Product: Frankie Valli & Four Seasons Live (1982)
Rating: 2.0
Very Poor Bootleggish Recording of 20th Anniversary Show
There is a paucity of live video available of the Four Seasons, so it's awfully tempting to get this DVD, and I did. However, it is very poor. Turns out, it's an illegitimate Brazilian pressing to DVD of the Four Seasons' 20th Anniversary Show in Chicago. The audio is horrible, and that's the main reason for this low rating. You can't hear the singing, and the music is all mud. There is an artificially created Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, or a regular stereo soundtrack, and both are terrible. The 5.1 soundtrack is unlistenable and worse than the stero version. The stereo version is all mud. The video itself is also of poor quality. It looks like (and is) a home-made burning of an old videotape to DVD. This same show is available as a VHS called, Frankie Valli Hits from the 60's, with a picture of Frankie on the front in a leather jacket. The VHS version has better sound and video, as this is essentially an unauthorized bootleg of that. Stay away from this pressing. If you like the Four Seasons, you will be frustrated by this very poor quality product. [...] This is real poor stuff.