Dan Fogelberg Live - Greetings From the West

Customer Reviews:

Very worthwhile for any Fogelberg fan!.......2007-01-28

I rediscovered Dan's music after many years of only knowing his early work. Now that I've smartened up and snarfed up about all his releases, I was glad to find this video so that I could get a better sense of what this remarkable person is like. For others in that position this video gives you excellent music and some snippets from an interview and I highly recommend it. I just hope he releases more videos of straight concert footage, with another interview as a bonus track. What wonderful moving music. Please Dan, tour again and film it!

great concert video.......2007-01-10

I really liked this concert. He covered his music up to the date of the recording, and he was excelent.

Could have been so much more.......2006-08-25

It's quite hard to pin down this one. Great music - a good selection of hit songs very well performed by a talented artist. The acoustic pieces are especially good, the performance of "Make Love Stay" is superb. Easily 5 stars for the content.

But what's up with the production? The video quality is worse than a worn-out VHS tape, the sound is barely better (and don't be fooled by the Dolby logo on the cover, the DVD has only a stereo PCM audio track). This has the potential to be a great concert DVD but the (lack of) production quality all but ruins it.

Nonetheless, I watch this quite a lot just because Dan Fogelberg is such a good artist - just seeing him play the guitar is worth it.

A minor gripe is the fact that the introduction to each song, while interesting, overlaps the actual performance. It is a little distracting in some cases, interrupting the mood. Still, the DVD is worth getting if you're willing to overlook the sub-standard video and audio quality.

Dan Fogelberg Live-Greetings from the West.......2005-09-26

I have the VCR copy of this and I purchased the DVD, hoping to have another way to watch it. However the quality of the DVD is horrible. It's like someone pirated it from the VCR copy. I could've done a better job with lesser equipment.

Great Concert, Great Performance, Poor transfer to DVD.......2004-06-29

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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