Customer Reviews

Live From Dublin: A Tribute to Derek Bell

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As a fan of the group, I have been lucky to see Derek Bell live in concert. This album is a very touching tribute to him. What better way to celebrate than with the music he enjoyed playing.

There is one warning about this CD, and it's not the music - it's with the copy protection. This CD uses the new MediaMax. You can NOT rip this CD to your hard drive. You can copy the tracks to your hard drive, but ONLY as 128kb/s WMA since the WMAs have secure DRM. If you are MAC or iPod user you are out of luck. Hopefully iTunes will carry the album with it's own DRM.

This is a fitting tribute to Derek Bell, the "lovliest old rogue" of the Chieftains. On some selections, the sound is "thin" because his harp work is gone. That is a poignant
inclusion and I appreciate it.

I bought this CD because I can't get enough of An Evening with The Chieftains. I have no issue with copyright protection and I don't advocate illegal file-sharing, but the protection on this CD went too far. It was gathering dust on my shelf until I found out how to make an exact audio copy of it. Now I'm reacquainting myself with this CD. If you're a Chieftains fan, it's worth the effort.

When I played this on my computer it installed software that corrupted my playback software. I love the music but am severly pissed that I can't play it on my computer. Don't The Chieftains and RCA have enough money that they have to screw up the systems of poor fools like me? Derek Bell is probably flipping in his grave. Hell, I may never spend another Euro in Matt Malloy's pub and Paddy Maloney should be ashamed to call himself an Irishman - an Orangeman seems more like it.

I purchased the Live from Dublin CD and much to my dismay my computer tells me the CD is corrupted. If go through some trouble you can propably get the thing to play on your computer but will probable not be allowed to listen to it on an mp3 player I am required to install spyware on my computer? I gave up and am returning the album. I am sure the music is great but it is a bit to restictive for me. They cannot trust me but I must trust them to access the music and then on only some of my players?
Sincerely Jim Meehan

I bought this CD while I was at a Chieftans concert last night. I listened to it in my car first, so I didn't notice a problem. I really enjoyed the CD and wanted to listen to it with headphones at my desk with my computer. I stuck the CD in my computer and it starts trying to download and install the copy protection software. Well of course all of the security software on my computer went crazy thinking I had some sort of virus. I had to completely turn off all of my security on my computer to even get the CD to play on my computer. Then after copying the files to my computer to listen in windows media player, I unistalled the software it downloaded. This made my media player crash when I tried to play the files. Great CD, but the copy protection needs to be executed in a better fasion. I'm not really happy with having to turn off all of my security on my computer just to listen to a CD - especially when I'm on a high speed LAN connection.

The Chieftains are always above and beyond my expectations! This album is again just as expected, the tribute overall to the wonderful Derek Bell is just as he would have preferred it and the end piece performed by Bell himself is superb.

Musically this is probably an ok CD - I say probably because as others have said it is so hard to listen to this CD it is going to gather a lot of dust. A waste of money and one I shall not repeat. .