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Summary: Great Concert, Terrible sound!
Review: It was a great concert and could have been a great DVD. But, the sound mixing is terrible. It is a shame that such a good show doesn't have the quality of sound to go with it. This DVD should never have been released with such poor sound quality. Eddie's guitar solo still rocks. But, that was the only thing that is not totally destroyed by this hacked up sound mixing. I would have rated it lower, but VH does put on a great show.
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Summary: BUY THIS!
Review: It's hard to believe this concert could get even better by putting it on DVD. Make sure you keep this one loud. You WON'T be disappointed.
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Summary: Horrible sound on an amazing concert...
Review: It's incredible the bad quality of the sound of this DVD. Sammy Hagar voice is extremely low. A shame! It's a better video the 'Live without a Net' VHS. Would love to see that in DVD!!
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Summary: Bring back Dave!
Review: Not a bad concert if you get over the nauseating buffoonery of Sammy Hagar. This was a legendary band that is now, for all practical purposes, dead.
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Summary: Awesome Concert
Review: Once again Eddie showed everyone that he is probably the best. The overall concert was awesome. The band played their best songs, and the concert was just amazing. If you are a Van Halen fan you have to buy this, and if you are not a Van Halen fan, this DVD might change your mind.
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Summary: Kind of Like a Video
Review: The solo that Eddie does is probably worth the price of the video. It features shots from only one of the nights, with a lot of good close-ups and clear views of Eddie's hands.Live Without a Net is definitely a better choice, if you don't have it. The playing on it is a lot better. Another problem with this DVD is that it frequently looks like an MTV video. By this, I mean that there is a lot of footage that doesn't quite synch up with the audio. Well, it's not really live if we're watching video from a different night, is it? One minute Hagar's wearing a shirt, the next minute he isn't. It's distracting. There are actually a couple of moments when I heard lead stuff going and saw Eddie playing a chord. That's just sloppy editing. BTW, none of this is the band's fault. They rocked, as usual.
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Summary: Image and sound quality are not very well.
Review: The video quality of this DVD is average and this DVD has only PCM sound, no surround available. The image quality is The bass is big, but not clear. The treble is average also.
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Summary: Average. Nothing special over the video release
Review: This DVD has no special features, the sound quality isn't even Douby Digital. The footage was shot back over a span of two nights in the same location. From song to song you notice the clothese on the band members has changed. The setlist is good, the sound the bad gets is good, you get to see eddie perform an amazing solo and pull off his most complex works live. (I'd give it a four for content if I were rating the video version of this, but I believe the DVD release should have been given something more). Anyway anyone who has seen the band live will know there was some post-production work done here. Sammy Hagar has even alured to this in post-Van Halen interviews refering to it as a b**s live CD and called the CD version of this set the bands weakest album. Sadly the Balance tour video footage will likely never see the light of day.
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Summary: Someone should be ... for this
Review: This DVD is a disgrace. A monumental screw up of the highest order. You wouldn't think it would be possible to take a concert by one of the best hard rock groups that ever existed and turn it into a disaster.. but they've done it. How, you may ask? By sheer arrogance and stupidity. The "powers that be" decided that a mere Van Halen Concert wasn't good enough. They were going to make it "better". What they did was to take footage of two separate concerts and merge them into one. The video is hacked together from the two concerts, constantly switching back and forth. They don't hide this fact, they announce it right at the start, like they were proud of it. On the surface it may sound like a good idea but as you watch the concert it quickly progresses from a novelty to a minor irritation to a major turn-off. The problem is this: What you really want from a concert video is the feeling of being there. You want the illusion that you are a part of the concert, that it is a real event and that you are there. This ... merging of two separate concerts completely destroys any possibility of this. Even the clothes they are wearing become major distractions. In a few seconds the singer's clothes change back and forth so fast you can't even begin to figure out which is the 'real' video (which you would suppose matches the soundtrack) and which is the 'alternate' video (which I guess is supposed to be more 'lively' or 'interesting' for that split second). In other words it jumps back and forth so much that EVERYTHING looks fake. To sum it up: It was a stupid idea. It effectively ruins what would have been a superior concert video. Every time I try to watch it I get so mad I want to put my fist through the screen. Please Please Please... just let us see the bands! Keep your clever ideas on how to improve an artist's art to yourself! These artists have reached the pinnacle of popularity for a reason. They have the gifts we want to see, NOT the editorial meddling of wanna-be film makers.
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Summary: Van Hagar finally loses the plot.
Review: This DVD starts well for about 8 minutes and then slowly puts the watcher to sleep. Bits and pieces cut up to make up a concert. It's obvious to me that VH cannot play a concert through without things going wrong. Eddie's guitar solo piece is particularly disappointing as he makes so many mistakes. The other disappointment is that he has not written any additional original guitar solo work since the 'without a net' video. Shame Dave Lee Roth never released a live DVD when he was with Steve Vai. It would have made Van Hagar look like a bunch of amateurs.
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