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Summary: Preserve your Lilith Fair memories from the summer of 1997
Review: "Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music" combines concert performances, backstage jams, interviews and documentary footage from the first summer of concerts in 1997. If you went to see one of the concerts in your neck of the woods that first summer of Lilith Fair, then you should recognize most of the performers seen on this DVD (although there were different performers at different venues). The Lilith Fair concerts were testament to the fact that a lot of people would actually go see a bunch of women sing together, no matter what the gurus in the music industry thought in their towers of power. My favorite memories from the three Lilith Fairs I attended were always when the artists performed with each other and on this DVD those end up being the best moments, such as when the Indigo Girls, Jewel and Sarah McLachlan sang "Water is Wide" together and then were joined by Meredith Brooks on "Closer to Fine." Of course, there is also the All-Artist Finale of "Big Yellow Taxi." Some of the other highlights here are Shawn Colvin singing her Grammy winning "Sunny Came Home" and Brooks rocking through her big hit (you probably remember the title) as well as Sheryl Crow offering up "I Shall Believe." There is also a fantastic bit with Crow and the Indigo Girls in a dressing room working out something to do together. That particular segment probably captures the essence of Lilith Fair better than anything else on this DVD.
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Summary: Preserve your Lilith Fair memories from the summer of 1997
Review: "Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music" combines concert performances, backstage jams, interviews and documentary footage from the first summer of concerts in 1997. If you went to see one of the concerts in your neck of the woods that first summer of Lilith Fair, then you should recognize most of the performers seen on this DVD (although there were different performers at different venues). The Lilith Fair concerts were testament to the fact that a lot of people would actually go see a bunch of women sing together, no matter what the gurus in the music industry thought in their towers of power. My favorite memories from the three Lilith Fairs I attended were always when the artists performed with each other and on this DVD those end up being the best moments, such as when the Indigo Girls, Jewel and Sarah McLachlan sang "Water is Wide" together and then were joined by Meredith Brooks on "Closer to Fine." Of course, there is also the All-Artist Finale of "Big Yellow Taxi." Some of the other highlights here are Shawn Colvin singing her Grammy winning "Sunny Came Home" and Brooks rocking through her big hit (you probably remember the title) as well as Sheryl Crow offering up "I Shall Believe." There is also a fantastic bit with Crow and the Indigo Girls in a dressing room working out something to do together. That particular segment probably captures the essence of Lilith Fair better than anything else on this DVD.
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Summary: Preserve your Lilith Fair memories from the summer of 1997
Review: "Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music" combines concert performances, backstage jams, interviews and documentary footage from the first summer of concerts in 1997. If you went to see one of the concerts in your neck of the woods that first summer of Lilith Fair, then you should recognize most of the performers seen on this DVD (although there were different performers at different venues). The Lilith Fair concerts were testament to the fact that a lot of people would actually go see a bunch of women sing together, no matter what the gurus in the music industry thought in their towers of power. My favorite memories from the three Lilith Fairs I attended were always when the artists performed with each other and on this DVD those end up being the best moments, such as when the Indigo Girls, Jewel and Sarah McLachlan sang "Water is Wide" together and then were joined by Meredith Brooks on "Closer to Fine." Of course, there is also the All-Artist Finale of "Big Yellow Taxi." Some of the other highlights here are Shawn Colvin singing her Grammy winning "Sunny Came Home" and Brooks rocking through her big hit (you probably remember the title) as well as Sheryl Crow offering up "I Shall Believe." There is also a fantastic bit with Crow and the Indigo Girls in a dressing room working out something to do together. That particular segment probably captures the essence of Lilith Fair better than anything else on this DVD.
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Summary: Lilith Fair
Review: Although this is a fine piece of work in general, the advertised 5.1 mix is simply not true. A true 5.1 mix has a wide spatial feel with different sound eliments coming out of the several speakers. This 5.1 mix is an obvious afterthough. The center channel is no more than a mono sum of the left and right channels, and the rear channels are some sort of mish mosh of the stereo mix with some ambience in it. There are also some really odd low frequency artifacts in the rear channels during the dialog and interview segments, due to some sort of unacceptable processing to fool the listener (and buyer) into thinking he is listening to a real 5.1 mix. I can guarantee that this was a poor marketing decision and not what the remix engineer delivered. I know this because I was the remix engineer, and I was asked to deliver the stereo only mix that was originally done for the broadcast and pay-per-view version. I encourage buyers to take up issue with DVD distributors who continue to market such poor quality. Tom Davis
SeisMic Sound, Inc.
