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Rick Vito In Concert (Ohne Filter)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: B-     Extras: C+     Concert: C+

 

 

Rick Vito has been a Rock guitarist who has been around since the 1960s and has played on the usual important albums and been on some big tours.  He even reached a new, if short lived high, when he became one of the two guitarists who (as it turned out) temporarily succeeded Lindsey Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac when Buckingham felt he had had enough.  After that four-year stint, Vito was again on his own, and that included this April 25th, 2000 appearance on the German TV concert series Ohne Filter.

 

The problem with this concert is that it takes forever to get started and when it finally works in the latter half, does not wipe away what did not work earlier.  No doubt Vito has talent and some heart, but the following is not the strong set it could have been:

 

1)     Steamliner

2)     Wouldn’t Lay My Guitar Down

3)     Voodoo Woman

4)     When The Big One Comes

5)     Feels Just Like Home

6)     Homework

7)     Carry It On Home To Rosie

8)     Long Black Car

9)     Another Woman

10)  Little Sheba

11)  Blues Town

12)  Trouble In Trying Times

 

 

What I came away with is a talent that has still after all these years not reached its peak, because the right project that would really click simply has not come along.  It happens, and though you may think “if Fleetwood Mac did not do it, what would?”, know that the best projects are the ones that show off the talent to best effect.  Hope Vito finds it.

 

The full frame PAL color video is about what would expect for a taping of the time, having limits in its good color and limited definition.  The sound is available in the usual PCM CD-type 2.0 16bit/48kHz Stereo, as well as a slightly better Dolby Digital 5.1 AC-3, which plays better all around.  Too bad this was not in DTS.  The depth in the 5.1 here is not bad, if not quite as good as the Mark King DVD.  Besides repeating the same stereo cords ad placement, other DVDs in the series, and Ohne Filter producer interview, it has a biography of Vito that explains his survival success.  We’ll see what he does next.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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