DVD Review: Chickenfoot - Get Your Buzz On (Live)

Posted by Lawrence Lee | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 2:04am

One of the most unpleasant trends in directing, especially in music footage, is the tendency of directors to show what they want the viewers to see, instead of actually capturing what is going on. This was especially true in Sammy Hagar and Van Halen's concert DVD footage, that tended to focus too much on the audience, going into black and white mode, and alternating the footage between two separate concert dates. This trend is, unfortunately, not limited to the music that Sammy Hagar has appeared in, but quite prevalent in the rest of the music industry. Therefore, it was the absence of this directing ego, and the focus on the performance and musicianship, that made the Joe Satriani-headlined G3 Live in Tokyo concert DVD so much different and better than what the rest of the industry had to offer.

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