Live in Toronto

Live in Toronto

Live in Toronto

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Actor: Blondie
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, DVD, Import, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Immortal

DVD Reviews of Live in Toronto

DVD Review: Blondie "Live in Toronto" Outstanding 1982 Vintage Blondie Performing at Their Best!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

SIMPLY OUTSTANDING!!! You get 11 great songs. This concert was filmed on August 18, 1982. In this line-up of Blondie, you get the founding members: Debbie Harry on lead vocals, Chris Stein on guitar, Clem Burke on drums, and Jimmy Destri on organ/keyboards, along with non-founding members: Nigel Harrison on bass guitar (He replaced Gary Valentine), and a super great guitar player- Frank Infante.

The songs are as folows:
1. Rapture
2. Island of Lost Souls
3. Danceway
4. The Tide is High
5. Heart of Glass
6. Dreaming
7. One way or Another
8. War Child
9. Start Me Up (The Rolling Stones Classic)
10.Call Me

This is a great one, and a "must-have" for any Blondie fan (and I'm a Blondie fan), because in this one you get to see Blondie in their "prime".
Thanks, and may God Bless!!!

DVD Review: DEBBIE'S A BETTER PERFORMER NOW
Summary: 3 Stars

I'm amazed that there are reviewers on this page who prefer this to the 1999 concert. For freeze-frames of Debbie looking gorgeous, I'd rate this pretty high. But her vocals are not at their best here. Her growth as an artist since 1982 has been astounding. If her wrinkles keep you from recognizing that, you never really got her to begin with.

DVD Review: A TERRIFIC PEAK BACK WHEN BLONDIE WAS BLONDIE....!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Having seen other available Blondie dvd "live concerts", i have to say this is the best one. The 1999 concert in New York was dreadful!! They all looked fat, frumpy, bored, and not really into their music. The Blondie Live 1978 is an exact duplicate of Blondie Live - The best of Musikladen. And not that great of a concert. In the Blondie Live by Request - they all looked and sounded terrible - it felt and looked like a new try after 10 years in rehab to make some money to pay those medical bills.

Lets face it, Blondie was amazing in the 60's 70's and this concert in 1982 was just about at the end of the dream. The best part of the dvd starts with Heart of Glass, followed by Hanging on the telephone, Dreaming, One way or another, War Child, a great version of Start me up, and finishing with Call me. I get the feeling that more music could have been added to this dvd and i dont know why not.

The audience was very large and mixed ages from 7 to 70 who all were jumping up and down and loving every minute of it. Debbie was amazing and when she was performing she looked like she was having fun. She could be trashy and then classy again in a blink of an eye.

Personally i wished they never tried to make a comeback after this dvd....it just doesnt work.

As far as the sound and picture quality, this dvd is just fine. I also have the VHS tape and the dvd has much better quality sound and picture. I have to laugh at some who complain the sound/picture from a live 1982 concert isnt absolutely perfect. If one goes through life always expecting perfection, one will always experience dissapointment.

Buy this dvd, Blondie Greatest Video Hits, and The Greatest Hits Sound and Vision - thats all you need.

DVD Review: End Of An Era
Summary: 4 Stars

This review is about a month overdue since seeing Blondie in Baltimore, MD about five weeks ago on the Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary Tour. I watched this concert a couple of times prior and I could see more than ever how Blondie have come full circle. Recorded live in August of 1982, I can still remember when HBO aired this concert on my 13th birthday and seeing Debbie riding up on the elevator to an arena of cheering fans. This was Blondie's last dance before the budding musical tastes of American pop culture were to change again. Despite Chris Stein's declining health and Debbie reaching a burnout phase due to mounting tensions within the group, Blondie put on a great show and the added sax players enhance their sound quite nicely. The highpoint is "Heart of Glass" through "War Child," and even the weaker moments are not that terrible now by virtue of "Island of Lost Souls" never really holding up with most fans anyway, plus they encore with "Start Me Up," which I had dismissed as lame many years back, but now I see how Blondie value the Rolling Stones as an timeless rock inspiration. They included "Paint It Black" in their encore two years ago at a Buffalo, NY show, and ended their set with "Get Off Of My Cloud," during the Baltimore show. Blondie did define a time in music history from the emergence of New Wave in 1978 to the night they performed this very show in Tornoto, and called it quits not long after, but history has given Debbie and the band a second coming as trendsetters in pop, punk, and even classic rock, and this video illustrates the style Blondie created making it a must for both Blondie and music fans alike.

DVD Review: Blondie Live In: The Grainy DVD
Summary: 3 Stars

This DVD release is awful!
Immortal DVD should be ashamed. I have owned this concert on two other VHS releases and they both looked way better than this DVD.

My original 1984 Mono VHS of this looks entirely better.
This DVD looks like it was transfered from VHS and not taken from the original footage that was used for the HBO special this was filmed for.

The only reason I give this release 3 stars is becuase it contains 3 audio options:
2.0 Surround
5.1 Surround
DTS Surround

It sounds awesome but looks crappy.
There are other DVD releases of this concert out there. Get those instead.

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