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Published on July 29th 2003
Volume 4 in Kung Fu Films' hit-or-miss "The Show Must Go Off" series chronicles the little Chicago punk band that could, the Alkaline Trio, in their natural environment - The Metro, Chicago's premier club. People who liked this also liked:           Please login or register to post comments. What are the benefits of having a Punknews.org account?
"a once amazing but now rather decent live band "??!! This is one of my barn burner DVDs. How can you sit there and honestly say that this isn't that great!? The set list was amazing! It wasn't tainted with anything from "Good Mourning", which lets fac eit, isn't the band's best effort. Derek as always was amazing, seeinghim play the band's older stuff makes me think of what it would sound like if they were to redo "I Lied My Face Off" or "Trouble Breathing". Personally, I love Skiba's backing vocals on "Crawl", it adds something to it, because its what they do live, not to mention the namedrop of Skankin Pickle during "Goodby Forever". So in short, fantastic setlist, great energy from the guys, and the comentary... keep hot doggin it Derek! WHERE are the hidden easter eggs ??????????????/ I was there that night. I got one of the 3000 7"s that were pressed with "Halloween" and "Children in Heat" Misfits covers. Best show in my life, but I can still can't find myself or anyone else I know who was there. Chicago punk rock forever! ALKALINE TRIO FOREVER! haha scott i like your way with words. press select and audio options yeah the song selection is awesome, i wished theyd play these songs when they come here.. what did you want to hear, stupid kid? how do i adjust audio tracks on a ps2? where's the commentary on the dvd? is it an easter egg? the song selections awesome scotty, hahahahhahahahaha. yeah this dvd is the shit, indeed. yes!!! metro is cool and the vic is alright and the riv would be a lot better if the security they had werent asshole. but i mean i think the Metro is better then the Riv and Vic, but like... the Fireside is jesus-like. yeah, i really dont like the Metro that much.... i mean have you ever been to the Fireside Bowl? That place is really fun. i dont think their new cd is over-produced.. i think its just more technical.. listen to the drums closer on a good sound system.. it sounds just the same as there last cd.. its just more clear.. whats wrong with a good separation of sounds.. thats the best sound quality u can get. fuck you guys. ahh my crappy record freind, the crappiness is an opinion which is subject to change at any given moment Did anyone else notice that the audio and the video are slightly out of synch? One you notice it gets really annoying what the fuck does a magazine article have to do with how a record sounds...a crappy record is a crappy record, no matter how many articles are written about it. And furthermore...why the hell wouldn't they want a nice dvd with WORKING features? They seem to really want really nice gear and really nice video's and a really nice tour bus, so why not a dvd? when good mourning came out i was pretty upset at what i had heard at first. but after reading several articles, espically in the june issue of illinois entertainer, i began listening to the album with a new outlook and a lot more respect. i think the trio has had an amazing ride over the past 7 years, and if you are a fan, you will support them. as for the dvd i have not seen it yet, but do you really think alkaline would ever want a glamorous dvd about them and thier band and fulffy commentary and interviews on tape? of course not. I'll take Mike Felumlee (Infirmary) and any of the Popes offerings over Derek Grant anyday. DVDEEEEES nuts that cover sucks. I'd sell my soul to see Lewis Black...although since he is both God and Satan, I'm sure he would give it back after the show. Lewis Black is god, consider the $145 a small price to pay for having your soul saved. I just spent $145 on front row to Dave Attell, Lewis Black and Mitch Hedberg...while it's awesome...i'm poor now. Although features do lack, it was great just to get ahold of the show finally. cant anyone just enjoy alkaline trio anymore? I am wicked old? wow Scott you are wicked old quit covering bands that no one has heard of! As one of my favourite bands, of course I found this to be a very enjoyable watch. However, speaking objectively and less as a giddy mega-fan (which I can be), this DVD as a whole is very disappointing. The unability to select Commentary tracks from the menu is unnecessarily silly, while the special features are INCREDIBLY lacking. As I am not particularly a fan of Kung Fu, the few trailers were virtually useless to me as a viewer, while the Behind the Scenes was just pathetic... only a couple glimpses of the band while the camera pans around a club of goofy kids. I really would have loved to see a nice documentary style behind the scenes feature that provides more insight to the concert experience from the band... would not have to be very complicated or long either. But nope... We get nothing. As well, like I said, I'm a big Alk3 fan, so I had fun listening to the commentary, but really, nothing went on, and I must even admit it can really drag on at times. There were a lot of cool things during the show that I was hoping the guys would comment on while originally watching the show as a whole, but the focus was often irrevant to the set, making the feature seem more like a clip from a radio interview rather than a real video commentary like you get from actual movies. And I have no idea why Matt Skiba would not be included... It just does not make sense. Oh, and what's up with the video quality? Watch a DVD from the Dave Matthews Band or any large-scale group. It's perfect... Same quality as any film. This just looked like a nicely-shot bootleg. Overall, not that I have written more than anyone will read - Worth the money? For an Alkaline Trio fan like me, of course. But a good DVD as a whole? No. This band rocks... and I play drums and I dont get how you can say that Glen is a better drummer than Derek. Anyway I think Derek kicks ass, and was really good at the Skate and Surf fest. Heather is damn hot.. damn damn hot! i'll sit and listen to goddamnit or i lied my face off all day long and just tune in to glenn's drumming, which really made the band. the fills he threw in and just everything, perfectness. he had balls too. he was the backbone of the band, i keep saying this. i still love these fuckers, but their just not the same. oh well, i'm buying the dvd no second thoughts. A-freakin-men about the Glen Porter comment below. Glen can toast Derek any time of the week. Alkaline Trio rocks because they are not from Canada. derek grant is the worst thing to happen to this band...the fact that the reviewer said he took a song into "fat wreck territory" says it all. He's fast and all, but he has no style, glenn was a better drummer by far, because he knew that a straight beat could be just as powerful as a crazy one. Yeah, Heather the merch girl is sooooo hot. I gotta ask, what's wrong with the Metro? derek is a fucking nut on the drums. listen to suicide machines destructon by definition and see my point. If Heather was the girl at the Warped Tour Alk tent last year, she was freaking hot. its heather, their merch chick who has been there forever. I guess they figured they owe it to her to be on the cover too. oh well. I stand corrected...my store sucks. Is that extra bloke at the bottom of the cover there for a reason? I don't geddit. It's not all bad. The special features are shit, Matt's voice is appalling on several tracks, but apart from that, it's really well shot, the sound quality is great and Derek Grant rules all. I liked everything but Matt's vocals, Dan's are really good. i bought this and this is the worst band dvd i've ever seen. I'll probably check this out. Alk3 is good even though they sucked it up on Conana. Jacobe- Matt has been quoted as answering the question "Would you ever do a live cd?" he answered: "Not if I can help it." Well, hmmm... dvd must not count. I think the official relase date for this was pushed back to August 5th. I was told tonight while the new release order for the record store I work for. We go through the biggest distribution company in the US and they are usally pretty dead on. I may be wrong though, but don't be surprised if it's not in stores on the 29th. I'd like to get this. I saw them just recently in Cincinnati and, although I had fun, they were pretty bad live. I'm willing to bet they were once awesome. Oh well, I still love The Alkaline Trio. I don't really care about anything extra, I'll just buy it to see the band play live. |
