Well it looks years our years of waiting have paid off. Pink Floyd's Pulse is set for Jan. 17th in Canada. It was set for early Dec. but got pushed back again. You can see the details at braindamage.com and they even have a preorder up. I haven't looked this forward to a concert DVD since I heard of the latest Led Zep DVD. If it's as good as the Zep DVD were in for a treat.:cool:

A friend of mine has the VHS version of Pulse, and he said it was fantastic then (that must have been 10 years ago now). I'm looking forward to this one!

The selection of concert DVDs is definitely skewed toward the most mainstream and popular. It just isn't the same as movies and television shows where the selection is much, much wider.

Anywho, I have to agree on the Stop Making Sense Talking Heads DVD.

The last song - a case of you on the Diana Krall Live in Paris DVD is quite something.

Steely Dan's two against nature has a rather healthy DTS soundtrack, and althouth the sound quality varies drastically from artist to artist on the DVD The best of Sessions at West 54th Vol 1, it is an interesting disc.

Rob

About a week ago I picked up the very affordable ($15.99) Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl DVD and I watched a good part of it last night. The concert was part of Queen's 1982 "Hot Space" tour and is chock full of their hits. It looked good (especially for an older concert), sounded great and I (a moderate Queen fan) found it to be quite enjoyable.

This review (http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=5516), by an obviously more avid fan, provides an enthusiastic description of the show. It also describes thoroughly the technical aspects (audio and video) relating to the concert and its transfer to DVD, and it discusses some of the bonus materials.

A couple of days ago, I received my copy of T-Rex: Born To Boogie from deepdiscountdvd (a steal at $13.15 USD).

I haven't watched the feature yet, but it also comes with 2 complete concerts (early and late shows, same date). So far I've only had time to sample about 40 mins of the early show.

The video quality is pretty good, it's been matted for WS, and the audio sounds just fine, considering that it was recorded in 1972.

I really enjoyed Elton John's Dream Ticket (my favorite as Disc 3: EPHESUS - THE GREAT AMPITHEATRE) and the new Live 8 discs.

Speaking of Pink Floyd, their Live 8 set was unbelieveable and it includes some rehersal footage of them as well. Well worth it for fans of Floyd.

Speaking of Pink Floyd, their Live 8 set was unbelieveable and it includes some rehersal footage of them as well. Well worth it for fans of Floyd.

There was precious little of them in the original broadcast. I Tivo'd all 17 hours (lots of fast forwarding) and the Pink Floyd set was the main thing I was interested in. I was very disappointed that they only showed a couple of songs. Great songs they were, though! I assume there is more of their performance on the DVD as well?

Speaking of Pink Floyd, their Live 8 set was unbelieveable and it includes some rehersal footage of them as well. Well worth it for fans of Floyd.

I ordered my copy of Live 8 two weeks ago from Future Shop, but it was out of stock. I have received confirmation that it has been shipped, and I hope it comes today, as I have the rest of the week off to "play" with it. The main reason for purchasing it, was because of the Pink Floyd performances. Oh, and it will make a nice companion to my Live Aid DVD set too. :-)

Another moment in musical history...

Rush R30. Awesome sound with a really good transfer from Hi-Def. A must for any Rush fan.

The main reason for purchasing it, was because of the Pink Floyd performances. Oh, and it will make a nice companion to my Live Aid DVD set too. :-)

Another moment in musical history...

Well, the DTS rocks on most of it, but I rate the video quality and editing as poor. In fact, no better than the Live Aid DVD (transferred from a 20 year-old recording), which was never planned to be released by Bob - ever. The movement as the camera panned over the crowds was difficuly to watch. While the Live 8 DVD may have been planned, it looks like it was tossed together without any consideration for quality.

I wouldn't say that I am disappointed with my purchase (it is an integral part of my DVD library), but I think that there was more room for improved video production.

Having said all of this, it was worth the $30 just to see Pink Floyd work their magic - definitely the highlight for me.

Rush R30. Awesome sound with a really good transfer from Hi-Def. A must for any Rush fan.

How does the audio compare to Rush in Rio - which I found to have overly strong bass levels?

Easy,
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How does the audio compare to Rush in Rio - which I found to have overly strong bass levels?
As well as ridiculous crowd noise level? R30 kills R.I.R. for sound and video quality.

Based on Liquid's comments and a bit of subsequent research, I picked up a copy of R30 at Music World for only $19.99 - which is approx. $7 less than at either F.S. or B.B.!

I watched about half of the concert earlier tonight and, wow, what a show! Great 16x9 anamorphic video, phenomenal DD5.1 audio, some cool camera angles (especially the drum-kit overhead cam) and a good selection of songs - including Xanadu, one of my top-five Rush favourites, as well as enough familiar ones to please even a casual Rush fan. It's also great to see a band having so much fun playing together on stage.

I'm going to be recommending this DVD to people...

Sadly, more often than not, camera shots last about three seconds before cutting to another, then another, then the crowd, and so on.

Man did you ever hit the nail on the head.

You'd think that a DVD would always be better than a CD, since you've got the visuals as well. But damn, is that ever wrong.

Case in point: Paul McCartney and Wings' DVD called, um, well can't remember, but it was unwatchable. Cuts were about every .5 to 3 secs, but worse than that was -- and I'm not kidding -- visual effects for 100% of the film. That's right, there was (from my memory), not a single frame that did NOT have an effect like solarize, pixellate, superimposed images, B&W, sepia... it was like some kid going through the demo mode of his new camcorder's FX menu.

Anyhoo, my vote is for RUSH'S RUSH IN RIO. Sound is perfect, PQ is good (not great -- not too sure why), and shots are acceptably long.

As an aside, someone had mentioned Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and it reminded me how I used to see them around my town of St-Sauveur, QC, which was right next to Morin Heights, where they lived. I remember seeing the family matriarch Gabby (mum to K & A) zooming around the Laurentions in this great old convertible... FYI, I think that Neil Peart still lives in MH.

Neil used to live in St Catharines nut now lives in Indiana,

Peter Gabriel, Secret World Live. Of course the video isn't great.

The recent Growing Up Live, and Still Growing Up Live and Unwrapped are improvements, but the performance on Secret World Live just seems to be a little more special.

I watched about half of the concert earlier tonight and, wow, what a show! Great 16x9 anamorphic video, phenomenal DD5.1 audio, some cool camera angles (especially the drum-kit overhead cam) and a good selection of songs - including Xanadu, one of my top-five Rush favourites, as well as enough familiar ones to please even a casual Rush fan. It's also great to see a band having so much fun playing together on stage.

I'm going to be recommending this DVD to people...

I 've watched this DVD set over the last few days. All I can say is WOW.
Once again these guys prove that they were never a flash in the pan type of band. Watching disc 2 and seeiing the video clip of "A Farewell to Kings" brought back many memories (what a blast)
Also for any fans I was wondering if anyone remembers the band performing the whole Hemespheres album on (Metro Media) in the 70's. I believe that is where most of the clips that were in the Vault came from.

Not a DVD, that I know of, but just caught the last half hour on NBC of Elton John in Vegas
Could not believe all the quick camera shots, quick editing. Shots range in time from 1 to 3 second. The faster the song the quicker the scene change. I find this very irritating. I find it hard on the eyes as the different colour and brightness levels change so fast. It is also known to trigger epileptic fits in people who suffer from the disorder. They must have an 18 year old high school intern doing the editing or a monkey. If it comes out in DVD I won't buy it. Felt like doing what Elvis did, pull out a gun and shoot the TV and put it out of it's misery. Also 1 song than to commercial, another song and another commercial. The commercials were as long as the songs. Elton did Saturday Night Is All Right For Fighting and counted at least 150 scene changes, maybe more as I lost count a few times, couldn't keep up. Elton John fans are not teenagers so why they do it I will never know.