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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Salesrank: 53155
Released: June 23, 2009 |
| Our Price: $10.54 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Color DVD Import NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
NTSC/Region 0. Recorded live at the Jones Beach Theatre, Long Island, NY 1989 during his tour for the Freedom album, including a guest appearance from Bruce Springsteen on 'Down By The River'. On Rock At The Beach, Neil performs his classics ('Heart Of Gold', 'Hey Hey, My My', 'The Needle And The Damage Done', 'After The Goldrush') alongside then-recent material ('Rockin' In The Free World', 'This Notes For You'). 20 tracks total. EMI. 2009. * Please note the video quality has been said to be quite poor but the sound is OK.
Rock At The Beach- Live 1989 Reviews:
THE OTHER REVIEWS UNDERSTATE THE CASE 
2009-12-19 - Quite frankly, the sound is excellent and the video very, very good. Maybe the other reviews were based on VHS tapes. I did see this on VHS in early '90 and thought it badly shot. Somebody cleaned this up in the transfer to DVD. Sound separation is accurate, the dynamics have a depth and clarity I hadn't heard before. This is way above a bootleg, and frankly better than what I've seen out of Archives so far. The performance is nothing short of terrific. I approached this with a great deal of skepticism, but I am very glad I bought this. This is from a period when Young still had his artistic wits about him and was intent on breathing life into his career again after the disputes with Geffen. The crazy Canuck is on fire and very engaged with the audience. He seems to be genuinely enjoying himself. If you are a Young fan, do yourself an enormous favour and pick this up. It's very, very good. One of his best.
Music great, what happened to the Picture? 
2009-07-26 - The picture is horrible. There was a VHS release of some of these songs at the time of the Freedom CD release, in fact the VHS was called Freedom. If memory serves me the quality of that was far better than this, but there are more songs here, and thats where things are great. A fantastic almost solo show of Neil and his acoustic guitar. Lets hope a better quality master of this show emerges somewhere, this looks like it could have been copied from Youtube of a bootlegged show.
5 stars for Music, 0 stars for picture quality 
2009-06-26 - Nice guitar playing and singing form Neil but the video looks like it was shot on a mobile phone camera! It is absolutely atrocious and sometimes you can barely make out Neil's face such is the poor quality of video. This DVD is not for those who like to sit in and chill out at the weekend with a good entertaining music performance (as I do) but is for devout Neil Young fans only who might be prepared to put up with the rubish picture.
