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Summary: The Best Who Video
Review: If you want to watch the Who performing, this is the video to have. The Tanglewood Music Shed performance is SUPERB!!!, then the Isle Of Wight, Holland 1972, the Charlton concert 1974 is AWESOME !!!, the excerpt from the unrealesed movie "Who Are You" is very interesting, The Chicago Ampiteather concert in 1979 is excellent. A MUST-HAVE for WHO FANS and ROCK fans. The greatest live band ever, and here's their testimony. Nice interviews between set of songs too. PERFECT compilation of WHO live history.Nancy from CA, don't be so funny please. One Star 'cos you couldn't watch the video 'cos they sold it to you in bad shape??? what's that please. Such was the need to type a review? Don't Do It if you couldn't see it. Plain and simple.
We don't care your stupid story. Watch the video and then talk :-)
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Summary: DVD Fun, Box Mislabled
Review: Liked the DVD, the concert footage was fun, but the "8 page booklet" and liner notes are no where to be found, too bad.
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Summary: An absolute must for the hardcore Who fan!
Review: Of all the Mod groups to come out of England in the '60s all with their legends, such as The Yardbirds, The Kinks, & The Rolling Stones, the most notorious of all of those groups were The Who. This video documents the truth of what The Who were and also their fans as attested By Pete Townshend himself as "...scruffy, ugly, noisy, horrible, loud, inconsiderate bunch of a@*holes". I am proud to be described as one of the aforementioned! The performances captured on film or video really gives you an onstage look at The Who. Particularly of note was the 1967 performance of "So Sad About Us" at the Marquee Club. You kind of wish you can see a group playing against a wall of Marshall Amp stacks with a crazed maniac behind a double bass drum kit in as small a club today playing with that same intensuty, sheer volume, and passion. It's amazing to see the caterpilar-like pop art band smashing all their gear to bits metamorphisising and maturing into the Monarch Butterfly of one of if not the greatest rock and roll band to hit the stage of all time. I'm personally partial to the Moon era Who but it is interesting to see how they kept on and keep on going even into the new Millenium. Step aside Jeff Stein and your "The Kids Are Alright 'Documentary'". 30 Years of Maximum R&B in its video & CD form is an absolute must in any Who fan's library.
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Summary: An absolute must for the hardcore Who fan!
Review: Of all the Mod groups to come out of England in the '60s all with their legends, such as The Yardbirds, The Kinks, & The Rolling Stones, the most notorious of all of those groups were The Who. This video documents the truth of what The Who were and also their fans as attested By Pete Townshend himself as "...scruffy, ugly, noisy, horrible, loud, inconsiderate bunch of a@*holes". I am proud to be described as one of the aforementioned! The performances captured on film or video really gives you an onstage look at The Who. Particularly of note was the 1967 performance of "So Sad About Us" at the Marquee Club. You kind of wish you can see a group playing against a wall of Marshall Amp stacks with a crazed maniac behind a double bass drum kit in as small a club today playing with that same intensuty, sheer volume, and passion. It's amazing to see the caterpilar-like pop art band smashing all their gear to bits metamorphisising and maturing into the Monarch Butterfly of one of if not the greatest rock and roll band to hit the stage of all time. I'm personally partial to the Moon era Who but it is interesting to see how they kept on and keep on going even into the new Millenium. Step aside Jeff Stein and your "The Kids Are Alright 'Documentary'". 30 Years of Maximum R&B in its video & CD form is an absolute must in any Who fan's library.
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Summary: Got the video ...need the DVD
Review: One of the best concert anthologies ever produced. More in-depth material than The Kids Are Alright. Shows often overlooked eras of the bands existence, including the forgetable Kenney Jones years and the 25th Anniversary Tommy tour (I was at the Giants Stadium show). Its a must own for any serious Who fan.
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Summary: Dolby It's Not
Review: The 60's sound and video was marginal. The 70's era sound was a little better especially '79, the "My Wife" number had a good video and audio quality especially Pete's sound. The 80's sound especially the guitar was lost in the production.
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Summary: Dolby It's Not
Review: The 60's sound and video was marginal. The 70's era sound was a little better especially '79, the "My Wife" number had a good video and audio quality especially Pete's sound. The 80's sound especially the guitar was lost in the production.
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Summary: More-More-More
Review: The only problem with this filmed collection of live performances is it doesn't go on forever. Especially mesmerizing are the Charleton mid-seventies show and the Shea Stadium show in 1982. Both very important periods for the band, beautifully filmed, yet not released as solo packages to the audience yet. The 70s show is post-TOMMY, post-Daltrey's influential hair and attire, setting the trend for all the other rock groups and singers of the decade, and pre-Moon's sad departure. The Shea Stadium show is when the band thought they'd really be gone from live performances forever, and the style changes from their seventies look is visually striking. The only problem with interlinking the segments are the portions which appear oddly dated - and you have to remind yourself the collection was put together in the mid-nineties and band relationships - as ever with Daltrey and Townshend - are in perpetual motion. There are several stinging, sarcastic pure-Townshend moments that come off as insulting and insensitive to his fellow WHO bandmembers. People who are only casual fans of the band - not knowing the history - may be put off by Townshend's ascerbic attempt at wit. On the whole, it is frustrating realizing how much rehearsal and live concert footage must be available and yet the public doesn't yet have access to it. It's obvious the bandmembers were consumed by their own legacy even while they were creating it, making the individuals and the band itself, really the most provocative in the history of rock.
Rating:
Summary: More-More-More
Review: The only problem with this filmed collection of live performances is it doesn't go on forever. Especially mesmerizing are the Charleton mid-seventies show and the Shea Stadium show in 1982. Both very important periods for the band, beautifully filmed, yet not released as solo packages to the audience yet. The 70s show is post-TOMMY, post-Daltrey's influential hair and attire, setting the trend for all the other rock groups and singers of the decade, and pre-Moon's sad departure. The Shea Stadium show is when the band thought they'd really be gone from live performances forever, and the style changes from their seventies look is visually striking. The only problem with interlinking the segments are the portions which appear oddly dated - and you have to remind yourself the collection was put together in the mid-nineties and band relationships - as ever with Daltrey and Townshend - are in perpetual motion. There are several stinging, sarcastic pure-Townshend moments that come off as insulting and insensitive to his fellow WHO bandmembers. People who are only casual fans of the band - not knowing the history - may be put off by Townshend's ascerbic attempt at wit. On the whole, it is frustrating realizing how much rehearsal and live concert footage must be available and yet the public doesn't yet have access to it. It's obvious the bandmembers were consumed by their own legacy even while they were creating it, making the individuals and the band itself, really the most provocative in the history of rock.
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Summary: THE WHO LIVE !!!
Review: This DVD was fantastic, a great trip throu THE WHO'S great carer.
There is yust some bad things I have to say, I think there shuld have been more WHO with Keith Moon and not so much without him, becaus the real WHO was with Moon I think and thats what I whant to see. And when you see all this great shows you will understand ther must be very much stuff unrelised, so why in Haven and hell dont they give out more of this great stuff????
I whant more WHO so I realy hope they will relise much more WHO DVDs wery soon.
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