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MikeEnRegalia 
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 18:10 |
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Zappa: The Torture Never Stops. It has been published by Room 101 and features the complete Zappa concert from Haloween 1981, which was filmed for television.
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:49 |
Not in order, but I consider all this great:
- Genesis in Concert: Semi Bootoleg (Filmed with professionalñ equipments and credited by Tony Stratton Smith, recently digitilized, the only very good quality Gabriel Genesis concert I ever seen.
- Steve Hackett - Once Upon a Time: Excellent show with somgs from Genesis and Voyage of the Acolyte, excellent video and audio.
- PFM - Live in Japan: This guys can rock after 30 years.
- Pendragon - Live at Last: Great recording from the Masquerade Overture Tour
- Kansas - Device Voice Drums: Excellent sonflist, despite the already mentioned by Garion problem with Steve's voice (Recent operation of the vocal chords), great songlist and virtuoso performance.
- Roger Waters - In The Flesh Live: Closer to Floyd than the official band on those days.
- Yes - Live at QPR: Three hours of Yes with Patrick Moraz, amazing.
- David Gilmour Live: The acoustic side of Pink Floyd, not as good as Waters DVD, but still great.
- Focus - Masters from the Vaults: Incredible archive with a full version of Hamburger Concerto and a lot of classics with Thys Van Leer and Jan Akkerman together.
- Gentle Giant - Giant on the Box: My first real encounter with GG and really enjoyed it.
- ELP - Live at the Royal Albert Hall: Great concert with a lot of classic stuff, much better in sound and quality than the Montreaux concert.
- Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii: Early stuff, simply outstanding
- Pink Floyd - Pulse: Floyd is always Floyd, great show, if you got Live at Venice, don't buy PULSE, both are very similar but spectacular auditorium in the sea in Venice is incredible.
- Mike Oldfield - Millenium Bell: Good show in Germany.
- Steve Hackett - Tokyo Tapes: Hackett . Ian McDonald, Wetton, Chester Thompson and Julian Colbeck together playing songs by Genesis, Asia (only one) and King rimson, outstanding.
Later some more recommendations.
Iván
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Garion81
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:14 |
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Steve Hackett Live in Japan with John Wetton and Ian McDonald is fantastic. Really like the song selctions from all their different bands.
Device Voice Drum by Kansas is pretty good except Steve Walsh had some voice problems. But the music is great and the song selection is superb. If you want to see what these guys looked like in the earlier days pick Up Sail On. It has performances of theirs from The Don Kishner rock Concert TV show in 1974 and 1975. These shows were taped live.
I really like Jethro Tulls Living with the Past. Not the greatest I have seen Tull but the video is done well.
I still think the all time best DVD is the Led Zeppelin one. How they restored that material from 1971 was fantastic. The sound is perfect too. I think it is because they had used film and the quality of film is so much better. But many bands could not afford to use it as it was also very expensive!
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undefinability
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:11 |
 Man Overboard wrote:
undefinability wrote:
Eh, these might not be helpful, but I, for one, always found them to be a great viewing.
Live at Budokan by Dream Theater,
and Live in America / Live in Europe by Transatlantic.
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I agree.
Flower Kings, too.
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Oh, yeah, I've always loved watching The Flower Kings, too. I can watch Meet the Flower Kings, no matter the mood.
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:09 |
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well, yeah. but i'm looking at the track listing at Best Buy and see that i have most of the songs already. seeing preformances is cool, i just want to know if it's really impressive. impressive enough for me, not having a job at the time, to gather $26 for a DVD.
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Man Overboard
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:04 |
If you like live performances, yeah... that's generally what people buy live DVDs for, right? 
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 17:00 |
The Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii, is a masterpiece, and it's live tracks are better than the studio tracks ("A Saucerful of Secrets," "Echoes," "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" and especially "Careful with that Axe Eugene")
Even "Seamus" (here known as "Mademoiselle Nobs") is enjoyable!
It's got some insightful and enjoyable interviews as well!
Buy it.
(I still need to get Live at Budokan. Hey, if I already own Train of Thought and all the newest DT releases, is it worth paying $26 for this?)
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:58 |
Gentle Giant - Giant On The Box
Frank Zappa - Does Humor Belong In Music?
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:49 |
arkitek wrote:
Dream Theater - Live at budokan
a great peice of prog metal
Pendragon - Live at last
what can i say a pure masterpeice
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re. pendragon. Liveosity
contains both the mentioned DVD, but also the accoustically challenged cd
The cd is a nice extra, no masterpiece there, but worth a listen
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:45 |
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I honestly prefer those DVD's when the bands were in their prime. Like Time and a Word Promo, YesYears, Yessongs, Making of Going for the One, The Beat Club, and Live at the QPR 1975. Floyd has an excellent DVD of concert/studio footage from 1966-the wall tour. Wish I can see a full ealry Genesis concert when Peter Gabril dressed up, only saw clips. Own the Genesis songbook. Have Deep Purple Biography, as well as the making of Machine Head, I own the Strawbs Grave New World Movie with a video of Grace My Darling and a clip of Till the sun comes shining through again with a young Rick Wakeman on piano. Thats what I like.............
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:45 |
Camel's "Pressure Points" may not be 5.1 or DTS, but, on the whole, it's an excellent prog DVD - one of the best, if you like Camel.
Pink Floyd's "Live At Pompeii" is fantastic too, IMO.
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Tommy
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:25 |
I'm normally quite picky when buying DVD's in so much that they must be either 5.1 or DTS. That unfortuneatly ruled out 'Recital of the Script', 'Yessongs' & 'Scenes from a Memory' DVD's. I would recommend the 'Transatlantic' & Yes 'Symphonic' DVD's for both performance & sound. However, the Led Zep DVD is by far the best ever produced.
Talking about Led Zep. Did anyone see the Live Aid documentary last night on TV. They blamed Phil Collins drumming for wrecking their performance & the reason they refused to release that footage on the DVD!
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Man Overboard
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:24 |
undefinability wrote:
Eh, these might not be helpful, but I, for one, always found them to be a great viewing.
Live at Budokan by Dream Theater,
and Live in America / Live in Europe by Transatlantic. |
I agree.
Flower Kings, too.
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undefinability
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:19 |
Eh, these might not be helpful, but I, for one, always found them to be a great viewing.
Live at Budokan by Dream Theater,
and Live in America / Live in Europe by Transatlantic.
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:19 |
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Dream Theater - Live at budokan
a great peice of prog metal
Pendragon - Live at last
what can i say a pure masterpeice
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:17 |
I forgot: If you're into Progressive Metal:
Evergrey: A Night To Remember
Pain Of Salvation: Be
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:16 |
KC have a good DVD that contains two concerts, and Meet The Flower Kings is extraordinarily well done (but not everyone is into FK, so that depends). And if you like DT:
Live at Budokan!
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:16 |
Man Overboard wrote:
If you like Threshold, their DVD couldn't be better. 
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Heavy symphonic metal, great show
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:16 |
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The King Crimson CDs, Neal And Jack And Me and Eyes Wide Open, are both good, and really showcase the two different eras. The only problme is in NAJAM, there are some annoying effets that really mar the pictures up (and it at good spots when bruford is playin' it up). But still a good DVD nevertheless.
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Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Man Overboard
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Posted: June 19 2005 at 16:14 |
Yes Symphonic is the way to go...
King Crimson's Eyes Wide Open is absolutely perfect if you even
*remotely* appreciate their current-era material or their improv
aspects...
Pain Of Salvation - BE Live is orgasmic
Arena's is great if you like 'em
If you like Threshold, their DVD couldn't be better.
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