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That One Night - Live in Buenos Aires

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Recorded right after the end of Gigantour 1 in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 9, 2005. This is it kids, the ultimate Megadeth show! Megadeth are worshipped in Argentina and they played one night outside in front of a sea of fans. The show is presented in widescreen and DTS sound, features occasional split screens and constant head banging 'Deth songs. The set is awesome and contains 18 songs (including a rare performance of "I'll Be There"). It took me back to when I saw them for Gigantour in Sept. 2005 and 2006 in Montreal.

This is my favorite lineup since Mustaine, Friedman, Ellefson and Menza. Megadeth is half Canadian now because of the Drover brothers. This was before Dave enlisted the services of James LoMenzo (Black Label Society) as permanent bassist; James MacDonough (Iced Earth) played bass for the duration of the first Gigantour and for this show. Dave's vocals and mood are in great form, shredding along to songs covering most of their catalogue. My only gripe is that the show isn't shown in its entirety; I clearly remember Dave posting on the Megadeth forum saying that they'd perform 22 songs; where are the four missing?

As far as bonus features go; it's very slim. We're treated to alternate angles of "Symphony of Destruction" and that's all folks. Every now and then during the concert, we get snippets of Dave and Glen playing acoustic guitar surrounded by fans in Argentina; it would've been fun to see and hear more of that. Maybe a few videos from "The System Has Failed" would've been nice too ("Die Dead Enough" and "Of Mice and Men" come to mind) since there weren't any on the "Arsenal of Megadeth" DVD set. Anyhow, this is a great DVD; better than "Rude Awaekning" although Rude has more songs and that bonus underground B&W show. Get your hands on this, you won't regret it.

Back in October 2005, Dave Mustaine (vocals and rhythm guitar), brothers Glen (lead guitar) and Shawn Drover (drums), and James MacDonough (bass) played to a rabid crowd in Buenos Aires, Argentina. First of all, this dvd was long overdue. The band roared through classics and a few songs from The System Has Failed while the crowd went nuts, even singing along to the guitars. I at first was a little skeptical about buying it because the setlist on the dvd is incomplete (they played Skin O' My Teeth, The Scorpion, Die Dead Enough, Angry Again, Train Of Consequences, Of Mice And Men and Sweating Bullets that night, but they're not on here), but that skeptism went away right as it started.

In case you don't know by now, the band is putting out a new album on May 15 on Roadrunner Records called United Abominations. A demo of the song Gears Of War is online, as well as the first track off the album entitled Sleepwalker. Expect some old school metal when you check out the new cd.

A nice concert DVD but really scarce on the extras. A bit hard to swallow considering you can buy Iron Maiden's "Death on the Road" 3 disc DVD set for about the same price and it's loaded with extras. However the editing is better on Megadeth's DVD.

"themusicfiend" is right in his review where he mentions how the drums seem to be out of synch with the rest of the band later in the DVD and it's not that the sound is out of sync with the drummer. It's like the drummer is out of synch with the band. Weird. I'm also surprised that no one else has mentioned how the band member's names that show up on the bottom of the screen at the beginning of the concert are half cut off. It's as though they but in the captions before framing it for widescreen and they got chopped off in the process. Unless this is just an issue with my TV, but my TV does support 16:9 widescreen.

Other then the issues mentioned above this is a nice concert DVD and I did enjoy watching it a lot. Nice crunchy guitar tone and ya gotta love the audience. They sure love their metal. Certainly recommend for any Megadeth fan but just don't expect a lot of extras.

This DVD rocks!!!First off Mustaine's voice is stellar.Way more consistent then on the Rude Awakening DVD.I love the setlist.The opening song "Blackmail the Universe" slays.My only disappointment was that they didnt have the pyrotechnic show that they had when I saw them live in Holmdel, NJ.But Mustaine is at the top of his game the band is tight and its great to see the fans go nuts and show them the respect they deserve.

I dont often write reviews, but I do read them. So I thought I'd do my fellow Megadeth fans a favor and simply give you the heads-up that this Blu-ray version has the most disappointing picture quality of any concert Blu-ray I've seen to date. I keep this show on my Netflix "instant streaming" queue, and the quality of this blu-ray is seriously NO BETTER. What a disappointment. Audio is a slight improvement with its DTS-MA option, but hardly worth the upgrade if you already own this on DVD.

This is a pretty cool concert performance but I don't get it. The Rude Awakening DVD is far better in my opinion. The band line-up was better back then with David Ellefson still in the band, along with Al Pitrelli and Jimmy Degrasson on drums. A way tighter band than what is shown here. You only get one new song from "the system has failed", the rest is old stuff. They play almost the exact same songs as the Rude Awakening DVD and almost in the same order. But the RUDE performance sounded much better with better production and tighter performances from the band in my opinion. If you're looking for a cool Megadeth concert DVD, I recommend Rude Awakening over this. However, I did just watch this for free on Netflix instant view, so I can't complain!

I have both the cd and dvd. some of the good songs were cut out of the dvd. the cd has more tracks. if you have a choice between the cd and dvd chose cd you get more.

Mustaine came through, just when you thougt megadeth was on the brink of not existing with the departure of co-founder Dave Elfson, Mustaine pulled together a great group of performers and Released the System has Failed, a great album. Now, Live in Buenos Aries captures this new encarnation of Megadeth, and does it well. I have seen the group 3 times now, and this DVD does a great job at capturing the live performance. This album pulls some classics, but also bring us up to the newest album. Much better than Rude Awakenings production and sound, although the set list for rude awakening was nice, this DVD's mixing and production are 10 times better. The CD should be awesome as well. Check this one out, a Rattlehead must have.

This is a great DVD. Nice editing, does not jump around a bunch, like other live band dvd's (see iron maiden's last few), and it really captures the live show of megadeth. The Drover brothers are excellent in their new positions. As compared to the Rude Awakening DVD, the sound quality here is better, much better mix of vocals and instruments, with just a hint of crowd. Rude Awakening had a broad and excellent setlist, but this one brings us up through The System Has Failed, and adds the bonus track "Coming Home", previously only available on the japanese version of "The World Needs A Hero", but it is modified a bit to fit Argentina. I highly recommend this DVD to anyone, go out and get it. I can not wait for the CD of this set, and am awaiting "United Abominations" on the Horizon. This is a solid line up that should produce a heck of an album.

Anyone who's wandering wether to buy this DVD or not, should look for a preview of "Symphony of destruction" that's on youtube or around the web. After hearing it, you will see why it's not a clone of the previouss releases.
Anyhow i'm very dissapointed that it did not include the hole set. I can't recall right now, but at least 3 or 4 extra songs were played that night that are not on the DVD list. This includes Skin O' My Teeth and The Scorpion.
Either way, it's a must have for anyone who's been there or to anyone who hasn't heard the Argentinian Crowd