Customer Reviews

Live from Sturgis

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Nickelback is awesome live! I enjoyed every second of this concert. It is censored but I don't really care its still great! (plus most of the boob-flashing chicks were ugly anyway LOL) this a great dvd for Nickelback fans. just so you know here's whats on the DVD:
1.Animals
2.Woke Up This morning
3.Photograph
4.Because of You
5. Far Away
6. Never Again
7. Savin' Me
8. Someday
9. Side of a Bullet
10. How You Remind Me
11. Too Bad
12. Figured You Out

Just want to state that im a big nickelback fan , I have seen them live twice and have been to sturgis in 2004. My BIG dissapointment with this dvd is that it is edited .This dvd should have been put out as a disney release and does not represent nickelbacks music or sturgis. There is nothing more annoying than a BEEEP in the middle of the song or black blocks covering the crowd when the camera man picks up something a five year old shouldnt see .Wouldnt it be better to show the concert the way it was presented to the crowd and rate the dvd as 18or older. I also feel that the song list should have been longer,and truly hope this is simply not a money grab by the band or their management.

This DVD is a must have for Nickelback fans as well as anyone who has been to a Nickelback concert and enjoyed it. I saw Nickelback for this tour at the Cajundome in Lafayette LA and this DVD is almost an exact duplicate of the show. They follow a pretty close format, it appears, throughout their tour. However, this is at Sturgis and is an outdoor concert so the audience is very entertaining as well. The pyrotechnics are exactly what I remembered in seeing them live. There is the big screen in the backdrop as well. Be advised, if purchasing this DVD from Walmart, it is edited. But, I haven't found it anywhere else yet.

A great blu ray release which could have been better if more songs were included and more music video added as bonus material. This blu ray release is completely uncencored. Overall a great rock concert on blu ray.

BUYERS BEWARE: I should start off by warning you that that there are 2 different versions of this DVD available. One of them has been censored (unfortunately this is the version I purchased) They both appear to have exactly the same content but If you think you might get annoyed (as I did) by Chad Kroeger being continually beeped as he talks to the audience or during some of his song lyrics then you might want to bear this in mind. Also, (although this didn't bother me as much) the audience is having quite a good time and there are several shots of topless babes showing Nickelback their `goods' as they sing and dance along, they have all been blacked out in the censored version.
*The uncensored version says on the front cover, in black box Explicit content.

Now about the DVD. If you're a Nickelback fan than you'll love this, it's a great bleeping show and Chad and the boys are having almost as much fun as the bleeping audience. Filmed in Sturgis in front of 35,000 screaming, half naked, mostly female fans, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. It's just a great hard rocking show, featuring 12 of the bands major hits. The sound and camera work are flawless with super close ups of the boys and the pyrotechnics are awesome. I can only imagine what they were like live if they looked this good on DVD. A couple of songs that stood out for me were; Woke up this morning and Side of a bullet, culminating with an amazing performance of Figured you out. The concert only runs about an hour but it's a really good hour.

The 12 songs covered are; Animals, Woke up this morning, Photograph, Because of you, Far away, Never again, Savin' me, Someday, Side of a bullet, How you remind me, Too bad and Figured you out.
Some extras have also been included with a behind the scenes look at Nickelback feature, photo gallery, Sturgis 101 vignette and the Rockstar Video.

I highly recommend NB Live at Sturgis, I just wish someone could have bleeping warned me about the censorship thing before I bought my version.

I bought this from Amazon and it is not censored. So I'm not sure why people are complaining that their copy was censored.

Anyway, I think the concert was great. I saw a few women without their tops, but it was no big deal. It's the equivalent of a National Geographic magazine about native peoples. You see pictures of native women in Africa or on the Pacific islands, and they are dancing without wearing anything on top. It's the same thing in the upper Great Plains of America, you're just watching a few native women dancing without wearing anything on top. It's nothing to get excited or all riled about. They are just mostly background shots of people dancing and having fun and there are only a very few images. I don't recall any suggestiveness beyond dancing and moving to the music.

I liked "Far Away" and "Photograph". As I was working on this review the song "Photograph" came on the radio. This is a really cool song. On the concert, images of people brought forth memories from the band's past.

What I could do without, though, was a few of the expletives coming from the mouth of Nickelback. Just sing the songs please.

If you are a Nickelback fan, get this concert. It's quite enjoyable to watch this young group play.

If you are a nickelback fan, you will love this!
If you have been on another planet and have never experienced a heavy rock outfit pumping out some of the best headbanging riffs, get onto this blu ray disc.
This band is tight, powerful, controlled and delivers music at an intensity that is up there with some of the best rock outfits of the modern age.
The dvd video is brilliantly captured and the sound track is equally superbly mixed and recorded and offers all the usual sound options of blu-ray discs.
The PCM option is fantastic for those wanting to put the sound back through their ageing 2channel stereo amps.
This disc is worth whatever you have to pay to get it into your lounge rooom.

I enjoyed the just over one hour of material presented. The concert was well played out by the band. However this was viewed on Blu Ray so I expected the highest production values to be used. While a plethora of camera's have been used I can safely assume that many were not HD quality . Most of the drummers shots and and the reverse angle shots where you see the audience from the stage viewpoint were very grainy. The camera's have been obviously gained to compensate for the low light conditions. The video on all the frontal shots of the stage were good, so I just wish the producers avoided the grainy footage as this tended to stick out. The audio quality on the 5.1 slection was very good. The sound mix was well balanced and had the required crispness and clarity to make the audio track really superb.
I gave it 4 stars because this is a slightly technical matter and overall most viewers would enjoy the recording.

The music is great and is typical of Nickelback. I enjoy playing concerts like this when we entertain. However, this is not one that I would play with kids around. The "F" bomb gets dropped quite often and bare chested woman are galore. That said, this is exactly what I would expect from Sturgis. The picture is pretty good and the sound quality is great - especially with it cranked up!

Depends on which vendor you buy this from if it is censored format or not!! I bought my copy from Amazon and it clearly says at top UNRATED.So those that are complaining about it being censored LEARN TO READ!! I bought this for the band NOT for biker chicks boobs and it is a great concert performance by Nickleback.You won't be disappointed with picture 1080p or sound dts 5.1 audio UNCOMPRESSED.
Also has some kewl bonus features:
behind_the_scenes with Nickleback
photo gallery
Sturgis 101 Vignette
"Rockstar" video