Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux, 2005 [Blu-ray]
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Actor: Alice CooperBrand: RED Distribution
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2006-10-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Eagle Rock Ent
Blu-ray Reviews of Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux, 2005 [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Welcome To My Nightmare
Summary: 3 Stars
In some of my other music DVD reviews, I take the tact of applying a set of standards to a release and establishing how the DVD in question measures up. Let me say in advance that when I take this tact, it usually means that I was disappointed in the release. Such is the case with Alice Cooper Live at Montreux 2005.
A memo should go out to all bands and music DVD producers that says at minimum: "1) Music DVD's should be produced to the highest standards. 2) The musical performances within should represent the talent that made the studio recorded CDs sell. 3) Theatrics are very cool too, as long as you can pull them off without deterioration in the quality of the music."
Let's break it down then for Live at Montreux:
1 - "Music DVD's should be produced to the highest standards." - The picture quality in Live at Montreux is outstanding. It's a high-def recording that is stunning in its clarity. Unfortunately, the director has chosen to indulge in what he feels is "cool production" versus giving the viewer a front row seat to the performance. The visual often jumps around similar to the music video format of "4 seconds then cut to another view". In fact there are segments where I couldn't count 2 seconds off before the camera angle switches. It was like staring at a strobe light. This made for a viewing experience that ruined the illusion of having a front row seat to the show.
However, the Welcome To My Nightmare theatric 4-song medley was an exception to this abomination. The director must have become as captivated as I was, because the shots actually lasted long enough to take them in before changing angles.
The sound is great in Dolby 5.1. You get your choice between Dolby Stereo, Dolby 5.1 or DTS. Dolby 5.1 actually sounded better than DTS on my Surround system.
2 - "The musical performances within should represent the talent that made the studio recorded CDs sell." - The guys prior to hitting the stage must have huddled and committed to each other to go out and play the music true to the studio versions of the songs. All of the tracks on Live in Montreux are performed precisely. Alice still sounds the same way he did in the 70s. Absolutely amazing.
Eric Singer is one talented drummer...too bad his great drum solo on this DVD is visually chopped to pieces by the video strobing effect. The director needs to watch Eric in Kiss' Rock The Nation DVD; that's a DVD done right productionwise.
The other hired-help musicians were also quite good. Like I said, musical performances that mirrored the original recordings.
One other note is that a live performance includes getting the audience charged up. Man, did this audience ever need charging up! They were zombies. The first 3 rows occasionally looked excited, but the rest of the audience was absolutely dead by the 8th song and there are 27 songs. Either Alice made a very poor choice of venue to record at (The Montreux Jazz Festival), or please just remind me never to go to a concert in Switzerland. The zero audience energy indeed negatively affects the viewing experience.
3 - "Theatrics are very cool too, as long as you can pull them off without deterioration in the quality of the music." - The theatrics were great! Alice included a lot of cool stuff that he did in the 70s (the guillotine, the coffin, the dancer), and the band performed the songs to perfection. These guys were all on tonight. Alice did his theatrical magic; it made it a better show and the music sounded great.
All in all...it's a very good performance with a very very distracting choice in video production. The second to second video cuts took what was close to a 5 star release down to a visual headache....Yes, it's really that bad.
If you are or ever were an Alice Cooper fan, and you've been waiting for a high quality Alice Cooper audio/video release...this is it. If you have strobe induced Epilepsy, by all means skip this.
Side Note: This is the Blu-ray page for this release and will only play in Blu-Ray DVD players. Search Amazon again for the standard DVD format release if you've stumbled in here by accident.
Description of Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux, 2005 [Blu-ray]
Alice CooperÂ?s live shows are legendary for their sense of rock theater and sheer visual spectacle. This latest addition to our range of titles from the renowned Montreux Festival catches Alice Cooper at his very best. Underpinning the visual assault has always been a collection of some of the best rock songs around delivered by one of the all-time great frontmen. This show includes tracks from across his career right up to most recent album Dirty Diamonds, and incorporating all the classics you would expect.Tracklisting
1. Department of Youth 2. No More Mr. Nice Guy 3. Dirty Diamonds 4. Billion Dollar Babies 5. Be My Lover 6. Lost in America 7. I Never Cry 8. Woman of Mass Distraction 9. IÂ?m Eighteen 10. Between High School & The Old School 11. What Do You Want From Me 12. Is It My Body 13. Go To Hell 14. The Black Widow 15. Gimme 16. Feed My Frankenstein 17. Welcome to My Nightmare 18. The Awakening 19. Steven 20. Only Women Bleed 21. Ballad of Dwight Fry 22. Killer 23. I Love the Dead 24. SchoolÂ?s Out 25. Poison 26. Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills 27. Under My Wheels
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