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Korn: Live

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KORN live, what else is there to say?!. Featuring 2 special edition discs, special (DVD) features include: Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, Interactive menus, Instant chapter access, Behind the-scenes documentary, and alternate angle of KORN live at the Hammerstein! Over 2 1/2 hours long of pure ... KORN!
Songs include:
1.Here To Stay
2.Twist
3.A.D.I.D.A.S.
4.Trash
5.Blind
6.Embrace
7.Faget
8.Falling Away From Me
9.Blame
10.Make Me Bad
11.One
12.Freak On A Leash

13.Somebody Someone
14.Thoughtless
15.Shoots And Ladders
16.Got The Life

KoRn is the best live act I have ever seen, no question. The first time I went to their show I knew only their radio hits. A buddy had an extra ticket, so I went. I went to the show as an open-minded listener and left as a rabid fan!

Ever since that concert (and the two other times I've seen them live since) I have wanted a DVD that captured the frenetic energy of the band in a concert setting. Family Values DVD only gives a brief glimpse, while Deuce DVD focuses on behind the scenes footage and the band's music videos.

Finally the band granted my wish and released "KoRn Live" DVD. The live footage is taken from their CD release party performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom for the Untouchables disk. This footage was broadcast to KoRn fans at various lucky movie theaters across the US. Now all of us can see the concert in all its glory in this very professional looking and sounding concert.

The energy of the band and crowd are really incredible. The ballroom looks terrific, the stage looks amazing with the giant television theme, and the guys are really giving it their all. You can tell it's their first concert in awhile since Jonathan Davis loses his voice towards the end of the show. It's a testimony to how much effort these guys put in for the fans.

There's a brief episode on the second disk showing "the making of KoRn Live" which will show you a totally new side of the band. Wow! There was some real friction between the bandmates and the director of the production! You'll see the heated exchanges as the production crew and the band try to bring everything together before the curtain drops. The guys of KoRn always show themselves as fun-loving and cool, but you will see that mask drop as they get pretty nasty with some of the crew!

I have never seen KoRn live, but I have seen many shows on MTV (after the release of "Untouchables", MTV's done about 15 things on KoRn) and have seen them on TV. They look awesome. This is footage taken from a concert on the eve of June 11th, or the release date of "Untouchales". It contains bonus footage, and these tracks performed live:

1.Here To Stay
2. Twist
3. A.D.I.D.A.S.
4. Trash
5. Blind
6. Embrace
7. Faget
8. Falling Away From Me
9. Blame
10. Make Me Bad
11. One More Time
12. Freak On A Leash
13. Thoughtless
14. Shoots And Ladders
15. Got The Life

GET IT!!!!!

It's pretty good. There are some awesome graphics... the live show itself is pretty awesome. They completely nail every song, I didn't hear any mistakes. The only problem I have is that Head's guitar is too loud. When he goes into a lead it's hard to hear Munky. Other than that the DVD's awesome. And on the second disc there's a behind the scenes thing which is kinda cool. It could have been longer, but it's still good. They kinda try to fill up the second disc with the video that's playing behind them throughout the set. That's kinda dumb. I just watched the whole set and now you think I'm gonna listen to the whole thing again with a different video in front of me? Uh no.

I debated for some time on whether or not to give this DVD three stars or four stars. Consider my rating as a weak four star.

The audio quality is quite good as well as the visuals. The lead singer's voice is weak at times, but, overall, he does sound good and pulls off some fun vocal ranges.

The editor gets a little carried away with the post production effects, and the editing is a little frenetic at times.

Nonetheless, here's the bottom line - I enjoyed the DVD. I cranked up the sound system and really had fun watching and listening to the performance; and, more times than not, I enjoyed the effects that were added in.

