Dion: Live in Concert
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Movie Reviews of Dion: Live in Concert
Movie Review: A CLASSIC PERFORMANCE
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this one for my husband and ended up loving it as much as he does. Dion is so laid back and the music old and new is superb.Movie Review: AWSOME!
Summary: 5 Stars
Awsome! Dion is better than ever! I have never enjoyed a concert on DVD as much as this one.Movie Review: Great!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the most entertaining DVD I have seen in years. You will enjoy every minute of it.Movie Review: Dion Live in Atlantic City
Summary: 5 Stars
If you liked Dion and the Belmonts when you were young,you will definitley love this DVD.Movie Review: Still Overlooked & Gets Little Respect
Summary: 4 Stars
Dion DiMucci is more than the sum of his parts. Doo Wop icon, the day the music died legend (Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper airplane crash), drug abuse,re invented Catholic/gospel artist,father, husband to Susan and now grandfather, author, musician and street poet.....yet somehow Dion still seems to be "left out" from a wider auidence.
Amazingly talented at 65 years old, he performs with a smartness that is missing from so many other veteran performers. I own and listen often to all his music and the Doo wop era aside, he has produced first rate albums that get critical acclaim but little
notoriety. "Yo Frankie" for starters.
This tape suffers (from my viewpoint) some of the same treatment.
1. It wasn't long enough to showcase this seminal R & R talent.
2. The Tropicana front row was not sold out. I've seen him live and he has the best audience rapport imaginable.A less than sold out show was inexcusable.
3. A bigger band would have been a bit better. Bass player on stage noticably absent. Sax man Colton (a Dion mainstay)looked silly but blows some serious horn as would be required by Dion who loves the sound of horns.
4. "Written on the Subway Wall" with a guest "walk on" by Paul Simon should hae been performed.
5. Back up singing cameos by Lou Reed and the Everly Brothers would have topped a "live Dion." Saw him once with the Everly's
and the show was a "stopper." My guess is no one asked Don and Phil who would have obliged in an instant.
I'm suprised the Emcee wasn't long time idol and the man who inducted him into the "Hall of Fame," Lou Reed.
6. The acoustic performances were splendid. He can play blues guitar with the masters. I saw him hone his skills many years ago
with guys like Ron Kickasola at the "Flick" in Coral Gables next to the U. of Miami.
7. This should have been more of a "call in show" so Dion could have talked more to an audience instead of a cheesy Atlantic City
hotel setting. He is so witty and funny...we missed out on this aspect of his personality.
8. He seems to really enjoy himself and never takes himself so seriously that the music suffers.....in fact it envelops you.
9.In what would have been a "live tribute" stroke of genius,Dion & Bruce Springsteen could have re-invented the joy of an audience and its performer with a rendition of an acapella...."If I shoud fall behind....."
10. Still, the man has his chops, contnues to create albums of a superior quality and even though South Florida wants to claim him as one of their own, Dion is and was the Prince of the Bronx, the King of the New York Streets.
Worth every penny and more.
Attitude the way it should be!