Product Details

• Format: Import, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Zyx Records
• DVD Release Date: September 5, 2006
• Run Time: 58 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ELL75W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,328 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low Tech DVD, February 22, 2007

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trombone (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Sweat and Tears: Live in Halifax (DVD)

I've just had a look through this, and find it to be a very sub standard DVD which I have paid a premium DVD price for. I would guess it has been transferred to DVD from film or video.
The problem is that this has been done with very low tech gear. The picture is not great and out of synch with the sound the whole way through. Even the opening TKO logos at the start are amateurish. What is most distressing is the poor sound quality, which includes a lot of hum and other background noises.

If the original recording had been remastered and transferred to DVD with more high tech gear, the picture would be slightly better and in synch with the sound but more importantly, as it is a music DVD, the sound would have been cleaned up considerably, possibly remixed (depending on what the original source was), and virtually all background noise eliminated. Two of the tunes are only half the usual lenght.

I totally agree with Brian Gallaghers comments. My DVD has a folded sheet in the front which states this concert was in April 1980. Band consisting of: David Clayton-Thomas (vocals) Richard Martinez (keyboards) David Piltch (bass) Earl Seymour (saxs & flute) Bobby Economou (Drums) Vernon Dorge (saxs & flute) Bruce Cassidy (trumpet & flugelhorn) Robert Piltch (guitar)

This is a DVD I'd watch once out of interest because I'm a BS&T fan, but not repeated listenings because it is just not near good enough.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I can rate this item, January 15, 2007

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Brian Gallagher "GP5000" (MA,USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Sweat and Tears: Live in Halifax (DVD)

Being a big fan of the band I was hoping for better. In this day and age I was hoping for better. Good list of songs but video is lacking. Sound is not bad but its not good either. No idea who is in the band now because its not listed. Seems like a home movie that was made with 2 camera men. Focus is on whoever is lighted by the light show crew. Last song is not complete.
If your a die hard fan this won't help, if your not you probally not reading this anyways.
Lets hope for better in the future.
You would be better off throwing in a CD and enjoying the band.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why did they let this one out?, March 9, 2011

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Tuesday Dogg - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Sweat and Tears: Live in Halifax (DVD)

Some time in the last few years I had the luck to run across a recording of Blood, Sweat & Tears archived by the people at Wolfgang's vault. This was only an audio recording, but wow !!! I had completely let Blood Sweat & Tears become a resident of my past music pleasures. It was so impressive that this group re-won my respect and had me running to find the original studio recordings which I had previously enjoyed.
So when I discovered that there was a dvd recording available of the group live in concert I thought that I would be in for a treat. Not so! And as a broadcast engineer I have to wonder why such a group of professionals would let such a poor example of audio and video recording to be published as a representation of their work. Frankly, there is not much to be happy with here.
The sound is reminiscent of early internet audio with an equal amount of distortion. The equalization suggests something that was recorded second-hand from a transister radio cerca the AM 9-volt radio days. And then there is the on-stage audio itself, monaural, full of missed cues and mind-numbing bad wiring buzzes. The quality is just not very great. Even the lead singer talking sinks into hums as if he was recorded by a microphone embedded in the camera in the audience... And we haven't even gotten to the video.
Fortunately, the video could be worse, but it's certainly not great. The lights have not been adjusted to compensate for video cameras as they usually would be done in such a scenario so that one is left at moments peering into a low-resolution cave in which the artists are just barely visible. In documentary style (which this is, nothing fabulous,) the cameraman did manage to faithfully follow most of the action to keep the important parts of the performance in view. E.g., this is in all a recording that does not live up the quality of the artists involved.
For fanatics, there are some nice musical jams but these don't start until way into the performance (about 40 minutes into ti!) They are the only reason perhaps why you might enjoy this work. And yes, these are examples of the amazing jams that wowed me in Wolfgang's free Blood, Sweat & Tears recordings. They prove why this group should not be dismissed as a flash from the past.
I wish I had been there to do this. Such a band deserves much better, and such a band should have had more respect for their own work and refused the release of this content toward general distribution.
I don't know if there is anything else available by this band in video, but I certainly hope so. They are worthy of a much higher treatment. If you really like this group, I suggest that you pass this one by and go looking further for more refined results.