Avril Lavigne: The Best Damn Tour (2008)

Explicit Version. 2008 DVD Best Damn Tour of Avril Lavigne Live In Toronto! Pop-punk princess Avril Lavigne plays the hits that earned her legions of screaming fans (and launched a thousand ringtones) on The Best Damn Tour, a full-length presentation of her 2008 concert in Toronto. Opening with monster hit "Girlfriend," Lavigne rocks through every one of her major singles, including "Complicated," "My Happy Ending," and the ubiquitous "Sk8R BOI." Album Description

Completely overdubbed: Not LIVE at all! The Best Damn Re-recorder Tour!

I was looking forward to seeing this DVD but was disappointed right from the start. The audio is completely overdubbed, which means that after the recording of the show they went and re-recorded almost all of Avril's vocals, and some of the guitars too. You're not really hearing the live recording of the show; you're hearing a studio recording made after the show. This means that the producers or label were very unhappy with the quality of the actual live recording and re-did it to make it as perfect as possible. There's nothing new about overdubbing a live performance, in fact it's quite common, but it's usually done to get rid of blatant mistakes. In this case it's been used to mask the entire actual performance. It was hard to find an example, with the exception of some of the dialog between songs, where the actual vocals were being used. How bad could her performance have been? When we buy a live DVD or CD, we don't expect perfection. We expect a few bumps along the way. What we lose in imperfection, we make up for in the drama, spontaneity, passion, and reality of a real person performing live, and singing live. The idea that Avril had to go back into a studio and sync re-recorded voacals to what appears to be EVERY song in the concert is appalling and a slap in the face to her fans. Is The Best Damn Tour (Live In Toronto) really the best that Avril has to offer her fans?

In some places the new audio has overdubbed parts of the song where the backing vocals from the other members of her band have been removed and were never put back in. You have people singing on stage with nothing coming out of their mouths. It's pathetic. If you just want to look at Avril (she does look great) and don't really care what you hear, then you might like this. But I say forget it. Maybe her next concert CD or DVD will really be live and not a fake, which is what this is. Avril, you should be ashamed of yourself for releasing this as it is. You should show a little more respect for your fans. October 5, 2008

Not so bad

Well this DVD is quite good, but there's couple dissappointments, I was at one of her concerts but she didn't sound like in this DVD, I mean this DVD has to many audio modifications, and I know it's live DVD, but it almost doesn't sound like live. At some places there's a little desynchronization.
Video is great, but audio not so much. September 17, 2008

hmm

Ok, The Best Damn Tour was like the best damn tour she had so far, but this DVD is somewhat disappointing. Her voices are way too much produced and sounds really unnatural and different from her live performances. I know everybody does that when they release DVD but this one could've been much much better if they just kept her voice LIVE a little (like her first DVD). Some people may like it because it sounds almost perfect, but come on, what's the point of buying LIVE conert DVD? I don't think she sounded so terrible in the actual concert that they had to edit her voice for the entire concert. September 13, 2008

Truely the Best Damn DVD!!!

This DVD is awesome!!! I went to Avril's concert twice, once in Chicago and then a month later in Tampa both times had VIP tickets so I was right at the front of the stage. This DVD is the entire concert from start to finish just how I saw it in person. The advantage of this DVD is that you can see the show from many different angles and perspectives that you cant see live since your stuck in one spot. If you loved the concert you will love this DVD even more, truely the Best Damn DVD of the Best Damn Tour!!!
The only let down is there are no extras like was originally anticipated such as video from behind the scenes and all the album music videos, such as the Best Damn thing, which to my knowledge has not been released on any DVD as of this time

This is the concert line up:

Girlfriend

I Can Do Better

Complicated

My Happy Ending

Im With You

I Always Get What I Want

Best Damn Dance Break

When You're Gone

Innocence

Don't Tell Me

Hot

Losing Grip

Bad Reputation Video Montage

Everything Back But You

Avril on Drums

The Best Damn Thing

I don't Have To Try

He Wasn't

Girlfriend ( Remix )

Sk8er Boi September 10, 2008

I think Avril Lavigne , Is trying to have so much fun

I honestly can say I can't wait to see this concert live DVD. I did not get to go to her show which I really wish I had did but now it's coming true as I get to see her show on DVD. I saw her preview on her site of the DVD which was very cool. A little of Girlfriend then the whole live song of sk8or boi which was so cool , She thank her fans so nicely which was a nice thing. Well I think this is a must have for every Avril fan out there. I mean 14.00 how can u go wrong at least we are not paying over 20.00 for this DVD worth the money pick it up bottom line is Avril rocks and she so awesome live GO AVRIL!!! September 6, 2008

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