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The audio and visual quality of the Chaos in Motion DVD's are very poor. One would think at some points that it was filmed by an amateur with a personal video camera. The "Live at Budokan" and "Metropolis" DVD's have far superior audio/visual quality. Rather spend your money on those before you buy Chaos in Motion.
The CDs are great, to me the best ever since I liked the songs on "Systematic chaos" and others included here. and particularly the crew behind their gigs is truly interesting to watch.
The production of the live part of this collection is nowhere nearly as good as their previous three dvds. First of all, this rating is from a die-hard fan, If you think DT is just ok, just another prog-metal band, it's 3 stars or even less.
The documentary focusing on each and every member(not just MP and JP, and JM talks more than ever.). Imagine "once in a live time", as MP mentioned beforehand or three bonus tracks on "Score".The behind their tour documentary on disc 2 is actually, to me the main dvd.
The live is the bonus. But any of those cannot be interesting enough to I-think-DT-is-just-ok fans.
If they'd released the CDs alone, I would've recommended them to even those softcore DT fans.They could have put couple of bonus tracks just for the CDs though.My only concern is that we're probably not going to see those songs from SC that are included on this dvd on their future live dvd with a decent production for a long while since they don't like things to be redundant and that's a shame.
I even found myself on occasion glancing at the behind stage scenes. I bought this for my husband for his birthday. It gives a great view of the band by all angles. He is a huge fan of Dream Theater. As soon as he opened his gift he spent an entire Saturday watching the entire collection of DVDs. Fabulous. This is a must have for any Dream Theater fan.
This latest DVD offering is a compilation of performances from their last extensive tour. Dream Theater reside at the top of the heap of progressive metal bands and there is no real close second. I feel it very much captures a more raw version of Dream Theater in concert compared to the more polished SCORE DVD of a few years ago. The musicianship and virtuosity that these five performers deliver is unmatched by anyone else. Dream Theater is not everyone's cup of tea as they do not deliver the commercial schlock that one typically gets on radio ad nauseum. It still blow the socks off nearly anything else out there and you owe it to yourself to check it out. These boys simply never disappoint.
is this really limited to 5000 copies or is is 100000 copies around.great st will buy again
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