Good Dvds

Duff Man Jr.

Anyone care to recommend any good live dvds?

My two favs are;
Metallica - Live sh1t, Seattle
and
Children of Bodom - Stockholm Knockout.

Karl Hungus

Really depends on the bands you like, doesn't it?

I'm quite partial to these though:

Dream Theater - Live At Budokan
Death - Live In LA
G3 - Live In Tokyo
Emperor - Imperial Live Ceremony

Creature

Pearl Jam's Touring Band 2000 is great. I still haven't got a hold of their other two but Live at the Garden is supposed to be excellent. Immagine in Cornice doesn't look that great, the setlist is quite short for a DVD.

AC/DC's Stiff Upper Lip DVD is good as is the recent Plug Me In 3 disc deluxe edition.

Xavi6

Muse - Hullabaloo

Much better than the HAARP one that was released recently. Hullabaloo is far more raw and really helps you feel the Muse live experience.

Doctor J

Led Zeppelin DVD. That one brought on about four sick days off work over the first year. I'd just wake up and think "I've gotta watch that DVD again". Brilliant.

Rush In Rio is also pretty good, Rush at probably their most rockinest (yes, that is a word) :pac:

The Black Sabbath Story I & II are compulsory, no explanation needed.

Finally, and this may be a surprise choice, but Some Kind Of Lobster, the Metallica rockumentary is really good. Not the music, of course, just as a film, it's cringeworthy like watching The Office, really amazing stuff. You're watching real people who've drifted apart from each other, unable to communicate with each other and just totally out of touch with everything they were, which is the only reason they are together in the first place. It's horrible and compulsive at the same time. Great film, **** music, but great film.

Karl Hungus

If we're talking Rockumentaries, I'd recommend Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.

gucci

Doctor J wrote: »

Finally, and this may be a surprise choice, but Some Kind Of Lobster, the Metallica rockumentary is really good. Not the music, of course, just as a film, it's cringeworthy like watching The Office, really amazing stuff. You're watching real people who've drifted apart from each other, unable to communicate with each other and just totally out of touch with everything they were, which is the only reason they are together in the first place. It's horrible and compulsive at the same time. Great film, **** music, but great film.

I would agree with this, first time I watched it, it was so cringey I wanted to turn it off, but its compulsive viewing! If only to give you a greater appreciation for the movie Spinal Tap its worth watching!!

RATM Live from Grand Auditorium in Los Angeles is pretty decent.

I have the Live at the Garden Pearl Jam dvd, i dont think its great to be honest, its a bit too professionally shot or something that you dont get the atmosphere.

Is any of the Thin Lizzy/ Rory Gallagher dvds good? Kind of worried about buying them incase the sound and vision are out of sinc or they are just basically septic!

ec18

Iron Maiden Rock in RIO
Rory Gallagher Irish Tour 1978
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous
Led Zeppelin - That double disc one

Blackhorse Slim

Have to say I really liked the Allman Brothers Live at the Beacon 2003, some old classics and some newer music, but mostly to see two great young guitar players in Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes at the top of their game, and playing off each other and the band.

Also enjoyed the recent David Gilmour dvd Remember that Night Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2006. He and his band play the whole of his On an Island album, which is ok, with Crosby and Nash providing backing vocals. But it's the Floyd stuff that kills, great versions of Shine On and Echoes, and many others. Great picture and sound quality, loads of extras. Top stuff.

GhostInTheRuins

gucci wrote: »

Is any of the Thin Lizzy/ Rory Gallagher dvds good? Kind of worried about buying them incase the sound and vision are out of sinc or they are just basically septic!

Thin Lizzy Live at Rockpalast is an excellent watch, highly recommended.

The Thunder and Lightning show in the point is decent, maybe a bit short though.

Sephiroth_dude

nirvana live at reading 92 is very good.

Deliverance XXV

gucci wrote: »

Is any of the Thin Lizzy/ Rory Gallagher dvds good? Kind of worried about buying them incase the sound and vision are out of sinc or they are just basically septic!

I have the Boys Are Back In Town DVD, which was recorded in Sydney.
Video and audio are not great but what a show.

