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Summary: String Cheese Incident Rocks
Review: A great film. Great soundtrack and they did a great job capturing the events and emotions behind the music and the family. It brought me to joyful tears twice. Better than Phish's Bittersweet Motel. A true Incident!
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Summary: String Cheese Incident Rocks
Review: A great film. Great soundtrack and they did a great job capturing the events and emotions behind the music and the family. It brought me to joyful tears twice. Better than Phish's Bittersweet Motel. A true Incident!
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Summary: This is a documentary, not a concert video!
Review: Beware. I bought this thinking it was the New Year's Eve 2000-2001 Incident. It's not. It's more a bio-documentary about the SCI scene, which sadly has grown from an intimate, close-knit group in the mid-90s to the overwhelming, arena-filling remoteness that popularity brings. I saw the band a few years back at the Belly-Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA, and stood right up front. I'd seen them a few days earlier in Tucson, and had the same experience at the Rialto Theatre. Since then, Phish's disappearance from the scene has fueled SCI's popularity -- rightly so, because SCI is a better band than Phish. But I was around for much of the Dead's run, and I remember how things began to fall apart in the late '80s after the Toucheads came along, and seeing the Dead was THE thing to do. I'm afraid String Cheese is going to go the route of the Dead. There ARE similarities: mediocre studio albums (not counting Workingman's Dead and American Beauty) but awesome live shows. For me, I'm backing away from the String Cheese scene and going with the Disco Biscuits, a killer band from Philly that jamband fans should check out. You can still see THEM in small venues -- for the next year or two. I have no doubt that they, too, will someday hit the "big time." What a shame... "Evolution" is a good documentary (much better than that lame Phish one!), but it's only going to help spread the word and lower the quality of the scene at future Incidents...
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Summary: This band is seriously overrated and so is this dvd.
Review: For the love of all that is holy, when are people going to realize that SCI is a mediocre bar band at best, featuring warmed over jams that rip off all of the more accomplished and more talented "jam" bands out there? I had the misfortune of sitting through this sad excuse for a documentary/concert film at a friend's house and it is an evening I have lost forever. Do yourself a favor and don't buy, much less see, this dvd. Instead, save your money to invest in some cd's or dvd's of the dozens and dozens of much better bands out there, or better yet, go and see some real live music at your favorite local venue. I guarantee whichever band you happen to see will blow the pants of these shoeless wonders.
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Summary: This band is seriously overrated and so is this dvd.
Review: For the love of all that is holy, when are people going to realize that SCI is a mediocre bar band at best, featuring warmed over jams that rip off all of the more accomplished and more talented "jam" bands out there? I had the misfortune of sitting through this sad excuse for a documentary/concert film at a friend's house and it is an evening I have lost forever. Do yourself a favor and don't buy, much less see, this dvd. Instead, save your money to invest in some cd's or dvd's of the dozens and dozens of much better bands out there, or better yet, go and see some real live music at your favorite local venue. I guarantee whichever band you happen to see will blow the pants of these shoeless wonders.
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Summary: Ignore those sour-pusses, this is a good DVD
Review: I can't believe all the whiners that gave this one star. I've had this DVD for years and have seen it numerous times and still enjoy it every time I see it. I'm a Dead-vet with more than 60 shows under my belt, and say without hesitation that SCI brings it on a nightly basis better than the Dead did for the last 15 years of Jerry's life. I realize this is blasphemy in many people's book, but we're all entitled to our own opinion. I've seen SCI more than 10 times over the past 7 years and I think they're still getting better. The past couple years have been incredible! So ignore those that say that they're past they're peak and go see them the next chance you get. Until, enjoy the history and quality music on this disc! Seeing Keller Williams play "Kidney in a Cooler" is worth the price alone.
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Summary: This band is seriously overrated and so is this dvd.
Review: I tried really hard to understand this DVD, and why everyone likes it so much, but I just can't get it. And mind you, I'm a huge fan of the band, seen them four times. But this disc is really just a joke. The performance filmed (the 2000 New Year's show) wasn't even one of the band's best nights, for starters. Then you get partial songs (not even the best of the night), interrupted rudely by really worthless comments from the band members, with each band member basically re-wording the same ideas multiple times throughout the video. The live footage is far from brilliant either. Granted, I'm sure the band didn't have a U2-sized budget to film it, but it's visually among the weakest live concert DVD footage I've ever seen. If you're expecting any kind of "at home" String Cheese live experience, you're probably going to be disappointed. Continual disruptions in the music, poor editing of song lengths, bad visual effects, and some questionable song choices to begin with (Howard and Turn This Around, but no Rivertrance? Come on) make this almost unwatchable. Obviously the band got a little big-headed and opted to make a self-fufilling "documentary" instead of just releasing an uncut show on their first DVD. Save your money, go see a real SCI show, and hope that the band learns their lesson and a better DVD follows soon.
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Summary: a huge letdown
Review: I tried really hard to understand this DVD, and why everyone likes it so much, but I just can't get it. And mind you, I'm a huge fan of the band, seen them four times. But this disc is really just a joke. The performance filmed (the 2000 New Year's show) wasn't even one of the band's best nights, for starters. Then you get partial songs (not even the best of the night), interrupted rudely by really worthless comments from the band members, with each band member basically re-wording the same ideas multiple times throughout the video. The live footage is far from brilliant either. Granted, I'm sure the band didn't have a U2-sized budget to film it, but it's visually among the weakest live concert DVD footage I've ever seen. If you're expecting any kind of "at home" String Cheese live experience, you're probably going to be disappointed. Continual disruptions in the music, poor editing of song lengths, bad visual effects, and some questionable song choices to begin with (Howard and Turn This Around, but no Rivertrance? Come on) make this almost unwatchable. Obviously the band got a little big-headed and opted to make a self-fufilling "documentary" instead of just releasing an uncut show on their first DVD. Save your money, go see a real SCI show, and hope that the band learns their lesson and a better DVD follows soon.
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Summary: Incedental review
Review: If you ever saw them live you need to get this dvd .If you haven't you need to get this dvd. Good sound quality . Great visuals. Lots of raw energy captured on film to make you wish you were there.This one will not collect dust on your shelf.
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Summary: they rip every other band off
Review: Take the dead, phish, and old and in the way, throw in a nice light show and what do you get? string cheese, what a rip off, they copy everyone out there.Mr. Kang has an awful lot of talent but thats it, this dvd is aweful, they do covers of covers other bands have already done, they were good in earlier days, and should have stuck to blue grass, oh wait thats been done too.
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