U2 Live DVD Review

Well to start off the review I'll just say I saw them in New Jersey on May 17th and it will go down as the best concert of my youg life. I've seen my fair share of concerts but U2 clearly won as my favorite. Now to the DVD. Well it's not really possible to quite get that concert feeling when watching a DVD but this does a pretty fantastic job. I hear a lot of complaints about camera angles and such but I think that is ridiuclous, I found not one problem with camera angles at all. If I was to have one gripe about the camera and video editing I would say I'm not a fan of when they blurred Bono in a crucial part of my favorite live song "Bullet the Blue Sky." None the less I thought it was fairly flawless. They capture all the bandmates and focus on the right members at the right times. What more can you ask for? As for the sound, it is fantastic! Sounds live and like it was recorded at a studio at the same time. The crowd reactions are nice and crisp along with the music. Now as for the show; as I said earlier it was the best concert I've ever gone to and watching this DVD gave me such great flashbacks. From the moment Bono appears and the confetti drops down out of the ceiling it's just fantastic. Bono is most certainly a show stopper. As you can see from my earlier U2 post I have the set list there so it's easy to recognize they have such a plethora of great songs. There are definitely songs I wish they could have played like "With or Without You" and "Red Hill Mining Town" but it's hard to ask for it all. The amount of classic songs U2 has is pretty much endless. The energy the band gives is just incredible, Bono is the king at working an audience and it shows here. Also something that's great about this DVD is they capture Bono communicating with the audience which I notice many live CD's and Videos edit out. Especially his speech before one, it is such an incredible moving speech where he basically says how great it was that we put man on the moon but now it's time to get back down to reality and fight issues like poverty. I really think that Bono could sell a catsup popsicle to a women in white gloves, he has such a way with words. Another great moment which I had great flashbacks with was when he brought up a little kid onto the stage to walk around with him and to wave to the audience. For my show he brought up a girl but for the Chicago show he brough a boy, either way I think it's such a great impact on someones life! My final remark about the DVD is the very end. When they play "40." It was probably my most favorite part of the show, when they were done with the song the Edge and Adam stayed on to play their instruments and the crowd just kept on screaming the chorus "How long must we sing this song." The only difference for my show and this one was that when we did it U2 came out for a third encore, I think the only show in which they did that. All in all I highly recomend this DVD, unfortunately I thought I was going to be getting two discs with it because I could have sworn that's what it said but I later came to find there is a deluxe edition that has the second disc. I wish I could comment on it but no can do. For only $14 go out and buy this DVD!