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This video is of a live concert Damn Yankees gave at the Rocky Mountain Jam in Denver. Directed by Larry Jordan, who's also done concert videos for Rush, the live concert film is interspersed with "behind the scenes" footage of this supergroup collaborating on their second album "Don't Tread." Basically, it's a lot of gags with drummer Michael Cartellone busting chops on how old Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw and Ted Nugent are, and the rest of the band's observations on how eccentric wild man Nugent is.

Damn Yankees was one supergroup that had great chemistry, so it was a shame that they never put out an album after "Don't Tread." Perhaps it was in the cards: Damn Yankees was the last great hair band to form (yep, they came out after Warrant, though the latter's "Cherry Pie" was officially Heavy Metal's swan song), and the mostly forgetable grunge movement wiped out everything groups like DY had built up.

But, hey, don't let the group's unfortunate timing stop you from seeing and hearing this video; DY wails on hit after hit. Jack Blades and, especially, Tommy Shaw shoe they've got the vocal chops to kick rear on power ballads like "Come Again" and "Silence is Broken." But the best are the heavy hitting slammers such as "Damn Yankees," "Don't Tread" and Nugent's paean to the spirit of all things American, the eagle, the vigilante and the American Indian who once rode the Great Plains, "Uprising."

This video is one of the best concert films I've seen, and the musicianship of lead guitarist Nugent, the acoustic rhythms of Shaw, the jackhammer bass of Blades and the frenetic drumming of Cartellone really work well in tandem.

They save the best for last, doing DY's unique versions of Styx's (Shaw's old band) "Renegade," Night Ranger's (Blade's band) "Rock in America," and -- of course -- Ted's mainstay, "Cat Scratch Fever."

Ted being the inimitable Ted, the concert ends with him shooting an arrow right at Saddam Hussein's groin! We need to bring back this great hair band, if only to send a flaming arrow at Osama bin Laden's forehead.

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Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, Ted Nugent, Michael Cartelonne, DAMN YANKEES!!!! Never Stop, never take a breath, these guys give it all! This live concert in Denver kicks atomic ASS!!! Live scenes with home video interspersed is the only way you'll learn about tofu, bathrooms, and ted bowhunter, here they come again!! Why its not on DVD is a federal offense, get this NOW! You'll laugh your [rearend] off, then yur jaw will drop when you see these guys play, I garunteeee!!!