Disco de The Casualties: “Can't Stop Us”

The Good

Can't Stop Us is more of a documentary than is a concert video. The first half of the DVD focuses on the punk group's tour in Mexico. This section is padded heavily with behind-the-scenes material. In between that you do get some live performances, but most are not presented to completion of the song. It was interesting to see how rabid the fans were for this group. I have never heard of them, but clearly the people of Mexico have. There were two interesting segments that caught my attention.

The first took place in Mexico City. The Casualties were set to play a festival type show with a 2am set time. The set time wasn't the shocking part. The shocking part was when a gang of kids decided that they didn't want to pay to get into the show. All hell broke loose and the show was eventually postponed to the next day. The fear that the band was experiencing was quite genuine. The second incident took place the next day when the show finally went on. A fan was heckling the band when frontman Jorge brought him on stage to find out why.

This guy goes into a rant on how The Casualties are Capitalists for charging $15 dollars for a concert. The guy had a lot of balls, and The casualties showed a lot of restraint. It just goes to show you that everyone doesn't have it as good as the U.S. and other countries. The second half of the DVD highlights a tour through Japan. You can clearly see a difference in culture from the Mexico tour. This portion of the DVD focuses more on the wild and frenzied live performances. It still has its share of interesting tour footage.

The Bad

You can't just go into this blind, you really have to be a fan of the group to enjoy it thoroughly.

The Verdict

It's nice to know that The Casualties are out there keeping the spirit of punk rock alive. On their latest DVD you really do get to see a different side of the music industry. Instead of the typical big production shows you get with concert DVDs, with top-notch lighting, a huge stage, a packed arena, and perfect sound; Can't Stop Us now gives you a taste of old-school, down-and-dirty touring the hard way. I don't think The Casualties would have it any other way.

THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE AND CAME IN GREAT CONDITON! I WOULD RECOMEND IT IF YOU ARE INTO THE CASUALTIES A NICE COLLECTOR'S ITEM.

Ahoy, Casualties fan's we finally have their new release of this dvd that's been promised to the fans for almost two plus years... Well, it's here finally here.... A few years back the Casualties moved on to greener pastures so, to speak from odd ball punk labels to pushing forward dave's punkcore label to putting jake into self labeling vie his Charged records they finally stepped for better or worse into success.....So, from ignoring stupid labels that picked up bands such as the Total Choas (who for bad reasons still thrive) to other sell outs such as rancid, the 10 million plus seller offspring they finally stepped up to a label that has some distro push yet, didn't sell them out hence comes SideOneDummey.....(interestingly enough this label is co owned by a Foo-Fighters member look it up on your own) So, anyways this dvd has come out.....It's promoting the tour of On The Front Line/ En La Linea Del Frente. As like previous Casualties live videos theres the live stuff and in between stuff.... But, unlike the previous vhs tapes theres more behind story..... The Mexico part has a lot of the craziness behind touring Mexico......It shows a rather interesting part of Mexico's punk scene....Which is interesting while the live set's are one song here and there and some are rather cut.... Second half of the disc is longer and is in the rising sun Japan.... Here there's less in between show stuff which kinda sucks because it would have been intersting to see more of the Japanese sub-culture of punk yet, they do have an ok amount of it and unlike the mexican half theres more show footage and full song's played out. The only down side is on some of the Japanese shows the audio quality is sub-par while the mexican half has good audio but, some sub-par visuals...... Most of the songs on this dvd are from their last lp "On the Front Lines/En La Linea Del Frente" But, theres some classic songs on here too.... If you're a fan this a decent live set collection and show's an interesting side of punk in two famlier countries yet, most punks have yet, to see these scene's first hand...... So, here you go see it first hand vie the Casualties!