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Sanctuary Digital Entertainment
- Cert:
- Cat.no: SVE 3003
- Running time: 88 minutes
- Year: 2002
- Pressing: 2002
- Region(s): All, PAL
- Chapters: 18
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: None
- Fullscreen: 4:3
- 16:9-Enhanced: No
- Macrovision: Yes
- Disc Format: DVD 5
- Price: £15.99
- Extras: Brit Awards clip, “Rockmeister” clips
Bad Company: In Concertdoes exactly what it says on the tin for the band who began in 1973 onceFree members, vocalist Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke,broke away to form their own band with Mott the Hoople guitarist MickRalphs and King Crimson’s bassist, Boz Burrell. Some members wenton their separate ways over the years, but this gig sees the original line-upreturn to mark almost 30 years as a band.
While most people will be familiar with rock classics such as Wishing Welland the overplayed All Right Now, they should also recognise thepowerful Feel Like Makin’ Love and Can’t Get Enough, the latteronce being used in an advert although I forget for which product.
There are 18 chapters on the disc, starting with an introduction, but themusic tracks are as follows (so add 1 to each of the number below when choosingyour chapter):
1. Burnin Sky
2. Can’t Get Enough
3. Good Lovin’ Gone Bad
4. Feel Like Makin’ Love
5. Rock Steady
6. Movin On
7. Seagull
8. Ready For Love
9. Deal with the Preacher10. Rock And Roll Fantasy
11. All Right Now
12. Wishing Well
13. Bad Company
14. Silver Blue and Gold
15. Run with the Pack
16. Shooting Star
17. Joe Fabulous
The concert was filmed in 16:9, but has been presented here in letterboxformat and not anamorphic, the latter being what DVD is capable of so wellso why have we been stiffed there? It’s been shot on NTSC stock as well andthe transition to PAL isn’t perfect, giving it a blurry appearance.
The sound comes out better though, with Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 optionssounding rich, although Paul Rodgers’ voice doesn’t quite cut it as it used to,so don’t go expecting the perfection you’d find on one of their albums.
There are a few extras, but all fairly brief, starting with text-based onesfor a Biography, Track by Track comments, a discography, plus a PhotoGallery and just over 20 minutes of band Interviews in front of thestage.
6 minutes of Behind the Scenes footage, as they prepare for their gig,doesn’t hold any surprises and Famous Friends contains 8 minutes ofbackslapping interview clips with other old rockers from Styx, Heart and Deep Purple, toname but three. All of these extras will entertain the average Bad Companyfan, but I doubt you’ll give them a second viewing.
There are no subtitles option for English, while the menus use subtle animationand the main one features the band’s music.
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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.