George Jones - Concert Tribute (DVD)

Advantages: Excellent musical tribute concert
Disadvantages: absent friends

...Excellent Concert held in November 2002 one year after George Harrison's untimely death. Disc One is the complete concert featuring an all star band including Eric Clapton; Ravi & Anoushka Shankar; Billy Preston; Joe and Sam Brown; Jools Holland; fellow ex-Beatles Ringo Starr & Paul McCartney; Travelling Wilburys Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty and Dhani Harrison, looking very much like his father in the 1960s. The vast array of George Harrison's work is featured as well as a wonderfully funny comic interlude by members of Monty Python singing Sit on my Face and The Lumberjack Song. George Formby's I'll See you in my Dreams closes the show. The disc is easy to navigate allowing access to individual songs. Disc Two has the Theatrical Version of the concert along with band rehearsals, Monty Python backstage and interviews with many... Read review

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Advantages: A great tribute. Stellar line-up. Benefits a worthy cause.
Disadvantages: Some of the fashons are now very dated!

...deliver heartfelt and sincere performances from all concerned; because it represents some of the higlights of Queen's music, involving artists spanning a whole generation. --Are there any drawbacks?-- Well, the footage was originally on ordinary television (4:3) format, but has been squeezed into a widescreen format for the DVD - resulting in a loss of some areas of the picture. Some of the songs from the concert are also missing - Robert Plant complained that his voice was not in the best of shape during the live performance, and listening to him sing on the tracks that are present on the DVD, I would have to agree. This resulted in one of his songs, "Innuendo" (one of Queen's finest tracks in my opinion) being deleted from the disc. The inclusion of 80s crooner Paul Young also mystified me. His vocal range was simply inadequate... Read review

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Advantages: will bring back lots of memories, its probably the only time you will see these clebs all together
Disadvantages: the first half is missing!!

...For those of you who remember when freddie died and watched this memorial on t.v. you may be a little disappointed. The original concert was in two halves, the first half was various groups (including metallica, def leopard and extreme) doing a short set each in honor of Freddie Mercury and in support of the charity. The second half was some members of various bands taking their turns to perform queens greatest hits alongside the remaining members of Queen. Well this dvd is only the second half of this concert. All in all it's great veiwing and i challenge anyone who liked Queen's music not to end up humming or even singing along, the perfomances (put together in quite a short space of time) are good (mostly), and its a unique experience to see some of the most unlikely pairings the music world has seen. However I still can't help... Read review

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