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Summary: good, but not 5 star good
Review: basically this dvd is very well done as a dvd, and i'm sure is top shop for any normal roger waters fan. some people have complained that snowy white and the other guitar players are simply not david gilmour. i don't think one who purchases a Roger Waters disc is looking for david gilmour given their colorful soap opera of a past. My main problem with this disk is the background singers. As we all know; these chicks work wonderfully on Dark Side of The Moon. As a matter of fact there are entire tracks based almost entirely around them on that album. HOWEVER "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was not meant to have background singers and they totally ruin the mood of the song. Given that this is one of my favorite floyd songs i am forced to drop it down to 4 stars for that alone. They are intrusive on other tracks as well that currently escape my memory but they work very well on some of the songs that previously had none, such as Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun which may actually be my favorite Floyd song, here it is actually better i think. overall the dvd is good for being a dvd and the concert is good, both as a roger waters disc and a floyd disc, the background singers can be annoying but for the most part roger runs a tight ship and it flows rather nicely. the documentary is also good for insight into roger and his band as people and as performers. But it is very short.
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Summary: What a rock concert should be
Review: This was a fantastic concert and the DVD captures all of it. Not the fancy lights we're all used to with the regular Floyd concerts but just superb music. Another plus, the place I work at, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, is featured in the documentary!
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Summary: What A Concert DVD Should Be
Review: There are so many DVD concerts out there, but few are truly done right. Too often the video is poor quality, the vocals are out of sync, or the editing is so overdone you get a headache. In The Flesh is quite the exception. The technical aspects are as good as I've seen. It is really a pleasure to watch. But what puts this Concert DVD at the top of the genre is the musical performance. It's obvious that a lot of artistic effort went into creating proper arrangements of these songs for a live show. And Waters has assembled a stellar group of muscians/singers who take his groundbreaking music to new places. If you've loved the music for decades, you'll be delighted by the freshness achieved here. FYI - my other DVD concert recommendations are: James Taylor - Live at the Beacon Theatre, Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense, Eagles - Hell Freezes Over, Music for Montserrat and John Fogerty - Premonition.
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Summary: Excelent Show
Review: I had a chance to see Roger Waters last Sunday, March 17, 2002 at the 2002 edition of the Caracas POP Festival and his show just blew me away. This DVD is almost a note by note copy of the show I saw but even though that this an excelent DVD it doen not compare to the experience of being at the actual concert.In The Flesh DVD has every tracked performed during the set and the sound quality is excelent. This is really a chalenge once you seen the show as the live set incorporates surround sound making the concert a mind blowing experience. In a way this DVD is the best next thing to being at the concert as it also incorporates 5.1 Dolby Digital sound reproducing many of the effects presented live. The DVD offers excelent picture quality as one would expect from a Roger Waters production. This makes the DVD a plus over the Audio CD as it incorporates video and additional footage. As with many DVD the extras are nice but not essencial. In fact one gets the usual documentary and photos. The real value in this release is the concert with an excellent performance by every band member.
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Summary: Excellent show and DVD!
Review: Saw the show in Johannesburg on 1 March 2002 - the best in South Africa ever! Buy this DVD today!
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Summary: Good, but not quite what I was wanting
Review: First of all, let me say that I bought this as a Pink Floyd DVD. I really like The Wall, DSOTM, WYWH, and Animals. Fifteen of the 24 songs were from those albums. The rest were from Ummagumma, The Final Cut, and Roger Waters' solo career. It was good to see and hear Waters sing my old favorites. Overall I thought this was a pretty good DVD. The video quality was good, but not great. The audio quality was superb. I enjoyed watching it and will watch it again. On the downside, I didn't like some of the renditions. Welcome to the Machine was particularly jarring. Sure, Waters was singing it, but the song sounded different. Maybe it is just the difference between live and studio, but I did not like it. Your mileage may vary. The visuals were OK, but not stunning. They mostly consisted of slides playing on a large screen behind the performers. There was not much of a stage show. Doyle Bramhall II played Gilmour's part. Although he seemed to be a fine musician and singer, he was no Gilmour. I think this was one of the hardest things for me to accept. Comfortably Numb was just not the same. Snowy White made an appearance during the guitar solo, which saved that track for me. Norbert Stachel on sax was another noteworthy player. Overall, I did enjoy this DVD and am glad I bought it. If I had a choice between this or Pulse (on DVD) or this and The Wall, I would choose the others.
