Rush: Exit Stage Left
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Movie Reviews of Rush: Exit Stage Left
Movie Review: Great Concert Footage - Stupid Interruptions
Summary: 3 Stars
I never saw the VHS version of this concert. I wore out a dozen "Exit Stage Left" cassettes and my CD still gets a lot of play. Suffice it to say, "I love the music from this tour." The video footage was well captured and well done all the way around. No complaints there. But every song is interrupted with commentary and goofy visual effects that have nothing to do with the concert. For instance:
Geddy Lee on stage, "This a song about a car, this is called Red Barchetta." Then the audio and video are interrupted for some oration and a stupid, low quality visual. Fellas, that is tripe. Tripe. I want to see the concert, please. I want to listen to the music, please. Spare me the gimmicks. You are Rush. You do not need this kind of garbage. It detracts from the overall effect, which is to imagine yourself at the concert! When the DVD was made, the corny crap should have been canned. Most of the songs are corrupted in this manner. Thank God nobody pulled these pranks on the music album! Thank God. I am so sick of concert DVD's that fall into this same category. The only thing worse is the cursed "change the camera angle every second" effect.
Isn't anyone else interested in plain old concert footage? Am I the only one? I've been to hundreds of concerts. Can you imagine it? Geddy Lee in front of thousands of screaming fans, just beginning a song, then the lights and sound fade out, a voice comes over the P.A telling us what the song is about while some cheesy video footage is displayed. There would be a riot. People would trash the place. Why do DVD's of concerts have to be different? This is why I own very few concerts on DVD, and most of those have only been viewed once.
Movie Review: It's good to at least have some footage..
Summary: 3 Stars
I've been a longtime fan of Rush, and I think they put on a good show at their concerts. So, it's always good to have video of Rush's performances. This concert video has a good set of songs, including some from their then-recent Moving Pictures album (Limelight, Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, and YYZ), as well as some songs from their previous albums (The Trees, Xanadu, Freewill, Closer To The Heart, and more).
However, I am a little disappointed with a couple things:
- Some songs are incomplete or totally left out: I heard that their Exit Stage Left tour was the only tour during which they played "The Camera Eye" live. However, that song does not appear in this video, except briefly when they play a small part of it in the background during the intro. I also heard that Rush played Witch Hunt during this tour, but that song does not appear in this recording. The video is only about an hour long; A DVD can certainly store more than that, and it would be nice to have the complete concert.
- There is commentary and edited visual effects intertwined with the video. When most of the songs start up, there is a short voice-over commentary about the song that I find distracting. Also, there are shots that include edited effects such as borders around the players, etc. that I think distracts from the concert feel. When I watch a concert video, I prefer to see an unedited concert, as it happened, so I feel more like I'm actually there.
Despite the missing songs and added-in commentary and effects, it's still better to have something rather than nothing. It's always great to see Rush in concert!
Movie Review: Great concert but horrid sound
Summary: 3 Stars
This is footage from a good concert - the video is not to bad for the era. The audio tracks were remixed for this release but are badly affected by the the loudness war disease that so much modern music suffers from. Gone is the snap and crack of Neil Pearts drums - instead it's a nonstop blast of all loud all the time - audience noise is loud, guitars are loud. Trouble is if everything else is as loud as can be the drums can no longer be louder like they're supposed to be. Audiophiles will be VERY disappointed. Unfortunately most of Rush's other live DVDs have the same problem. Maybe we should just get rid of drummers in rock - we cannot hear them much anyway after the blastering engineers are done doing their damage.Movie Review: not what i had expected.
Summary: 2 Stars
while Rush are still legends and the music on this DVD is not bad, all of the high caliber songs that are responsible for their fame (yyz, tom sayer) are commentated over during the length of the song, and broken up into bits and pieces while the guitarist explains this and that about touring and playing music with the band rush, I bought this DVD for a 15 hour drive from California and it was almost too boring to watch the whole thing. I would say maybe if you had a different motive than entertainment in making this choice.... that it might be held to a different opinion.