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GUNS N ROSES - Live In Lisoba 2006 (DVD)
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Written by Mark Reed
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Welcome to the unofficial live DVD baby!
If you absolutely have to experience the new lineup of GNR on DVD, this is currently your only choice. However it is not, by any means, officially sanctioned product and does not reflect the high quality standard of previous GNR live releases.
A 90 minute pro-shot webcast available after the event on AOL, this broadcast has been recompiled and put onto a DVD. It's good, its bad, and it's ugly. Good? The band performance is worthy of the GNR name and the material is executed flawlessly with passion and power. This new lineup GNR are easily the equal of the previous, better-known Slash years.
Bad? Well, the swearing has been reversed on the vocal track, so the numerous F-bombs from Axl's mouth all sound like "WHUP OFF!". Audio production on some songs is not immaculate - especially "Live And Let Die". Guitar solos are mixed down on a couple occasions and the vocal track is barely audible on some songs. What is worse is that this is taken from the streaming re-broadcast of the set : no matter what the packaging says, it does not contain "IRS", "The Blues", "better", or any of the between song jams (such as a cover of a James Brown song).
The ugly? Well, aside from a low bit rate quality visual which is soft, blocky, and compressed - thus, lacking in detail, looking cheap and muddy, there is also an enormous logo on the picture at all times. Why do they do this?
Overall, the performance gets a 9/10. The band are fresh, the lineup acquit themselves with aplomb and are severely under-rated, but deserve better than this illegitimate product that misleads the buyer, misses songs, has a low quality bootleg transfer and an intrusive, huge "TV ROCK" logo that dominates the bottom right of the screen.Only registered users can write comments.
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