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Summary: DVD is good but could have been great!
Review: In all my years this was the best concert I ever have ever seen. The quality and quanity of the setlist is a once in a lifetime experience. Paul and his band sounded way beyond my high expectations and the stage set was almost breathtaking. Everything needed (sound, vision, crowd, cameras) to hit a homerun with this DVD was available.
I felt that this should have been a two disc package with a good 4 hours of material. I wasn't bored for one minute during the 3 hour concert and I wouldn't be bored with a four hour DVD. One disc should have contained 3 hours of mostly concert footage showing every song (about 40) played throughout the two leg tour. It would have been great to catch the magic of one song from each city played on the tour(up to the DVD deadline). This DVD seemed to concentrate on a few cities and a few too many audience celebrities. A second disc should then contain all the extra footage which is also very interesting. I would have gladly paid an extra...for a two disc set with a nice informational booklet and a better case. The concert was done first class and so should the DVD.
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Summary: Love Paul, but DVD lacks overall
Review: I saw paul this october in houston with my mom. I thought the show was the best production I've ever seen live, but this DVD failed to capture that essence. the camera picture quality was comparable to VHS "poor to average" also it follows a mixture of behind the scenes which intersect the concert resulting in cut-off songs and late intro's. I felt they should have stayed true to the concert and left the extra stuff just like that, as "DVD extra's".
Picture = VHS quality
sound = very good
Content = behind the scenes interfear with concert footage.You'll like this DVD if you haven't seen the concert live, but if you have you will be dissapointed.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY IT if.......
Review: ...you're a collector of live shows and concerts!
Paul is still the greatest, music-sound is fantastic but you won't be able to stand all the talking instead of music!
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Summary: Good..but it could have been better
Review: Since I like the Beatles and Paul...it is hard not to give this four stars just based on the generous amount of Beatle tunes. First the good. Paul sings great. Band is great. DTS surround is very nice. Seems like all the big hits are included. Now for my problems. The video is filmed, not shot with High Def cameras. So the picture is not what it could have been. It is not widescreen either. Since in a few years everyone will have HD widescreen, it would have been nice to preserve such a timeless concert as this in that format. What annoys me the most is that there is too much focus on the crowd. I hate it. I don't want to see the crowd singing, reacting, etc, to everything. A few shots here and there is ok...but there is way too much. I want to see Paul...that's it. All concerts should be like the James Taylor DVD. Music first.
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Summary: Great Concert, lousy DVD
Review: How could a man of Paul McCartney's stature allow this to happen? The sound and video quality of this DVD are on par with old VHS -- video full of noise and color bleed, sound is flat and strident. I was at the Philly concert and can honestly call it one of the top 3 concert experiences of my life. Paul was mesmerizing. That's what made it so painful to see the concert reduced to B movie quality on this DVD. Paul, please watch Bruce Springsteen's "Live in NYC" DVD to see how beautifully a concert DVD can be done. Also see Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" and "The Who -- Live at the Royal Albert Hall." These are examples of great video, audio, and editing. Paul deserved better treatment. The rapid cuts and being pulled out of the concert between every song for behind the scenes really defeated any sense of "being there." I can recommend the DVD on the merits of the performance alone. But be forwarned, it ain't pretty.
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Summary: A Big Disappointment
Review: Having seen Paul McCartney in concert in April in Cleveland, I was eager for this DVD and the CD. While the CD is excellent, I am really disappointed with the DVD. My favorite song is "Hey Jude", and it was very disconcerting not to have the entire song on the DVD. Instead, after some filler before the song, the song was joined in progress, probably about two minutes into it. While it was great to have the entire song on the CD, I wanted the DVD to show me the entire concert as I had experienced it, not a "joined in progress" song!
