Extras: Band Interviews, Behind the scenes, Fan interviews
Director:
Michael Drumm
Producer:
Steve Schenck
Band:
Eric Bloom: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
Allen Lanier: Keyboards, Guitars
Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser: Guitars, Vocals
Danny Miranda: Bass, Vocals
Bobby Rondinelli: Drums, Percussion
Blue Oyster Cult
- there's only one track which I ever heard from this band and it doesn't
take a genius to work out which one it is.
This concert captures the band recording live in Chicago in June, earlier
this year. Another band from the 70s on the comeback trail, playing to an
expectant crowd and giving them what they want.
Most of the tracks are pretty similar driving guitar-based tunes. They don't
seem to have many that set themselves apart from each other, which probably
explains why there's only one which is reknowned the world over.
The presentation of the concert is nothing to get excited about though as
the band do little else apart from play with their instruments and sing.
There are 21 chapters on the disc, the track listing for which is as follows:
1. Intro
2. Stairway to the Stars
3. Burning For You
4. Odd on Life Itself
5. E.T.I.
6. Dance on Stilts
7. Harvester of Eyes
8. Buck's Boogie
9. Quicklime Girl
10. Flaming Telepaths
11. Harvest Moon
12. Last Days of May
13. Cities on Flame
14. ME 262
15. Perfect Water
16. Lips in the Hills
17. Godzilla
18. Don't Fear the Reaper
19. Dominance and Submission
20. The Red and the Black
21. End Credits
Picture-wise, it's another of those concerts that's been filmed in 16:9
widescreen, but on DVD it's not anamorphic. The same happened to the recent
Shawn Colvin
DVD and shouldn't be happening at all these days. Aside from that, the picture's
colourful and quite well-defined.
The sound is here in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 and rocks well enough.
The extras begin with a 6-minute Behind the scenes piece which shows
backstage preparations and rehearsals taking place, plus 20 minutes of interviews,
mostly from the band, but some from the fans too, before and after the gig.
There are no subtitles on the disc and just one menu, which is static but
features the opening rolling riff from THAT tune again and again and again
and again and again...
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