Soulfully Live in the City of Angels

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"Glenn Hughes voice Rocks".......2005-06-03

Glenn Hughes voice intensely Rock although the venue for this concert or a few gatherings is depressing. First of all for an Icon such as glenn, deserves a bigger and better venue. Imagine him singing in an open field with his gutsy high octane voice in front of 50,000 people or more wouldn't it blend and rock better. Another thing the delay effect makes it looks like a lipsync or an over delay dub that makes you wonder what is happening or going on out there. Yes it is a must to see Glenn live on DVD but a worthy artist such as him deserves a far more better live high octane DVD. "Glenn We salute you that's why were just concern always".

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Soulfully Live in the City of
Starring: Glenn Hughes
Manufacturer: Super D / Phantom So
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Music Video & Concerts | Genres | DVD | Video

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ASIN: B000GAKD9M
Release Date: 2004-09-21

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Not all THAT bad....
cheap filming, cheap editing, cheap packaging...two stars for the music alone
Glenn Hughes - Soulfully Live in the City of Angels
Where is the voice of Rock?
could have been great....

Soulfully Live In the City of
Starring: Glenn Hughes
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Music Video & Concerts | Genres | DVD | Video

( S ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
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ASIN: B0002V7TIS
Release Date: 2004-09-21

Customer Reviews:

Not all THAT bad...........2007-03-20

I really don't understand the dislike of this DVD, especially considering all the garbage that IS out there masquerading as concert DVDs. I have to wonder if there are different versions out there!!!

I bought the version that has 3 discs; 2 CDs and a DVD. The video is good, not great, and certainly not "filmed with a camera-phone". Though it does have a little too much "arty-farty" visuals for my taste. I've never been a fan of what I call stutter-step video (where it looks like a strobe is on the band) and would rather have straight-up video. Maybe that's what some others are critizing as well, but, to me, that's a small complaint. The audio, on the other hand, whether stereo or 5.1, is AWSOME.

The band is great (the singer from Quiet Riot AND one of Santana's singers from the 70s do background vocals on some songs!!!) and Glenn's voice is as powerful as ever. And, as others mention, the Chili Peppers's drummer, Chad Smith, is outstanding!!!

The only thing is, never having been a big Trapeze fan, I could have done with more Hughes solo songs and less Trapeze.

And, from reading the other reviews, it seems that another major complaint is that it is filmed in a really small place and everyone's sitting on rugs on the floor. But heck......it's an L.A. FAN CLUB show!!!! It's supposed to be intimate!!! While I agree it's not the best place to film a DVD, it's still good and I would love to have been there!!!

Overall, while I agree it could have been better, I really like it and would recommend it to ANY fan of Glenn Hughes. If it was cheaper I'd say don't believe the naysayers and check it out for yourself, but it is pretty pricey in these days of $12-15 DVDs!!

cheap filming, cheap editing, cheap packaging...two stars for the music alone.......2006-08-07

For comments on the music, see please my review on the CD release of the same concert.
I have very little to add to previous reviews. An official DVD release from the Voice of Rock is something his loyal fans have been waiting forever. And then we're treated to this! Low quality, blurred images, lack of image-to-music synchronicity, cheap feeling to the overall DVD package and disc... I don't even think the music is mixed in 5.1, and if it is, it's really cheap-sounding.
Dear Mr. Hughes, you know we adore you and many of us are willing to buy ANYTHING you put out, that's why I feel this is almost disrespectful to both of us, you because your wonderful music and voice deserve a much better showcase, and us because we are used to expect no less than excellence coming from you.

Glenn Hughes - Soulfully Live in the City of Angels.......2005-02-03

First of all, let me start by saying that I am a HUGE Glenn Hughes fan. I've been following his career since the Trapeze days and I think he is one of the best and most soulful vocalist around. I have all his discs and I will continue to buy his discs because he's something special. Now, the problem with the DVD. First of all, I don't like the filters that were used in the production of the video. Secondly, there is a very clear disconnect between the music and the video. It just doesn't gel! Too much technological meddling. And clearly there are many times where you hear Glenn's voice but he is not singing at the mike. What does this mean? Well, in my opinion , it appears that he's overdubbed quite a bit of the vocals, if not all of them. This is a live concert for crying out loud. I want to see a performance with the warts and all, otherwise I'll listen to the studio CD. Glenn Hughes is amazing but this DVD was extremely disappointing to me. Not to mention that the individual tracks are not even indexed. Hopefully next time we will see a real performance!

Where is the voice of Rock?.......2004-11-13

I bought this as an import along with the 2CD set and let me tell you, I should have passed on the whole thing. Glenn has had a long career with lots of songs to choose from. Why these? Most didn't rock and were all just so unnecessarily long and boring. I own most if not all of his recordings and when trying to order this, I could not be supplied with the song list. Bad sign. When I received it, I just couldn't believe the songs omitted and what ended up as the list. The studio was setup as some throwback velvet walled 70's club and the different camera speeds and angles just didn't work. I thought this was going to be a concert film. It is just Glenn and his band in front of some people who are just laid back and watching. Just not very exciting and if this was done and released, what was edited out? This fan sold both the dvd and the CDs. Save your money and find a bootleg of him in actual concert, not this. The dvd and CD packages were nicely done though by the people at Frontiers records. The packaging brought up the rating on this. If you don't own "Burning Japan Live", pick that up instead.

could have been great...........2004-11-07

Glenn Hughes makes fantastic music. However, he makes inferior DVD's.The video on this is incredibly poor. It looks like it was filmed using a video phone.The music is great but the poor quality of picture spoils the show.I am really surprized that this was released with poor video.
I suggest buying the CD instead.
This could have been a great concert DVD....

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