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Incubus – Alive At Red Rocks 2004 (Sony/Epic Blu-ray/CD Set)

 

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

 

 

Having looked at a CD and a Blu-ray from Incubus, why not look at a set with both?  That is exactly what you get with Alive At Red Rocks 2004, the first of two live concerts of theirs to make Blu-ray.  They are one of the few acts so far to make more than one release into the pure high definition arena, but here is the first of the two so far.  Tracks include:

 

1)     Megalomaniac

2)     Nice To Know You

3)     Idiot Box

4)     Just A Phase

5)     Priceless

6)     Beware! Criminal

7)     Wish U Were Here

8)     Here In My Room

9)     Drive

10)  Vitamin

11)  Pistola

12)  Stellar

13)  Made For TV Movie

14)  Talk Show On Mute

15)  Sick, Sad Little World

16)  Green

17)  Pantomime

18)  The Warmth

19)  Pardon Me

 

 

Shot July 26, 2004, the band was better here than in their later Look Alive concert and was taped when they issued their A Crow Left Of The Murder CD, all now adding up to the portrait of a band not knowing where to go next.  I can see why some fans are disappointed.  This is a slightly better concert, but by a very, very slim margin.  I too was disappointed.

 

The 1080p 1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image actually looks better than the newer concert and that is because they do not go overboard with the focus zooming here that they did with the later concert, which is pretentious and lame.  The PCM 48/24 5.1 and PCM 48/24 2.0 Stereo mixes both play better than the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix and the better mixes do not sound as good as PCM 5.1 and TrueHD 5.1 on the newer disc.  The result is a better concert with lesser sound, but the band more honest and present.  Yes, they are slipping backwards.

 

Extras include the CD (with decent PCM 16/44.1 2.0 Stereo sound), which only has 5 tracks.  That is odd and there should have been more material on the disc, but it is not bad and includes:

 

1)     Pantomime

2)     Follow

3)     Monuments & Melodies

4)     Are You In? (Live)

5)     Circles (Live)

 

 

There is also a small illustrated booklet inside the Blu-ray case with some details about the concert and content, while the Blu-ray has backstage footage, navigation of that backstage, bonus audio and HD stills.  For more on the band, try these links:

 

Look Alive Blu-ray

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7952/Incubus+%E2%80%93+Look+Alive

 

A Crow Left Of The Murder CD

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/1439/Incubus+-+A+Crow+Left

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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