Customer Reviews

Across From Midnight

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This is an extremely well produced DVD, the audio and video are stunning. Although it is not 5.1 I found the stereo so good that I could not ask for more. A fantastic selection of songs delivered by one of the best vocalists in the business, add a great band and stage setting and you have a winner. In fact it is on par with Hell Freezes Over and Fleetwood Mac's The Dance, which are both excellent, this is some achievment considering this was a live concert performed in Germany and not on a studio soundstage. Highly recommended.

I don't know about all the techical mumbo-jumbo. I only know when I play this DVD through my big TV and big sound system it kicks. Joe Cocker is awesome and this DVD made me feel like I was at the concert. The production is fabulous... probably 7-8 cameras involved in the shooting and you had to look hard to see any of the production crew during the video. Maybe I'm easy to impress but this was great.

Excellent concert. Joe has mellowed alot from his earlier days....his stage presence and delivery is not as wild as it used to be.

Video is excellent, great close ups and the lighting is very good. Joe "sweats" to his oldies. Puts his heart and soul into the tunes. The band and back-up singers are fabulous. You'll recognize every song. The sound is wonderful.

It is a concert dvd I would watch over and over again. I'm not a HUGE Joe Cocker fan, so that should speak volumes.

If you're looking for lots of action during the concert......you'll be disappointed, if you're okay with the singer standing in front of a mike and belting out their hits with their heart and soul, you'll love this dvd. The setting of this concert arena is very pleasing.

I felt like I was taking a chance on buying this disk. Guess I was, but immediately knew it was better than I expected. This guy looks like he might have just walked off a trawler or come up from a coal mine. But what a song-myster he is!!!... The different arrangements on a couple of the tunes were also very good.
This DVD is a KEEPER.

I noticed the drummer is the same guy that played on the Tina Turner Amsterdam show.

But I have many concert DVDs and this one is one of the top 12.Excellent production quality, great musicians, great outdoor setting. I buy many DVDs and I watch them and if they are not worth watching again I get rid of them. This one is an inspirational view!

The older I get the more I enjoy watching concerts on DVD. This Cocker concert is filmed well and the audio is outstanding. Even if you are only a marginal Joe Cocker fan you will be impressed. If you a huge Joe Cocker fan you will find that this DVD gets better every time you watch it!

This is an unspectacular but solid 1997 concert by the gravel-voiced old-time rock/blues man Joe Cocker, still rocking after all these years although he's subdued from his Woodstock-era days. He just isn't animated and fun to watch as he was back then. His spastic gyrations used to be a part of his appeal.

Now, Joe just stands there and croons away like so many other performers. The good news is that he is surrounded by a solid band and a couple of animated female singers. The instrumental parts in Cocker's songs now give it the vital energy he used to have. His songs are still very listenable, from his "Mad Dogs and Englishman" days to the present.

Give him credit: he's still introducing new material, unlike a lot of other '60s performers. One of them: "Into The Mystic"" is a very nice piece.

The capacity crowd is with him all the way and helps generate a little excitement, too.

Stupendous account of all Cocker's greatest hits, plus some miscellaneous tracks that Cocker management hoped wlould launch a second cemback for the Sheffield-born "monster voice" who brought down the house at Woodstock way back when, but in recent years he's been more of a Heritage Rock act, that is, if people remember him at all. Even John Belushi's imitation of him has lost some of its punch for we aren't accustomed to seeing the two-ton powerhouse flail spastically, his head bobbing up and down towards the skies, then back to the footlights, on our stages on a regular basis. Be that as it may, Cocker's comeback didn't really take. "Across From Midnight" is a sturdy enough tune but it won't set young hearts afire--middle aged ones either, and I don't think you'll harm yourself by skipping forward this one on the DVD.

The amazing this is the power this man generates at age 55. Mehtinks he'll be going this way at age 80, astonishing when we thought he would never live till he his 30th birthday. He seemed like one of those mutant freaks like Rondo Hatton born to have an early disabling death. And here he is still going strong when seemingly healhier specimens have long retired or even gone to their graves to push up the daisies.

I always thought putting Joe Cocker in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA would be a good idea.

He has the angelic beast sounds that you need for a good rousing rendition of MUSIC OF THE NIGHT.

Here he moans his way through CRY ME A RIVER with much of the power of the old days, and puts Leon Russell in the shade with his majestic, tormented DELTA LADY, which he might try reviving now for Katrina Relief, I think it would go down a storm. I saw him in 2002 and he had sensibly enough dropped the failed "Across from Midnight" from his set list and was once agaion concentrating on the old tried and trues like THE LETTER, UP WHERE WE BELONG, SUMMER IN THE CITY and of course, WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS. More power to him and long may he gargle!

FOUND THIS DVD TO BE A GREAT VIEW. SAW JOE AT CHINOOK WINDS CASINO -LINCOLN CITY,OR 3/4/05 AND HE WAS STILL AS GREAT AS EVER IN PERFORMING.

For the avid cocker fan....... This is excellent Joe cocker. It may not be 5.1 but it is super. Highly recommened. Songs could not be of better choice. Buy It now.