... mais le documentaire vidéo aurait pu être mieux. Il s'agit en fait d'interviews de journalistes anglais (certains plus intéressant que d'autres) et d'extraits de live tous téléchargeable sur le net. Le problème étant qu'ils illustrent chaque album dont ils parlent par un extrait, mais ils sont subordonnés aux chansons jouées sur ces 4 lives dont ils disposent. En gros on passe très vite les albums Selling England by the Pound et The Lamb Lies Down On Braodway parce qu'ils n'ont pas suffisamment de morceaux présents sur les lives. Le livret est plutôt bien fait, les commentaires musicaux des albums étant un brin sommaire.
I was waiting for this DVD to arrive for a few months...and when I finally got it...ok I will try to be spontenious... -
1.The worse than VHS-quality picture and sound...
2.When it shows little bits of original concert footage with P.Gabriel this ugly sticker comes on the upper part of the screen ( property of...) - and it dosn't disappear!
3.Not a single iterview with original musicians, or ANYBODY You know and they don't tell anything new - obviously, - this edition wasn't approved by the band...
4.It's a double DVD feature and each DVD is inder 1 HOUR !!! - that means, that they could easily put it on ONE DISC!!! - with NO COMPRESSION!!! - Instead - they make double, so they can charge 36 dollars - WHAT A CYNICAL WAY TO MAKE MONEY!!!
Lets admit - GENESIS is one of the few bands in the whole world that influenced many generations of musicians and fans, no less important, than the BEATLES for example (Their music is VERY UNIQUE, - like no one elses, Tony Banks is no less talented composer than Rakhmaninov, or Bethoven... - but of different time...) - and THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS KIND OF APPROACH...
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2006年6月9日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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Yes, this DVD is a lot of gibberish. There is a general absence of actual information and a complete absence of criticism -- meaning the evaluation, in useable terms, of artistic endeavor. The few participants here are careful to leave viewers unruffled by saying things like "12-string style" instead of simply pointing out Genesis' persistent stylistic penchant, bordering on the manic, for arpeggio. Only Chris Welch comes close to saying anything worth hearing, and even then he is so circumspect you're forced to guess at the meaning. Which in turn means that this DVD is no exception to the gloss and dross that passes for musical criticsm or even popular history. We learn that "'Nursery Cryme' was their third album". We're told that "'Foxtrot' is a classic", "'Trepass' is a classic", "'Selling England' is a classic" and, incredibly, "'Lamb Lies Down' is a classic". ( Before I forget, they confirm that "'Nursery Cryme" is a classic!") Somebody pops up now and again to tell us which key a piece is in and that this key is "evocative" or "dramatic". We learn that someone we don't know thinks "The Musical Box" is "a really great song". And, more importantly, we are exposed to wildly differing opinions concerning "Supper's Ready". Some say it is 22 minutes long. Others argue that it is 23 or 24 minutes long. One critic plays it safe and describes "Supper's Ready" as "breaking the 20 minute barrier."
Until I heard this I confess to being completely ignorant of "The 20 Minute Barrier".
Comprised mostly of period live footage with uniformly authentic (read: awful) sound quality the producers let things speak for themselves until an instrumental passage comes along and then -- may I just jam in an unrelated quote from Donovan here -- "gosh and golly" the experts chime in to drain the last bit of interest from our aching eyes and ears. And what you're left with is just that, oddly edited and fairly raw concert footage consistently scarred by always-on copyright info. And I mean ALWAYS ON. The copyright info becomes a video watermark whose position was apparently decided by finding the point on the screen at which the performers' faces usually appear. And to make things as hurtful as possible, those that remember the Foxtrot tour -- especially the staccato passage in "Supper's Ready" when Gabriel managed to make it look like his head was spinning on top of the fixed pedestal of his robed figure in perfect time to the music -- will notice even that, like so very much else about this important group, is missing.