Black Crowes – Warpaint Live (Eagle Blu-ray)

 

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

 

 

In their second Blu-ray concert release, The Black Crowes prove they are still a viable band who likes to perform and cares about their audience, but Warpaint Live is more of a hit and miss show than their previous release Freak & Roll, which you can read more about at this link:

 

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/4586/The+Black+Crowes+%E2%80%93+Fr\

 

 

Music this time includes:

 

1)     Goodbye Daughters Of The Revolution

2)     Walk Believer Walk

3)     Oh Josephine

4)     Evergreen

5)     We Who See The Deep

6)     Locust Street

7)     Movin’ On Down The Line

8)     Wounded Bird

9)     God’s Got It

10)  There’s Gold In Them Hills

11)  Whoa Mule

12)  Poor Elijah – Tribute To Johnson

13)  Darling Of The Underground Press

14)  Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye

15)  Don’t Know Why

16)  Torn & Frayed

17)  Hey Grandma

 

 

Certainly not the most commercial set of songs they ever made, which is a good thing, yet this is the entire content of their latest album and shows a band trying to say something new instead of being content to become a legacy act.  The results may not be to my tastes, but they are more ambitious than most Rock acts today and they never sold out, so fans should be happy and the curious should give it a look.

 

The 1080i 1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image is weaker than expected with bad background reproduction (esp. the audience) and softness throughout that undermines the show.  The DTS-HD Master Audio (MA) lossless 5.1 is a little better than the PCM 16/48 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 mixes, but is not a spectacular mix, not taking advantage of the fidelity of the DTS-MA as it should.  The combination is not as good as the previous Blu-ray.  There are no extras.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo