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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
track listings and bonus features, oh my!, October 23, 2003
By A Customer
This review is from: 270 Miles from Graceland - Live from Bonnaroo 2003 (DVD)
"270 Miles from Graceland - Bonnaroo 2003" Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Talkatif
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - Temporary Remedy
Warren Haynes - Beautifully Broken
The Polyphonic Spree - It's the Sun
Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon - William Powell
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Sleeper
Widespread Panic - Papa Johnny Road
Medeski Martin and Wood - Uninvisible
My Morning Jacket - Lowdown
Robert Randolph & the Family Band - I Need More Love
Jack Johnson - Mud Football Tortoise - Tin Cans & Twine
Nickel Creek - I Should've Known Better
Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather
The Roots - You Got Me
The Dead - Sugar Magnolia
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot
North Mississippi Allstars - Be So Glad
Yonder Mountain String Band - Mother's Only Son
Ben Kweller - Walk On Me
The Allman Brothers Band - Desdemona
James Brown - I Feel Good
Scratch - Freestyle Don't forget the great Bonus Footage:
-Backstage Pass with artist interviews and practice sessions
-Press Pass with artist interviews from the press tent
-Photo Gallery
-Artist Info with pictures, bios and setlists
-Portraits with a montage of unused video from the film
-Film Trailer
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mediocrity, January 9, 2004
This review is from: 270 Miles from Graceland - Live from Bonnaroo 2003 (DVD)
Oh boy, twenty-three performances! That's a feature? That's twenty-three songs from how many hundreds that were performed? And there isn't one untouched live song with the crowd heard, no slow motion, all the words matching the singer's mouth, etc. Filming creativity is fine, but give me a few moments completely live. And since the producers were too cheap to give us a decent insert with a correct order of performances or song names, I took out the second dvd thinking ooh, maybe some better songs on this one. Wrong. No songs on this one. A performance schedule, some photos, and other useless - but mildly interesting- filler. People want to see live music. A legend like Neil Young plays at Bonnaroo, and a concert movie trailer is more important? Weak! On two dvds there should be hours of performances for this kind of money.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
2nd Place among Bonnaroo DVD's, November 6, 2003
This review is from: 270 Miles from Graceland - Live from Bonnaroo 2003 (DVD)
It would be hard to match the content of last year's DVD, and this one does not do it. It contains some awesome performances: Warren Haynes, Polyphonic Spree, Flaming Lips, etc. But last year's truly documented the performances while this year's takes those performances and makes them serve as sort of a music video for the entire festival. There are songs cut short here: Yonder Montain and Robert Randoph have longer versions of their songs cut short in the interest of keeping things moving along. I will not complain about the missing performances. You always will have someone mad about one performance or the other being shafted (and moe. got the shaft this time around), but my complaint is that the DVD is more about cool looking images during songs and not about the actual performances. I thought it was very well made. It had some good backstage stuff with the Dead and Ben Harper. And the segue from Nickel Creek to Sonic Youth was pretty cool. One last thing. When they actually do talk to people in the campgrounds, think about this. There are 80,000 people there, but they use the same fat guy in two different segments. Was there NO ONE ELSE to talk to?
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