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Recommended Live Concert or Documentary Blu-Rays?

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Do you have any recommendations for good live concert, musical concept or documentary blu-rays?

Just received Heilung's Lifa - Live at Castlefest blu-ray today. Going to watch it later tonight.

A few others I have that I recommend:

Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (only on regular dvd I think)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Nightwish - Vehicle of Spirit
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Within Temptation - Dark Symphony
David Gilmour - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Not a concert, but the movie Immortal Beloved about Beethoven has my favorite version of Ode To Joy.
 
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Some of my favourites for various tastes and genres. Some of these may be hard to find in physical form but many are available online and on various streaming services.

Concerts:

Iva Bittova & Bang on A Can Allstars - Superchameleon (2006)
Babymetal - Live at Budokan - Black Night Apocalypse - Kuroi Yoru Legend (2014)
Babymetal - Live at Budokan - Red Night Apocalypse - Akai Yoru Legend (2014)
Derek Bailey - Playing For Friends On 5th Street (2001)
Mark Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos - Jazz A Porquerolles (2012)
Magma, Mythes Et Légendes, Epok I – V (2009) (Over 10 hours of Magma playing almost their complete back catalogue in a small club in Paris)
Laurie Anderson – Home of the Brave (1986)
Richard Thompson – 1000 Years of Popular Music (2006)
Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps (1979)

Documentaries:

Tony Palmer – Bird on a Wire (1974) (Leonard Cohen documentary)
Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel – Step Across the Border (1990) (Fred Frith documentary)
Les Blank – Various documentaries on Blues, Bluegrass and Cajun musicians from the 60s – 80s
Thomas Riedelsheimer – Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie (2004)
Slavoj Žižek – The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
Leon Gast – When We Were Kings (1996) (Documentary on 'The Rumble in The Jungle')
James Szalapski – Heartworn Highways (1976) (Documentary on 'outlaw country')
 
The just released 50th anniversary edition of D.A. Pennebaker's "Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars" with audio superbly remixed and remastered to 5.1 from the original 16 channel tapes by Tony Visconti. The 16mm film was lovingly restored, and this edition adds material including Jeff Beck, previously unreleased. Powerful, peak David Bowie. Pennebaker's son supervised this edition. This has a wonderful analog warmth, both audio and video.

Edit: the audio is encoded dts True HD, and it will play back as 7.1 if your AVR/Processor supports dts Neural:X, and in that case the surround back is discrete, not merely repeating the side surround. This version is extraordinary and blows all prior releases away.
 
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No list is complete without 'The Last Waltz'

Thanks for reminding me about that one. I used to have it on dvd. Someone borrowed it and never brought it back. Just ordered the Blu-ray version of it.
 
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The just released 50th anniversary edition of D.A. Pennebaker's "Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars" with audio superbly remixed and remastered to 5.1 from the original 16 channel tapes by Tony Visconti. The 16mm film was lovingly restored, and this edition adds material including Jeff Beck, previously unreleased. Powerful, peak David Bowie. Pennebaker's son supervised this edition. This has a wonderful analog warmth, both audio and video.

Blu-ray is $32. Was going to order it, but saw it is on Amazon Prime. I'll watch it there first and probably get the Blu-ray later.
 
Blu-ray is $32. Was going to order it, but saw it is on Amazon Prime. I'll watch it there first and probably get the Blu-ray later.
I believe the Prime Video version is the old one, not restored, remastered etc.
 
The just released 50th anniversary edition of D.A. Pennebaker's "Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars" with audio superbly remixed and remastered to 5.1 from the original 16 channel tapes by Tony Visconti. The 16mm film was lovingly restored, and this edition adds material including Jeff Beck, previously unreleased. Powerful, peak David Bowie. Pennebaker's son supervised this edition. This has a wonderful analog warmth, both audio and video.

Edit: the audio is encoded dts True HD, and it will play back as 7.1 if your AVR/Processor supports dts Neural:X, and in that case the surround back is discrete, not merely repeating the side surround. This version is extraordinary and blows all prior releases away.
I literally watched this for the second time yesterday. Agreed it’s very good and it is peak Bowie, the audio and video quality is also very good considering how old the footage is.
 
It depends on what music/artists you like really.

I recommend the Supersonic Oasis documentary or Live at Knebworth 1996.

David Bowie 50th Anniversary of Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture.

The Slow Readers Club Live at the 02.

Dire Straits Alchemy.

Depends what you like I suppose…
 
1971: The year that music changed everything. Great docu-series.

The Beatles: Get Back. The «remake» by Peter Jackson.
 
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James Szalapski – Heartworn Highways (1976) (Documentary on 'outlaw country')

A strong +1. Probably one of the most down to earth and heartfelt documentaries ever.
 
This is probably a niche product, but for those in the know I give it a strong recommendation.


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Do you have any recommendations for good live concert, musical concept or documentary blu-rays?

Just received Heilung's Lifa - Live at Castlefest blu-ray today. Going to watch it later tonight.

A few others I have that I recommend:

Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (only on regular dvd I think)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Nightwish - Vehicle of Spirit
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Within Temptation - Dark Symphony
David Gilmour - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Not a concert, but the movie Immortal Beloved about Beethoven has my favorite version of Ode To Joy.
ZZ Top in concert on BluRay is quite good (and I like their video compilations)
But I want to know the best places to get these live concert, musical concept or documentary blu-rays & 4K's.
I was on islands in the Indian Ocean & Western Pacific for 17 years & things that were easy to get before, are increasingly difficult to get now.
& this is actually the ONLY reason that I own an oPPo 205 UDP.
Yeah, I have used it for movies BUT that is not why I bought it.
 
ZZ Top in concert on BluRay is quite good (and I like their video compilations)
But I want to know the best places to get these live concert, musical concept or documentary blu-rays & 4K's.
I was on islands in the Indian Ocean & Western Pacific for 17 years & things that were easy to get before, are increasingly difficult to get now.
& this is actually the ONLY reason that I own an oPPo 205 UDP.
Yeah, I have used it for movies BUT that is not why I bought it.

Ebay or Amazon.
 
Ebay or Amazon.
Are there any particular sites within those 2?
I just keep getting classic movie sites and things like that.
Maybe I don't know how to word it to get what I am looking for?
We did not exactly speak a particular style of English on the islands I was on.
If you just happened to listen in, you would realize that it was a variant of English
but you might only understand 2 paragraphs worth of information out of 5 paragraphs having been spoken.
So telling me Amazon or Ebay just doesn't work well in my case because my searches did not work.
Please be a bit more helpful.
Also, to all, I am not looking to down load anything, I want to get physical media.
Downloads seem to become useless when you are in places without internet connections. (which is where I am the vast majority of the time).
 
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