Live From Texas is a very good DVD and well worth owning, but there are two flaws with it. The first one, minor and brief, is about the performance. Beard makes a misstep with an odd electronic drum noise sounding like a pan flute heard during “Pin Cushion” and “Cheap Sunglasses.” The major one is that Milton Lage’s direction is horrible. He either didn’t understand what he was doing or he left after shooting the concert because the video looks as if editor Marc Schrobilgen was unsupervised and either got paid by the edit, suffers from ADHD, or was on amphetamines while compiling the concert footage because regardless of the pace of the song, no shot stays on screen too long. That’s tragic because much like showing a dancer or a fighter, the audience needs to see an artist at work, and here we should be looking at Gibbons in a long shot or his fingers in a close-up as he tears it up on his solos. What we don’t need is a shot of him from behind or crowd footage.

Of course, the brilliance of the music more than compensates for the charlatans who worked on this video presentation, but that doesn’t explain how so many people could get a producer or executive producer credit yet release such a poorly presented product. The audio is available in Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, and DTS Digital Surround Sound so you can always turn off the monitor and let it play through the speakers and engulf you if you also find the visuals too annoying.