Product Details

• Actors: The Clash
• Directors: Don Letts
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony Legacy
• DVD Release Date: April 15, 2008
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0013K6WN0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,808 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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CLASH LIVE:REVOLUTION ROCK - DVD Movie

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another incomplete cash-grab..., April 16, 2008

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Patrick A. Reed (New York (the city), NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Revolution Rock (DVD)

There's some great stuff here, to be sure, but VERY few complete performances. Songs get thru two verses, then get jammed into some lousy graphics or a voice-over that gives no real input into what we're seeing. Why cut off "White Man In Hammersmith" two lines from the end? Why not have the full performances from The Tomorrow Show instead of chopping them off right before the climax? There's already a perfectly good Clash documentary out there ("Westway To The World", highly recommended if you've not seen it), so the only real reason to pick this up is to see some new footage and hear how powerful the group's live performances were. And this doesn't achieve that. Hang on to your bootleg DVDs, your VHSs taped off late night TV, the clips downloaded from wherever... That's still (sadly) the only way to get the best of "the only band that matter".

So in short, the tracklist looks good, but the product falls very flat. Only for the true completist. Sad, but true.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ...in your life, you like it well..., May 4, 2008

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S. Mulliken (Philadalphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Revolution Rock (DVD)

...I agree with many of the other reviewers here-much of this footage is available elsewhere, and there are some exclusions and omissions that are glaring.
Most irritating, however, is the attempt to combine these performances into a cohesive documentary, through the use of voice-over narration over the beginning and end of each song. This is disruptive, as i was hoping for a "video jukebox" approach, lacking any need to cohere the material. Equally, the voice-over says things like "London Calling-a double album, with the hidden track 'Train in Vain'"-obvious, uninteresting Clash 101 platitudes. I might not be so frustrated if the voice told me who played the keyboards on the last song, or other obscure factoids, something new and interesting for folks who already know, at the very least, who the band members are.
So, while its great to see the new material, and to study it, this is a sadly capitalistically-minded package.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much new on this disc, March 7, 2008

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S. Couse "#1 Clash Fan" (Albany, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live Revolution Rock (DVD)

I also saw clips from this on PBS recently. And from what I saw there and in the tracklisting, most of these performances were already seen in "Rude Boy" and "The Essential Clash."

Where's the brilliant Saturday Night Live performances?? Why only one song from the "Fridays" show? They performed four. Same with the Elizabethan Suite. Only two of the four songs performed there are included. And "Tommy Gun" isn't even a live clip.

Of course, any live footage from The Clash is going to be impressive, but I wish more new stuff was on tap here.