Movie Reviews for Music for Montserrat

Music for Montserrat

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Movie Reviews of Music for Montserrat

Movie Review: Amazing To See All These Stars Sharing The Stage!
Summary: 4 Stars

Wow, this was a shock to see rock mega-stars like Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Mark Knopfler side-by-side-by side on stage for a couple of numbers. Add in Phil Collins on drums, Ray Cooper on percussion, Elton John and Jools Holland on keyboards and more good backup musicians, plus an orchestra and big choir and it all made for a memorable night, I'm sure, for those at Royal Albert Hall in London in 1997.

The benefit concert in September of '97 for the residents of Montsserat, a Caribbean island which had been devastated by a volcano the year before. Many of the aforementioned artists had recorded some of their famous songs on that island at the Air Studios at Montsserat.

In addition to the above, there was Sting, Jimmy Buffet, Arrow & His Band and Carl Perkins. It's always a thrill to see and hear rockabilly legend Perkins doing "Blue Suede Shoes," which he also was wearing! Sadly, Carl died a little over two years after this concert.

My personal likes of this concert included Buffet's catchy number "Volcano," with new lyrics covering what happened at Montserrat; Phil Collins' entertaining "Take Me Home;" John doing his first hit, "Your Song;" a wonderful low-key collaboration between Clapton and Knopfler on "Layla;" Clapton's guitar solos and some good keyboard work by Holland on "Same Old Blues;" and the rousing finish of "Kansas City," led by McCartney, who seemed to be the featured performer in this galaxy of rock stars.

With almost two hours of music, anyone can find enough material here to give them an entertaining night of music and when all of these guys get together for the final couple of songs.....well, that has to be seen to be believed. This is a real collector's item for music lovers.

Movie Review: Music for Montserrat
Summary: 4 Stars

Well here it is some 12 years after the event and I've only just found out about this amazing little concert, I only discovered about it because I came across Mark Knopfler singing "Brother in Arms" on You Tube, this version gave me goose bumps being supported by the The Foundation Philharmonic Orchestra!!...oh what a wonderful sound met by Knopfler's unique guitar style, but then I discovered this was only one part of a much bigger get together, so thanks again to Amazon.com I found a copy and promptly purchased it, excellent vision and the sound, well lets see, I have read elsewhere that the sound is a bit dodgy, yes it was and I was immediately disappointed, however the DVD gives you the option of three sound formats, Dolby Stereo, Dolby 5.1 Surround and DTS Surround, well in Dolby Stereo the sound brakes up badly, select Dolby 5.1 and it is %98 percent perfect and DTS was even better, every instrument was well mic'ed, mixed and recorded, the grand piano just sounded fantastic when Elton was on, the percussion the sound of the Kick Drum was just right through to Ray Cooper on the Tambourine and boy wasn't great to watch him...if you haven't seen it do yourself a favor and buy a copy, it maybe 12 years ago but it feels as if it was only yesterday.

Movie Review: Very Nice!
Summary: 4 Stars

Phil Collins singing "Take Me Home" and Mark Knopfler performing "Brothers in Arms" and "Money for Nothing" are fantastic; heck, Elton, McCartney, Sting, Eric Clapton, Sting, Jimmy Buffett, Carl Perkins and Arrow are all great. This is a wonderful concert; I just wish I could have heard it in person.

This DVD looks fantastic and sounds terrific--especially on a DTS capable system like mind. I buy music DVD's only if I can see that they have DTS encoding on the disk (Amazon please take note). However, in a few places--just a couple--the sound quality of "Music for Monserrat" falls down a wee bit compared to other music DVD's I have; otherwise, I would have rated it 5 stars.

That said, this is a great DVD for those like me who love these artists.

Movie Review: where is the volcano?
Summary: 4 Stars

Great music, incredible concert .... but not one shot of or about the volcano. It is a real shame that this concert did not begin with a 3 - 5 minute documentary about Monserrat, the volcano and the destruction of Plymouth. Or clips from Air Studios (now destroyed). I withheld one star on this account.