Product: Music for Montserrat (1997)
Rating: 5.0
If it got any better than this, heads would explode
I just finished watching this for the first time, and was completely blown away.I could tell you that seeing Carl Perkins rip through his rockabilly standard "Blue Suede Shoes" is worth the price of this entire DVD, but (with the exception of Jimmy Buffet) it just gets better and better from there.Mark Knopfler's breathtaking rendition of "Brothers in Arms" is immediately topped by his performance of "Money for Nothing" where he's accompanied by Sting AND Eric Clapton.Sting offers a couple of Police tracks which he's slowed down to that modern contemporary housewife Jazz he's now renown for.Elton then steps up, and with only a piano and his voice offers three more deeply moving classics to the list of ever improving numbers...thankfully none of which are any version of "Candle in the Wind".How much would you pay for this incredible list of performances!?! BUT WAIT!!! There's more....Enter, yet again, the man himself. "God", as some have called him, I prefer the term "Slowhand"... ERIC CLAPTON sits center stage, with trusty Martin 6 string in hand, and gives one solo number before being joined again by Mark Knopfler. The two perform the best version of acoustic "Layla" I've ever heard....and after that, Clapton gets real good...And just as you think it can't get any better..out comes Sir Paul McCartney...and with 40 years of material to draw from, pulls out the trump card and gives three Beatles numbers which evolve into all star jams featuring all of the afore mentioned artists.With this amazing spectacle you also get Phill Collins, Montserrat native; Arrow, George Martin, an entire symphony orchestra, an enormous chior and ivory tickler extrordinare; Jools Holland,.... who even shows up Elton John's piano playing during the monumental "Kansas City".While watching this film I didn't know whether to laugh out loud or cry like a baby...so I just sat dumbfounded...If I had anything negative to say about this masterpiece, it would be only that Jimmy Buffet should have been selling paradisian cheeseburgers in the lobby, because on that stage he was out classed, out ranked, out played, and outshined...I'm not even sure what his useless carcass was doing up there in the frst place. If there was an option to add half a star..I would have given this film 4 and a half instead of five only because of him.... But I'm willing to look beyond that one dark speck and give it 5 for all of the brilliance involved.If you dig music, you'll dig this DVD.