Product Description

DVD TRACK LISTING:

1. Pinball Wizard
2. See Me Feel me / Listening To You
3. Let My Love Open The Door
4. Rough Boys
5. Behind Blue Eyes
6. The Kids Are Alright
7. Keep Me Turning
8. Eminence Front Psychoderelict show begins
9. Introduction to Psychoderelict
10. English Boy
11. Meher Baba M3
12. Let’s Get Pretentious
13. Meher Baba M4
14. Early Morning Dreams
15. I Want That Thing
16. Introduction: Outlive the Dinosaur
17. Gridlife 1
18. Flame
19. Now And Then
20. I Am Afraid
21. Gridlife 2
22. Don’t Try to Make Me Real
23. Introduction: Predictable
24. Predictable
25. Flame
26. Meher Baba M5 (Vivaldi)
27. Fake It
28. Introduction: Now And Then (Reprise)
29. Now And Then (Reprise)
30. Baba O’Reily (Demo)
31. English Boy (Reprise) Psychoderelict show ends
32. A Little Is Enough
33. You Better You Bet
34. Face The Face
35. Won’t Get Fooled Again / Let’s See Action
36. Magic Bus

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68140 in DVD
• Brand: Universal Studios
• Released on: 2006-04-04
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: DVD, Live, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 168 minutes

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Modern Rock Orchestration
Pete Townshend, after the failed Life House project, gave us Tommmy and Quadrophenia, two of our modern orchestrated rock masterpieces. Psychoderelict, although not in league with the latter two, is a fantastic project driven by Townshend's masterful acoustic guitar and a tight backup band. Those unaware of Life House, which has appeared in bits and pieces throughout the Who's various works (most notably on 1973's Who's Next), now comes to fruition in Psychoderelict, a driving rock play which utilizes some of the same multimedia effects as the Tommy and Quadrophenia touring shows. Although Townshend, in the accompanying interview, denies it is autobiographical (but admits the lead character is partly based upon his own career), Psychoderelict gives hard driving insight into the career of a fading rock star who seeks, at the end, to use his hard-won career knowledge to the greater good. Nothing less could be expected of a true virtuoso such as Townshend.

'Advance' Review
I currently have two iterations of this concert - a VHS tape, and an old Panasonic "CD-I" which to my delight plays on one of my DVD players.

I write this review while awaiting the DVD. It may be silly to review it now, but my hope is to help those questioning the content. Obviously, the 5.1 sound will make this wonderful, along with the additional content of interviews.

To those wondering about the concert itself, it is a must for Pete Townshend fans. First, the length of the concert is well over two hours, the bulk of which is a multimedia perfomance of his Psychoderelict concept album, including live actors. I don't feel the need to go into too much detail into that except to say that it may not be his best work, but a fan is a fan. It is a story of an aging rock star whom revives his career while conversing via fan mail with someone whom he thinks is a teenage girl. Within the story, it appears Townshend works in a diluted theme of his 'Lifehouse' project through the character, which one could only think he has modeled upon himself. Presumably, the interview/commentary on the DVD will bring some answers.

Outside of Psychoderelict, Pete, with his band performs some of his solo work and Who classics. Some songs are rare in performance - such as "Keep Me Turning" and "The Kids are Alright". And its hard to stay away from "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't get Fooled Again". His band is very capable, and allows Pete to remain the focus. Fans will recognize many faces of the musicians who have worked with Pete.

This is the Pete of several years ago. Aging, but certainly not as much as now. It is a very good snapshot of the time.

I eagerly await my copy. Perhaps the commentary and interview will provide more insight.

Outstanding!
The visuals, sound, concert performance are OUTSTANDING.

I feel "Psychoderelict" is far more emotional, dramatic, interesting when seen, and heard, live by these particular actors --(E.g. the ENDING of this piece, as Pete Townshend and actors perform it live, is thrilling, funny, poignant and thought provoking.) These emotions come across much more powerful than the CD recording.

Even if you don't love "plot rock",(I happen to love it),Townshend's songs are terrific. This DVD is worth owning for repeated viewings.