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Business Stationary Mart - U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $39.99
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Manufacturer: Polygram Video
Starring: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., U2
Directed By: Gavin Taylor
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302043235
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302043239
Label: Polygram Video
Manufacturer: Polygram Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Polygram Video
Release Date: 1991-05-01
Running Time: 55
Studio: Polygram Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1983-11
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Summary: The Height of Their Powers
Comment: 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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Summary: A Brilliant Post Punk Coda-An Old Fan's Review.
Comment: Having been a U2 fan since Boy, the '79-'83 period for me is what U2 is all about..and this dvd sums it all up..I started to lose interest w/ Unforgettable Fire in '84 (although "Wire" is one of my fave U2 songs) and now have zero interest from anything past Rattle and Hum. I am a fan of a certain period of U2 plain and simple..
..That said, The Red Rocks dvd is essential for the fans of this specific post punk-Stiff Little Fingers-influenced U2 period (some of you may not have a clue to what I'm on about)...
Their 1983 performance here is astounding and truly sincere, I forgot how exciting they were live..tons of balls, way better than the vhs I have of them supporting SLF in Belfast in 1980. The dvd mix is big with alot of punch...the video to me is excellent...shot in 1983 remember. Tube cameras = those squiggly lines....if you have a problem w/ non-digital film then this is not for you and your $12M entertainment center, it sounds and looks amazing on my $13M system.
...Also regarding Electric Co....I don't put U2 on a pedestal...I've been w/ them since day one and I love their 1st 3 LPs and early 7"s...to me they're one of many great (Euro) punk influenced bands of that dark/edgy period along w/ Magazine, Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Joke, etc.. If your world is based around the 'iconic' hero-worship image of Bono climbing to sing Send in the Clowns then do not get this..I personally prefer this edit, could care less, would rather hear the song uninterrupted and see the band kicking @$$ instead, they did a great editing job, not a problem to me..but what do I know....
Overall the Red Rocks dvd documents the end of an era for U2...young and hungry post punk out...80's self importance fluff in...If this was the performance I saw in '85 then the Red Rockers would not have blown them away that night, probably the reason the Red Rockers were replaced as support that tour w/ Lone Justice!!!....get this dvd!
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Summary: Didn't they mean DE-graded picture?
Comment: I've waited years for this to hit DVD officially.
I've bought a bootleg DVD sourced from the laserdisc.....and I also transferred my VHS tape onto DVD.
Both of these versions look better (clearer, cleaner) than the 'official' DVD release.
What a let down! I really don't understand it. WHY? WHY? WHY?
5 stars for the performance/film......1 star for the reissue.
Buy a bootleg on eBay instead.
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Summary: The Climbing scene
Comment: Without having gotten the DVD yet, and after reading someone else's comment. All that I have to say is that is a shame they edited all the climbing scene during Cry/The Electric Co.
Those who have watched or listen to bootlegs concerts from the early days, know that climbing until the top of the stage was the part of the show that excite the crow the most. Bono and his famous stunts that ended on a fight in a LA show back in 1983.
About the grainy stuff. C'omon, cameras were not the same back in 1983 and who had thought back them that we would have DVD and LCD tvs now in 2008.
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Summary: Grainnnny
Comment: The concert was great however the quality wasn't good. My backup copy I made on DVD from the original VHS is better clarity and quality than the version I just bought, how is that possible? lol It looked like it was downloaded from the internet 2nd generation, mpeg2 quality. Was counting down the days till this release, the extra songs were cool but the grain was too much for me:(
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