In Berlin (1986)

Neil Young In Berlin

This is the best DVD I have ever seen. Just awesome. Lots of excellent closeup footage of Neil sweating and really getting into his music. Every song is a favorite. His backup guitar guys are outrageously talented, and to see Neil do his best is a real treat. Watching him play "Hey, Hey MY MY" is mind bogeling. And, of course "Computer Age", "Sample and Hold" Transformer Man" played with the Trans Band, all are so exciting to watch.
There is no sitting down on this DVD. Absolutely my favorite anything to watch......forever! I'm a 62 year old rock'n'roll Gramma, thanks to Neil. March 29, 2008

huh???

I must have gotten hold of a different DVD than the rest of the reviewers. But it sure looks to have the same cover and everything.I had read the reviews and was really looking forward to this DVD. What an utter disappointment!! I would think Neil would be too embarrassed by this DVD to let it be available. The sound is just totally TRASH!!! I could only force myself to watch about ten minutes of the performance. It's hard to figure how none of the reviewer's of this DVD had anything really bad to say about the sound on it. The lack of sound makes this a total "THUMBS DOWN" DVD. November 26, 2007

Trans(it) to Berlin

Being a "moderately serious" Neil Young fan I bought this DVD for completeness and for "nostalgic reasons" (this Tour I experienced my first ever Neil Young concert). I did expect to get some kind of a "bootleg" with moderate quality and was surprized to find both a rather high quality sound and video, given this is a low price DVD and a rather simple recording back in 1982 (1983?).

What I do remember from that concert are blow-away versions of Hey Hey My My and Like a Hurricane, a rather "embarrassing" Transformer Man "ballet" and a Nils Lofgren jumping across the stage like some crazy "Hampelmann" (whatever that is in English). However Nils Lofgren did play a couple of own "classic" songs during the concert. I do not know if he "was allowed" to do that internationally, but he had a good name in Germany because of an excellent "Rockpalast" concert on German TV televised live over most of Europe.

Most of this can be seen and heard (about from the Nils Lofgren part) on this DVD and I think that some of the songs (including for example the other songs from the TRANS-Album) can still blow you away.

One thing I find rather strange is that the editorial of Amazon places the concert in 1983, where as all other sources say it was the the 1982 tour. I am however quite sure that I did own the Trans LP (bought in January 1983 according to my "library card") when I saw the concert which would place at least the Cologne concert in early summer 1983?!?

Whatever - an excellent concert considering time and effort - and the only chance to see and hear songs from the TRANS-period. As an added bonus the encore is a song called "Berlin", which apparently never appeared again yet (let's all hope for the NY archives!). Berlin is actually an excellent song, it alone justifies the expenditure. August 20, 2007

Neil is young & that's attractive to see on this dvd.

It's a pretty good dvd, and his songs 'Hurricane' & followed by 'Hey, hey, my, my,', these 2 really rock good. The bonus track called Berlin is ok, and the opener 'Cinnamon Girl' is good enuf to be called cool. I recommend to buy this if u want to see Neil in the early 1980's, cuz he's young in this video. Recommended. His other older songs r good 2, i.e. 'old man', and 'after the goldrush'. Just go out & get it, cuz Neil's a positive guy. Let him make your day (better than Dirty Harry, who's not Canadian.) June 25, 2007

he said it's old but it's good

I've never before seen Neil live, but now I understand what is the attraction. He's high energy. I kinda' already knew that, but to see him perform is very worthy of the time spent. Also I've never been a die-hard Springsteen fan, so when I saw Nils Lofgren on stage it puzzled me at first, but he immediately earned my respect. I actually came away from this video quite a bit impressed with him. He never used a guitar pick. That's a virtue all to itself. The video: It's old but it's good. Turn-it-up. April 9, 2007

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