Foreigner Story: Feels Like the Very First Time

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Summary: An Essential Part Of Any Foreigner Video Collection!
Review: If you're a Foreigner fan, especially one who admires their early work & original lineups, this DVD reissue of the original 1991 video is an essential part of any Foreigner collection. It's more a "Behind The Music" style documentary than a concert video, but much of the concert video is vintage late 70's footage of the original lineup that can't be found anywhere else. This footage provides some seldom seen treats, such as getting to watch singer Lou Gramm & original drummer Dennis Elliott performing their late 70's trademark dual drum-solo...something they stopped doing in the 80's. The interview's include discussions with members no longer in the band, as well as with founder Mick Jones & singer Lou Gramm, and provide a great deal of history & information not covered anywhere else. Foreigner was never a band to do lots of interviews or engage in self-promotion, preferring to let their music "do the talking" instead. As a result however, many of the millions of listeners who enjoyed & bought their music over the years know very little about the band itself...surprising for a group that's sold over 40 million albums in the U.S. alone. This DVD provides a very rare glimpse of the individuals behind those major-selling albums & hard-rocking hits, as well as comments from their former manager, Billy Joel & others. Concert footage covers most of their best known songs, including Feels Like The First Time, Cold As Ice, Hot Blooded, Double Vision, Juke Box Hero & Urgent (filmed at the time each respective song was new, and performed by the same members who recorded the original studio version), as well as featuring the complete video of I Want To Know What Love Is.

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Summary: An Essential Part Of Any Foreigner Video Collection!
Review: If you're a Foreigner fan, especially one who admires their early work & original lineups, this DVD reissue of the original 1991 video is an essential part of any Foreigner collection. It's more a "Behind The Music" style documentary than a concert video, but much of the concert video is vintage late 70's footage of the original lineup that can't be found anywhere else. This footage provides some seldom seen treats, such as getting to watch singer Lou Gramm & original drummer Dennis Elliott performing their late 70's trademark dual drum-solo...something they stopped doing in the 80's. The interview's include discussions with members no longer in the band, as well as with founder Mick Jones & singer Lou Gramm, and provide a great deal of history & information not covered anywhere else. Foreigner was never a band to do lots of interviews or engage in self-promotion, preferring to let their music "do the talking" instead. As a result however, many of the millions of listeners who enjoyed & bought their music over the years know very little about the band itself...surprising for a group that's sold over 40 million albums in the U.S. alone. This DVD provides a very rare glimpse of the individuals behind those major-selling albums & hard-rocking hits, as well as comments from their former manager, Billy Joel & others. Concert footage covers most of their best known songs, including Feels Like The First Time, Cold As Ice, Hot Blooded, Double Vision, Juke Box Hero & Urgent (filmed at the time each respective song was new, and performed by the same members who recorded the original studio version), as well as featuring the complete video of I Want To Know What Love Is.

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Summary: Dynamite!!!
Review: Man, this is Excellent!!!!!! I love the way this footage was put together. Not a lot of fancy camera-work, just shot real straight-forward. Great interviews and stills, too, with ALL the earlier band members. Lou gets more talk and camera time, too. Lou is simply incredible, and Mick's guitar work is at its finest here!!! All the performances here just shine. Get this, folks, you will NOT be disappointed.

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Summary: GREAT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE BAND!!!
Review: OK, IF YOU OWN THE FOREIGNER'S FLTFT VHS...THE DVD VERSION IS WELL WORTH THE WAIT!! IT'S GREAT LOOK AT BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE BAND...GREAT INTERVIEWS WITH NOT ONLY LOU GRAMM AND MICK JONES, BUT WITH FORMER MEMBERS SUCH AS IAN MCDONALD,AL GREENWOOD, ED GAGLIARDI, DENNIS ELLIOT AND RICK WILLS. ALSO SPECIAL GUEST COMMENTARY FROM BILLY JOEL!! OH, IT ALSO HAS EXCELLANT CONCERT FOOTAGE!! :D

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Summary: Don't waste your money...
Review: on this trash!!! This is one of the worst, if not the worst, music DVD's I have ever seen. The sound is horrible (sounds like an AM radio in mono) and most of the footage is grainy and unclear. And they waste movie time by interviewing people like Bud Prager, who is a FORMER manager who was FIRED for stealing money from the band!!!!! Nice, huh? Plus, they are charging $30 for the darn thing!!! I wouldn't pay $3!!!
Don't waste your money...
If you are into Foreigner and are looking for a good DVD, try Foreigner "25 All Access Tonight (my favorite) or Foreigner "Live at Deer Creek". Both are worth the less than $20 that you will spend on them.

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Summary: Don't waste your money!!!
Review: Overpriced and underdone!!! This movie was poorly transfered from VHS and it shows... And how do they feel they have the right to charge $30 for this movie?!? The concert footage is weak and was poorly shot and the movie has awful sound. And they interview the wrong people like Bud Prager... who wants to here from a former manager who robbed the band of millions of dollars?!? I don't...
Really, unless you need a new expensive "coaster", don't buy this disc!!! I have heard better sound from an AM radio in the woods. One of the worst music DVDs I have ever seen... I turned it off half way through. Anyone who is interested in a Foreigner DVD should check out "Foreigner: 25 All Access Tonight" or "Live At Deer Creek". Both are worlds above this trash...

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Summary: Essential Selection For Any Foreigner Video Collection
Review: This DVD reissue/re-release of the 1991 video comes as a welcome breath of fresh air especially in light of the recent release of the "Live From Deer Creek" and "25th Anniversary All-Access" DVDs. It's not a concert video but rather a tribute/"get-to-know" documentary of the original band member line-up that produced ALL the famous Foreigner hits (not the current nostalgia/Vegas lounge act touring as Foreigner in recent years). My only complaint about this video documentary is that there wasn't more of it !

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Summary: Save your money
Review: Unless you are the biggest Foreigner fan alive this DVD is a total waste of money and your time. The video quality is poor even for late 70's early 80's standards and the audio on some of the songs sounds like it is from an AM radio. I have heard better sound on some bootleg VHS tapes. I do really like Foreigner and saw them twice in the early 80's but Lou Gramm didn't hit any of the high notes in either show that I saw and he is even worse on most of the songs here. I have close to 100 music concert DVD's and this one is as poor as they come.