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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Restoring my faith!, December 11, 2001
By A Customer
I was somewhat disappointed with the last live video from the boys (No Bull) but was blown away by this one. The digital sound is fantastic and the band is really tight. They sound great. Even You Shook Me All Night Long sounded good (I've never been impressed with that song live).I will agree with a previous reviwer that the bonus footage could have been better. What's there is good, but it's only 10 minutes long. I also like the song selection. Sure all the usual suspects are included but I love that they played What Do You Do For Money Honey and especially Up To My Neck In You. Thanks for keeping us on our toes guys. What the band really needs now is a DVD or 2 DVD set that contains footage and interviews from their entire career. There's got to be a TON of stuff out there that we rabid AC/DC fans would love to see. Oh well, maybe sometime down the road. For now, this one rocks. If you're a fan of the band I highly recommend it.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Top notch audio and video. Editing sucks!, August 23, 2002
I borrowed this DVD from a co-worker. The audio and
video quality of this concert footage are awesome.
However, few minutes into it and I realized that the
editing sucked big time. Each clip is barely a few
seconds long and before you grasp the scene, you are
whisked away to another. This is a very good case of
too many cameras and a trigger happy editor who was
probably playing drums on the video editing button.
If you are able to tolerate this Internet Age,
millisecond attention span, you will love this DVD.After all these years, AC/DC still ROCKS!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
AC/DC still can rock!, September 28, 2003
By A Customer
This DVD brings the energy of an AC/DC concert to your living room! The concert itself takes place somewhere in Germany, at a very big, packed to the brim, outdoor stadium. The stage setup is a huge, elaborate setup complete with a runway that goes out to the middle of the crowd. The concert itself begins in the evening while it is still light out, and goes on into the darkness. It is true that Brian Johnson's voice doesn't match the power that are on the studio recordings, but the concert is live, and this isn't unusual for many recording artists live performances. Also, Angus' guitar playing, at some points, isn't as sharp as what you would hear on an album. But I wouldn't have it any other way. It all adds to the "rawness" of the concert. You know there are no editing tricks here in an attempt to clean up the performance. The music is just straight-out and raw, no sickeningly over-produced sounds here.
Speaking of the sounds, Angus and Malcolm have always played their guitars clean through their Marshalls, with no effects pedals or racks. This DVD provides superbly the sounds that those guitars are bombarding the audience mercilessly with. The drums sound great, with crystal-clear cymbals and a bass drum that you can feel in your chest with the right sound setup and enough volume. The only complaint here is that the bass guitar is barely audible, despite the assumption that live, it was probably louder than hades. Also, somewhere on the stage there must've been a sweet spot, because you can sometimes hear Angus'guitar scratchingly feedback through Brian Johnson's mic. When I first noticed this happening (which isn't very noticeable at all), I was pleasantly surprised, because if thats what was happening live, I certainly don't want it edited out. I want authenticity of the real thing, and, despite the bass guitar, this DVD certainly delivers.
What I didn't like, however, is the fact that every single scene changes every second. Literally. You barely get a chance to take in what your looking at, and the scene changes to a different shot. You know how people are taught to count "one one-thousand, two one-thousand, etc". Well, every scene throughout the DVD changes before I could finish a "one one-thousand" count. Every scene. Non-stop. Every song. Many shots are very short, as short as a couple eye winks. Most people don't even notice this, or mind it, but I would've liked to see many of the shots to last longer. Example: forget seeing any of the cannons actually going off during For Those About To Rock, because the camera shots change too fast.
Despite the low presence of the bass guitar and nonstop changing of the camera shots, this DVD is the most-watched of all my DVDs. Why? Because these boys put on one hell of a concert.
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