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Great Concert, Great Performance, Poor transfer to DVD
I've had this concert on VHS for several years, and it is one of the very first great concert videos. I couldn't wait until it was on DVD, but I shouldn't have bothered. My VHS tape looks better and sounds better than the DVD. The audio CD of this concert blows away the VHS tape, so I know good audio is there--why didn't we get it on this DVD? And the video looks like a VHS dub, and not even to DVD, but maybe to another VHS tape. The video smear and blur added to the audio dullness and distortion makes for a very poor transfer to DVD. I kid you not, I did an A/B comparison of my VHS tape to this DVD, and the tape won on both audio (VHS-HiFi) and video!
On the other hand, this concert is such a great performance that if you like Dan Fogelberg, you'll still like it, even with the horrible DVD quality. His rendition of "Power of Gold" alone justifies the price of this disc, and there are many more great songs for a bonus. Forget the picture and sound quality and just enjoy the concert. I'd give 5 stars for performance and 2 for the transfer and this averages to about 3.5, so I'll round it up to a 4.

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Great music, great songwriting...average sound
Overall, this performance is stunning, and a must have for any Dan Fogelberg fan. His voice sounds higher and different than most of the renowned studio songs, and that may surprise some, but there's no complaint about its quality. The songs are so fine, that one can help but wonder why Dan has been so overlooked and underrated as an artist and songwriter. It's a pity that this is the only way that we can hear Dan Fogelberg on DVD, because they didn't put a lot of work on the sound. As somebody said it here, this looks like a simple transfer from the VHS, a poor one in sound, and just acceptable in picture. Luckyly, most of the songs have an average sound, but the interview snippets and some of the songs have a very noticeable distortion. But it's hard not to enjoy the concert even having to go through the abscense of quality in the video. Come on, SONY MUSIC, is this the best that you can do?.

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More Dan on DVD Please Sony
I missed Dan playing support to the Eagles back in the 70's when for some unknown reason he never turned up. Being a D.F. Fan since first hearing Homefree I had to buy this DVD. However it was never released in European format so I had to wait until I moved Stateside. I was a little disappointed to find that half the songs on the CD were missing from the DVD (what you playing at Sony!). Never the less, it's the nearest thing to seeing him live.
When are Sony or Full Moon going to release a full D.F. Concert in DVD format with decent Dolby sound? His Later material is just as good as ever and it's about time others got to see this unique artist in concert (including me!) As for only 3 stars, well if the sound quality was better and the DVD was as long as the album, it would have merited 5.