I have that Red Rocks documentary.

About the live track from Glastonbury 97.

Two years ago I've bought a bootleg from the Chems complete show at Glastonbury 97.

When I look at the pictures in the booklet that went whit the CD there were not so many people to look at the chems.

Can you also see this on the DVD?

GLAKO-FAHN Escribi�:

NOT in North America!

amazon.ca says the dvd was released yesterday, but it doesn't really matter, since my order hasn't been shipped and I probably won't get it until next week, anyway..

Gundhi said:

ANYBODY????

glastonbury '97 was when they played a smaller stage so there wasn't a huge amount of people to watch them.



i remember seeing the 2000 gig live on tv, it was so amazing, sitting in my living room, no lights on watching tppr live, great its on the dvd

Ok they played at a smaller stage.

But the people who came to watch them didn't even bother to walk to the beginning of the stage. (according to my picture)

First off, fantastic!!! I watch the DVD all day long (at work :D )



Has anyone found any hidden features on the DVD yet?



Easty

What does the chronology thing do anyway, apart bring up the Life is sweet vid? :?

I don't get why they put the Glasto 2000 performance of TPPR on there. its a rather poor performance. They usually play it better. perhaps its because they played it shorter at Glasto 2000.... but I gotta the synth fiddling by Tom at the end is topnotch at Glast.



hehe, oh well.

everything is on it's way to my door thanks to amazon! well, everything, but the singles dvd, for some reason.. (and LP's, but not getting from amazon..) yay! :)

mc marsh Escribi�:

What does the chronology thing do anyway, apart bring up the Life is sweet vid? :?

it plays every promo and live video

Gundhi Escribi�:

MAYBE THIRD LEG?????



X-D

Hey now, I'm a girl, dammit!!!!!! X-D

GLAKO-FAHN Escribi�:

I don't get why they put the Glasto 2000 performance of TPPR on there. its a rather poor performance. They usually play it better. perhaps its because they played it shorter at Glasto 2000.... but I gotta the synth fiddling by Tom at the end is topnotch at Glast.



hehe, oh well.

I can't wait to see the live performances, actually it'll be a sort of family event *awwwww* My husband is almost as hyped as I am (which is a rarity, considering he feels the Chems stole me from him!) and my son likes the very end of TPPR. Not only is it his favorite song (I've brainwashed him well, hehe) but he's grown fond of the end bit - he says it sounds like "planets in outer space".

I cannot wait for this. Since tuesday, I've been playing the chems albums in order (1 per day, usually in the car) so that the day before the release I'll be on come with us, talk about hype. I think they're releasing it late in North America as punishment for us getting the American EP.



Speaking of America, anyone who gets MTV2 Remember the chems are on it tomorrow (friday) on Subterranean!! Astralwerks hasn't sent out the letter this week (at least for me), which they said they would tell us when it would be on. It's on at 10pm in pacific and 1am in east. I'll post what stuff they had to say if it's good or new since I'll be there with the tape-recorder, a pen and note pad, plus one of those old hats that say have a piece of paper that say "press" on it like in all the movies...I think

whirlygirl said:

Yes I know I was just making a yoke. X-D

I took some time for someone to pick it up.

But I know that girls/women always are a bit smarter. :?



(sorry you guys)

I give the dvd a thumbs up....waaaaay up. I would have liked more interviews and more live sets, but that's ok, they have time to realease another one.

Oh my god.



SPOILERS (don't read if you don't want to waste yer time, or don't want to know and haven't watched yet) ;)















I stayed up way past my bedtime watching the dvd. I thought it was very well done. I noticed that the interviews here on this site were a bit longer (the Fatboy, Wayne, and Beth ones especially) than they were on the disc, but that's OK. It was all good. I was cracking up at Spike Jonze's commentary - it was as funny as chem'd up said it was.



The live footage was fantastic! Star Guitar brought back some very fond memories of the last Chems show I went to - truly a highlight. Hoops was really awesome, such relentless teasing (in a good way of course) the way it built up and released in spasms. I was completely feeling it and had these sort of flashback type pangs of anxiety, you know the feeling you get when you can feel a song is ready to burst after a long buildup? Yeah, those feelings of how it felt at their live show was re-lived in a way while watching some of that footage. I thought the Glasto performaces were cool. It is amazing how vast that crowd was, imagine how it must've felt for them up there on stage! One thing I noticed between their older sets and the new ones: You can totally tell that nowadays, they are in complete control over the music as well as the crowd - they just play everything in the palm of their hands and have so much more confidence and it shows. They've come a long way baby - and so have the visuals.



I love the videos of course. The Life Is Sweet one is pretty funny, I'd never seen it before. And here I was thinking the wiring mess behind my computer looks like spaghetti, it was nothing compared to the smoking mess in the video! I only had a very weathered vhs tape of some of their viddies plus the Red Rocks show - now I have the clarity of the DVD and I'm in heaven. I also noticed things in the Star Guitar video and The Golden Path I didn't notice before and of course The Test is just awesome on a screen much larger than a window on a computer monitor.



I liked the Private Reels segment, intimate without revealing too much of their personal lives yet at the same time gave me a good picture of what they are like as people. It showed Tom and Ed to be regular good humored guys, totally free of the pretensions that a lot of "rock stars" have. They looked like little boys riding in that limo with their heads sticking out of the sunroof, like they'd never ridden in a limo before. It was really very sweet and cute. I also liked the footage of them hanging out in Tokyo (anyone else notice that pimpin cab with the automatic door?? hehe) And the sandwich shop... hehe


Overall - between the videos, the commentaries, the interviews, the live segments - it just showed that these two are very devoted to their works of art and everything they do is a labor of love. Damn, this dvd along with the single is like Christmas, they really are a gift.

Oh, one more thing. The bit with Dom and Nic sucking on helium and their heads exploding. Comedy gold.

I've never laughed so hard in my life. That was so out of the blue. Also the making of star guitar was interesting (and long). They should've released a version with forks and oranges

Thanks for the review whirly...my anticipation is building up like the build up of TPPR :-? DvD would be outside my door any minute now...(damn amazon is taking forever.)...it's all good.