Product Details

• Actors: Allison Cornell, Joe Jackman, Roberto Rodriguez, Joe Jackson, Graham Maby
• Directors: Lee Cantelon
• Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 18, 2003
• Run Time: 58 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000089756
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,745 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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JOE JACKSON:25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - DVD Movie

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Disappointing DVD, March 23, 2003

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Mike King "Mike Vegas King" (Taunton, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joe Jackson - 25th Anniversary Special (DVD)

In one of the bonus features of this DVD, Joe Jackson reads the first chapter of his book, "A Cure For Gravity." He tells the audience not to worry, assuring them that the reading will be followed by the full two hour concert. Unfortunately, this DVD only contains thirteen songs, barely lasting one hour. Those attending the concert got their money's worth, while those of us who bought this DVD did not. The other bonus feature of this DVD is a Joe Jackson interview. All that he said should have been confined to that segment. Instead, almost every song in the show is interrupted near the end by a snippet of Joe Jackson talking. This interrupts the flow of the concert, not to mention having to listen to him talk while the song is still going on. In addition, the song "Glamour And Pain" is sung by the female violinist in his band. While she has a pleasant enough singing voice, I would have preferred hearing another song sung by Joe. Given the fact that several songs performed in the concert were left off the DVD, the decision to include that particular song is even more puzzling. A good quality bootleg tape of the entire show would be more enjoyable to watch than this heavily edited DVD concert.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why is this so bad?, March 28, 2003

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"alankler" (Westfield, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joe Jackson - 25th Anniversary Special (DVD)

This is just an awful DVD. For starters, the sound quality is inexcusable and represents absolutely no production care or effort whatsoever - think bootleg quality (one fave part of mine takes place in the second verse of Real Man when Jackson is playing the piano and you hear all band and absolutely no piano, none). If that weren't enough, the video quality is inconsistent and poor. Finally, the content is so limited that in the end you're sure that you've ended up with the salvaged parts of a failed production effort; one which should have been scrapped.

I saw this tour in San Francisco and thought it was mediocre to begin with. I was prejudiced though: One year prior I saw Jackson at the Bottom Line in New York where he played only with Burke and Maby, parked his butt behind a piano, and gave one of the best live performances I've ever seen (that mini-tour is captured on the Summer In The City:Live In New York CD).

A concert on DVD can be nothing short of spectacular: James Taylor's Live From the Beacon, Dave Matthews Band's Listener Supported, and many others take full advantage of this incredible medium to use unprecedented sound and video quality to create a truly unique experience for the viewer. Why then are there so many horrible concert DVDs? Because some concert DVDs are about a process dedicated to capturing the live experience and therefore consider elements such as appropriate equipment, great sound production, video production, lighting, direction, editing, mastering, and other things which cost money. Other DVDs are just about getting the artist onto a DVD as cheaply as possible to make some quick cash. Nobody is asking for producers to break out Scorcese and crank out another Last Waltz, but if anyone thinks consumers aren't going to see through the process of showing up midtour and filming a few nights of a band's performance without further forethought or preparation, well then, they're just wrong.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This could have been a better DVD, April 26, 2003

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Guido Maschio - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joe Jackson - 25th Anniversary Special (DVD)

I'am a big Joe Jackson fan, and I saw him on tour 6 times. This DVD is good, because it contains an interesting interview with JJ, because it has a section with The Man himself reading a chapter of his book "A cure for gravity", and because the "Nigh and day II" songs are well played.

Unfortunately, on the musical side, this DVD contains only part of a show and not all the songs are equally well arranged. The musicians are really good, (expecially the delightful Allison Cornell, which is a talented artist), but there are songs that heavily suffer from the lack of a guitar in the group (expecially "You can't get what you want"). The "night and day II" songs are well played (astounding the vocals from Allison on "Glamour and pain") but the other (few) songs are not arranged in their best form.

I think that, given the huge JJ production along the years, this DVD has too much missing material.

Besides that, the continuous sound of percussions (not a Sue Adjoupulous fault, obviously) gives each song a very similar flavour (even where it isn't fitting, like on "Real men"), and this is a little annoyng.

I am glad to hear that JJ is now on the road with a drum/bass/guitar/piano line-up.

So .. if you already know Joe Jackson this DVD is for you, but if you are new to the man try the "Live in Tokyo" tour(VHS or DVD) or the "Laughter and lust" tour (VHS), instead of this.

[Living in Europe I have a complaint to do: why the DVD "Live in Tokyo" from the "Big world" tour is not out coded for region 2, too?]