Grateful Dead - View from the Vault II
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Actor: Grateful DeadDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 225 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WEA/Rhino
DVD Reviews of Grateful Dead - View from the Vault II
DVD Review: not what i expected
Summary: 3 Stars
This DVD didn't deliver what I'd expected. The music is fine, sound quality/mix o.k., there are times when things click and groove -- it's a representative show, if plodding at points. I've listened to this DVD several times but watching it made me restless. I saw several shows from the mid '80s to the end of the run. The experience of being at a show -- the people, the colors (the clothes, not the people!), the unpredictable but usually rewarding performance, hearing a favorite tune or enjoying an energetic or inspired improvisation -- was what I'd hope to recall through the DVD. I was at this show. I think Dwight Yoakam may have opened, which was excellent if under-appreciated. My beef -- visually it's too tight on the band, too much of the deer-in-the-headlights head shots of Bruce, of Phil's lovehandles, Bob spitting at the mic, Jerry's hair blowing solar-flare like and poignantly quivering lip as he stumbles through some lyrics, Bill chewing gum, mickey looking sweaty and diabolical. Up close, too close, these guys seem old and not-so-together, noodling through the tunes. And thus a big thing missing from the dead show experience is the light show -- the camera was so tight on the band it misses the spectacle of the lights, always a compelling part, maybe the only compelling part of their stage presence. The visual 'effects' that are added... are downright cheesy and an unwelcome distraction. What I'd hoped to get from the video was a sense of what it was like to be at a show. The fact that the dead were often stock-still performers may have had something to do with the fact that it was about the music and the rapport with the audience, the rise and fall. The scene cuts are rough, the shots of the band members downright unflattering, seems roughcut and amateurish, and not in an indie-film way. I'll hang on to this DVD to remind me of what I miss, but in the future I'll spend money on the music and rely on memory for the visuals, also the 'extras' on the DVD menu, on the venue, the band, etc. are flat or nothing special. I agree with others that the add-on at the end, of the previous year's second set with Brent, makes me wish that show was the DVD I'd bought, something darker, charged, rougher (same cheesy effects intervene), growlier, amazing what a year did to Jerry (Brent's dilated-eyed but energetic contributions are engaging and chilling). This is a fan's product, not for the uninitiated. In fact, it sort of made me, a fan, wonder (just a little) why I'd been so into deadshows all those years...
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