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Summary: Outstanding! Took me back to the great '70's
Review: Wow! Excellent! Phenominal! The video and audio quality is great. All the great songs, performed with precision and feeling. The band is suberb, and Waters is outstanding. I've played this over and over again.
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Summary: BEST YET OF ALL DVD'S
Review: THE BEST YET MUSIC DVD...SHOULD BE A PINK FLOYD FAN...THAT I EVER HEARD. GOOD VIDEO AND SOUND. BETTER THAN BEING THERE..NO WAITING
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Summary: If you only buy one DVD this year..........
Review: I will state my case right away: This is not going to be a bad review, in fact, this DVD is the best recording I have spent money on in the last 20 years.
Let me say straight away, I am not a sycophant. I like PF, I saw them several times in the 70's. I don't own all their records, I don't possess any PF/Waters T shirts etc and I am not in their fan club. I recently bought the ITF CD however and was blown away. This CD made me realise that I had grown old! I had lost interest in music, destroyed by the pap I have been listening to for the last 20 years. At the risk of sounding like a complete prat, this CD made me feel young again. For the first time in years, I was actually excited by the music I was hearing. To use a cliche, the music actually moved me.
Because England is a third world country however, the DVD isn't available over here. However, the miracle that is the internet allowed me to buy a region 1 copy, which, naively, I thought I would be able to play using an 'adaptor' for my Playstation.
I soon discovered that a NTSC compatible TV was also required.
£350 later that same day I had my NICAM, NTSC compatible TV and a big dent in my credit card. Let me say right now that it was worth every penny! I have never been so gobsmacked by a recording of a live concert. Watching it gave me the sort of buzz absent from my life for the last 20 years. Not 'cos I am a sad git that doesn't get out, but because Roger and his band manage to create such a magic atmosphere and demonstrate the sort of musical perfection that I can only remember from my teen years of seeing live concerts of the likes of YES, Genesis, Zeppelin, Eagles etc.
This DVD has genuinely rekindled an enthusiasm for music in me that I thought I had lost. Watching these musicians in action is a sheer joy. I'll try not to bore you with the details but the playing of Doyle Bramhall II is truly inspirational. If you have never watched this man play guitar you have never lived! And believe me, you do have to watch him, his style is unique to say the least. (I have bought his entire back catalogue as a result of seeing him on this DVD, and I had never even heard of him before!). The guitar playing of Doyle is beautifully complimented by the sheer genius of Snowy White, whose (relatively) restrained style of playing provides a perfect counterpoint for Doyle's more elaborate style. Andy Low is a genius, the singers can actually sing, the drummer could give 'animal' a run for his money and everyone else is also absolutely perfect.
What makes this particular product different from the rest however, is Water's influence. This guy wrote the lyrics to begin with. Roger is the engine that powered PF for years.
I may be wrong, but Roger strikes me as the kind of man that writes with a VISION. He knows how the music he writes should sound. He knows EXACTLY how the music he writes should sound. This vision must be hard to translate in a band where everyone else has a musical opinion, and this may be why PF went their own ways. In this product however, Roger gets his way. This is how the music was meant to be heard. Roger has assembled a band of exceedingly rare talent but, they are in this case, HIS band.
The music is played as Roger intended and boy, does it show.
This is the first record (I'll call it a record but the visuals are essential)for years that not only produced a lump in my throat, but had tears streaming down my cheeks. "She stood upon Southampton Dock...".
If you can watch this DVD and not be seriously moved, you are not from the same planet as I am. Which is fairy snuff, but if you are reading this review and have got this far, you are almost certainly from the same planet as I am.
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Summary: Pink is fine and he's back on the road!
Review: This DVD is a must for all Pink Floyd and Roger Waters fans.
This is a DVD of many surprises, too.
Technical surprises: anamorphic widescreen and the best DD audio track I've ever heard. My listening experiences say DTS is fairly superior to DD when it comes to music track, well, this DD track sounds fantastic and I have no regret they didn't include a DTS track, too.
Musical surprises: the band supporting Waters makes a tremendous job - the only weak performance is of the saxophonist - as for the rest this is the real thing!! OK, Doyle Bramhall isn't Dave Gilmour, but he is Doyle Bramhall!! I mean Doyle's guitar style is different, not worse than Gilmour's. You only need a few listinings to get acquainted with Doyle's guitar, then you'll enjoy all of his solos.
The experienced Graham Broad makes a fabulous job on drums.
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