Blogcritics Author: Paul Roy

Music DVD Review: Journey - Revelation (Live In Concert)

Paul Roy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:28:00 EDT

The bonus concert DVD is worth the price alone.
When I reviewed Journey's 2001 concert DVD a few years back, I praised their new lead singer Steve Augeri for his admirable job in filling the shoes of the almost-irreplaceable Steve Perry. Augeri sounded amazingly similar to Perry on most of the songs, and I thought at the time that Journey could not have found a better frontman to keep this...

Music DVD Review: Genesis - When In Rome 2007

Paul Roy — Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:49:09 EDT

After a 15 year absence, Genesis is a revelation in Rome.
Back in 2005 rumors began spreading of a possible Genesis reunion featuring the quintessential lineup of Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Phil Collins. The band members discussed performing The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway live for a limited run of shows that would be recorded and filmed. Could it finally...

Music DVD Review: Steve Miller Band - Live From Chicago

Paul Roy — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:58:32 EDT

Four decades later, the Steve Miller Band still delivers.
Music has been such an integral part of my life that I can still clearly remember the first three albums I ever bought with my own money. Big deal you say? Well, that was over 30 years ago, and I was only about twelve years old at the time. Steve Miller Band's Book Of Dreams was the third album, and it took a few week's worth of my hard...

Concert Review: Foreigner - Live at the Loudoun Summer Music Fest, June 1st, 2008

Paul Roy — Sun, 8 Jun 2008 11:58:42 EDT

Mick Jones and his new band are sounding even better than the original.
Last year Foreigner released the excellent Alive & Rocking' concert DVD, which captured their heroic appearance in front of a heavy metal hungry crowd at the 2006 Bang Your Head!!! Festival, in Balingen, Germany. This show featured the recently revamped lineup of Kelly Hansen (lead vocals), Jeff Pilson (bass), Jason Bonham (drums), Tom...

Music DVD Review: Doyle Bramhall II - Live from the Great Wall of China

Paul Roy — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:58:36 EDT

A spectacular setting overshadows an average performance.
I became a big Doyle Bramhall II fan after picking up the 1992 debut album by the band Arc Angels, Bramhall's superb one-off collaboration with Stevie Ray Vaughan's old Double Trouble rhythm section of Chris Layton (drums) and Tommy Shannon (bass), and fellow, Texas, blues-rock disciple Charlie Sexton sharing the guitar and vocal duties.The...

Music DVD Review: Scorpions - Live at Wacken Open Air 2006

Paul Roy — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:15:59 EDT

Hometown heroes rock the Wacken Open Air Festival like never before.
If there was ever a time to see the Scorpions live in concert it was on their Love At First Sting tour of 1984. That was the first time I saw them in concert, along with a little-known opening band called Bon Jovi (whom I believe has gone on to a modicum of success since then). It was one of the greatest arena rock concerts I have seen to this day....

Music DVD Review: Toto - Falling In Between Live

Paul Roy — Sat, 3 May 2008 13:00:25 EDT

Toto electrifies Paris with some of their best new material in decades.
In February of 2006 Toto embarked on their massive Falling In Between world tour which took them all over Europe, Japan, the United States, and many other remote parts of the globe. The tour finally came to an end in August of 2007 after playing more than 120 shows. I was fortunate enough to have seen Toto for the first time when they stopped by...

Music DVD Review: Pallas - Moment to Moment

Paul Roy — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:30:13 EDT

This band shows that the neo-progressive rock scene is certainly alive and well in Poland.
Pallas' Moment To Moment is yet another first-rate concert DVD release from Poland's Metal Mind Productions. During the last few years, Metal Mind has lured damn-near every progressive rock band in Europe to their recording venue of choice -- the Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice, Poland -- in order to capture some killer live concert...

Music DVD Review: Zebra - The DVD

Paul Roy — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:27:14 EDT

Zebra's first concert DVD finds the band still going strong after three decades.
Zebra was formed in 1975 in New Orleans and quickly made a name for themselves playing Led Zeppelin, Moody Blues, and Rush covers in clubs throughout Louisiana, and then eventually conquering the Long Island, NY club circuit in the early 80's. In 1983, they signed with Atlantic Records and released their self-titled debut album that same year....

Music DVD Review: Robben Ford - Ohne Filter: Revisited

Paul Roy — Wed, 2 Apr 2008 23:43:47 EDT

Robben Ford revisits the Ohne Filter show and does not disappoint.
After already releasing several excellent instructional guitar videos over the last decade, Robben Ford finally delivered his fans their long awaited concert video in 2003, which featured his 1993 appearance on the German television show Ohne Filter - Musik Pur. The DVD was simply titled In Concert, and it captured a scorching blues-rock set by...