I also have Metallica's Cunning Stunts which ain't bad.

smackbunnybaby

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Live at Montreaux

Slayer - war at the warfiled
Megadeth - rude awakening
and the all important SPINAL TAP!

peter1892

Doctor J wrote: »

Rush In Rio is also pretty good, Rush at probably their most rockinest (yes, that is a word) :pac:

I like R30 as well, although a lot of Rush fans don't like the way that particular show was edited (a lot of the setlist was cut from the final DVD).

Sephiroth_dude

also rage against the machine lve at the auditorium,there last gig.

projectmayhem

Karl Hungus wrote: »

If we're talking Rockumentaries, I'd recommend Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.

+1

i didn't expect anything from that dvd but it ended up sucking me right in and capturing me, even with bands i didn't like. some of it is hilarious, some serious... and some down right scary

as for band dvds, i've always liked rammstein's dvds. even the "bonus" stuff they've put with cd's has been interesting on some level. if anything, for people who dislike them, their dvd's are entertaining.

christophicus

Korn : deuce . Its one of the best band dvds out there ( Its about the band, its not a gig dvd.)

Goijra: The Link alive. This is a great gig dvd. They play the link .

I gotta agree with Metal: A Headbanger's Journey its a great movie


Also Heavy Metal in Bagdad is really good, not so much for its musical content. It is about the only metal band in Iraq and gives a pretty good picture of life as a ( relativly ) normal Iraqi civilian.

dasdog

Some of the unoffical stuff I've been gathering for the past couple of years:

Megadeth - New York (January 1988)
Recorded just before so far, so good, so what was released. Quality is okay (sound maybe a bit shyte). Reminds me of my first gig in the Olympic Ballroom in Dublin a few months later

Metallica - Long Island (April 1986)
Quality is poor at the start. If you have ever seen the clip of Master of Puppets from Cliff 'em all, this is a recording of that whole gig.

Slayer - New York (1988)
Slayer at their very best. Although shot from the crowd the quality is quite good.

Thin Lizzy - National Stadium, Dublin (April 1975)
Originally broadcast by RTE. Five songs, quality is quite good for its time. I'm trying to get my hands on the full gig (which I've seen once). There is also a recording of a gig from Budapest (1981) floating about. Same tour as the Rockpalast gig.

"Get Thrashed", a thrash metal documentary being released this August which is supposed to make good viewing.

120_Minutes

dasdog wrote: »

Thin Lizzy - National Stadium, Dublin (April 1975)
Originally broadcast by RTE. Five songs, quality is quite good for its time. I'm trying to get my hands on the full gig (which I've seen once). There is also a recording of a gig from Budapest (1981) floating about. Same tour as the Rockpalast gig.

I'd love to see that!



my faves: Porcupine Tree - Arriving somewhere, Lizzy live and dangerous, Satriani - san francisco, The Blue Man Group - Complex Rock tour

senordingdong

KISS-Symphony
Rammstein-Volkerball

Cherry_Darling

i know its not so much a music dvd but its all about spinal tap!! and Detroit Rock City jusy for kiss at the end!!

Patricide

Rammstein, volkerball and live aus berlin.
Megadeth, Rude awakening
Slipknot, Disastorpieces
Gojira, The link alive
Muse, Haarp

conqueror90

Well, as has already been said, it really depends on what bands you like. Personally, I'm expecting the upcoming Therion DVD to be awesome, and their other other two not-quite-so-upcoming ones should also be great.

Duff_Man

the thunder and lighten tour is pretty good but its fairly short! ac/dc live in donnington rocks! they put on sum show! and of course the 2disc zepp dvd is a must!

Vim Fuego

For sheer value, it's gotta be Primus - Animals Should Not Act Like People.

You get all their music videos, all their old long-form videos (concerts, interviews, tomfoolery etc), a cd of new material and loads of other stuff. It's class.

I always loved Slayer's old video 'Live Intrusion' or 'Live Intervention' that I think is on dvd now. It's from the Divine Intervention era and I wore out that tape from repeated viewing.

Metallica's 'Cunning Stunts' was great too, being one of the first metal 5.1 dvds with multiple angles and stuff that no-one cares about any more :-) Especially good if you saw them on that tour as they had a cool stage set-up and rehearsed 'events'.

