Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City Music Hall [Blu-ray]
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City Music Hall [Blu-ray]
In April 2007, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds embarked on a 3-city theatre tour, culminating with a performance in the intimate confines of Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Due to the smaller sized venues and extremely limited number of dates, tickets were practically impossible to get, making this new 2 disc Blu-ray set all the more desirable to the huge Dave Matthews Band fanbase. LIVE AT RADIO CITY marks the first time in almost ten years that Dave and Tim have released an album. Their last album was the wildly successful, multi-platinum LIVE AT LUTHER COLLEGE. This is the first-ever Blu-ray Disc released by the duo. LIVE AT RADIO CITY features over 2 1/2 hours of music, capturing all 26 songs of Dave and Tim’s performance. The performance includes numerous songs that have never been recorded by the two, including Crush, Grace Is Gone, Don t Drink The Water, Gravedigger and many more.
Video/Audio
9-camera, HiDef shoot
Full 1080P24 HD resolution
16:9 Wide screen format
PCM Stereo Sound (48kHz/24bit)
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround Sound (96kHz/24bit)
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound (640 kbps)Socialites in the Hamptons paid up to $15,000 for the privilege of seeing this duo in action just a few weeks before the release of Live at Radio City Music Hall. Not that it was any easier to get tickets to the April 22, 2007, concert in New York that produced this recording, available on CD or DVD with high-definition 5.1 surround sound and an additional 46-minute film of backstage footage. The acoustic set features the veteran musicians performing for nearly two-and-a-half hours–and you get the feeling they could have easily kept going. Reynolds gets his solo turn on “Betrayal” and “You Are My Sanity,” but it’s a chatty Matthews who seems to be relishing the occasion more, stripping down some of his band’s most popular songs (”Lie in Our Graves,” “Two Step”) while giving the fans a sneak peek at a couple of its new ones (”Eh Hee,” “Cornbread”). The guy’s even thrown in a few covers for kicks, including Neil Young’s “Down by the River” and Daniel Lanois’ “The Maker.” In terms of audio quality and packaging, it marks a vast improvement over the pair’s first release, 1999’s Live at Luther College. And the best part is that it doesn’t cost more than a yacht. –Aidin Vaziri
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Wonderful!
This is a review for the blu-ray edition.
I’ve never been a big Dave Matthews fan and I’ve only heard [of] Tim Reynolds a few times. Watching this concert made me really appreciate the amount of talent and passion for music they both have.
Audio quality is superb. The concert comes with 3 sound options: TrueHD 5.1, Dolby 5.1, and PCM stereo. I’m partial to stereo tracks, and therefore the PCM 2.0 on this disc, but the TrueHD track was also very impressive. You may as well not even bother with the Dolby 5.1 track. Video quality is also very good, but I wouldn’t have cared either way - they nailed the audio on this disc and, to me, that’s what’s important for a concert.
5 Stars One of the best recorded BD… i wonder how it will be with the complete band…
Concert itself: 5 stars
Video quality: 5 stars
Audio quality: 5 stars
Extras: 3 stars
Others: The audio is simply perfect… but doesnt have low frecuencies for obvious reasons…
5 Stars Absolutely stunning
This concert is just magical, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds are perfection together. I’ve seen many musicians play the acoustic guitar but Tim Reynolds is a master! What he can do with a guitar is magical. You will not be disappointed purchasing this concert dvd, trust me.
5 Stars Dave and Tim do it again!
I’ve thought for some years that Dave and Tim make a great musical duo. This DVD is simply fantastic. No big band, sax, keys, drums yadda yadda just straight up good guitar and vocals. Blu ray makes it all that much better.
5 Stars Classic and Pure
Well i own this on DVD not blu-ray but the sound and the atmosphere of Radio City is just beautiful. Tim is amazing as he makes it seem, if you close your eyes, that there are more than just 2 people playing. Dave is brilliant as always. His voice brings chills on most tracks such as “So Damn Lucky” and “Crush”.
You will not be disappointed with this purchase.
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