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| | Sweet Home Alabama: The Rockpalast Collection | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Eagle Rock Ent | | Release Date : | | 2008-10-28 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.47 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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 Two great Lynyrd Skynyrd performances on one DVD. How can you beat that?
Submitted on: 2009-09-03 |
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The Good
The main portion of the DVD is from Skynyrd's appearance at the Loreley Festival in 1996, which was filmed for the German television program Rockpalast. The group's set is flawless as they rifle though some of their best material. The set didn't really get interesting for me until about eight songs in. For the first half Skynyrd focuses on lesser-known material; "I Ain't the One," "Double Trouble," and others. Once the crowd is into it, Skynyrd fires off hit after hit; "What's Your Name," "That Smell," "Simple Man," "Gimme Three Steps," "Call Me the Breeze," "Sweet Home Alabama," and "Free Bird."
The DVDs bonus material is from another performance in Germany. Only this time it features the original Lynyrd Skynyrd back in 1974. This three song performance of "Workin' For the MCA," "Free Bird," and "Sweet Home Alabama" is surprisingly of high quality. It was interesting to go from a hugh arena performance to a small club performance. After watching the '74 show you'll see how easy it was for the band to become as big as they did. As great as Johnny Van Zant is with Skynyrd today, his brother Ronnie was truly a better choice at vocals.
The Bad
A longer performance of the '74 show or another show around that time would have been a better contrast to the main show.
The Verdict
Two great Lynyrd Skynyrd performances on one DVD. How can you beat that? |
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 Let Mr young Know That 2
Submitted on: 2009-06-28 |
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| Love this DVD - Good to have old footage although sound quality is not good. Concert footage good.Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson original members with Ronnies Brother on lead vocals and Rickey Medlocke linked to the original band.Gives them some authenticity. they do a good job of the classic skynryd tracks.They were the greatest band cut down in their prime. Like Hendrix one can only imagine the type of stuff they had left to do. |
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Skynyrd Fan Must Have
Submitted on: 2009-03-22 |
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| This DVD is a great look at the band when they picked up the pieces and carried on after the crash. You can tell that Gary Rossington still has so much in him left to give. His guitar solo, as well as the other guitarist is phenominal to say the least! I highly recommend this product, and consider it a "must have" for Lynyrd Skynyrd fans! |
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Get it for mainly the bonus footage...
Submitted on: 2009-01-10 |
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The main concert featured on this DVD is pretty good, but some of the performances from some of the band members are a little off. The two main redeeming highlights of the main concert with the more contemporary lineup is them performing "Workin' For MCA" (which they no longer could do once they signed to CMC) and the cool guitar solos performed in series by the three guitarists. The band's performance on the Lyve From Steel Town DVD is flawless, and overall I recommend that one over this one if you don't want to get both. However, I encourage you to get both, because several songs on this DVD do not appear on the Steel Town DVD because the latter was recorded shortly after their awesome "Twenty" album was released, so several of their old numbers were replaced with material from "Twenty."
The best thing about this DVD, of course, is the vintage footage of the old Lynyrd Skynyrd with Ronnie, Ed King, et al performing back in 1974. The sound quality is predicatably bad, but not unbearably horrible like some bootleg VHS recordings you can find on ebay. One cool part of that footage features Ed King doing a nice, melodic solo before the last verse of "Free Bird" that later was always occupied by Billy Powell--interesting--never heard a live version of Free Bird without Billy's solo. The only bad part (and it's just humorous rather than annoying) of this classic footage is Ed King singing harmony on "Sweet Home"--yikes! No wonder they got the Honkettes later on! :) |
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Sweet Home Alabama: The rock palast Collection
Submitted on: 2008-11-24 |
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I lovelly! Simple the best video of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Thank you for your attention,
Alcino Moreira
Rio de Janeiro -Brasil |
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