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Grateful Dead - View from the Vault IVRating:
Release Date: 08 April, 2003 Retail Price: $24.95 OUR Price: $22.46 You SAVE: $2.49! Cast: |
Grateful Dead - View from the Vault IV Reviews
BUMMER!
Hey, like you know, there's too much psychedelic swirls and color fuzzy negatives, along with delayed and staggered visuals, and like, man, I can't get to "see" the Dead let alone be distracted by these visual effects, man! I don't need to drag out the bong for this one, man. Hey, like what's happenin' man? Who put the stash in the DVD player and lit it?
Seriously folks, there's too much effort put into this one regarding visual effects rather than more effort to focus on the Dead and its music. Good choice of songs, good performances, but WHY WHY WHY - do we need all of that visual stuff? It sort of spoils it!
I've reviewed a few Dead media (Books, tapes, and DVDs - look em up if you liked this one!) and most of them very favorably - now that might sound kind of slanted, but here we have a DVD that is way beyond the pale regarding special effects. C'mon guys, enough of the eye candy, huh?!!
This Will Be On All Available Dead Videos
I guess there are 2 types of fans of the Grateful Dead: Deadheads (really diehard types that would enjoy the video even if the quality was at a half a star, and the Dead were having an off night). Then there are non-Deadheads (casual fans that want the best concerts available of that group). I have all available Dead videos (didn't get GD movie - waited a little too long), and love them all (guess which type of fan I am). To the non-Deadhead fans, I would say get The Closing of Winterland, Downhill from Here, and (maybe because of Bruce Hornsby) View from the Vault 2. Then continue your quest for the perfect concert video (my personal choice is a toss up between The Last Waltz, and Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense).
Now. For the Deadicated, Deadhead fans, I would recommend anything & everything available (including Grateful Dawg). Forget the reviews from some of the others about the cheesie psychadelic effects, forget the comments of "this concert wasn't as good as", and forget the "it was better live becase they edited" comments. When it comes to Garcia and The Grateful Dead (in the illustrious words of Robert Hunter)"Like a Steam Locomotive Rolling Down the Track. He's Gone, He's Gone and Nothings Gonna Bring Him Back" so enjoy what's out there. Kudos to Monterey Home Video for making these concerts available.
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