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Summary: God, Save Rhino
Review: Just 4 days ago I saw Cheap Trick. They are still one of the best rock bands to ever perform. Ok, on this video their performance is quite good maybe excellent. The problem is with barely recognizable audio and 8mm or 1st generation consumer quality video it's really difficult to say. Is this sound recorded with one built-in cassete recorder microphone? The picture quality almost rates average when the pure white stage light shines on the band. I love this band. Please someone, release commercial qualtity video compilation or a professionally produced (35mm film/digital sound) product on this band.
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Summary: Need a Cheap Trick Fix?
Review: Luckily, Cheap Trick is eternally on the road coming soon to your city. If you've seen them in concert, you've seen this video...and that is what makes it so perfect. Need a fix until they swing around town again? This will do just fine.
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Summary: love for the band doesn't help this DVD.
Review: One of my favorite bands, ever. Seeing Cheap Trick and AC/DC back to back in the late 70's may be one of the best concerts i ever attended. You just can't beat Southern Girls, Come On Come On, Surrender, Hello There, Heaven Tonight, California Girls, Auf Wiedersehen, etc. But, unfortunately, This DVD does not live up to the quality of the Live shows, nor the studio albums. Both the video and audio, simply put, are inferior. In Addition, most of the classic songs I just mentioned are not played on this CD. The set list could be better. But, I still recommend it, because its a glimpse of a great rock and roll band. Simple songs, yet superbly written and eloquently played by Robin, Rick, Tom, and Bun E.
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Summary: Worthwhile purchase for fans
Review: This DVD has a few problems.... The picture quality is late 80s industrial video quality, and the stereo sound mix is only so-so. Rhino Records has updated the sound with a new optional 5.1 mix that sounds TERRIBLE! Trust me, stick with the 2 channel stereo mix on this DVD. The non-concert footage (the band touring Sidney) doesn't really do anything for the package, but thankfully it doesn't interrupt the songs and can be skipped easily (thank God for DVD!).With that said, this video captures one of the 80s most underrated band at their best. If you've had the pleasure of catching Cheap Trick in concert, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, here's proof. Robin Zander may fall out of key here and there, but he sings with so much feeling that it simply doesn't matter. The rest of the band rocks rocks rocks! Despite the forgivable problems, fans will eat this DVD up. If you know anyone who doubt how great of a show CT puts on, show them this.
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Summary: Worthwhile purchase for fans
Review: This DVD has a few problems.... The picture quality is late 80s industrial video quality, and the stereo sound mix is only so-so. Rhino Records has updated the sound with a new optional 5.1 mix that sounds TERRIBLE! Trust me, stick with the 2 channel stereo mix on this DVD. The non-concert footage (the band touring Sidney) doesn't really do anything for the package, but thankfully it doesn't interrupt the songs and can be skipped easily (thank God for DVD!). With that said, this video captures one of the 80s most underrated band at their best. If you've had the pleasure of catching Cheap Trick in concert, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, here's proof. Robin Zander may fall out of key here and there, but he sings with so much feeling that it simply doesn't matter. The rest of the band rocks rocks rocks! Despite the forgivable problems, fans will eat this DVD up. If you know anyone who doubt how great of a show CT puts on, show them this.
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Summary: Older video suffers
Review: This is not as good as "Silver" but its still essential for Cheap Trick fans. Sound is not as clean nor is the picture as good. Production values are kept to a minimum.The band, however, gives a top notch performance going through all the hits. I don't understand Dave McCoy's comment about Cheap Trick mocking other 70's bands then becoming all that they had mocked. How did he pick up on this notion? Was he even alive at the band's conception? They've never took a position of mocking the state of rock and roll however it may have been or will become. This is tripe. Is perhaps he confusing the band with The Tubes? Which mocked everything about American life, rock and roll included. Failed writers become professional reviewers. Go figure. At the time Cheap Trick was a puppet of the record company EPIC who held ALL the cards for the band. They were forced to record "The Flame" as they had been forced to work with a never ending series of producers for their releases each one with a different "vision and sound" for the band. Listen to the crisp, sparse production of Jack Douglas's 1977 release "Cheap Trick" then compare it to Tom Werman's balless, gelded, thin sound for also 1977's "In Color" album. Talk about a 180-degree sound change. Cheap Trick never had time to "start believing the stuff they had been singing or playing" Mr. McCoy because Epic Records called all the shots, bad or good. They never got control until they signed with RED ANT Entertainment and released the superb "Cheap Trick" in 1997. Epic wouldn't even allow the entire show at Budokan to be released on the eventual "Live at Budokan" effort because some of the songs were too hard edged for their teeny bopper fans to hear. This is how Epic held back the band's natural progression. So take it easy with the harsh critiscism of the band they were barely ever allowed to do what they wanted by a big stupid corporate devil called Epic Records.
