Roger Daltrey: A Celebration - With Pete Townshend and Music of the Who (1998)

Excelent and emotional show!!!!!!! John Entwistle and Pino Paladino together!!

This show is very emotional because there is a very simbolic moment when John Entwistle and Pino Palladino shake hands and change the bass John played in "The Real Me".

This show was recorded for Roger Daltrey s' 50th birthday and features a varied name of artists and singers. Sadly, this cd does not feature the complete show and songs played that evening.
This show only features 2/3 of the complete show but contains excelent production and arrangements on some songs specially on "THE SEA REFUSES NO RIVER", "IMAGINE A MAN", "SONG IS OVER".
and "DOCTOR JIMMY" (sung by Linda Perry). The songs featured on the cd and this dvd, mix old and overplayed favorite WHO tracks such as "PINBALL WIZARD", "BEHIND BLUE EYES" AND "WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN", but also includes rarely or never played before WHO and Pete Townshend solo tracks such as "THE SEA REFUSES NO RIVER", "IMAGINE A MAN", "SONG IS OVER" and "DOCTOR JIMMY" among others. JOHN ENTWISTLE visits the band and plays PINO PALLADINO bass on "THE REAL ME". Pino plays on the rest of the show. "PETE TOWNSHEND plays and sings on "WHO ARE YOU" (he wanted to sing "THE SHOUT", but Roger did not). For me Rogers singing in "THE SEA REFUSES NO RIVER" is excellent but in "SONG IS OVER" he shows the sings of age in his voice or maybe he was not at his best that night.

Linda Perry is excellent in DOCTOR JIMMY, Roger Daltrey does the introduction to Linda: "she reminds me of Janis"...

The excelent orchesta is conducted by and arrangemens are done no other than MICHEL KAMEN who sadly passed away later.
Alice Cooper s' producer, does the production of the show (Alice sang "I am a Boy" in that concert, but is not included). March 11, 2006

Amazing show, Terrible quality

I was fortunate enought to attend this concert, and if you think about it, the sound at Carnagie Hall in NYC is world famous. And on this night, the acoustics of the hall lived up to the reputation. So, WHAT HAPPENED? Who dropped the ball?
It's New York City, you have at your disposal the finest most up-to-date technical equipment available anywhere. You are recording in a hall that is acoustically perfect as you can get, and the end result is THIS LOUSY DVD?

All in attendance were in awe of the performence that night. We are equally in awe over how this could be the end result of such an amazing event. Pathetic. October 23, 2005

Roger Daltry:'A Celebration-With Pete Townsend..'(Compendia)

Who finalized the authoriziation of this DVD for public sales?Whoever it was,he/she MUST'VE been half asleep.The sound quality of this DVD is terrible.Even with Daltry belting out such Who goods as "You Better,You Bet","I Can See For Miles","I'm Free" among others doesn't even come close to making up for the fact this DVD should NOT be bought for any MORE than,say $5.00 if you happen to find it in a cut-out bid. May 20, 2005

very poor DVD

Just got this Dvd out of the box for a 2nd look after a few months and know why I put it away, This DVD is simply bad!! quality poor crappy video, looks like a 3rd generation video The audio is poor also with its supposed 4.1,
How they get away with releasing such rubbish beats me how an Artist of Rogers standing can give this the go ahead, he must never have had a look at this result it's an insult
I get fed up of buying inferior DVD quality its not just this one, the situation is pathetic anything goes, stick it on a DVD and everyone thinks the quality will be just wonderful, There just is no apparent Quality measurements of late in the production of so many DVDS, We should return all these discs and complain to the producers, God help us. We may as well stick to VHS it getting to the same standard. May 12, 2005

Won't get fooled again

The concert was clearly excellent, with Daltrey enjoying himself, but this DVD is a very poor record of it. The sound is simply the worst that I have ever heard on a sell through DVD. It sounded so bad that at first I thought my DVD player was faulty, but it sounded equally terrible in two other machines. At times the soundtrack is plainly out of sync with the visuals. Given the long string of technical credits at the end it is all the more surprising that something this bad got pressed up and sold. Worth having as a curiosity to sit alongside the bootlegs, but only if the price is as low as the quality. April 22, 2004

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