Amazon.co.uk Review: A treasure-trove for Dream Theater fans, Live at Budokan presents an entire three-hour performance at Tokyo's famed Budokan arena on April 26, 2004, along with a bonus disc rich in supplementary material. Disc 1 finds the metallic progressive-rock quintet at its awe-inspiring best, plowing through its catalogue of dramatic epics and jack-hammer instrumentals, including five of the seven songs from 2003's Train of Thought. Disc 2 features an extended drum solo from percussionist extraordinaire Mike Portnoy; gear tours from guitarist John Petrucci and keyboardist Jordan Rudess (fascinating for lay people and downright revelatory for musicians); and a half-hour documentary on DT's 2004 stint in Japan punctuated by tantalizing snippets of band rehearsals. The shooting and editing for the concert are a music lover's dream, with lengthy shots that linger on the performances of individual band members. Disc 2 takes this even further with a multi-angle sequence of the 12-minute "Instrumedley".
Production values are extremely high: it's a widescreen presentation shot on high-def video and nicely mixed for multichannel Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound (with a thinner, collapsed version of the same for Dolby 2.0). --Michael Mikesell
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Rating: - ~Amazing Performance!!!~
This DVD show Dream Theater (DT) live at the historical japanese avenue, the Budokan, at their finest. I think DT have taken their music at another highest after having Rudess on keys, he is much more than just a keyboardist, combining speed, technique, musicality, together with Petrucci, Portnoy and Myung, they expanded ... Read More
Rating: - excellent live DVD
I've just got into Dream Theater and this is the first live DVD of theirs I've seen. It's very good - really well shot and editted, and the overall package with the 2nd disc is very comprehensive and informative.
One minor gripe though... as a guitar player it was slightly disappointing that John Petrucci's "guitar ... Read More
Rating: - Not just great.....it's the best DVD ever
I bought this knowing it would be good but this is just amazing. No faults in it whatsoever. Sound quality is brilliant, camera angles are always perfect, bonus disc is really cool too (Portnoy's drum solo especially), and the best part of this DVD is that every musician gets credit for what theyre actually doing i.e. when ... Read More
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