Rating: Summary: Great Concert Clips/Scenery Review: Bruce Springsteen is quite a performer in a live concert setting. Fortunately many of the clips feature Bruce in concert over the years. I really like the opening Rosalita whre Bruce dances and prances around the stage and the ladies go wild. The body guards had a busy time at that concert. Dancing In The Dark is another concert highlights as Bruce is in fine form. Its truly a highlight when he dances with a lady from the adueience. Fire and Born To Run are other highlights from the concert stage.As far as videos go, many of the songs from Born In The USA are quite captivating. Super footage from I'm On Fire depicting Bruce's infatuation with a lady. Also I like Glory Days and the baseball scenes coupled with Bruce performing in a Jersey bar. Stevie Van Zandt and Clarence look like they are having fun mugging for the camera. I would have liked to have seen more songs from Bruce's earlier releases. Other than that, this is an enjoyable video of one fo the legendary performers of our time, Bruce Springsteen.
Rating: Summary: Great Concert Clips/Scenery Review: Bruce Springsteen is quite a performer in a live concert setting. Fortunately many of the clips feature Bruce in concert over the years. I really like the opening Rosalita whre Bruce dances and prances around the stage and the ladies go wild. The body guards had a busy time at that concert. Dancing In The Dark is another concert highlights as Bruce is in fine form. Its truly a highlight when he dances with a lady from the adueience. Fire and Born To Run are other highlights from the concert stage. As far as videos go, many of the songs from Born In The USA are quite captivating. Super footage from I'm On Fire depicting Bruce's infatuation with a lady. Also I like Glory Days and the baseball scenes coupled with Bruce performing in a Jersey bar. Stevie Van Zandt and Clarence look like they are having fun mugging for the camera. I would have liked to have seen more songs from Bruce's earlier releases. Other than that, this is an enjoyable video of one fo the legendary performers of our time, Bruce Springsteen.
Rating: Summary: Good live performances on disk 1 Review: Disk 1 is very good with live performances. Disk 2 was not that great and is videos. I wanted the song Rosalita as that is the best song and is missing from latest DVD's.
Rating: Summary: Bruce is back Review: Excellent. Every thing rom rosalita to Born in the USA is great. Best released Video on the BOSS yet. I play guitar and do a lot of SRV but the BOSS is fun to crank out. I wish they had a DVD on the 199-00 tour...
Rating: Summary: The Boss Review: First off, I admit I'm a huge Springsteen fan. Now, onto the DVD. My first copy of this anthology was a dubbed copy of a VHS rental that I played the heck out of. So I was shocked at how good the footage looked on my DVD player. Some of the videos on the second disc I had never seen, like "Highway Patrolman". If you like Bruce, this is a good place to start your collection. Sure there are things that should have been included, but lets cross our fingers that the MSG show will be out on DVD soon.
Rating: Summary: Could've been so much more but a great collection. Review: First: They should've waited until "The Rising".
Second: Bruce has pro-shot footage dating back to 1972-1973. Starting it at 1978 with "Rosalita", running through "Born in the USA" and then "Born to Run" at the end, not to mention a mid-90s "Hungry Heart" promo on the second. The continuity is kind of wacky.
There's a whole show filmed for "No Nukes". There's "Austin City Limits" (which no one can find). There's 1975 footage at the Roxy in LA, and a BBC shot show at the Hammersmith as well as other shows that have been circulating on bootlegs. The Neil Young "Bridge" concert. The Barcelona video's great, but the marathon shows he used to do should really be out there for all of us to see...
Once Bruce started doing videos, he wound up getting top-name directors like Brian DePalma, John Sayles,Jonathan and Ted Demme. A lot of them are memorable and beautifully shot, but a lot of the "Born in the USA" footage just makes you wonder why he hasn't put out one of the shows on DVD. You see a bit of E Street history, including the era where he ditched those guys for a while, then working with them on "Murder Inc.". "Streets of Philadelphia" and "Beautiful Disguise" have Bruce singing live to a backing track, very unusual.
Bruce's fans will love this, but they'll love it more if they put out some of the footage that made people enchanted with his shows.
Rating: Summary: I was happy with my purchase! Review: Given that it did maybe have a few crappy camera angels & lighting; how could anybody be unhappy with their purchase after seeing him prance around in a pair of tight pants? This DVD collection made me wish I could have seen him in concert...
Rating: Summary: An audio injustice Review: I agree with the previous comments about the technical quality of this DVD. Compared to the Eagles "Hell Freezes Over" DTS DVD, the producers should be ashamed of this effort. It pales in comparison to other remastered material, like the Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense". Although a great selection of material by the Boss (perhaps a bit heavier on the 90's material than I'd prefer), the surround sound audio track if absolutely awful and I refuse to even play it anymore -- the standard PCM audio simulated into surround sound is much better.
Rating: Summary: Please Tell Me A Concert DVD Of The Reunion Tour Is Coming Review: I am a huge Bruce fan, but found this DVD extremely disappointing. I had forgotten just how cheesy those Born in the USA videos were. Bruce & the E Street Band would be perfect on a live concert DVD. Let's hope he puts one out.
Rating: Summary: Great shows I wish I saw. Review: I just recently saw Bruce on his 99 tour but these clips are from the 70s and 80s. These performances are fantastic and I wish I had seen him back then, his shows now are calm compared to back during his 80s heyday. (great video highly recommended)
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