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ROD STEWART & FACES
Live In London
Immortal 5.1 DVD
How time goes by.
I still remember the first time I heard
old Rod rasping out Maggie May in
1971.
And how there would be alternating
Faces, and Stewart solo albums up
to 1974.
So, when the Face "Farewell Tour"
rolled through North America in the
early fall of 1975, I was excited to get
good seats to see the group in
Toronto, Canada.
My devotion to Rod and the boys
was such that on the morning of the
concert-October 27-I suffered an
industrial accident which left me left
ring finger-fingerless, yet still
concert bound.
I insisted on attending the show on
mild painkillers and adrenaline, but
once that wore off, it was the music
that had to make it.
And it surely did.
Here then now, is 5.1 DVD of the
same basic show that rocked in
Toronto that night, complete with the
palm tree on stage that I still
remember.
Although Keith Richards did not
make a cameo in Toronto, the set list
presented here in a 65 minute show
is how I recall it, including an
elongated final bow of Maggie May.
Coming with both Dolby Digital 5.1
and DTS, the sound is generally
good for the ear, while the video is
only fair, a victim of video washout
and the fuzzies and Rod's rather
silly (now) metrosexual moves.
Yet it is the music that matters, and I
would say that this '75 gig may be
about the "best" Faces live show
available via legit release even
though it is the final one.
Live In London
Immortal 5.1 DVD
How time goes by.
I still remember the first time I heard
old Rod rasping out Maggie May in
1971.
And how there would be alternating
Faces, and Stewart solo albums up
to 1974.
So, when the Face "Farewell Tour"
rolled through North America in the
early fall of 1975, I was excited to get
good seats to see the group in
Toronto, Canada.
My devotion to Rod and the boys
was such that on the morning of the
concert-October 27-I suffered an
industrial accident which left me left
ring finger-fingerless, yet still
concert bound.
I insisted on attending the show on
mild painkillers and adrenaline, but
once that wore off, it was the music
that had to make it.
And it surely did.
Here then now, is 5.1 DVD of the
same basic show that rocked in
Toronto that night, complete with the
palm tree on stage that I still
remember.
Although Keith Richards did not
make a cameo in Toronto, the set list
presented here in a 65 minute show
is how I recall it, including an
elongated final bow of Maggie May.
Coming with both Dolby Digital 5.1
and DTS, the sound is generally
good for the ear, while the video is
only fair, a victim of video washout
and the fuzzies and Rod's rather
silly (now) metrosexual moves.
Yet it is the music that matters, and I
would say that this '75 gig may be
about the "best" Faces live show
available via legit release even
though it is the final one.
