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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1970 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Ventura Distribution |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Music Video - Pop/Rock |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 634991126328 |
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Customer Reviews of Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Pictures at an Exhibition
Great performance - annoying special effects. The positive:
This performance is good but not as good as the Emerson Lake and Palmer: Masters From The Vaults DVD. The video and remix of the sound are very much improved over my Japaneese import laserdisc of the same concert. This a young ELP still in their prime.
The not so positive:
There are some unfortunate things about this video. The special effects are annoying to the point of being nauseating. The overly "creative" post production crew really got carried away with the psychedelic tint & color saturation effects. This may have been interesting as a DVD special feature, (I might have even thought it was great 30 years ago), but these days I'd just like to see the performers without these effects. I wonder if the unaffected video source even exists anymore.
Yes, the performance is over the top. But so is about every live rock performance from that era. Just look at the recently released Zeppelin DVD. But hey, the era was what it was. I'm just glad that some of these bands were captured live while they still had some fire in their bellies.
The unfortunate:
My laserdisc of this concert includes full performances of Barbarian, Take A Pebble, and Knife Edge along with Pictures At An Exhibition. It's really, unfortunate that they chose not to include the entire concert in this DVD! They should re-release this without the special effects (except for maybe in the special features section) and included the omitted songs.
Get Live at Albert Hall DVD instead
ELP was critisized as pompus and pretentious. And with Pictures, they peaked in that regard. Ravel's orchestration of "Pictures" is one of those classical pieces which is perfect without any further adaptation. It is one thing to tackle great classical pieces such as Alberto Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto ("Tocotta" on Brain Salad Surgery) or Bartok or Janacek ("The Barbarian" and "Knife Edge" on ELP's first album). But Mussourgsky! Glad ELP violated that holy cow! Rock-n-Roll!
It is very cool to watch these three men in their musical prime turning out music with the scope of an entire symphony. It is a shame the video here is covered up with early '70s psychedelic color changes and cartoons distorting the performance. Nor does the video ever let you see the entire band playing. In addition, the audio seems to have musical drop-outs where the person on the mixing board didn't have volume controls for the keyboards or guitars properly set.
If you are a die hard ELP fan, this is a must. But, personally, I prefer the ELP Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD because: 1) the video is 100% better; 2) the sound is 100% better; 3) the performance is 100% better; and 4) it has 400% more of ELP's music on it.
If you have a good stereo and turntable, I highly recommend trying to find the audiophile half speed master pressing of the album on the Mobile High Fidelity label.
Don't buy this
To take a performance from a great band like ELP and ruin it with crappy special effects is unforgivable.When I watch this I get so mad I want to scream.Royal Albert Hall and Masters from the Vaults are both excellent DVD's and a must for any ELP fan.Don't waste your time on "Pictures',one of the worst rock movies ever.