I have taken the DigiPack because I just wanted to Audio & Video. In retrospect, the Blu-Ray would probably be the better decision gewesen-
The DVD (pretty sure the Blu-Ray) is (despite only 2.0 Sound) recommended in any case. The last Heep Live Video is a while ago (Yerevan 2009). This is professional filmed and recorded sound technology better. For the first time (a few) pieces of "Into The Wild" and "outsiders" are also taken into account, where with "Nail On The Head" is a piece of this, which can remain in the set list from me too long.
The setlist is not perfect (it is in fact never Heep), but pretty good. But as a real, long-awaited exotic missing. For many essential things are. I would have there certainly are a few suggestions, but basically the setlist no reason to complain.
It is also striking that Gilbrook & Rimmer also rely on the old pieces (the bass in Lady In Black for example) quite their own accents for the retired Lee Kerslake and Trevor Bolder the deceased.
So the DVD: 5 points, despite small defects no question. That's what you want to have as Heep sympathizer.
But the CDs?
2 points maybe. Almost 40 years I listen to music, but everything you can screw up, I know obviously not well.
The dramatic difference between DVD and CD consists above all in the fact that the CDs are extremely beschis.sen cut. Obviously we had the goal to eliminate virtually every stage approach, which seems particularly absurd, because Bernie Shaw so now is really not known for sprawling palaver on stage.
It is certainly quite reasonable times on the CD (as opposed to video) rauszunehmen 20 seconds audience between songs, even a minute before the encores. But here a piece is tacked to the other and you can hear the unnatural transitions (in Publikumston) significantly.
These are clearly perceptible impressions and crossfades. Pieces follow one another sometimes too quickly and that falls on extremely artificial. In the 70s / 80s, there was something to live albums quite well, but technically (almost) never as bad as solved here. And certainly not continuous. Was that a trainee?
It just annoying. The music is the same as on the DVD and so good, but on the CD ends the piece and then comes as a dilettante transition without any feeling. Again and again. You hear the CD, the play ends - what was that again? - The next one starts. So live and is really quite different.
What shoud that? You ne double CD (max. 160 minutes) and fighting for every second that can be cut somewhere? What good is that? Let the Bernie but just 71 (as on the DVD) mention so much tells the not. Never. Then you've NEN river in concert and it seems believable that Mick Box has changed in the meantime from the acoustic to the electric guitar (or vice versa). In 2.5 seconds is not.
Buy yourself the DVD (when's the individual's) or the Blu-Ray, in no case the CD and if possible not the Digi-Pack (with CD and DVD). If you need absolutely ne CD, rather then investing the work by your rips the video. Is guaranteed better than what this amateur sound technician has fabricated since.
