Customer Reviews

Mountain: Live in Texas 2005

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Being a Mountain fan for many years i am so disappointed in this very poorly produced DVD. The picture quality looks like it was shot with a vhs camera from 1986! The sound is even worse. It is THE most disgraceful music dvd i have ever seen. And i am quite sure the band itself had nothing to do with this because i don't think they would want this

I'm a major fan of the band and go all the way back to their begining. I saw the original band with Felix several times in the 70's. When I got "Sea of Fire", Mountain's other DVD, I was absolutely thrilled with it. It became and still is one of my top ten concert DVD's in a very large collection. I was anxious to have this one as soon as I learned of it. I got it, listened last night, and WHOA, what happened between "Sea of Fire" and this? Its a 2005 concert with only a stereo option? What's up with that? That would not be so bad if the stereo mix was good, but it's not. It is inconsistent in volume (up and down) and just does not engage you. The video is awful. Bad shots from bad angles, shaky cameras, and it's dark. The band's performance is pretty good, but its too short and does not get you excited anyway. I did not care when it ended. "Sea of Fire" was shot in a small venue, but it captured the excitement of Mountain's performance with a bunch of us old geysers in attendance that were there "in the day", but this one looks like its shot in a high school gym with a cover band. I have to question if this is an authorized, official release. Mountain has no mention of it on their web site. It has all the earmarks of a bad bootleg and I would be surprised if the band did authorize this shoddy release. They are however still a good band, and in "Sea of Fire" they show it. Get "Sea of Fire", avoid this one unless you want to see for yourself how badly this was produced.

Well, where do I start. I have genuinly never been so dissapointed with a product in my life. Basically this is a hell of a band, doing a good performance, with possibly the worst production team of all time. The sound is up and down, the camera angles are lame, it fades into tracks 30 seconds into them. In Politician, the volume level goes from about 1db to about 120db and then back down about 40 times within 5 minutes, absolutely shocking. I have Mountain bootlegs on DVD from 1978 which are better quality than this! Compared to Sea of Fire from a few years back, this is a complete and total let down. Avoid this at all costs, a complete and utter letdown.

I'm giving this 3 stars because I am a long time fan of leslie, Corky and Mountain and in spite of the hack video and sound job the playing is superb, particularly leslie (love the Gibson SG). The Cream tribute was fine. However the sound is unlistenable. I tried to watch it using earphones and the mix fade ins and outs were so horrible I had to stop (particularly on the bonus cut "Blood of the Sun"). I assume that was the concert's opening number? The first song on the DVD was "Never in my life" (begun halfway through the guitar intro). Nice. Whoever put this together was either some hiphop edit freak or an art college student stoned on qualudes. The last DVD by them had some video problems as well (my copy only)? Mountain remains a great band and deserve more than this. However, Leslie if you are listening, fire the poof tarts who are responsible for the video. Bottom line, if you are a "completist" Leslie West fan, you probably should get it. Otherwise pass on it and wait until they release a DVD truly worthy of this great band.

IF THIS ISN'T A BOOTLEG WAY BELOW PROFESSIONAL QUALITY BAD DAY AT THE ROCK CLUB VIDEO THEN I'M A YOU KNOW WHAT! DON'T BUY IT!!!! The technical quality is poor, sounds bad, and has no credits or features. I have never seen a professional video with this kind of bad editing or unacceptable picture image except in low quality bootle videos.

Unless you love bootleg footage do not buy this. This was filmed by a camcorder and is of very poor quality. This product is not worth what they are asking for it. It is the band Mountain but it has really poor sound as well as video.

This is a MUST HAVE for any Mountain fan. Agreeing with other reviews commenting on the awful video shoot, thats where Leslie and Corky more than save this effort. Some of Leslie and Corky's best playing ever. Politician, Nantucket Slaighride, and Crossroads are worthy of the price of admission alone, and this video offers some of the closest video ever shot of the band. Until a Sony produced perfect video shoot becomes available, lets support the "Legends of Long Island!" Rock on Leslie, and show 'em hows it's DONE!