Let me first start off saying that I am a HUGE Cheap Trick fan. I buy anything they put out. While this DVD is great, it is not a live DVD... it is really a documentary (or rockumentary). With that in mind, it has great insight to the history of the band that I never knew like Tom invented Pop Tarts and Rick's dad was a famous opera singer.
I was let down that there is no way to watch the concert footage (most of it new songs) in its entirety.
I love Cheap Trick, and I was eagerly awaiting the release of this DVD. Over the past couple of years Cheap Trick have put out a couple of outstanding DVD's, Silver and Music For Hangovers. Compared to the aformentioned, this DVD was a let down. It has nothing to do with picture quality or audio or features, they're all great. The reason I was disappointed with it is the format. I was hoping for the entire concert performance. Instead, they have interview segments over the first half of every song, and then they cut to the concert footage halfway into the song. It would have been much better to have the concert as a whole and the interviews as a whole in two different pieces, not integrated. I suppose Cheap Trick are trying to avoid audio CDs being made from the DVD because there is not a CD released in conjunction with this DVD. The interview segments are really good. Rick, Robin, Tom, and Bun E. all deliver some truly hilarious deadpan lines. Tom especially is great in the interviews. If Cheap Trick had only delivered the entire concert footage, this DVD would be five stars without a doubt.
I guess I didn't have the grandiose expectations that some CT fans did, because I think the FTTY dvd is super! Of course, this might have something to do with the recent purchase of my first dvd player (yes, very slow here to update to new...now old, technology)and purchasing my first ever CT dvd. I can understand those who may find this dvd lacking in comparison to previous releases. I've seen a couple of CT performances and listened to several of their cds... I love their songs, but I thoroughly enjoy listening to them talk about their life experiences etc. Sometimes forthright, often ambigous, they never fail to make me smile. Yes, it would have been a big plus for the band to sing more of their songs in entirety, but all in all, this did not diminish the quality for me. I was just wondering where track number 16 is... "California Man" ?????
This is a must have for all Cheap Trick fans. You get to see the real Rick, Robin Bun E & Tom and the great sense of humor behind these legends.
This would have been better AS EITHER
A 'Rockumentary' OR Concert (LIVE)DVD.
But as both, it doesn't really quite
live up to it's anticipated hype among
'Trick fans. Sure the set list consists
of mostly '(Un)Special One material - it
kicked off the Special One Tour...
Rick, Bun E. and Robin's (he said he was 10
at the time of the Live at Budokan release!)
comments are cool and it's good to see the
guys with their families trapesing across
the far East, where they are still well loved.
But Tom Petersson comes across as shallow, uses
bad language (swearing and takeing the lord's
name in vain - @ least in Silver they bleeped
him out!)and tries in around about way to insist
HE came up with the name 'Cheap Trick' and the
logo (!), which totally contridicts what Rick
Nielsen just said in a previous clip! Most of
the material here is acoustic/ or acoustic LIVE
in the studio. I was kinda hoping for a LIVE AT
BUDOKAN 2003, here. Oh, well, a cheap trick, I
guess, on me. Caveat Emptor!
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