Product: Scorpions World Wide Live [VHS]
Rating: 2.0
I really had a blackout babahhh.....
I remember in 1985 picking up the cassette version of this and being blown away at how good these guys were in their live recordings. A few years later I caught them twice on their next tour and was stunned that they were actually that good live. Matthias Jabs is truly an underrated guitarist. But I digress.It goes without saying I was excited to come across this DVD but upon viewing it, was very disappointed. It seemed the video footage from their various shows taken around the world, was all chopped up and spliced back together an audio track, not necessarily the same audio that was recorded with the video. So you really get bits and pieces of live video footage taken from their different shows around the world mixed and matched to a single audio recorded live song, with individual songs recorded in various cities, again, from around the world. On some tracks (3 or 4 of them), you sometimes get the studio-recorded audio version of the song matched up with the live video clips; which is sacrilege considering how good this band is live. I was hoping they'd actually show the video portion that actually matched and was recorded with its corresponding audio portion.Otherwise, the seller provided an expedient transaction, given my package crossed the ocean from Sweden to the States and the thing wasn't super expensive. 2 stars: 1 for showing some of the band behind the scenes in their prime and just 1 for not really having good video footage tied to actual music being played from a band in their prime! Just beware of what you getting with this one. Maybe it was the way the Scorpions intended this product to be or maybe I got duped here at Amazon.