Dreamboat Annie Live was recorded on April 17, 2007, in front of a sold-out crowd at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The DVD opens with a contemporary interview of Ann and Nancy Wilson, along with Mike Flicker, the producer of the original Dreamboat Annie album, where they discuss the early days of the band and the making of the first few Heart albums.

The show begins with Heart's debut single, and still a staple of classic rock radio, "Magic Man." The stage and light show look great and the sound is thunderous. Ann and Nancy are backed by a five-piece band and three additional backing vocalists. The Stockholm Strings sextet joins in by the fourth song, "Soul Of The Sea," and lends support to every other song that follows.

Many of these songs, like "White Lightning & Wine" have never been performed live before, so the band conducted many rehearsals to get things just right. And right they did! Guitarist Craig Bartock does a fantastic job recreating all of the subtleties of Roger Fisher's original work, but also gives the songs a more muscular live feel. Ann Wilson again proves to be the greatest female hard rock vocalist in the business. Her voice is as powerful and emotive as ever, and sounds even ballsier now with the slight hint of rasp that comes through at times.

Each of the performances offered pretty straightforward, although highly spirited, renditions of the songs, until you get to "Sing Child," which was completely rearranged with some help from the string section. The familiar crunchy guitar chords are replaced by the violins, violas, and cellos of the Stockholm Strings and it sounded fantastic. After Ann fires off her excellent flute solo, Nancy even one ups her with a killer harmonica solo.

"Dreamboat Annie (Reprise)" caps off a wonderfully fresh and inspired performance of one of the best debut rock albums of the '70s. Ah, but the best is yet to come. After a brief interlude featuring more interview footage with Ann and Nancy, the band hits the stage running with their Zeppelin-esque epic "Mistral Wind," from the Dog & Butterfly album. It was the perfect precursor for what would soon follow.

Heart's first tribute song of the night was Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Sky," which I though was a rather odd choice for the band. I could think of many other Floyd songs that are better suited for the band's style, but they really made this one their own and hit it out of the park. You know you are going to get a Zeppelin cover or two at every Heart show, and this night they chose the old standby, "Black Dog," and one I was not expecting, "Misty Mountain Hop."