Tina Turner – Rio ’88 Live In Concert (DVD-Video/EV Classics/Eagle Rock)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Concert: B
On home
video, one of the most successful and popular concerts have always been Tina Turner – Rio ’88 Live In Concert and
even when it seems to have gone out of print, it suddenly resurfaces. Turner has done many concerts and many of
them have also been issued multiple times, but there is just something special
about this taping that distinguishes it from her many great moments on stage.
She
performs most of the songs from Private Dancer
as expected, throws in her underrated end theme to Mad Max – Beyond Thunderdome (as One Of The Living opened the film) and some then-new tracks from
the interesting Break Every Rule
album. The songs are as follows:
- Addicted To Love
- I Can't Stand The Rain
- Typical Male
- Better Be Good To Me
- Private Dancer
- We Don't Need Another Hero (from Mad Max – Beyond Thunderdome)
- What's Love Got To Do With It?
- Help
- Let's Stay Together
- Proud Mary
- What You Get Is
What You See
- Break Every
Rule
- Paradise Is
Here
She is
joined by samba dancers at one point, though she actually does Proud Mary as a solo performer without
her usual backup dancers, which still works and is something. Her voice is in great shape, the band is top
notch, the outfits are changed at times for the visit and the set could not go
on long enough for me. The only hit song
she does not do from Break Every Rule
is Two People. Otherwise, it is another amazing performance
form her monumental comeback and is a concert you need to see once just for all
of its energy.
The 1.33
X 1 image is from a second-generation video source, as the PolyGram logo at the
beginning is alone indicative of its age before even seeing the picture. Whether an NTSC or PAL analog taping, the
master would look a bit sharper than this.
Ditto to the Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, which may have a master that
exists in multi-channel that should sound a bit better than this. Hope we see an upgrade down the line.
There are
no extras despite the room on the disc, but we do recommend these Eagle/Tina
Turner releases reviewed on this site as follows:
Tina Turner – Live In Amsterdam
(remastered)
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/1297/Tina+Turner+-+Live+In+Amsterdam
Ike & Tina Turner – The
Legends Live In ‘71
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/1718/Ike+&+Tina+Turner+-+Live+In+71
- Nicholas Sheffo