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Live in Japan
Pinnacle Records
- Cert:
- Cat.no: IX 0622 PXUKD
- Running time: 86 minutes
- Recorded: 2001
- Pressing: 2002
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Chapters: 22
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: None
- Widescreen: 16:9 (1.77:1)
- 16:9-enhanced: Yes
- Macrovision: No
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: £19.99
- Extras: The Documentary of The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Live in Japan
Director:
- Taro Mitsuoka
Producer:
- Kiyokazu Wakiyama
Brian Setzerwill forever be best-known for his time in the late 70s and early 80s aspart of the punk/skiffle band, The Stray Cats. These days he’s more taken totravelling the world with his 16-piece orchestra and this DVD shows a veryappreciative audience in Japan.
What we have here is a hugely-entertaining gig with many an upbeat numberfrom the opening theme tune for Hawaii 5-0 to classics from 20 yearsago such as Stray Cat Strut and even further back with Pennsylvania6-5000 (ask your parents if you’ve not heard of the latter). The StrayCats’ Rock This Town is also performed both as part of the concertand separately as a tribute to Elvis in a ’68 Comeback Special.More recent hits such Jump Jive an’ Wail are also included.
The full list of tracks are included below (* denotes second camera angle option) :
1. Opening
2. Hawaii 5-0
3. This Cat’s on a Hot Tin Roof
4. The Dirty Boogie
5. Jumpin’ East of Java
6. The Footloose Doll
7. Drive Like Lightning
8. Caravan*
9. Americano
10. I Won’t Stand In Your Way
11. Mystery Train12. Gene and Eddie
13. Guitar Rag
14. Sleepwalk *
15. Stray Cat Strut
16. Jump Jive an’ Wail
17. Pennsylvania 6-5000
18. Gettin’ in the Mood
19. Get Me to the Church on Time
20. Rock This Town
21. Rock This Town (’68 Comeback Special)
22. End Credits
Brian and his band.
There are no artifacts on show, but the concert looks like it has been shot onNTSC film and the conversion to PAL gives it that soft look that you’d expect.The ratio is 16:9 and is anamorphic.
The sound is in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 and it seriously rocks inboth.
The only extra is The Documentary of The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Live inJapan, an 11½-minute piece with the usual interviews and backstagefootage of the man and his band in Japan. Also in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen.
There are 22 chapters to the disc, as described in the track listing aboveand while most menus are static, they all contain musical snippets from theconcert. The disc contains no subtitles.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.