The Kids Are Alright RE-DO!!!!! - I bought it from amazon in video format for less than $3.00 I dont expect too much but believe it or not!!!, the box look so neat and clean and when i get the tape out of the box there comes my biggest surprise it s a valuable and hard-to-find booklet!!! very worth for $3.00!!!!!! The booklet is great.My only dissapoint is there re no Baba O riley, Won t Get Fooled Again, and maybe something more on their last two albums. But Otherwise it s great!!!I m so lucky to get this gem for only $3.00 in a nice condition, my school s lunch is $2.50 and it sucks!!!!!!!!!
If you can find it, GET IT. - This was available in DVD a few years ago, but seems to have gone out of print. The piece is a good companion to The Kids Are Alright, as its concert clips don t overlap TKAA at all, and in fact the two complement each other nicely in some cases. It brings the published concert clips up to 1989, the last Who tour before the 30th anniversary mark, and includes some nice Kenney Jones clips. The major omission, in my opinion, is the surviving clips from Live Aid. Sure they sounded rough that day. Sure they hated being in the same arena together. Sure John blew up the preamp in his main bass seconds before going on, and can be heard tuning his backup bass during My Generation. Wouldn t that be fun to see/hear? I think it would...In any case, if you can find the 30 Years DVD, get it by any means necessary. Same goes for the VHS version. You won t regret it.
THE WHO LIVE !!! - This DVD was fantastic, a great trip throu THE WHO S great carer.There is yust some bad things I have to say, I think there shuld have been more WHO with Keith Moon and not so much without him, becaus the real WHO was with Moon I think and thats what I whant to see. And when you see all this great shows you will understand ther must be very much stuff unrelised, so why in Haven and hell dont they give out more of this great stuff????I whant more WHO so I realy hope they will relise much more WHO DVDs wery soon.
The Best Who Video - If you want to watch the Who performing, this is the video to have. The Tanglewood Music Shed performance is SUPERB!!!, then the Isle Of Wight, Holland 1972, the Charlton concert 1974 is AWESOME !!!, the excerpt from the unrealesed movie Who Are You is very interesting, The Chicago Ampiteather concert in 1979 is excellent. A MUST-HAVE for WHO FANS and ROCK fans. The greatest live band ever, and here s their testimony. Nice interviews between set of songs too. PERFECT compilation of WHO live history.Nancy from CA, don t be so funny please. One Star cos you couldn t watch the video cos they sold it to you in bad shape??? what s that please. Such was the need to type a review? Don t Do It if you couldn t see it. Plain and simple.We don t care your stupid story. Watch the video and then talk :-)
Riveting footage - A true Who fan already owns the Jeff Stein classic The Kids Are Alright, but there s ample reason to add Maximum R&B to one s shrine. The difference here is that the band interviews (minus the late Keith Moon) between concert footage show the group in later years, with plenty of reflection and musing over their place in rock and roll pantheon. The songs, culled from sets spanning over two decades, are a good mix of The Who s Mod, Pop Art, and hard rock catalogue, and each performance is riveting.A sample of my favorite moments show how much the band evolved from their debut in 1964: the anarchic jamming of Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (with screaming teenaged audience), to the overdriven pop of So Sad About Us where I could swear John Entwistle s bass sounds like a demonic piano. The best (in my opinion) era is the post-Tommy/Woodstock appearances at Tanglewood and Isle of Wight, where the band burns through Heaven and Hell, I Can t Explain, Water and I Don t Even Know Myself. The abandon and power in The Who s playing was never equalled and seldom surpassed even by the group s later efforts.The later years, of course, show the band getting bigger (chalking up a Guiness world record for attendance at Charleton concert in 1974) yet still game, mixing songs from Quadrophenia with 60 s hits like Substitute. I was surprised at how powerfully they pulled off the Quadrophenia set, loaded as it was with synthesizer tapes and technical booby traps. When The Who rocket through Drowned and Bell Boy it s clear that their chemistry was partly fired by Moon s mania, when he died, something of the old Who died with him. But Maximum R&B is as good as any tribute to this excellent band.