#4 of 13 Crowes DVDs you should own: El Gordo's Grugahalle DVD
The Black Crowes
15 November 1996 - Grugahalle - Essen, Germany [ EUR ]
S E T L I S T »
One Mirror Too Many
Bring On, Bring On
Evil Eye
Shake Your Money Maker
Ballad In Urgency ->
Wiser Time
Thick N' Thin
Nonfiction
She Gave Good Sunflower
Chevrolet
High Head Blues
Stare It Cold
Good Friday
Hard To Handle
S H O W L E N G T H:
90 minutes
Version: El Gordo Production
Tracklisting: Complete
Menus: Title & Song Selection
Authoring: PC
Video Quality: VG, multi-cam pro shot, from master VHS
Audio Quality: VG, from DAT audio
Notes: PAL format.
By some stroke of luck, all three of the Black Crowes’ late 1996 European performances (if you call the Bullet Sound Studios a “performance” – I do) we caught on video – and two of the three were pro-shot. Of them, this DVD gets the nod above the others.
This debut of the Three Snakes and One Charm tour in Europe is a harbinger of what was to come weeks later in early 1997. Right out of the gate, you get the one-two-Three Snakes punch of One Mirror, Bring On, and Evil Eye. All are relatively tight (in a good way), with Bring On soaring, even without the jam. While the Crowes pack 14 songs into 90 minutes, the performance doesn’t suffer.
The setlist continues with four of the strongest tracks from Amorica (Ballad > Wiser, Nonfiction, Sunflower, HHB) interspersed with the era-appropriate cover and a track from SYMM. The highlights here are the Ballad outro jam, which seems to feature more pronounced Marc/Rich interplay than other versions I have heard, the Nonfiction outro, which gives everyone in the audience a taste of what’s in store for February, and a searing HHB outro that everyone, especially Ed, just rips up.
Production-wise, El Gordo did an outstanding job. The master VHS footage is paired with a great DAUD recording that’s nearly SBD quality. The menus look great and visually reference the TSAOC packaging, and the menu transitions are unique for a Crowes bootleg DVD. I believe this was one of, if not the, first Crowes DVDs he put out, and he definitely threw down a marker with this one. A great piece of production befitting a great piece of footage and Crowes history at number 4 on the list.
3 comments:
Morbid obesity , eh?
I still get goosebumps eveytime I watch this show. One mirror couldn't possibly get any better than this version. I can only imagine how people would be bitching if thatey got that set list at a current festival (except maybe sans the Chevrolet) This goes to show that looking at a setlist and actually listening to the show are worlds apart. And man, those Germans are packed like ground pork in an animal casing in that hall.
How can I get some ?
yme714@hotmail.com
Hello goodfolks, thanks for the review, I've never seen this blog before... Uhm still, The audio of this DVD is a FM sourced and recorded on DAT!. No DAUD on this one ;).
Cheers
El Gordo
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