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Summary: Tull Rocks!
Review: Tull has always been one of the best live acts in rock music. This DVD captures Ian, Martin, Doane, Andy and Jon in fine form from last years tour. It also contains interviews with all the band members and some fans as well. There are also 3 songs featuring the original "This Was" members, as well as Ian and Andy playing a couple of acoustic tracks backed by a string quartet. So quick, stop reading this and go buy it. You'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Few Frills but Great Performances
Review: Ian Anderson decided to use new high quality recordings for this first (and hopefully not last) Jethro Tull DVD, so there is no archival footage here. Rather the DVD presents a view of the band in its current form: less athleticism and theatrics onstage and less hair on bandmembers heads, but a superb mastery of a great collection of music. The main "film" on the DVD combines concert footage with brief snippets of interviews with the bandmembers. This elevates it above a simple concert on film and provides Tull fans with a candid and informative glimpse of the people behind the music. The only weak spot on the DVD is that the extras are a bit thin. Two bonus tracks featuring Ian Anderson with Fairport Convention and Uriah Heep, for example, are actually only song fragments barely over a minute long.
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Summary: Jethro Tull still going strong
Review: Jethro Tull and their music on this dvd deserves 5 stars, but minor complain is that this release is not an anamorfic widescreen version, just 4:3 which takes away one star. But the picture quality is very good and the DD 2.0 sound is superb.
I've seen Tull live twice recently and this long-awaited dvd helps man to re-live those concerts again and again. There are songs from Tull's long career beginning with the very first Tull album from 1968 to the latest "Dot Com" album(only one song,"Hunt By Numbers" from that album, minor complain!).
There are classic stuff like "Aqualung" and "Locomotive Breath" and great songs like "Roots To Branches" and "Budapest" from their later era as well, totally 100 mins.
Along there are cool stuff like interviews, bonus tracks, out takes etc. on the extra features section.
In my opinion this must be one of the best or even THE best Jethro Tull line-up ever. Try "Locomotive Breath" for example, it rocks! Great songs, great musicians, funny stories by Ian, great memories.If you are - even a little bit - into the music of Jethro Tull, don't miss this!...
This review refers to Region0 PAL version.
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Summary: A "Must Have" for Fans
Review: This is a superb DVD. No corners were cut in the making of this DVD... as songs are seen in their entirety and there are no oddball interuptions as I have seen on countless other music DVD's. If you are a fan (even a casual one) of Jethro Tull, you will enjoy this DVD over and over again. The choice of songs is well-balanced.
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Summary: MUSICALLY, Still One of the Greatest Live Bands Ever...
Review: Three important points: A) The songs are not shortened by interviews a la the 1994 'New Day Yesterday' VHS release (however there are a few seconds of talk-over); B) Anderson's voice is better than at any time since mid-eighties throat surgery; and C) I could've done without the almost constant fiddling with the video images. That said, I think that MUSICALLY, after all these years and personnel changes, this group is still unsurpassed. The sound is fine (though volume is a little soft), and "Cross Eyed Mary", with its tension and dueling flute/guitar scale climbs, reminds this reviewer once again how worthy a song it was to follow the incredibly unique title track on the 'Aqualung' album. Also, "Budapest" is a tour-de-force. This DVD release is from 2001, so it's time to get greedy and begin anticipating another...I'll be looking forward to it!...Ant...(also, please see my reviews of Sabbath's 'Last Supper' DVD and classic CD's by Tull, Crimson & Sabbath.)
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Summary: Feeling like a dead duck?
Review: Spit out pieces of your broken luck and enjoy this DVD.This is a solid representation of Tull material from the point of view of today. For those expecting to see blasts from the past with Anderson in tights and codpiece, forget it. Ian Anderson is a forward and broad thinking person and often seems to more than suggest feeling too anchored to the past that made him and his ever changing lineup of musicians (except for Martin Barre) famous. However, he is accepting and accommodating of the fact that these old tunes are what IS for most people, Jethro Tull. He delivers energetically, and always at the top of his musical form, with a few new unexpected twists to keep it interesting. My kids saw him with me recently at a large venue. They think he's a loony and laughed at his onstage antics. YES! I find that solid testimony to the man and his distinctiveness in a world of pretenders and one hit wonders with ripped off sample loops. It was further testimony to my generation's music compared to theirs. Let's not argue better...just different. It would have been infinitely more satisfying if Ian had included in the extras menu some old concert snippets from his earlier days. I have a video copy of a performance (lip synched...)of a very young JT and Ian on Top of the Pops singing Witches Promise (not quite an easy tune to dance to but that didn't matter to the go-go booted female dancers in the background...). It was so gratifying and fullfilling to be able to see Ian in his musical infancy looking like the very Aqualung he sung about. That would have gone a long way as an extra in the DVD, if only for comparison to the "then" versus "now". The DVD belongs in your collection if you are a JT fan at any level. Remember: We ran the race, the race was won, by running slowly...
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