DVDylan ID: D013 (http://dvdylan.com/dvd/D013)
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Recording type: ProShot
CONTENTS
Peace Sunday (6-Jun-82)
Verona, Italy (5/28-29/84)
Hamburg, Germany (31-May-84)
Barcelona, Spain (28-Jun-84)
Live Aid (13-Jul-85)
Farm Aid Rehearsal Clip (9/85)
Farm Aid I (22-Sep-85)
Number of discs: 1
* Technical Specs *
Video:
Codec: MPEG-2
Format: NTSC
Duration: 02:00:28
Frames/Sec: 29.970
Date Rate: 6200 kpbs
Frame Size: 720 x 480
Ratio: 1.333 (4:3)
Audio:
Codec: AC3 / Dolby 2.0
Quality: 48000Hz 256 kb/s total (2 channels)
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DVD Reviews #1:
I love this disc. Lots of great footage from the 1984 tour plus two of my fave
Bob TV appearances: LIVE AID and
FARM AID I.
Never really have understood the negative responses to the LIVE AID performance.
My only complaint is that I would have
loved to have heard Ronnie & Keith singing a little background.
And FARM AID I? Bob rocking out with the best band of his career. These guys
fit each other perfectly! (Wish he would've
left the female chorus behind though!)
Four stars.
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DVD Review #2:
D013 is another of those discs with something of an identity crisis. Part historical
document, part entertainment
package, it ends up not quite either one or the other. By chance, the discís
contents fall exactly into two 53
minute halves and the second of these, comprising the Barcelona ë84 footage,
Live Aid and Farm Aid, is very
watchable - also, provided you can dig Live Aid, thoroughly enjoyable too. But
no DVD that includes six Blowing
In The Winds (several Santana-ridden to boot) deserves too much praise. I think
if thereíd been another at Farm
Aid that would have been TV, player and disc out the window, and possibly me
soon after.
Peace Sunday starts with Baez bringing on ìRobertî. This 13 minutes
of 1982 footage is easy on the eye, but
sound is poor. God On Our Side is snipped in three places, most noticeably at
the end (closing punch line lost).
Pirate Looks sounds like the kind of song you ought to like, except that itís
difficult to discern just what itís
supposed to be about. Then thereís Wind 1. On to 22 minutes of Italian
TV coverage of Verona ë84. Lovely close
pro-shot footage of D singing Times is spoiled by bad sound. Watchtower, LARS
and Wind 2 suffer similarly -
good pics but sound poor-to-grim. Four or five minutes of press-conference footage
is over-dubbed in Italian so
that nothing of the original exchanges can be heard. On to Hamburg and 18 minutes
from German TV: Wind 3,
end of LARS + band intros then finally first reward of this disc - a fine Hattie
Carroll (first verse missing) in good
aural/visual shape. Wind 4 plus a truncated Tombstone Blues close this chapter.
I suppose you can understand why itís the same songs every time. You
can imagine each local producer, his
largely non-D audience in mind, issuing his orders: Bring me Wind, Stone, WatchtowerÖ
and, er, what else has he
done?? No surprise, then that first up on Spanish TV is another LARS. But from
now on sound and image are first-
rate, so suddenly even this is much more the ticket. Whatís more, itís
followed by an absolute treat - a fine
performance, beautifully filmed, of T Man, complete and very special. Then,
for good measure, a full Donít Think
Twice before - can you guess? - yes, Wind 5, but electric this time and sounding
considerably better, with D in
playful mood, singing verses to the crowdís refrain.
Live Aid shows what happens when a man gives his address out to bad companee.
A hyper Jack Nicholson
introduces ìone of Americaís great voices of freedomî who
appears alone, but looking about him in some
anxiety. Eventually two scamps scurry on to join him... You know the rest. Itís
been 15 years since I last saw this
and it sounds better - or maybe that should be clearer - than I remember. D
gets too little contribution from the
aptly-named Wood and too much from Richard. His comments after Hollis Brown
remain - Farm Aid or no - as
inappropriate now as they were in 1985. Ship is ragged and Wind (Wind 6!) worse
still, with the
ìtranscendentî (Nicholson) D losing heart before our eyes. After
a verse or so of the group-hug We Are The
World he scuttles off the stage in senses both literal and metaphorical, having
just, in a great many minds
across the global TV Nation, burned bridges that will never be repaired.
You feel the strength of his Farm Aid performance derives at least in part
from his sense of needing to set
matters right. After the Live Aid debacle, Bob is really up for this. It was
him who set this bull loose and he rides
it for all itís worth. Heís word and tune perfect. The band, too,
have every song down pat. After Shake, he
shares two duets - Iíll Remember You and Trust Yourself - with Madelyn
Quebec. Since she has no more than a
passing acquaintance with either song, her floundering contribution to proceedings
is quaintly funny. Bob,
though, guides her through with effortless good cheer. Maggieís Farm
finishes. (I remember hearing Lucky Old
Sun in this set too, put evidently not broadcast - most annoying!)
Donít expect to much from the first half of this disc and the second
is sure to please. Three stars