Product Description

Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 03/30/2004 Run time: 60 minutes Rating: Nr

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61869 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2004-03-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Customer Reviews

A Stunning Masterpeice!
Ronnie James Dio has treated all of his thousands of fans to a spectacular laser light show, and feirce operatic heavy metal. Every minute of this video is great, not to mention the towering fire breathing dragon, the huge crystal ball, and fighting knights! Dio's voice is soaring and strong like always and guitarist Craig Goldie rocks like no other. Enjoy the action, any real heavy metal fan would buy this video!

Very soaring, very magical
This is a great Dio video, quite extraordinary really. The film wouldve been almost perfect if some things couldve been different. The laser show was extraordinary though I wont deny that. And i honestly enjoy this video as much as I enjoy the videos by maiden ect. but this shouldve been more organized. Like Vinny Appice one of the greatest drummers of all time, he did a fine job and went smoothly with the songs, but he didnt give it alot of effort the entire time he is just hitting the snare and isnt doing the same outstanding drumwork he usually does. At least not on alot of songs, and Jimmy Bain's bass needs to come up alot more. I mean you can hardly even hear it, like on heaven and hell that song is just full of bass most of the time and you can barely even hear it. And claudie schnell shouldve done more keyboard work on sacred heart, it was still good but it could have been better. As for Craig Goldy he was just quite extraordinary and replays the songs exactly the same way vivian campbell did, some even better.But they didnt play enough songs off sacred heart, they only played 3 live which were sacred heart, king of rock&roll,rock&roll children, and well you get to hear hungry for heaven with the credits but still wouldve been better to watch them play it. They shouldve also played just another day and fallen angels. And yes rock&roll children is an amzingly deep song, I dont know why anyone would think its ridiculous, its absolutely perfect. Its all in all a great video I think the first time you see it you will be amazed but after a few times you start noticing the flaws more, but yes it is a metal classic and is worth having. Long Live Rock&Roll!!!

Great but ruined by medlies...
I don't know why Dio always does this at concerts. Does he not ever think that fans might want to hear a live version of a song in its entirety? Holy Diver and Rock'n Roll children are ruined because they are not played through in their entirety, but rather, they are placed into a "medly" with other songs. What a shame. I actually think Craig Goldie sounds way better on this DVD than he does on the "Intermission" CD, which was lacking in guitar tone. Intermission was another example of fragmented versions of songs. A message to Dio and management: release a live DVD or CD with all the best live versions of Rainbow in the Dark, Holy Diver, Egypt the Chains are On, Evil Eyes, Caught in the Middle etc. Yes, Caught in the Middle is one of the best. Surely it must have been played live at some point? Skip all the Black Sabbath covers that we've now heard about a billion times. Maybe re-release and remaster some of the stuff with Vivian Campbell, as well. Don't the fans deserve it? It could be a win-win situation.