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Cant explain, no pun intended
The dvd is amazing purchase, and hard to belive that people are actully selling it for under 7 dollars. The dvd package is great, the speical features are really worthwhile. The story lacks, but the live performances were a treat. I found in interviews, they are annoying and seemed to be drugged out of there minds. Couldnt they find better interviews? This dvd is a great buy, but if you want a complete story on a band-check out the Beatles anthology. The speical features on the Beatles lack, making the Who's speical features the winner. Anther problem I had is who did this band make it for over 14 years? They never seemed to talk to one anther, Pete Townshend hogged all the spotlight, Keith Moon interupted basically all interviews and said a wise remark; I wondered if Moon suffered for ADD or just was crazy like that.

A Patchwork Masterpiece
At last, at last, at last! It is wonderful beyond words for a Who fan to have this film restored to its original length. All the little interview snippets that Jeff Stein had interwoven between the big segments acted as filmic grace notes, so it's great to have them back. Also welcome is the restoration of the complete mini-opera from the Stone's R&R Circus.

The DVD is both less and more than the original film was. The hi-def rendering makes the old b/w footage seem even grainier than it did on the theatrical release's celluloid. (The Producer's Cut, as someone on an interview track calls it!) Plus, since no one seems to have kept a whole negative, the film had to be reassembled from parts again, many of which had deteriorated over the years.

But all that is like the wrinkles in a piece of leather: the flaws give it character. There's the film itself, Jeff Stein's impressionistic montage of The Who. Given that there's little footage of their early 70s peak, and no Quadruphenia material at all, it's still impressive how amazingly great the band is onscreen.

Okay, no need to plug the film; any given Who fan will have most of it committed to memory anyway. But if you're new to the DVD, there's plenty of goodies here. On one feature, Jeff Stein and an interviewer voiceover the whole film, reminiscing and commenting as each segment unreels. The producer tells the tangled tale of how the film was re-produced for the DVD. And joy of joys, there are the bonus footage tracks. These are not additional music clips, but are the Shepperton sequences, with the individual camera angles broken out separately. So, if you are a big Entwistle fan, you can select the Oxcam and enjoy his formidable prestidigitation on "Baba O'Riley" and Won't Get Fooled Again" uninterrupted from start to finish. Indeed, Entwistle gets spotlighted in a couple of isolated audio tracks from Shepperton. It too is wonderful, showing him flailing his Alembic bass. His sound is like a boxer working over a speed bag, as he lays down a cacophany of 32nd notes, and then hauls off for a killer bottom string note. It's of much more than just historical interest.

The Who's place in rock history is secure, thanks in no small part to this lovingly restored landmark film. If a rockumentary can ever become an heirloom, then this is the one. And, with so many second-hand copies in circulation, although you may not be able to "afford" Keith Moon, you can certainly afford this!

My Favorite DVD
I am a college student going on 21 years old and I seem to have missed my time when it comes to rock music. I have listened to the Who since I was about 8 because (thank God) my parents were big fans, of Tommy in particular. But, until I saw this DVD I never knew how incredible a rock band the Who really was. You can listen to the albums all you like and they are good in their own right, but like my History of Rock n Roll professor says, "The best way to learn about the Who is just to see them" (we watched the DVD in class). The amount of emotion in their performances (especially the later ones) is incredible. I bought the Special Edition DVD about a month ago and have watched it about 15 times. I still get goosebumps every time I see the pre-dawn Woodstock footage of See Me, Feel Me (a version FAR superior to that of the studio album) because of the absolute RAW EMOTION in Townshend's guitar work and Daltrey's singing (Moon and Entwistle provide an incredible driving rhythm as always). But it isn't limited to that track, every single song is great. I would recommend buying this DVD to everyone who likes the Who, but ESPECIALLY to those of us who (by no fault of our own) were not blessed enough to be able to see the band live.

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