Korn has done it again and released one of the best music DVDs you can buy. This comes with 2 discs of live footage and 2 different ways to watch the hour long concert. It also incudes a documentary on how they made it. If you like Korn this is a must buy and you probably have it already. The only bad thing about this is that during the concert there are a lot of weird effects and things that just flash on the screen, its not a big problem but it can definately take away from the experience. Overall it is not enough to lower it to 4 stars. BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

this dvd is verrryyy good. it misses some very good songs like clown, good god.. the only weak point is the bass. all your hear is the song of the 5th string hitting the fretboard; it sounds a lot better on cds

the other things were already mentioned, like the camera that changes too fast, and the second dvd that it useless.

and the cover of 'one' it's only the end, the "darkness, imprisonning me.." .. don't expect metallica, if you've ever seen them live, you know how good it is ;)

I like to think that i am one of Korn's most divoted fans. Yet on this dvd they probably took Korn's worst live show ever, and worst of all they released it to the public. Jon's voice and Jon physically were not ready for this show. You could tell blantantly on "Thoughtless" and on "Make Me Bad"; however whose ever idea in the band to do "One" was brillant, the way they meshed Make Me Bad, One, and Justin together was just breathtaking almost. I would've liked to see more bonus material, but I guess Deuce has enough of that to go around.

This DVD Korn released was most likely a response to the low sales of Untouchables (their worst album, my opinion). But with that fact aside, let's look at what we have here. Two DVDs, 15 songs, and parts of two other songs as Make me bad is combined with One and Justin (Justin isn't labeled on the back of the case and both are only segments of the whole songs. Korn Should have played One in it's entirety as they were rushed yet again when they first performed it and therefore shortened it from 9 to 5 minutes. Well that's just my opinion, but they do play the best part of the song ("Darkness, imprisoning me, all that I see, Absolute horror!"). There are a few standouts in the concert but there is just something not right. The director cuts and edits like crazy, sometimes finnaly frustrating you so much, you find yourself yelling at the TV. This is evident mostly at the opener Here to Stay. Several times he will cut to something for less then a second, thus you'll find yourself asking yet again "what was the point of that cut?"

Other then the editing job, the song selection is a problem. They only Picked Twist and A.D.I.D.A.S. from Life is Peachy (My favorite Korn album), which disappointed me to no end. Most of their songs are the "light" singles that receive all the airplay, ignoring other classics like Good God, Ball Tongue, Need To, Dead bodies Everywhere, Etc. But Korn's delivery is the top thing here that irritates me. It's actually very boring most of the time. Jon has clearly aged as he hardly moves around on stage at all anymore. I have a film of them playing at Woodstock 99 and Jon is jumping around like crazy, moving all over the stage. Here Jon has clearly lost the energy. I don't blame them, they all have had kids by now and age has taken its toll. This also shows throughout with the other band members as well, but it's most obvious with Jon. As for the extras on disc 2, the alternate version is audio of the concert with just the giant screen that played behind them, showing disturbing pictures and the like. Although interesting at first, one can hardly watch the concert like this all the way through. The only thing worth while is the really, really short behind the scenes documentary. They didn't include any other bonus material, no music videos, no Easter eggs, nothing. Well if you have never seen Korn live before, this makes a great gift, but otherwise, you can skip this, there's nothing special about it, but then again there is nothing terrible either. Hoped this helped.

I bought this video a couple weeks before Projekt Revolution 2004 ticket sales went on to sale. For two reasons, 1 I have already seen Linkin Park and all the other bands live except KoRn so I wanted to see how they were live. And I learned from this DVD KoRn couldn't get any better. But my second reason is my mom wanted to see how KoRn was. She went with me to all the other concerts and I was afraid she wasn't gonna like KoRn. Suprisingly she liked it so th next week I bought my ticket to the last show at Shoreline Amp. Damn I can't wait till that day. Anyway back to the DVD. The only problem was the camera changes that everyone else keeps pointing out and yes J.D's voice is a little weak but I mean you can't blame him. Look what hes tryiing to sing. I wanna see all the people who said his voice sucks up there on the stage trying to sing Got The Life, Blind, Thoughtless, Faget and all the other songs. They'd know how he feels I bet. Also other singers lose there voice sometimes. Like Chester Bennington's voice gets really weak a lot but look at him. Trying singing the third verse in Faint. Anyway this DVD kicks a** and I am so glad I bought this cause now I'm going to Projekt Revolution to see them Live!!!

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