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Summary: Older video suffers
Review: This is not as good as "Silver" but its still essential for Cheap Trick fans. Sound is not as clean nor is the picture as good. Production values are kept to a minimum.The band, however, gives a top notch performance going through all the hits. I don't understand Dave McCoy's comment about Cheap Trick mocking other 70's bands then becoming all that they had mocked. How did he pick up on this notion? Was he even alive at the band's conception? They've never took a position of mocking the state of rock and roll however it may have been or will become. This is tripe. Is perhaps he confusing the band with The Tubes? Which mocked everything about American life, rock and roll included. Failed writers become professional reviewers. Go figure. At the time Cheap Trick was a puppet of the record company EPIC who held ALL the cards for the band. They were forced to record "The Flame" as they had been forced to work with a never ending series of producers for their releases each one with a different "vision and sound" for the band. Listen to the crisp, sparse production of Jack Douglas's 1977 release "Cheap Trick" then compare it to Tom Werman's balless, gelded, thin sound for also 1977's "In Color" album. Talk about a 180-degree sound change. Cheap Trick never had time to "start believing the stuff they had been singing or playing" Mr. McCoy because Epic Records called all the shots, bad or good. They never got control until they signed with RED ANT Entertainment and released the superb "Cheap Trick" in 1997. Epic wouldn't even allow the entire show at Budokan to be released on the eventual "Live at Budokan" effort because some of the songs were too hard edged for their teeny bopper fans to hear. This is how Epic held back the band's natural progression. So take it easy with the harsh critiscism of the band they were barely ever allowed to do what they wanted by a big stupid corporate devil called Epic Records.
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Summary: ANOTHER RHINO DISASTER!!
Review: WHETHER YOU ARE SEEING THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME OR THE 10th TIME,CHEAP TRICK CAN STILL ROCK.I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WOULD CALL THEM A SUPER GROUP,BUT VERY FEW BANDS HAVE HAD THE LONGEVITY AND THE SAME MEMBERS LIKE CHEAP TRICK.HAVING SAID THAT,THE CHEAP TRICK LIVE IN AUSTRALIA CONCERT DVD WAS A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT.DON'T GET ME WRONG,THE BAND'S PERFORMANCE WAS GREAT.IT'S THE AUDIO&VIDEO THAT'S THE PROBLEM HERE.WHEN THE SPOTLIGHT'S ON THEM THE VIDEO IS OK,BUT WHEN IT'S OFF IT LOOKS LIKE AN AMATEUR VIDEO.RHINO STATES THE SOUND IS IN DIGITAL 5.1 AND IT'S A COMPLETE DISAPPOINTMENT AS WELL.THE SOUND IS ANYTHING BUT CONSISTENT AND THE VOLUME LEVELS FLUCTUATE OFTEN DURING THE CONCERT PERFORMANCE.I STRUGGLED TO GIVE THIS 3 STARS BECAUSE OF THE AUDIO/VIDEO,BUT IT'S STILL NOT AS BAD AS THE CARS LIVE ALSO RELEASED BY RHINO.RHINO SHOULD LOOK & LISTEN TO TRIUMPH LIVE, STYX- RETURN TO PARADISE OR TOTO LIVE IN AMSTERDAM TO HEAR WHAT 5.1 SHOULD SOUND LIKE AND SEE WHAT A CONCERT SHOULD LOOK LIKE.
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