Fishyfreak

AC/DC- Stiff Upper Lip Live (Up to my neck in you, first time i heard it live. It didn't disappoint)

AC/DC- Live at Plaza del Toros (Hail Ceaser sends a chill down my spine from this gig, Awesome)

rednik

If you like Black Sabbath try Heaven and Hell : Live from Radio City Music Hall. Excellent show with an excellent soundtrack. Bought the heaven and hell album so long ago so to hear it live from only a few months ago they can still do it. Dio's voice is as good as ever.

Davei141

Try Mastodon's The Workhorse Chronicles, pretty good viewing.

Max_Damage

Fear Factory - Digital Connectivity

CyberWaste

Death - Live In LA
Sepultura - Chaos DVD
Megadeth - Rude Awaking
Metallica - S&M
Machine Head - Elegies

Doctor J

Vim Fuego wrote: »

Metallica's 'Cunning Stunts' was great too, being one of the first metal 5.1 dvds with multiple angles and stuff that no-one cares about any more :-) Especially good if you saw them on that tour as they had a cool stage set-up and rehearsed 'events'.

I remember that used to be €45 or thereabouts in HMV when it came out. They dropped the price to €10 at one point and a friend and I went through the set list, good song-bad song, saying it's about 50% good songs and, therefore, worth the €10. Man, were we wrong. I find it unwatchable. It's got the cringe factor of the Lobster movie but with none of the laughs.

Worst €10 I ever spent.

chin_grin

Crowbar - Live with full force is quite good. Gig with interviews in between songs. Breaks the whole thing up nicely.

......and why hasn't anyone recommended S&M yet? *sniggers* Oh, look there goes me and my sarcasm again! The shame, the shame!

EDIT: Ah someone HAS mentioned S&M, my apologies!

Sephiroth_dude

unholy alliance tour 06,is very good,and also nirvana sold out tonight,alice in chains unplugged.

CyberWaste

Doctor J wrote: »

I remember that used to be €45 or thereabouts in HMV when it came out. They dropped the price to €10 at one point and a friend and I went through the set list, good song-bad song, saying it's about 50% good songs and, therefore, worth the €10. Man, were we wrong. I find it unwatchable. It's got the cringe factor of the Lobster movie but with none of the laughs.

Worst €10 I ever spent.

The worst thing is the fake ending where they fake the guy getting burned. That was an awful dvd, live **** and S&M are the live shows to get by metallica.

gucci

Doctor J wrote: »

I remember that used to be €45 or thereabouts in HMV when it came out. They dropped the price to €10 at one point and a friend and I went through the set list, good song-bad song, saying it's about 50% good songs and, therefore, worth the €10. Man, were we wrong. I find it unwatchable. It's got the cringe factor of the Lobster movie but with none of the laughs.

Worst €10 I ever spent.

I agree, its a really poor dvd, not sure how its possible to film a live show and have non of the atmosphere transfer over to the dvd.Maybe it was just because of the arena that it was shot in, but it feels to rehearsed and produced or something. I have been to see Metallica a number of times and this dvd does not do them any justice at all.

Timans

Creature wrote: »

Pearl Jam's Touring Band 2000 is great. I still haven't got a hold of their other two but Live at the Garden is supposed to be excellent. Immagine in Cornice doesn't look that great, the setlist is quite short for a DVD.

AC/DC's Stiff Upper Lip DVD is good as is the recent Plug Me In 3 disc deluxe edition.

I think the exact opposite. Immagine in Cornice is brilliant, the best live DVD I have ever seen actually, and I think Live at the Garden is pretty boring. Not sure why.

Immagine in Cornice is great though, I'd definitely check it out if I were you.

Recon

Manowar - Live At Earth Shaker Fest 2005

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manowar-Live-Earth-Shaker-Fest/dp/B000J3FGMA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214874253&sr=1-1

A really great dvd package.

lord lucan

G N' R live at the ritz '88. not an official dvd but a gig filmed by mtv which can still be found via various g n' r torrent sites or ebay. it's a savage gig,pretty much all appetite stuff. it's not slick nor is it polished but it's raw,g n' r at their drunken raucous best imo.