Collectors Music Reviews

Soap Operas, Art Lovers & Other Stories (TV-Performances + Videos 1974 – 1996) (Ray 7486) Soap Operas, Art Lovers & Other Stories presents two hours of rare Kinks video over a twenty-two year period from 1974 to 1996.  This covers the band (i.e. Ray Davies’) fascination with music drama and Broadway, into their late seventies [...]

Last Show Of The Asia Tour (Highway HW-001/02) Olympic Gymnastics Arena, Seoul, South Korea – March 31st, 2010 DVDR 1 (approx. 56minutes):  I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, The Levee’s Gonna Break, Just Like A Woman, Honest With Me, Sugar Baby, High Water (For Charley Patton), Desolation Row DVDR 2 (approx. [...]

When You’re Strange (Eagle Vision EV309059) Despite the brevity of their career, The Doors have a firm place in American culture with streams of books, documentaries, biopics and even a Hollywood film.  When You’re Strange is the latest documentary to be produced on the band.  Written and directed by Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny [...]

 Thunder Rolled And Lightening Followed (Apocalypse Sound AS193) Bob Dylan’s 1974 US tour with The Band, his first in almost a decade, is notable for its lack of visual documentation.  Media coverage of the 1974 tour was banned and was only breached once, so far as we know, at the Nassau Coliseum in New York when NBC [...]

Fighting For Fatherland (Apocalypse Sound AS 192) Paris, France, Chorus TV, February 21, 1980 Re-broadcast – January 10th, 2008 on Virgin 17 French TV:  Rock ‘N’ Roll High School, I Wanna Be Sedated, Do You Remember Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio, She’s The One, I’m Against It, Sheena Is A Punk Rocker, This Ain’t Havana, Commando, I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, Pinhead Finland, Provinssirock, June 4, [...]

The Royal Concert (Apocalypse Sound AS190) Jeudong Park Amphitheatre, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei – July 16th, 1996 Jam, Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’, Human Nature, Smooth Criminal, I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, She’s out of My Life, Jackson 5 Medley: I Want You Back / The Love You Save / I’ll Be There, Thriller, Billie Jean, The [...]

Houston Rock Night At The Summit (Queen Digital Archives QDA-002DVD) The Summit, Houston, TX – December 11th, 1977 Introduction, We Will Rock You (slow, taped), We Will Rock You (fast), Brighton Rock, Somebody To Love, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I’m In Love With My Car, Get Down Make [...]

Live Crazy 1979 (Digital Queen Archive DQA-001V DVD) December 26th, 1979 AT THE HAMMERSMITH ODEON, IN LONDON, ENGLAND: Opening, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You (fast), Let Me Entertain You, Somebody To Love, Death On Two Legs/Killer Queen/ I’m In Love With My Car/Get Down Make Love/You’re My Best Friend, Save Me, Now I’m Here, [...]

Watch & Listen (Cosmic Energy CE-020) Irvine Meadows, Irvine, CA – October 3, 1995 Wanton Song, Bring It On Home, Ramble On, Thank You, No Quarter, That’s The Way, Hurdy Gurdy Solo, Gallows Pole, Since I’ve Been Loving You, The Song Remains The Same, Going To California, Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, Friends, Four Sticks, Whole Lotta Love, In The Evening, Kashmir Page & Plant took their Unledded concept on [...]

Lyceum Definitive Master (Virtuoso DVD Series 001) The Lyceum Ballroom, London, England – May 6th, 1980 (approx. 141min):  Deep In The Motherlode, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, Carpet Crawlers, Squonk, One For The Vine, Behind The Lines, Duchess, Guide Vocal, Turn It On Again, Duke’s Travels, Duke’s End, Say It’s Alright Joe, The Lady Lies, Ripples, In The Cage, The Colony Of Slippermen, Afterglow, Follow [...]

