Product Details
- #7199 in VHS
- Released on: 1991-05-01
- Rating: Unrated
- Formats: Color, NTSC
- Number of tapes: 1
- Running time: 82 minutes
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Complete Show At Last!
I had this on Beta at one point and it's great to now have the complete show on DVD. The picture quality looks about the same as I remember it from my latter VHS copy. What a great window into the best era of this band(83-87) and even better a glimpse before they became "Rock's Hottest Ticket" and got on the cover of Time magazine. A time when they were my band and not the world's band. Great memories...
The red trails and grain are on the VHS copy as well and they really don't bother me as I don't have a reference to any other way to see this. In other words, it's always looked like this and I've seen this SO many times. I'm watching this on a 52 inch projection TV and I think it looks great. Most of the picture is just fine to me, and only a couple of the camera angles show lots of grain. The sound is stellar, just like the original VHS version.
Getting Out of Control, Twilight, Two Hearts and especially Cat/Heart on DVD should be enough to make any U2 fan happy as a clam. I can understand how someone who has never seen this would be disappointed with the picture quality though. And maybe even those of you who hoped for a cleaned up version. Keep in mind though that this was filmed in 1983 and U2 wasn't then what they would become. In other words, the budget was probably small and we should just be happy that there is a show at all from this tour, let alone such a great show.
Now let's just hope they have an Unforgettable Fire show somewhere in the vaults. I know that there were live videos for Bad and Homecoming. Waiting...
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Live at Red Rocks: It Rocks
Owned the VHS in 1986 when I was 16. Seeing it again reminds me how good this band was at the time it was recorded. Their performance also benefits from the unpolished style that the footage was shot in; I still enjoy the look of it.
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Will not work X2, so upset!
5 stars for U2, -2 two stars for we had to return this twice and Amazon.com wants to give us back our money the third time. I still want this so bad, we tried 3 home DVD players and two PC's DVD drives with no luck at all. I'd take an old DVD version, if I didn't know that the re-mastered version so much better. I'm going to to FRY's or Best Buy, thanks for trying Amazon.com.
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Grainy but Excellent Sound -- Disappointing Overall
Just bought this DVD -- first I have to echo what several others have said: the grain on this video is BAD! Guess I had to see it for myself to believe it.
I still have my VHS tape of this concert, and I did a side-by-side comparison of tape to DVD. I don't think there's a person alive who could deny that my 17-year old videotape looks better than the DVD image. Sure, VHS tape is never going to be video perfection -- BUT the fact remains that the DVD quality is noticably worse. The lower image quality is noticable right away even during the host's introduction of U2.
What could account for this image degradation? A few possibilities: 1) the tape itself has deteriorated. I consider this unlikely, as I assume (hope) they stored the tape safely. 2) the DVD is revealing more clearly the inherent flaws in the original tape. This is possible, but my DVD set of "Barney Miller" looks just fine and that was a TV show from the late 70's! 3) The producers did a piss-poor job with this DVD transfer. I believe this to be the most likely reason.
Of course, they butchered "Electric Co." as many others have noted. I was disappointed but not surprised about this one -- I think they figure "why bother paying for song use rights when this issue will only be noticed by a relatively small number of customers?"
Why do I still give it 3 stars? The SOUND is much improved, as expected, which is critical since the CD version is a measly 8 songs, most of which did NOT come from the Red Rocks concert. Also, this DVD does include several more songs than the VHS version so those are great to have.
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About time...and beautifully restored!
This concert at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre was a defining moment in U2's history. Everything about it was just at the right time. It was 1983 and the War album was riding the charts...MTV showed an abridged version of their set, and now a full 25 years later the entire concert is available at last on DVD. The picture quality is super, though it revelas a few of the technological flaws of video back then...there is the inevitable trail from some of the lights that looks like wires across the sky, but that does very little to detract from what this show was all about: the music. Their energy, their presence (and how young they looked) and the fact that they added 5 more songs to the originally aired program make this package well worth the long wait. I hadn't realized this hadn't been released on DVD until I had purchased a couple of their other concert collections. This was the big one...the one that blew things wide open and showed the world this was a band who'd be around for a long time to come. The deluxe versions of the early albums and The Joshua Tree are must-have material for any real U2 fan wanting all the extra music in one place. My only complaint about the CD & DVD collection would be that the CD is still the eight-song version and not all 19 tracks, but it's a minor one...all 19 songs are on the DVD to enjoy. Now, if they'll update The Unforgettable Fire, I'll be really pleased too!
