The Saw Doctors in Concert - Live in Galway

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Summary: Probably looks great during PBS Pledge Drives
Review: As delayed as their CD this is drawn from, a lackluster concert of the Saw Doctors playing at home. The sound quality in terms of mixing is horrible. Leo's guitar is next to nonexistent. All the quick cuts in terms of camera angles add up to unnecessary sweetening of a band whose stage presence needs no beefing up. Absent are the horns used on the Villains? tour, which makes for a closing nod to "Sweet Soul Music" on Hay Wrap need musical Viagra.

As for the documentary, there are no interviews with past band mates, making the DVD take on an Orwellian sense of revisionism.

And it probably seems a bit on the overemphasized side, but I doubt I'm the only person who still wishes that chubby bass playing leprechaun who doubled on tin whistle were off to the side of the stage still. The Docs without Pearse Doherty just aren't the same. We miss ya, Glackin!

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Summary: THE DOCTORS ARE IN THE HOUSE!
Review: If you only listen to a Saw Doctors studio CD, you'll hear very good music, but if you experience a LIVE Saw Doctors performance, you'll see and hear GREAT music! This DVD does it right, and boy do the Docs deliver!! A wonderful collection of songs from the opening, N-17 with Davy Carton's laughin lead vocals, to the rousing Joyce Country Ceili Band jam, to the always house-rockin Hay Wrap finale, this puts you in the house with the Doctors!!

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Summary: Davy and Leo and their back-up band
Review: The Saw Doctors are the best band to ever come out of Ireland. Unfortunately I have to agree with two points made by other reviewers. One is that the camera work is over done and becomes a distraction, and the other is the absence of Pearse, their longtime bassist.

They sound great and it is nice to have a Saw Doctors concert captured on film, I only wished they'd done it a little earlier in their careers and had someone film it, who didn't have to be so flashy with the camera work.