Nashville, TN
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Summary: Lilith Fair
Review: Although this is a fine piece of work in general, the advertised 5.1 mix is simply not true. A true 5.1 mix has a wide spatial feel with different sound eliments coming out of the several speakers. This 5.1 mix is an obvious afterthough. The center channel is no more than a mono sum of the left and right channels, and the rear channels are some sort of mish mosh of the stereo mix with some ambience in it. There are also some really odd low frequency artifacts in the rear channels during the dialog and interview segments, due to some sort of unacceptable processing to fool the listener (and buyer) into thinking he is listening to a real 5.1 mix. I can guarantee that this was a poor marketing decision and not what the remix engineer delivered. I know this because I was the remix engineer, and I was asked to deliver the stereo only mix that was originally done for the broadcast and pay-per-view version. I encourage buyers to take up issue with DVD distributors who continue to market such poor quality. Tom Davis
SeisMic Sound, Inc.
Nashville, TN
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Summary: Great concert, shame about the sound.........
Review: I agree with Tom Davis regarding the sound quality of the 5.1 mix of Lilith Fair. It is the worst attempt at a 5.1 mix I have ever heard. If you select the 5.1 sound track and set your Dolby Digital amplifer to stereo, the vocals come out of only the RIGHT SPEAKER!. The vocals are meant to come out equally from the left and right speakers. The 2 channel sound track sounds much better.
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Summary: fantastic
Review: I am assuming that this DVD is the same collection of footage that was the Pay Per View a couple of years ago (according to the the song list, the songs are the exactly the same). If so, this is a "Can't miss" great show. All the intimacy of the Lilith Fair itself is present here and the filming is great too. If you've never heard the Indigo Girls, Jewel and Sarah sing "The Water is Wide" you are in for a true treat. Exceptional! I was forced to rate this or the review wouldn't print, so if the sound or video quality is not DVD standard, I apologize.
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Summary: Something new from Sarah McLachlan and friends
Review: I just received this DVD today on it's release date (thanks Amazon) and am very impressed with this Lilith Fair documentary. I believe this video was shown on Pay Per View, and clips of it were put together to make a "Behind The Music" of Lilith Fair Artists on VH1 that aired, I think in 1998. The picture quality of this DVD is also quite stunning. If you remember seeing the VH1 Behind The Music, this definitely has a lot more content instead of just short clips and commercials. One thing that I did find slightly awkward is that this DVD comes a bit late after Lilith Fair has been performed each summer of 1997-1999. I personally feel that it should have came a little earlier, around midway, concerning the documentary existed, just not on DVD. Either way, I'm still happy that it exists, and would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoy's these women artists, or has attended Lilith Fair because it really is a great concert! It's never the same as seeing it Live, but it's a good entry point especially if you're new to Lilith and what it's all about. It's a concert with a behind the scenes look of what made Lilith Fair so popular. I'm also happy that we're able to see something new (enough) from Sarah to keep us entertained as she takes her break to work on her new album. I've listened to Building A Mystery quite a bit from Mirrorball, so listening to this version made the song "new" again. It sounded great! Don't forget Sarah's "know it all...grin" as she sings the lyrics...Beautiful. Thanks Sarah!!!
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Summary: Sound problems
Review: I totally agree with Gregory Sargent's review. The 5.1 surround sound mix is terrible, I thought my left speaker blew when I first watched it but it turned out to be the DVD. The 2 channel stereo has the best sound.
The DVD is awesome, and I totally loved "The Water is Wide" performance. simple beautiful.
Totally recommend it.
PS. Don't you think that Jewel seemed to be pissed with Sarah M during the song? Did you notice the body language? And they did not give each other hugs after.
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Summary: Lilith Fair DVD
Review: Just adding to what`s already been said; The DVD has some great performances and candid backstage/behind the scenes footage. But the audio(even when setup for 2 channel stereo) has (almost) constant volume surges and drops that deture from an otherwise enjoyable DVD(compressor/limiter threshold levels gone awry? Gear malfunction?). Also to me, not enough coverage of each performer. Are any other of these Lilith Fair concert DVDs or videos available(covering different year concerts)?
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