- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Exempt
- Studio: One Little Indian
- DVD Release Date: 17 Oct 2005
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000BC8SEM
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 66,403 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
I love these guys. I have all of their cds (my favorites being 'Exile on Coldharbour Lane' and 'Outlaw') and would love to see them perform live. Since I live in the United States I do not know if I will get the chance to see them perform live. Thus this DVD helps me to see what I have been missing out on. Larry Love and D. Wayne are hilarious on the Alabama 3 albums and it is great to see them perform live. The performance quality is also excellent. I wish that someday Alabama 3 would gain the international popularity that they deserve because I would like for them to release many more albums and possibly tour the United States. I would recommend buying this DVD as it is very well done.
Firstly, I'm on the back cover. Secondly, the gig was much better than the DVD. Thirdly, this just under half the length of the gig itself. Not that that matters.
With a career wide set - no historical revisionism here - they offer a Greatest Hits Platter that pleases everyone and no one. A moshpit of sychronised Grandad dancing for "Hypo Full Of Love" erupts into some Morton Rave 1992 Flashback during the encores, as the entire room wobbles as one.
The central schtick - of techno cowboys transplanted to urban Brixton - is born of love, a sense of the theatric and the absurd, that makes one realise that you can tell the truth most clearly in the midst of a great lie. "Star Wars" says more about George Lucas' beliefs than the essays of a thousand academics. Alabama 3 - by becoming the improbable - by living the Outlaw myth, not of being outside the law by definition, but by following their own moral code - are The Outsiders in the classic tradition. Aware of the absurdities of the life we take for granted and seeing this world for the Grand Conceit that it actually is. As we try to reach God with our skyscrapers, the further we fall from the spiritual in our quest.
Rooted in all of this, their moral sense, the one that recognises laws as means of control and maintaining the status quo as opposed to providing moral guidelines, burns brighter than a thousand suns. Alabama 3 see themselves as, quite rightly, saviours, aiming for the Glory Bound Train, uniting their disciples in a fiercely moral (yet never po-faced) set that, if it were believed by more, would change the way the world is, because it could, just could, change the way people see the world. And that's enough hyperbole.
Great music brings people together. Dance To Techno as the classic-retro-futuristic leanings of their army of bleeps accompany a Blue soundtrack from the year 3012. Or something. I don't know what it is, but I like it.
With a career wide set - no historical revisionism here - they offer a Greatest Hits Platter that pleases everyone and no one. A moshpit of sychronised Grandad dancing for "Hypo Full Of Love" erupts into some Morton Rave 1992 Flashback during the encores, as the entire room wobbles as one.
The central schtick - of techno cowboys transplanted to urban Brixton - is born of love, a sense of the theatric and the absurd, that makes one realise that you can tell the truth most clearly in the midst of a great lie. "Star Wars" says more about George Lucas' beliefs than the essays of a thousand academics. Alabama 3 - by becoming the improbable - by living the Outlaw myth, not of being outside the law by definition, but by following their own moral code - are The Outsiders in the classic tradition. Aware of the absurdities of the life we take for granted and seeing this world for the Grand Conceit that it actually is. As we try to reach God with our skyscrapers, the further we fall from the spiritual in our quest.
Rooted in all of this, their moral sense, the one that recognises laws as means of control and maintaining the status quo as opposed to providing moral guidelines, burns brighter than a thousand suns. Alabama 3 see themselves as, quite rightly, saviours, aiming for the Glory Bound Train, uniting their disciples in a fiercely moral (yet never po-faced) set that, if it were believed by more, would change the way the world is, because it could, just could, change the way people see the world. And that's enough hyperbole.
Great music brings people together. Dance To Techno as the classic-retro-futuristic leanings of their army of bleeps accompany a Blue soundtrack from the year 3012. Or something. I don't know what it is, but I like it.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
I'm really happy I bought this. Really goes to show that there are some really great performers left. You really have to listen to the well timed, one lined, punch lines of D Wayne, he has me in fits. As for the rest of the band they are all excellent, and it looks like they really are comfortable being so physically close to the audience, and that's what makes a great gig. I didn't realize that Rock Freebase was such a great influence, he sure does know how to play the Tele, and the Harp player, jeez he was blowing some nice notes, in the meantime the drums, percussion,bass, and keyboards keep everything nice and tight, and Larry and D Wayne entertain, and are spurred on by the crowd and great backing vocals...damned shame I was n't there!!! Next time though.......
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