That IS an amazing DVD, I throw it in at LEAST once every few weeks and just.......... JAM! My other favorite is, Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been
Depeche Mode- Devotional The Cure- Trilogy Led Zepplin- Song Remians the Same and Self Titled from 2003 Pink Floyd- Pulse
Led Zeppelin - self titled The Band - The Last Waltz DMB - Central Park and Listener Supported Drive By Truckers - Live @ The 40 Watt Rage Against The Machine - self titled i believe (absolutely awesome) 311 - Enlarged To Show Detail Widespread Panic - Panic In The Streets those are some of my favorites. haven't seen Stop Making Sense, but that'll probably be my next DVD purchase.
The Last Waltz - The Band Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads Baby Snakes - Frank Zappa The Kids Are Alright - The Who I also loved the Black and White Roy Orbison thing that rimbaud mentioned. And I'm a sucker for the concert footage of Dylan and friends in Don't Look Back, Eat the Document, Renaldo and Clara, MTV Unplugged, the 30th Anniversary tribute show (dubbed "Bobfest" by Neil Young) and No Direction Home, much of which is my favorite concert footage ever. I'm looking forward to Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps and especially to the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
U2 - Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky It's the concert the video for "Sunday Bloody Sunday" was taken from. The venue and the atmosphere are what really make it. It's cold and raining, you can see everybody's breath and steam is pouring off everybody. The gas jets in the cliffs have fire shooting out all over the place; it's almost apocalyptic. The shot from the back of the stage during The Edge's solo during "SBS" where he's at the edge of the stage and the crowd's going berzerk...magnificent. Somebody (FB?) already mentioned The Who's "The Kids Are Alright" which is my favorite rockumentary.
Metallica - S&M --personally one of the greatest blends of sounds I've heard Rage Against the Machine- Battle of Mexico City
Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock (2 DVD's) The first DVD is the entire Hendrix Woodstock performance. The 2nd DVD is black and white and shot from the side of the stage. Shows a lot of what was going on while Jimi was playing. Let's just say he had everyone's attention that day. I have seen a lot of Hendrix concerts on DVD and VHS, but this one blows them all away. John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band- "Sweet Toronto" Not many Lennon solo concerts were ever filmed. This is one of them. Clapton and Friends help Lennon perform some Beatle Classics as well as some of his solo stuff (Cold Turkey is great) Of course Yoko ruins it with a 15 minute scream fest, but it's at the end of the concert. Crosby, Stills & Nash - "The Acoustic Concert" Anybody that thinks David Crosby can't sing anymore needs to watch this fantastic concert. They are all on fire this night. The sound on this DVD is the best I have heard on any DVD concert.
On the flip side the worst concert dvd is "Creed: Live at the Dumpster, 2002." Here the boys of Creed play various songs standing inside a dumpster, and they also make ocassional appearances out of the dumpster. But at all times, at least one member of the band is touching the dumpster in some manner. Check out the extras on the dvd where they make a special appearance at the trailer park off of Route US-49
www.dirty.org is their official website. Underworld doesn't come state-side much, and when they do it is either east or west coast for large festivals. I am a HUUUUUGE underworld fan, and they are second only to Nine Inch Nails in my "Top 5." www.underworldlive.com is thier tour website, but has no shows confirmed as of late.
"C*cksucker Blues" - the Rolling Stones. Yes I own a bootleg copy of it. It is not all concert footage, but there is some great footage from their 1972 US Tour in there. I love the "Last Waltz", but you guys need to read Levon Helm's autobiography "This Wheel's On Fire" and you will get a completely different perspective of the "Last Waltz". For example....the only member of the Band who wanted to break it up was Robbie Robertson. The other four members wanted to continue. Others..... 1. The Band's management overbooked the guest musicians. They had to cut one, and the one they chose to cut was Muddy Waters. Levon Helm threatened not to show up for the concert if they did that, so they cut someone else. 2. The only reason Neil Diamond appeared was because Robbie Robertson was producing the album Diamond was recording at the time. None of the other members of the band knew him, and when th eBand was at the Brill Building in the mid 1960s, Diamond was nowhere to be found. 3. Robbie Robertson can be seen throughout the movie singing his heart out during the songs, but in actuality his microphone was turned off while the Band played and only turned on in between songs so he could talk to the audience. Reason: Robertson is a great songwriter, but a very off-key singer. All fans of The Band should read this book for a new perspective on a legendary band.
RMTex, Yea, I had heard a lot of those things during "The Last Waltz". One other was that when Neil Young first performed, you could visibly see the coke residue from his nose! Robertson had to go back to Scorsese to get him to cut/alter those scenes. Supposedly, Robertson said something to the effect of "That was the most expensive coke I ever paid for." Also, I had read that there was a great concert of The Band at Woodstock but it was ruined as the band members had forgotten to deaden Robbie's microphone, thus his monotone, off-key voice can be heard loud and clear on all the songs! Thus this concert was never released on CD.
All this Robbie Robertson bashing. So what if he didn't want to play in a band anymore. John Lennon was sick of being in a band and quit the Beatles. Without Robbie Robertson there would be no The Band. He was/is a great songwriter. Get some of his solo stuff, you will be suprised. I used to like Levon Helm, awesome voice and underrated drummer, but to put out a tell all book is just selling out. Isn't Levon the one who stops the interview about women on the road during a tour by stating "I thought we weren't going to talk about this" Face it, every interview on "The Last Waltz" was rehearsed over and over until all band memebers agreed they would look "Cool" with some of the stories they told. Notice how Levon is not a part of a majority of those interviews? I find it odd that he had the balls to come out with a tell all book years later.
It's not on dvd, but the Zoo TV tour video by U2 is pretty awesome. They were at the peak of their powers. Otis Redding at the Monterrey Pop Festival was amazing, if short. Great call on Wattstax. That is so awesome. I wish I could see more footage of those great Stax bands.
