Amen - Caught In The Act (DVD)

...(S/T Album)
2. Refuse Amen (We have come for your parents)
3. Justified (We have come for your parents)
4. Piss virus (We have come for your parents)
5. Buy American (Join or die [not a shop release])
6. Whores of hollywood (S/T Album)
7. Drive (S/T Album)
8. The waiting 18 (We have come for your parents)
9. Mayday (We have come for your parents)
10. Gun of a preacher man (Join or die)
...the only member still in Amen is founder/front man/Brains of the operation- Casey Chaos

The DVD has an interview with the band/clips from various points in the tour. A highlight of this special feature is a small clip of the band (minus casey chaos) in a soundcheck playing "Californias bleeding" Last years single, and a track off most recent Amen ablum-Death before musick. Also a Bio of Amen is a special feature on this DVD.
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Track listing:
1. Coma America (S/T Album)
2. Refuse Amen (We have come for your parents)
3. Justified (We have come for your parents)
4. Piss virus (We have come for your parents)
5. Buy American (Join or die [not a shop release])
6. Whores of hollywood (S/T Album)
7. Drive (S/T Album)
8. The waiting 18 (We have come for your parents)
9. Mayday (We have come for your parents)
10. Gun of a preacher man (Join or die)
11. CK Killer (We have come for your parents)
12. Price of reality (We have come for your parents)
ENCORE:
13. Under the robe (We have come for your parents)
14. Heres the poison (We have come for your parents)

Filmed at manchester University, as part of the 2003 "Join or die" tour. Thus the line up is as follows:
Casey: Vocals
Matt aka Pig: Guitar
Rich: Guitar
Scott: Bass
Blake: Drums

In this current day, 2005, the only member still in Amen is founder/front man/Brains of the operation- Casey Chaos

The DVD has an interview with the band/clips from various points in the tour. A highlight of this special feature is a small clip of the band (minus casey chaos) in a soundcheck playing "Californias bleeding" Last years single, and a track off most recent Amen ablum-Death before musick. Also a Bio of Amen is a special feature on this DVD.

The DVD is easy to navigate, you can either watch the concert from begining to end, or select the song you want to see off the setlist and will be taken to the begining of that song.

The performance itself is a typical Amen performance, with chaos throwing himself around stage, winding up the fans and giving it 110%. HOWEVER, the performance has been tainted slightly, by several cheesy effects on the DVD, it would be better as just plain performances.
Mayday, has sound problems in the middle, so you cannot hear casey's vocals...from a microphone problem, which does spoil the song slightly.
A highlight of the DVD is watching many fans jumping in time to "Buy American" and the bands glee as they have control over them! Also Casey gives a pretty good speach in the middle of Drive, and proves he isnt as stupid as some people may think!

As a typical Amen performance, several times Casey jumps off giant amp stacks...a treat to see! He nearly knocks other band members off their feet (and suceeds to once or twice) which is amusing.

The best songs to watch on this DVD have to be Whores of hollywood, the waiting 18 and heres the poison. There is no songs terrible to watch, but id say the first few and last few arent as amusing as the mid few songs, more due to lack of reaction from the crowd than the band itself.

For anyone who's seen amen live, they will realise this DVD never gives the fear you get in your stomach, nor the excitment as front man Chaos appears on stage. BUT it does capture alot of atmosphere for a live DVD, but as i said before cheesy effects sometimes obstructs the view of the concert, slightly spoiling a good performance.

I'd suggest this for people unable to see amen live, and people who want to know what to expect from an Amen gig. But as for fans who have seen this many a time before but in person...it is a slight dissapointment through the DVD companies/producers fault.

The DVD itself, doesnt look too official. Two intresting mistakes are on the back tracklisting. Drive has been called D.R.I.V.E incorrectly. Also for a somewhat weird (and amusing) thing to see is that under the robe, is called under the rope on this DVD.

Personally, id much rather see a raw production of a concert, in which no cheesy effects eclipse the real performances. However, this DVD is still a good buy. 

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