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Dom Robinson reviews

The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over

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Pinnacle Records

The Eagles: Hell Freezes Over : The last three words are what the band said would have to happen before they got together and played again. On April 25th and 26th, 1994, they announced that they never broke up, they just took a fourteen-year vacation.

The concert features timeless classics (Hotel California, Desperado), selections from Don Henley's 1989 End of the Innocence masterpiece (The Heart of the Matter, New York Minute), a couple of tracks that hold special memories for me (Wasted Time, The Last Resort) plus some new material (Get Over It, Love Will Keep Us Alive).

Finally, Seven Bridges Road is listed as a "Bonus DTS Audio Track", so if, like me, you haven't got a DVD player capable of outputting DTS or an amp to play it through, you're stuffed. They should've put a Dolby Digital 5.1 option on there (same goes for the whole concert too). I might consider upgrading to DTS if I could count the number of discs available on more than two hands (!)

Their rather short singles chart history to mid-2000 is as follows :

Of course, the Eagles were more of an album-selling band and only a fool would not have their Greatest Hits album in their collection.


The picture quality is very good with zero artifacts, but it loses a little in the way of sharpness by being converted from NTSC material. It's certainly very watchable and is what I expected. Presented in fullscreen, the average bitrate is a first-rate 9.6Mb/s.

The sound is top-notch with all the loud tracks bursting out of the speakers with flavour, while the softer tunes inspire a more relaxed atmosphere.

This is also one of the first discs released in the UK to feature a DTS 5.1 soundtrack, as was Sheryl Crow: Rockin' the Globe Live. For the rest of the planet, we only get a plain stereo option.


"For the record, we never broke up...
...we just took a fourteen-year vacation"


Extras. :

Chapters :

There are 22 chapters, the first four being preamble about how they came back together which you'll watch once, but the remainder is the concert, which you'll watch many times over. The track listing is as follows :

Subtitles :

These are available in 9 languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Dutch. However, there's no English option available and the subtitles only cover the first eleven minutes of chat, anything said between the songs, but none of the lyrics, so it's a pretty shameful option that makes you think there's more available than there is.

Menu :

An animated menu with pics of the band behind the Eagles logo, with no music, but it's on so short a loop it makes the whole thing seem pointless.


Overall, this is an excellent concert and everyone certainly seems to be enjoying themselves. However, since there's no extras to speak of, is it worth £19.99 if you have all the albums from which the tracks are taken? Probably not, unless you're a completist.

For a look at what Don Henley's been up to lately, check out Jason Maloney's review of his latest album, Inside Job

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

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