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Live at Red Rocks [Remastered] | ![Live at Red Rocks [Remastered]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EyY1Lv9kL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: U2
Actor: U2
Studio: Island
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
Buy New: $14.99
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 4692
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Live, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.4
MPN: 001098109
UPC: 602517642836
EAN: 0602517642836
ASIN: B0017F65AG
Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 2008
Release Date: September 30, 2008
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Description
Recorded at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on 5th June 1983, Live at Red Rocks will be available for the first time on DVD, and will include 5 previously unreleased songs, a director's commentary, digitally re-graded pictures and a 5.1 mix. 1. Out Of Control 2. Twilight 3. An Cat Dubh 4. Into The Heart 5. Surrender 6. Two Hearts Beat As One 7. Seconds 8. Sunday Bloody Sunday 9. Cry 10.The Electric Co. 11. October 12. New Year's Day 13. I Threw A Brick Through A Window 14. A Day Without Me 15. Gloria 16. Party Girl 17. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 18. I Will Follow 19. "40"
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| Customer Reviews: Read 55 more reviews...
 Great concert, but has some nasty edits. December 15, 2008
Steve S. (Pennsylvania, USA)
Fans of the original VHS release of this concert will be thrilled at the inclusion of additional songs on the DVD from BOY and OCTOBER, which are some of my favorites. Remember, this was shot on video for a German TV show, and naturally the original airings would have featured mainly the newer songs from WAR, which they were touring for at the time. So, it's great that the older songs have been included here. The video quality looks pretty much the same as the original. This is old TV video, not hi-def digital.
However, as many other reviewers have noted, Bono's vocal riffing segment is still cut out of The Electric Co, and in fact, the cut is EVEN BIGGER on this release. The entire segment where Bono climbs the tower is cut out. When you know it's there, it's like ripping the heart out of the song, and really diminishes the effect of the performance. I don't know what it sounds like if you never saw or heard the uncut version, but to me the cut sounds like crap and the pivotal moment of the concert is gone. Even worse, there are one or two other songs where there seem to be similar cuts. You'd think after all these years they'd be able to iron out any royalty issues and fix this classic performance. I'm really disappointed in U2 for this, as I am assuming that at this point in their careers they have some control over everything that their name is put onto. It's pathetic really.
So, while the editing is annoying and disappointing, this is still a great concert that hasn't been available on DVD until now, and the additional songs make it worthwhile even if you've worn out the others. If you perfer the older U2 masterpeices over the newer ZooTV-superstar crap, then you won't be disappointed with this DVD, cuts and all.
 Complete Show At Last! December 9, 2008
Savard (Madison, WI USA)
I had this on Beta at one point and it's great to now have the complete show on DVD. The picture quality looks about the same as I remember it from my latter VHS copy. What a great window into the best era of this band(83-87) and even better a glimpse before they became "Rock's Hottest Ticket" and got on the cover of Time magazine. A time when they were my band and not the world's band. Great memories...
The red trails and grain are on the VHS copy as well and they really don't bother me as I don't have a reference to any other way to see this. In other words, it's always looked like this and I've seen this SO many times. I'm watching this on a 52 inch projection TV and I think it looks great. Most of the picture is just fine to me, and only a couple of the camera angles show lots of grain. The sound is stellar, just like the original VHS version.
Getting Out of Control, Twilight, Two Hearts and especially Cat/Heart on DVD should be enough to make any U2 fan happy as a clam. I can understand how someone who has never seen this would be disappointed with the picture quality though. And maybe even those of you who hoped for a cleaned up version. Keep in mind though that this was filmed in 1983 and U2 wasn't then what they would become. In other words, the budget was probably small and we should just be happy that there is a show at all from this tour, let alone such a great show.
Now let's just hope they have an Unforgettable Fire show somewhere in the vaults. I know that there were live videos for Bad and Homecoming. Waiting...
Live at Red Rocks: It Rocks November 27, 2008
C. Hill (Alabama)
Owned the VHS in 1986 when I was 16. Seeing it again reminds me how good this band was at the time it was recorded. Their performance also benefits from the unpolished style that the footage was shot in; I still enjoy the look of it.
 Will not work X2, so upset! November 23, 2008
Eric C. Blaydes
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
5 stars for U2, -2 two stars for we had to return this twice and Amazon.com wants to give us back our money the third time. I still want this so bad, we tried 3 home DVD players and two PC's DVD drives with no luck at all. I'd take an old DVD version, if I didn't know that the re-mastered version so much better. I'm going to to FRY's or Best Buy, thanks for trying Amazon.com.
Grainy but Excellent Sound -- Disappointing Overall November 20, 2008
MarkPA
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just bought this DVD -- first I have to echo what several others have said: the grain on this video is BAD! Guess I had to see it for myself to believe it.
I still have my VHS tape of this concert, and I did a side-by-side comparison of tape to DVD. I don't think there's a person alive who could deny that my 17-year old videotape looks better than the DVD image. Sure, VHS tape is never going to be video perfection -- BUT the fact remains that the DVD quality is noticably worse. The lower image quality is noticable right away even during the host's introduction of U2.
What could account for this image degradation? A few possibilities: 1) the tape itself has deteriorated. I consider this unlikely, as I assume (hope) they stored the tape safely. 2) the DVD is revealing more clearly the inherent flaws in the original tape. This is possible, but my DVD set of "Barney Miller" looks just fine and that was a TV show from the late 70's! 3) The producers did a piss-poor job with this DVD transfer. I believe this to be the most likely reason.
Of course, they butchered "Electric Co." as many others have noted. I was disappointed but not surprised about this one -- I think they figure "why bother paying for song use rights when this issue will only be noticed by a relatively small number of customers?"
Why do I still give it 3 stars? The SOUND is much improved, as expected, which is critical since the CD version is a measly 8 songs, most of which did NOT come from the Red Rocks concert. Also, this DVD does include several more songs than the VHS version so those are great to have.
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