| Live Revolution Rock | 
| Director: Don Letts
Actor: The Clash
Studio: Sony Legacy
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 40207
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Live, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 81 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 728129
UPC: 886972812991
EAN: 0886972812991
ASIN: B0013K6WN0
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: April 15, 2008
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Description
THE CLASH LIVE: REVOLUTION ROCK is an exciting new documentary film directed by long-time Clash collaborator and Grammy-winning producer Don Letts (Westway To The World) that chronicles the electric live performances of one of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK. The film follows the live transformation of the band, incorporating footage from all phases of the Clash's meteoric career, beginning with live-in-the-studio clips and climaxing with a blow-out performance at New York's Shea Stadium in 1982. With rare and previously unreleased footage from all over the world, this film documents the history of the band by showcasing their incredible live performances, and will be a draw for both the new fan and their established passionate followers. TRACKLISTING:
1. Complete Control
2. I Fought The Law (London Lyceum '79)
3. Police & Thieves (Munich '77)
4. What's My Name (Manchester Elizabethan Suite '77) - previously unreleased
5. Capitol Radio One (Manchester Elizabethan Suite '77) - previously unreleased
6. White Riot
7. I'm So Bored With The U.S.A (Manchester Apollo '78) - previously unreleased
8. London's Burning (London Victoria Park '78)
9. 1977
10. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (Glasgow Apollo '78)
11. Tommy Gun
12. Safe European Home (London Music Machine '78)
13. London Calling (Bonds International Casino '81)
14. Clampdown (Lewisham Odeon '80)
15. The Guns Of Brixton (Fridays '80) - previously unreleased
16. Train In Vain (Lewisham Odeon '80)
17. This Is Radio Clash (Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder '81) - previously unreleased
18. The Magnificent Seven (Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder '81) - previously unreleased
19. Brand New Cadillac (Tokyo Sun Plaza Hall '82) - previously unreleased
20. Should I Stay Or Should I Go (Shea Stadium '82)
21. Know Your Rights (US Festival '83) - previously unreleased
22. Career Opportunities (Shea Stadium '82)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 DO IT NOW August 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a killer DVD even tho most of it already available. The naration/no-naration option is very welcome. The naration is short and un-abtrusive. If you have 1 CLASH dvd this - should be it. If you have 1 music dvd - this should be it. If you 1 dvd - this should be it.
 What can you do? August 9, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
All I can say is that this is an infuriating DVD because I think it was produced incompetently, with no regard for true fans of Clash music but at the same time has some rare footage and complete songs that are hard to turn down. Arrrgghh! Somebody please re-release this collection properly!
Well Intentioned, But... August 8, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
As much as I once worshipped the ground The Clash stumbled on, the post-"London Calling" section of their catalog (not to mention Joe Strummer's solo career) is like a kick to the solar plexus or even lower, finally shattering the foolish and naive notion that in the end, punk rock would ever be anything more than a ruse, a marketing opportunity, a chance for Levi Strauss to sell more blue jeans or Jaguar to sell more X-Types. The less said about Nissan co-opting the band's cover of Toots and the Maytals' "Pressure Drop" to sell even more of their wrecks, especially in this town, the better.
But for a few years at least, before they began to squander their greatness by encouraging Mick Jones to sing ("Lost in the Supermarket," anyone?), dumping the date they brung to the prom with "London Calling," and championing hip hop, The Clash made each note count with an impressive run of albums, singles, and B-sides that may not have all qualified as historic moments in the progression of humanity, but made a certain kid in Detroit pull his head out of the bong for a quick look-see, then scramble for a haircut and pants with narrower legs.
Calling "Revolution Rock" a "documentary" is a bit of a stretch, longtime Clash associate Don Letts providing stilted narration about the band's supposed social and sonic significance between some frantic, heart-palpitating early clips from gigs where they were absolutely white hot and storming the gates, somehow managing to combine the power, excitement, and momentum of The Who with the gristle, flaming grey matter, and manic economy of a thousand American garage bands from the 60's, knocking `em dead everywhere from London to Manchester.
On "White Riot," "1977," "Complete Control," "I Fought the Law," "Clampdown," "Safe European Home," "Tommy Gun," and "London's Burning," their collective energy is more than enough to power the entire UK grid when channeled through Strummer, who pulsates, twitches, throbs, spits, and tics like the nightmarish offspring of a tragic one-night stand between Reddy Kilowatt and Patty Duke as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker," Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon knees up and going for broke. Anything less would have been unacceptable, unforgivable, and inconceivable.
Their appearance on "The Tomorrow Show" isn't so much notable for their having a go at "The Magnificent Seven" and "This Is Radio Clash" as for the interview with hopelessly-out-of-touch-but-affable host Tom Snyder, redolent with the scent of Lucky Strikes, Johnny Walker, and Hai Karate after a weekend with Hef at the Playboy Mansion, Strummer a beacon of charisma gone supernova. "Joe Public speaking," indeed.
By the time the band began to fancy themselves as artistes (read "Sandinista!"), though, they were done like dinner, stowaways on the kamikaze plane that punk had become in the early 80's, torn between expressing themselves and selling records in quantities that may not have approached Fleetwood Mac-like numbers, but warranted continued support from CBS. It's obvious from their 1982 Shea Stadium appearance in support of The Who - Strummer in coonskin cap and Ray-Bans, Jones in jumpsuit and beret - they were on auto-pilot, going through the motions, looking as if they'd rather be anywhere else. You can see it in their eyes.
As a collection of clips or a snapshot in time, though, "Revolution Rock" will do quite nicely. Your best bet is to fire up the deck and view this sans Letts' travelogue, which at times veers dangerously close to apple polishing, overstating the obvious but failing to reveal anything - no matter how trivial - the band's still-foaming fan base hasn't heard ad infinitum in the last three decades. It may work fine as a lesson in Clash 101, but it's been done before and better.
 Too Bad... July 24, 2008
...the LIVE footage is great. Raw, energetic, unrivalled. The narration is moronic and it treads on the performances. You're better off picking up the From Here to Eternity: Live CD.
So disappointing -- A missed opportunity July 6, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Every time I see this DVD in my collection I get angry! What a missed opportunity. There is so much great footage available out there but this eagerly awaited live DVD under-delivers in three ways:
1 - Almost all of the clips are available elsewhere (there's nothing really new)
2 - Don Letts has the cheek to include his own Tommy Gun clip which is lip-sync video not a live track
3 - The voice-over is patronizing, dumb and annoying.
What would have been great would've been a DVD which took "Clash on Broadway" as an inspiration and delivered a compilation with the same depth and integrity as that CD boxed set.
Instead we get this very lazy cash-in.
A real missed opportunity.
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