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Prodcut Description: [More Information ...] Don't despair entirely if the Roxy Music reunion skipped over your town in the summer of 2001. There's always this DVD to watch, featuring a wildly enjoyable and often unexpected concert performance by Roxy frontman and prolific solo artist Bryan Ferry. The setting is Paris in the spring of 2000, starring Ferry and about a dozen musicians mixing the avant-garde, Tin Pan Alley, and a delirious pop mélange for the kind of passionate European audience that during the early '70s gave Roxy Music its first commercial and critical boost outside the U.K. Backed by brass, piano, percussion, the occasional guitar, and a string section comprised of beautiful Muses (you must see it to understand...), Ferry glides through a handful of Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, and Kern & Fields standards, then hits the ground running on a slate of his own classic compositions from the last three decades: "Chance Meeting," "The Only Face," and "Avalon," among others. Not the strongest of singers, Ferry is often drowned out by the sheer stamina of his backup band. But it's impossible, still, not to be transported by the stylish earnestness and whiff of decadence in his soaring vocals. Highlights include Roxy's rather wonderful cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy," and the essential disco anthem "Love Is the Drug." Modest DVD supplements include a discography and a cute feature that identifies the musicians by face. --Tom Keogh
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Reviews:
Classy Very well done. Good song selection, but heavy on the As Time Goes By standards (not a complaint). Wonderful! This DVD was even better than I had hoped for. A must have for any Brian Ferry fan! New romantic in his element Some reviews here give this show an overall good rating, but comment that Ferry doesn't have a great voice. Far from being a shortcoming, his voice is his greatest asset as far as I'm concerned. His vocal style has often been imitated, but never replicated. With your eyes closed, you know it's Bryan Ferry the instant you hear it. This show finds him elegantly dressed as usual, and the setting is more chamber orchestra than rock band. The only downside to this show, and the reason I'll give it 4 solid stars instead of 5, is that the setlist suffers from pacing at certain points. Other than that, this romantic is in his element in the city of romance. Ferry Takes a Chance and it's a success The AS TIMES GO BY tour was very intimate and cool. I caught the tour at the Beacon Theater in NYC, which was even more vibrant than this Paris show. In any case, the Paris show is very sublime and has a more smokey great nightclub feel. The musicians are superb - with special note to the glamourous and cool ladies in the string section (especially Julia Thorton), Colin Good, and the horn section. People who expect Ferry's voice to be like Luciano or Celine Dion miss the whole essence of Ferry and Roxy - which was to be cool, original and distinctive. This album and tour was the start of Ferry's revival - leading to a Grammy Nomination, the great 2001 Roxy Reunion, and his best solo disc since THESE FOOLISH THINGS called 'Frantic'. Great concert, BAD 5.1 mix That about says it all. Whoever mixed this for 5.1 Surround had absolutely NO idea what they were doing. The volume in the front very low and the rear is barely audible at full (rear) volume!!! PCM version is likewise very low in volume (I know...that's what volume controls are for but come on...some are recorded 15-20db louder!!).
But it IS a good show. |
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Description: Bryan Ferry in Concert -Live in Paris at Le Grand Rex, March 2000-

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