A Work In Progress (no label) O2 Arena, London, England – December 10th, 2007 DVD 1:  TV Intro., Good Times Bad Times, Ramble On, Black Dog, In My Time Of Dying, For Your Life, Trampled Underfoot, Nobody’s Fault But Mine, No Quarter, Since I’ve Been Lovin’ You DVD 2:  Dazed And Confused, Stairway To Heaven, The Song Remains The Same, Misty Mountain Hop, Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love, Rock And Roll A [...]

Legend (Tarantura TDVDEC-2) North Sea Jazz Festival, Statenhal, Den Haag, Netherlands – July 11th, 1997 Disc1. Full House – Marcus #1 – Ruthie – Snakes – Going Down Slow – The Peeper – In Case You Hadn’t Noticed – Third Degree – First Song / Tango Blues – Put It Where You Want It – [...]

Les Roues Metallic et Les Jumeaux Demons (Empress Valley EVSDVD-010/011) Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada – December 14th, 1989 DVD 1:  Continental Drift, Start Me Up, Bitch, Sad Sad Sad, Undercover Of The Night, Harlem Shuffle, Tumbling Dice, Miss You, Ruby Tuesday, Play With Fire, Terrifying, Rock And A Hard Place, Mixed Emotions, Honky Tonk Women, [...]

Festivals 2009 (Apocalypse Sound AS179) Glastonbury Festival, Pyramid Stage, Worthy Farm, Pilton, England – June 26th, 2009:  The Needle And The Damage Done, Words, Get Behind The Wheel, Rockin’ In The Free World, A Day In The Life Hard Rock Calling Festival, Hyde Park, London, England – June 27th, 2009:  Mother Earth, Down By The [...]

Don’t Hide Our Love (Apocalypse Sound AS180) Olympic Stadium, Munich, Germany – June 4 & 6, 1997 Intro “Virtual Video,” Scream, They Don’t Care About Us, In The Closet, Wanna Be Startin’ Something, Stranger In Moscow, Smooth Criminal, You Are Not Alone, I Want You Back, The Love You Save, I’ll Be There, Billie Jean, [...]

Together 1984 (King Snake KS-021) NEC, Birmingham, England – July 2nd – 5th, 1984 (78:00):  Intro., Move It, Don’t Talk To Him, Please Don’t Tease, It’s All In The Game, Lucky Land, Wonderful Land, Theme From The Deer Hunter (Cavatina), F.B.I., Living Doll, Bachelor Boy, intermission, Summer Holiday, The Young Ones, I Love You, The Day [...]

Gravity, Release Me (Apocalypse Sound AS170) Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan February 12, 2009 (broadcast on MTV February 27th):  Intro., Life In Technicolor, Violet Hill, In My Place, Yellow, Fix You, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face / Talk (techno version), Viva La Vida, Lost!, Lovers In Japan, The Scientist, Life In Technicolor II  Grammy Awards, [...]

AS01 U2 [ GANGS IN NEW YORK ] Irving Plaza, New York, NY. USA 12/5/00 + bonus features AS02 Oasis [ RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW ] Piazza San Giovanni, Rome, Italy 5/1/02 + Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium 3/23/00 + Mtv Unplugged, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK 8/23/96 + Mtv Video Music Awards, New York, NY. [...]

Knebworth Masters (no label) Knebworth Festival, Stevenage, England – August 4th, 1979 DVD 1:  Introduction, The Song Remains The Same, Celebration Day, Black Dog, Nobody’s Fault But Mine, Over The Hills And Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I’ve Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, Hot Dog, The Rain Song, White Summer/Black Mountain Side, Kashmir DVD 2:   Trampled Underfoot, Sick Again, Achilles Last Stand, Guitar / Bow Solo, In The Evening, Stairway [...]

Complete Promo Clips 1970-2001 (Misterclaudel MCDVD-017/018) DVD 1, Promo clips:  Ding Dong, This Song, True Love, Crackerbox Palace, Blow Away, Faster, Save The World, All Those Years Ago, Shanghai Surprise, Someplace Else, This Is Love, When We Was Fab, Got My Mind Set On You ver. 1, Got My Mind Set On You ver. 2, [...]