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Video quality
I am huge U2 fan, but I have to say, I was shocked when I put this DVD in my player to watch. I love the sound, but I just can't get past the fact that for some cameras angles, on most of the songs, the video has streaks/lines going thru the entire screen. If these are lines that were the result of the method used to tape the show, fine. However, one would think if they transferred the original video to a digital copy, that they could tidy up the lines and remove most of them (or cover them up with color that matches the background?).
Can someone confirm that this is the way the DVD looks, or is it possible I purchased a bad DVD?
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Can anyone help with this
I just purchased the cd/dvd combo but when i played the dvd i noticed some red lines on my screen? is this normal for the type of recording that they did for this concert? I would just like to know? If anyone can help it will be great!
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U2 explodes onto the American scene
I'm one of those old timers who saw U2 back on the WAR tour--not, unfortunately, at Red Rocks, but at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. When I watch this DVD and look at those fresh-faced kids in the audience--especially the ones being interviewed before the show, I see myself and my friends at the very same age. Like them, I remember eagerly anticipating what I hoped would be "an excellent concert," as the kid in the 'do-rag so wonderfully--and accurately--predicts.
For years, I've been trying to put my finger on what it was that amazed me so much about my first U2 concert, and this DVD has finally helped me figure it out: I went to see a band with one hit ("New Year's Day"), and I left the show feeling like I'd seen the greatest band of all time. (Twenty five years later, I wonder if I was right.)
Although "I Will Follow" had reportedly gotten some airplay in America before the WAR tour, I had never heard it, and I'd venture to guess that most American kids who went to see the WAR tour were just like me: They only knew "New Year's Day," and they were just hoping for a decent show by what appeared to be an exciting new band. What we got--and what this DVD shows so beautifully--was an entire evening of incredible music--no "filler" whatsoever--performed by a positively electrifying group of guys who seemed like they'd been doing this forever. (Other reviewers have taken cheap shots at Bono's mullet, but I admit to thinking it was extremely cool at the time.) Even though we'd never heard any of these songs before, we stomped and cheered for multiple encores.
Today, everybody knows what a great concert U2 delivers. Back at Red Rocks, no one knew what to expect, but we all got, as this DVD shows, the total U2 experience. Whatever U2 has now, they undeniably had it back then, too--and no one who saw them in those days needed a crystal ball to predict their future. The older I get, the more concerts I've seen, the luckier I feel to have witnessed U2 on the WAR tour.
Don't hesitate to buy this DVD. Without exaggerating, this is rock & roll at its best.
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No..no the cut the middle of "Electric co.
Finally..finally i was waiting years for the DVD..i was the only one who had the tv version on video which had songs not on the original VHS and "The Electric Co" was one..WHY DID THEY EDIT THE SONG HERE!!! the whole "send in the clowns" middle was cut!!! why?? they can't say..malfuction..I HAD IT AND IT'S ON YOU TUBE, this is why my family and i are so fed up with new DVD releases. They think we are all fools and would not notice the cuts. I'm sending mine back. That's why only two stars..would have been 50 stars but they had to cut stuff..un-real.
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The Height of Their Powers
This is a great DVD, although I wasn't aware of the butchering of The Electric Co, incidentally the best song on Boy and my personal fave.
Too bad - all over royalties?
Anyway, if you're a fan of the Boy album, as I am, and have been waiting for years to see these songs performed live, this is it.
An Cat Dubh, Twilight, A Day Without Me, I Will Follow, Out of Control - all here.
An Cat Dubh - what a phenomenal tune - takes me back to 1980.
Or was it 1979?
Not to mention Party Girl and the great 11 o'clock Tick-Tock.
And The Electric Co still sizzles with The Edge laying down those ending power chords over and over, waiting for Bono to get back on stage and finish the song proper.
Catch Bono muffing the end of the first verse with the "spoon fed" lyric from the second verse instead of "shout, shout your insides out."
Well worth the $14.99 the local Best Buy is charging.
Somebody try something quick.
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