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Summary: Great Music and Shivering Feelings
Review: If you happen to enjoy modern rock and popular music mixed with classical instruments your choice would be Electric Light Orchestra. For many years ELO has entertained the world with its very personal music genre. Mixing traditional violins, cellos, piano, and other acoustic instruments with today's electric guitars Jeff Lynne, the lead guitarist, has produced such familiar songs as Evil Woman, Livin' Thing, Telephone Line, and Strange Magic. All these great titles are compiled together in the ELO's Zoom Tour Live DVD for us to enjoy at our home theaters.
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Summary: One of the finest concert DVDs I've purchased.
Review: Fabulous! Absolutely wonderful! As a great classic rock fan, I have purchased quite a few different concert DVDs from various Classic Rock bands. And mlst of them haven't gotten better with age. Jeff Lynne is the exception. He sounds better now than he ever has. The Zoom tour was cancelled for me (I did have tickets) but, at least I have this wonderful DVD to help ease my loss. Even if your only a mild ELO fan, I suggest you check this out for the wonderful preformance that this is. Fantastic sound, fantastic footage. Check it out.
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Summary: The best case for DTS yet !!
Review: I read the reviews about this before buying and was hesitant, given the negatives of some. I have owned and played it now for 7 months on my home theater system and cannot see the criticisms at all. I lived that period and enjoyed them the first time around. This was better on nearly every song. I have a number of others, both DTS and other formats and wish more were available in the format. It is like stereo vs mono. What an experience...especially when cranked. The negative reviews reminded me of the ones about my second favorite DVD...Hell Freezes Over. Again, I lived in that time and it is great. Music morphs and reappears on about a twenty year cycle. Each time it usually gains the tech advantages of the time. Some of my music is teens and twenties which is digitized and reformatted and cleaned of the scratchies. Much better than the originals in sound quality and enjoyment. Not stereo, but great music. Each era has some really good musicians and presentations to savor. We now get the second times from the nearly original groups. All I can say to detractors to the newer morphs is just enjoy and, as the Eagles said...GET OVER IT !!!
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Summary: Great performance, but it made me want to cry.
Review: What a performance, too bad all you ELO fans didn't buy a ticket, thanks alot. But wow, what a great performance, every song done good. But one thing this concert did to me was, made me depressed. How can Jeff Lynne call it ELO without Bev Bevan or Kelly Groucutt??? His girlfriend is a fine singer but her swaying and motions are annoying. Well I guess someone had to step in for Hugh McDougall. But seriously, I only got this DVD to see Jeff Lynne sing and play guitar. If you want the REAL ELO, just get the CDs.
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Summary: ELO never sounded better!
Review: Fully expecting one of my favorite bands of the 70s & 80s to sound like so many of the groups of that era who have long since outlived themselves, I bought this DVD hoping I was dead wrong. I was. From the first cut to the last Jeff Lynne and his new formed ELO sound simply great. Yes, it is not the same group, but really, it doesn't matter. Lynne's voice is in excellent form, his guitar licks are all there, and the backing vocals, strings, and synth bring to life some of the best music of an era that still today proves to be some of the most innovative in rock music. To put it succinctly, if you are (or were) and ELO fan, you *will* enjoy this DVD. The DTS sound track is so good, I spent 2 days learning how to extract it from the disc and burn it onto CD so I could listen to it on the road. Pop it in and crank it up!
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Summary: Great ELO Tunes bring back memories of Out of the Blue...
Review: About 20 years ago, I saw ELO live at the Chicago Stadium for their "Out of the Blue" tour, complete with their giant ELO UFO. The sound, songs, and visuals made it the best concert I have attended, to date. The ZOOM DVD brings back some of those great memories, and although most of the original ELO members are not present, the two most important ones, Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy, are. Hearing and seeing those songs performed live gave me goose bumps, especially watching Richard Tandy play the synthesizer to "Telephone Line" and the grand piano to "Evil Woman". There was no violinist on stage to take the place of Mik Kaminski, so a few songs (Telephone Line, in particular), suffered slightly. However, the mix of old, very old, and new songs were good, and I would highly recommend this DVD to anyone who is a fan of ELO and/or Jeff Lynne
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Summary: Great sound.....but
Review: The band really seems quite stiff. I expected more life. I was one of the folks left with Zoom tickets as memorbelia. The real way to do give this AWESOME music some life is to do what I did. Transfer the audio, which is VERY good to CDR and when listening dream up your own visuals.
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Summary: Jeff Lynne never sounded better
Review: Long time ELO fan and its too bad this tour got off to a bad start and had to be cancelled. Jeff sounds as good as he did back in the 70's. Rosie Vela , his female counterpart sounds great and the two celloist's add a great touch to all the great music this group has produced. The concert builds towards a rocking end and although I did not particularly like some of the new Zoom songs it did not distract me away from a great concert. The visual and audio are well reproduced and it is fun to watch Jeff with his curly afro-like hair and sunglasses enjoy himself up on stage. It also shows towards the end of the show on songs like "Shine alittle Love", "Don't bring Down" and "Roll over Beethoven" what a good guitarist his is. Go ahead and buy. you will enjoy
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Summary: ELO-Zoom Tour Live
Review: When I first heard the "ZOOM" CD, my first thoughts were I hope they tour. Since the tour got cut short this was the only way of seeing the true driving force behind ELO. He didn't disappoint me and proves that although the original band was great the main body of ELO is Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy. This music sounded great with the 5.1 Digital Surround. It's nice to know that even after all these years that the music I enjoy still surpasses what they call music ( Rap,Hip-Hop) these days. It's music with various instruments, melodies, harmonies and competent musicians that stand the test of time, not just a bunch of so called musicians with an attitude and a back ground noise machine. One question I wish they would have asked is ,Why weren't the other members of the band part of this project? A great reminder of what music should be, cheerful and moving. "Roll Over Beethoven" combines the Classics with good old Rock and Roll.It still kicks ....This DVD is a must have for any ELO fan. You won't be sorry you bought it.
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Summary: It was a gamble buying this .. but glad I did!
Review: I normally check reviews before buying a DVD. I've always been an ELO fan but this DVD was very expensive! I saw it the other day for a reduced price and picked it up. I then read a key review. This reviewer was very hesitant to watch it because the DVD was based on the ill-fated "Zoom" tour and did not feature the true ELO band (except for Jeff Lynne and the keyboardist). I began to think "wish I had read this review before buying". However, as his review continued, I was pleased to read that he enjoyed the DVD once he started watching it, in fact he loved it! When I got home, I quickly put it on. I eagerly awaited to hear the DTS sound, and see the Widescreen footage. Guess what - this DVD is fantastic! Jeff Lynne sounds fantastic and the female back-up singer is not a disappointment (even if she wasn't part of the original ELO). On top of that, there are two very talented celloists at the side, and the rest of the band are fantastic too. The DTS sound is incredible, it certainly gives the Eagles "Hell Freezes Over" DVD some competition. It's a pity the ELO "Zoom" tour failed before it got off the ground, because it richly deserved a chance, based on this excellent DVD. I cannot recommend this DVD enough to ELO fans. But first, please do yourself a favour and get DTS equipment if you don't already - it's the only way to truly experience it. Long live DTS! Thanks Jeff for a great DVD.
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