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Better off not being seen

I enjoy music DVD's and if they're well recorded, find them the most realistic form of music reproduction. That being said, I recently come across some dreadful DVD's that might be enough to sway anyone off the concept if they were the first ones they saw. My take -

Diana Krall - Live in Paris - my first exposure to her. Assumedly my last. I trust the CD's are better, or else I don't understand the attraction.

Eagles - Farewell Tour. As good as the first DVD was, this one should be called "Once more without any effort". Yes the production is excellent, but the performance is like sleepwalking, and Joe Walsh unfortunately makes a complete buffoon of himself, with Don Henley as smarmy as ever. Yuck. For absolute diehard fans ONLY.

Fleetwood Mac - The Dance - Great production, but Stevie Nicks and her one-octave, fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice makes the off button the only safe place on the remote. The quicker the better.

Any other DVD's to avoid like the plague before I invest $25?
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fatparrot
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Did anyone ever catch a clip of Grace Slick's last performance that caused The Jefferson Airplane to break up?

It was in Germany, where she baited the audience about being Nazis, and spewed other nasty assorted insults. She was so stinking drunk that she could barely stand, and her "singing" sounded like alley cats fighting...no wait...that's an insult to alley cats. The concert ended prematurely, after a riot nearly ensued.
danlib1
819 posts
 
Fatparrot- I've seen that footage...wow! I think that's when Grace realized she had a couple of issues. And let's face it, Airplane without Grace would be awful. Almost as bad as what Starship became!
xiekitchen
819 posts
 
Yes "Keys to Ascention" concert recorded somewhere in CA around mid 90's... the DVD sound quality is very good, I think, but the video "interpretation" is a very weak "artistic" effort reminnescent of a freshman's film school project. Really bad, video wise, but if you're a YES fan, like me, you'll probably still buy it.
Much better is the new 35th anniversary tour Yes DVD concert.. great sound, great performances, except of course everybody's quite a bit more "tammed" especially Steve Howe. Compare him on the "Yessongs" footage recorded around 1973 or so... MUCH more dynamic performance(but REALLY lousy sound).

Also a real letdown was Bob Marley's DVD concert recorded in CA around 1979. Poor sound and video quality, and poor Bob seems just too "lost" in his trance.

Something I'd like to recommend: The Doobie Bros. "Live at Wolftrap" I bought this on a lark with low expectations but WOW! what a show.. They've never been better, with great sidemen.
leedistad
104 posts
 
In addition, I quite like Sarah Brightman's La Luna on DVD.
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bigjoe
680 posts
 
man is grace slick cool as hell,i love thay old shot gun tote'n broad.
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