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Definite Audio problems
I have to agree with the reviewer who raised issues about the audio, I've been listening to the 5.1 track and it definitely seems to fluctuate badly, which is very disconcerting and completely spoils the enjoyment of the DVD, the stereo soundtrack seems fine which is really not good enough. It will be interesting to see if other people also feel that there is a problem with this, again it shouldn't be the Home Theatre system which is high end.
As for the other aspects of the DVD it acts well as a companion piece to the "Live In New York City" one offering the rising songs, although the omission of "Further on up the road" is a big disapointment for me. Also although the picture quality is extremely good the rapid editing is annoying ( a fate also suffered by Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder), maybe the lesson is that you should never give a director too many it's not even a patch on the far superior Live In New York City DVD.
3 Stars as it's Bruce but an extremely poorly executed DVD, for such a major artist, in fact 2 stars as I'm listening to it now and I can't bear the 5.1 soundtrack.

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Please release an old concert from the 70s
Horrible production on this one, and let's face it, he's getting old. There must be some high quality 70s concert footage they can release on DVD. I would like to see Bruce in his prime rather than an overweight lethargic Bruce.

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This is what it's like to be at a Bruce stadium show
. . . or as close as you can get on dvd. If you want to show somebody who's never been to one what a Bruce stadium show is like -- what it's actually like to be there -- you cannot ask for better than this. I was at two of the Giants Stadium shows in the summer of 2003, and apart from the occasional references to Barcelona and some passing Spanish, it would be hard to tell this show from one in New Jersey. Except, perhaps, that the overall quality of the performance does not flag for one moment from start to finish. Play "Badlands", the big sing-along number, for the initiate, which is followed immediately by "She's The One" with the ferocious backbeat. Then play BTR, with the awesome reverse pan over the crowd. The Boss will have a new fan for sure.

As for the sound: who are the critics kidding? The sound at stadium shows is univerally atrocious. The sound here is pretty good by comparison, imo. No mushy booming bass. Voices that can actually be heard and, for the most part, understood. The only Bruce show I ever saw with decent sound was at the Meadowlands in 1980, when he opened the arena (literally), during the River tour. You can get a sense of it on the Live! 3-disc album, especially the River and Independence Day. At Giants stadium, by contrast, if you sat far enough back, there was an appreciable delay between the time you saw a motion on stage or the big screen and the time you heard it (that old bugaboo physics, light moves faster than sound); and if you didn't already know the words, you'd have been lost. The sound on this dvd is far superior to any outdoor Bruce stadium show I've ever seen.

This Barcelona show was so good, it's making me almost like most of the Rising songs. I wish it had Sandy or Jungleland or Rosie like the Giants Stadium show I saw last July, but it's pretty good anyhow.