Amazon.com 10th Anniversary Event

Brilliant!
A nice ProShot 2005 concert where the band play a nice sharp performance.
I think Bob plays a pretty big part in this show, his electric piano is alot louder than usual and is constantly heard which i found rather nice.
I also loved to see Norah Jones play with Bob, You don't usally get a modern musical artist playing with him.
Overall: Fantastic show!

I really like the result, very strong performances and its very crips and the sound is just top notch. Recommended.

I have nothing to add to the other reviews except to
correct the statements regarding the introduction that
begins the show. This is done by Al Santos,one of Bob's
people,it's the intro he uses every show.
A reporter from the Buffalo News used the words in a piece
he did about Bob.....Dylan must have been amused about it and it's been in the show since.
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This is a weird DVD. I hoped they paid Bob handsomely to do this gig - I'm sure nothing other than his by now consumate professionalism and perhaps a couple of stiff bills to pay kept him from walking off the stage after two minutes or better yet not even starting the show at all. To begin with, the intro truly was ghastly and insulting, not to mention stupid and ignorant. Secondly, the audience provides about as much energy in return to the performers as you might expect of a corporate sponsered event from a company which exists as a giant in cyberspace. This is still rock n' roll, but not because anyone other than Bob Dylan and his band say so.

...and yet, Zimmy still manages to rock. His playing, both piano and harp, are always solid; at times brilliant. He appears bouyant, even bubbly - like he is managing to enjoy himself despite the tepid, bland, limp, lobotomized, environment he finds himself in. What the DVD lacks in spontaneity and surprise it makes up for in slickness and clarity. We get a gorgeous opportunity to see and hear the band in full and unobstructed clarity. Their playing is crisp and tight. As mentioned in an earlier review of this DVD, it is nice to hear Dylan as an intergral member of the band, his keyboard playing deeply imbedded in the fabric of the music, as opposed to dancing aimlessly over it.

I Shall be Released features a nervous appearing Nora Jones who, trepidation aside, still manages to showcase her honey sweet vocals.

True, if you are looking for Bob Dylan in all his raging glory, this may not be the DVD you want to pick up and look into. This is, after all, the 21st century - if he hasn't already, this american musical force of nature will soon start drawing social security checks whether he wants em or not. He still kicks it out stronger than many a man half his age, and I, for one, feel that he has more than earned his keep.

This is definitly worth seeing. Many thanks to the generosity of 11DollarBills.

D586 BUT MY HEART JUST WON'T GIVE IN

If you're fed up with ghostly Bobs, drunken Bobs, Bobs eclipsed by arms and heads and Bobs who sound as if they've been recorded from the bottom of a middling deep mineshaft, then this just might be the DVD you’ve been waiting for. It presents in pristine sound and vision a short nine-song set, played by Bob and the band in Seattle in July 2005 before 2,500 Amazon employees as well as many more webcast viewers. To have this delightfully mixed and bell-clear sound piped into your ear is to realise just to what extent most other private recordings miss out in the sonic department. In consequence, the set isn't far progressed before you're looking round to see who and where the keyboard player is - and then you realise that it's Bob himself, for once distinctly up there, his playing readily discernible and - surprise, surprise - not half bad! Because it's all so well recorded, there's not a song here that doesn't have something to be said for it - and yet there's a tameness approaching blandness about it all. It's almost like a night club turn. The camera (like the audience) keeps a restrained and respectful distance - there's not a head-shot all night - such that you start to yearn after a while for a bit of that Hard Rain '76 in-your-face anarchy, just to remind yourself that everyone's still alive. And that's the other shocking thing - in Lay Lady Lay especially, but in other songs too, Bob's voice is in dreadful, fully-wrecked, bull-frog mode. In the set's closer, an affecting duet of I Shall Be Released with Ravi Shankar's comely daughter Norah Jones (who earlier in the evening had performed a set of her own) Bob slyly, by playing Beast to her Beauty, turns adversity to his advantage. All the same, it's surely a voice hardly fit any longer to be taken onto a public stage, and you do start to wonder how just much longer he can or should go on. In 1984 on Westwood One he said

If I went out to play and nobody showed up, that would be the end of me

which suggests that, as long as he continues to draw a crowd, go on he will. Yet many people who read this would happily pay to watch him sit in an armchair doing the crossword - thus waiting till there’s no more crowd won't do it. All the same, he's lately become the song and dance man he once famously claimed to be - a latterday Mr Bojangles, or maybe that should be Jingle-jangles - and a song and dance man who can neither sing nor dance more than a step or two faces an uncertain future. But still he does face it. Still he pushes on. Watching this spunky little 64-year-old guy, bent out of shape by Father Time's pliers, still putting out, game as ever, is a privilege indeed. And watching him courtesy of a package as seductive and alluring as this is nowadays about as good as it gets. Sure it's poignant, but Life is too. Just turn on the daily news.

Look behind Bob, off back into the wings, and there, standing on his gear, shines his Oscar. He doesn't need to pull stunts like that to remind anyone how great he's been - but, then, why not? It's part of who he is, and what he’s come to mean to us all. And, no, of course he can't go on indefinitely - but when his day is done, still we'll have the likes of this DVD to watch and enjoy over and again. Make the most of it, and him, while you have the chance.

THANKS to PK for on-going sterling work.
STARS Five

This is a clear and direct approach of the Bob;
He does one of the best performances i have ever seen or heard.

MUST HAVE!!!!!!

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