A must have if you have a good sourround prossesor, Very good picture quality, and photography. I have in my collection almost all the Musical and Music DVD's and this is one of the best recorded.
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Summary: Por fin un concierto de Steely Dan en Video y qué Gran Calid
Review: Soy fan de Steely Dan desde inicios de los años setentas. Esos grandes éxitos como reeling in the Years, Do it Again, Pretzel Logic, fueron parte de mi música preferida. Había visto algunos videos como el de Reeling in the Years y alguno de Donald Fagen. este concierto en donde presentan su nuevo disco tiene una calidad de sonido excepcional, grandes músicos y por supuesto el talento de Fagen y Becker. Para todos los fanáticos del buen Rock y de la música de este grupo, este DVD es un infaltable en su colección. Altamente recomendable por todo lo que implica tenerlos en un especial para DVD.
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Summary: Little gripes, but SD rocks the proverbial house!
Review: Everyone is griping about the interviews so I won't add. However some things you should know about the 5.1 mix... the horns are mastered towards the back so it sounds like you are actually sitting somewhere on stage and its a total trip. Furthermore the background vocals are panned funky too. This is not a problem, but rather an interesting approach to audio mix-down. Kudos! It looks like the audio take is different from the video take. For example: there is a section where Ricky Lawson (drums) is playing the ride cymbal on the video, but on the audio track, he is playing the hi hat. Regardless, the engineering on this video is great!
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