Three
Days Grace Live At the Palace 2008 (Sony/Jive Blu-ray)
Picture: B Sound: B Extras: D Concert: C+
As the band Groundswell, Three
Days Grace was launched in 1992 in Canada and were a cover band. This is likely why it took so long for many
to hear about them. Unless you are Van
Halen and can come up with remarkable takes on what you cover, you get lost in
a sea of such bands. The name change
happened by 1997 and they have been an active Alternative Rock band ever
since. Three Days Grace Live At the Palace 2008 is a big concert release
for them and it is even being released on Blu-ray; the format we are covering
it in. Tracks include:
1)
Animal
I Have Become
2)
Pain
3)
Just
Like You
4)
Let
It Die
5)
Wake
Up
6)
I
Hate Everything About You
7)
Rooster
8)
Riot
9)
Get
Out Alive
10) Never Too Late
11) Scared
12) Gone Forever
13) Home
Song 7 is a cover of the classic
Alice In Chains song and the results are sincere, but mixed, much like the
concert itself. It also shows that they
cannot go all the way like a better band than Chains was (though they are
reuniting despite losing a lead singer) and this is really a fans-only
disc. With interview/behind-the-scenes
inserts between each song (which weights down the whole program) breaks any momentum
the band picks up and the result is not the best showing they could have had.
The 1080p 1.78 X 1 digital High
Definition image is a mix of great stadium shots, some fairly good medium and
close shots, and lesser behind the scenes shots that look like low-def digital
video. That might seem real to
somebody somewhere, but it makes this uneven here. The PCM 48/24 5.1 mix is better than the
standard Dolby Digital 5.1 mix and I even liked the PCM 2.0 Stereo mix more
than the Dolby mix. At least they were
consistent on the sound. There are no extras.
-
Nicholas Sheffo