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Summary: More Than Just Another Concert
Review: This film puts you front row center with one of the immortals, Paul McCartney: The Beatle; the icon; and the man. And, of course, there's the music. "Paul McCartney-- Back In the U.S," is much more than "just" the music, however; it's an experience, and one you can now live over and over again thanks to the magic of DVD/video. The cameras follow Paul and his band on this 2002 tour of the U.S., from New York to Los Angeles (where as they pan the audience you get glimpses of such luminaries as Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, John Cusack and Steve Buscemi, among others) and a number of stops at cities and venues along the way as they crisscross the country. The music is great, Paul looks and sounds good, and you also get some insights into how it all came together and what it's like on the other side of the curtain, through brief interviews and/or comments from Paul, members of his band and others who work so hard behind the scenes to make it all happen (and to give you an idea of the magnitude of their endeavors, it took twelve semi-trucks to haul equipment and sets from one place to the next). But what really makes this film engrossing is what the eye of the camera captures as it sweeps the audience, which makes it quite evident that this is not just another concert, but history in the making and being revisited, playing out and documented here for posterity, and clearly transcending show business in general and the music business in particular. There are old and young alike in attendance, exhibiting every possible emotion; some through totally uninhibited revelry, others more introspective-- internalizing the moment though every bit as exuberant as those who express themselves openly. And there are some genuinely profound moments captured here, as you can clearly see in the eyes of especially the more "mature" members of the crowd, that McCartney's music is taking them on a tour of their entire lives, creating a personal retrospective for each individual through songs that for them evoke a particular place at a specific time. It's a spontaneous revisiting of good times and bad, as evidenced by the joy, laughter, tears, and for many by the distant, transported look of the eyes, a glassy expression signifying the timelessness, not only of the music, but of the experience itself. There are those among us who, adopting a most erudite countenance, will dismiss out-of-hand the notion that four mop-haired rock n' rollers from Liverpool changed the world as we know it, but such a stance is nothing less than an unmistakably self-serving denial of the incontrovertible facts of the matter. Directly or indirectly, in one way or another, the Beatles touched the lives of everyone and will continue to do so as each generation discovers them anew in their own way and time, and Paul McCartney is decidedly a part of it still. The music and the influence of McCartney and his mates is forever, and skeptics who stubbornly cling to their life rafts of refusal need look no further than "Paul McCartney-- Back In the U.S." for the proof. And acquiescence will be humbly accepted at the door.
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Summary: AWESOME DVD
Review: I missed my opportunity to watch Macca live in Florida but this DVD will do. Great footage, wonderful singing, and timeless classics. "My Love" brought tears to the eyes, and "Band On The Run" was rockin'! The band is amazing! This is a must have for any music fan!!
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Summary: Major disappointment....Paul deserves better.
Review: The producers of this dvd blew the chance of a lifetime. Thanks a lot. Paul McCartney doing his life's work in a "live concert" and you guys chop it to pieces with interviews? What were you thinking? Paul and the band seemed to be in top form and played their hearts out. Who put the video together? It was very jumpy....no frame staying on for more than a second or two. Annoying, stupid and just plain awful! The audio mix was of good quality. Go buy the CD instead. If you want to see how a concert dvd should be presented check out "Roger Waters In The Flesh" or "Elton John One Night Only" or Bruce Springsteen Live In New York City" If you just want a documentary on the tour, this dvd is fine but it is labled a "concert film"....misleading to say the least! Shame!
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Summary: Very disappointed!
Review: To begin with, I'm a big Beatles fan and have always enjoyed the professionalism of the works that come out of this group or as solo artists. Not this time. This DVD concert was too short, too choppy and the editing wasn't very good. Advertised as covering 34 venues was a lie. It only covered the 1st leg of the tour and should of been called "Driving USA" instead of "Back In The US." There wasn't anything from the 2nd leg on this DVD. The best song, "She's Leaving Home" and others weren't included. But, we were treated to footage of movie stars and big bouncey breasted women. "More Paul, less boobs." To be fair, the picture and sound quality was quite good. If the DVD covered the whole concert start to finish without all of the interuptions with peoples thoughts and leaving all of the "behind the scenes" stuff for a 2nd disc it would of been a much better momento of my concert experience. We all would of waited to get a better two disc set at a later time. This one was just thrown together. The actual concerts I've attended in the 2nd leg were awesome and I wish the DVD represented the experience better. Also, being forced to purchase a DVD-rom player for my computer to view the super secret web site is just childish. Signed,
Disappointed in Seattle
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