Live at Acropolis

Starring:Kodo
Studio: Red Int / Red Ink
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

NON YANNI FANS WILL LOVE, A MUST SEE FOR ALL!
Great gift for my partner -- she LOVED it!
Favorite Yanni Concert
Best Concert Video Ever!
Yanni - Great Music, Poor video

Yanni - Live at the Acropolis
Starring: Yanni
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Yanni - Tribute
Yanni Live - The Concert Event
Live: The Concert Event
Reflections of Passion
Live at the Acropolis

ASIN: 6305781427
Release Date: 2000-02-22

Customer Reviews:

NON YANNI FANS WILL LOVE, A MUST SEE FOR ALL!.......2007-03-06

Although this is Yanni's performance the violinist, the drummer and the band members hide the fact I am not a true Yanni fan. The best drum solo I have seen and I have seen a lot. Also the woman in red if you will who performs miraculous works of art and music on her violin are not to be missed. Became a favorite CD of my nine year old daughter and you must see to love it.

Great gift for my partner -- she LOVED it!.......2007-02-22

The DVD arrived in a timely fashion and was in perfect shape.

Favorite Yanni Concert.......2007-02-08

This is still my favorite Yanni concert. I bought it on Laserdisc years ago. My only regret is that the picture quality on DVD is about the same as Laserdisc. This could be due to the original Video production, however. Sound is fabulous. I am satisfied.

Best Concert Video Ever!.......2007-01-09

No wonder this is one of the top selling videos. This was an incredible concert--wished I had seen it live in Athens, but this way I can watch it over and over again instead of only having my memory of the event. Love this video.

Yanni - Great Music, Poor video.......2007-01-03

I've always liked Yanni since I heard his CD "Yanni - Live at the Acropolis" some six / seven years ago. I recently purchsed an HDTV, so I decided to purchase the DVD (which I liked when I saw it first on Public TV). I was very disappointed by the video quality. but I still love the music!

Average customer rating:

Excellent.

Live at the Acropolis
Starring: Yanni
Manufacturer: RCA Victor
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Yanni Live - The Concert Event
Yanni - Tribute
Yanni - Live at the Acropolis
Live: The Concert Event
Ethnicity

ASIN: B000B7QCKE
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Customer Reviews:

Excellent........2007-01-03

This concert is breath taking, Yanni has the best musicians and a violonist that has enough talent to be on her own. Very well produced, worth a penny of it. I was able to fully enjoy in the comfort of my living view, this grandiose performance!!! Kudos for Yanni and his ensemble.

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Kodo Acropolis
A Kodo Fan Will Still Love It
Excellent for the ear and the eye
Good semi-documentary, but not a concert film
Great performance by the best taiko group

Live at Acropolis
Starring: Kodo
Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
ProductGroup: DVD
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Kodo - One Earth Tour Special (Bonus CD)
Live: Les Tambours de Tokyo
Stomp Out Loud
Taiko Drums of Thunder
Blue Man Group - The Complex Rock Tour Live

ASIN: B00006CXHH
Release Date: 2002-07-30

Customer Reviews:

Kodo Acropolis.......2005-08-26

Very good to watch their performances but the show is broken up with Mickey Hart's commentary which is a bit irritating

A Kodo Fan Will Still Love It.......2005-03-28

Yes, there are flaws in this DVD, especially the audio. As mentioned below, the interspersed interviews and audience applause are at a much higher level than the performers in concert. But, there is enough of Kodo's performance brilliance to recommend this.

This is actually an American production of a Japanese video that had no Mickey Hart interviews. It combines that video with portions of an earlier Japanese Kodo video shot on a soundstage (you'll notice that the first piece, "Irodori", is not done before a live audience). Some pieces, "Miyake" and "Sankan-Shion", are annoyingly brief. But don't rush out to get the Japanese version. The pieces are edited in that one as well. And "Irodori", absent for the Japanese tape, is one of the finest pieces on the American DVD.

I watch this DVD often and I love the performances. "Zoku", "Akabanar", "O-Daiko/Yatai-Bayashi", and the memerizing "Monochrome", are presented in the entirety.

The photography is beautiful (although I agree with the reviewer below who didn't like the excessive close-ups), especially during "Monochrome" and Chieko Kojima's dancing during "Akabanar". There are too many cuts, however. Just when you're focusing on one performer's moves, the view cuts to another.

For a better production, check out Kodo's newest concert DVD, "Kodo: One Earth Tour Special". While, I don't like that concert quite as much (mind you, this is a relative statement), it is presented in its complete form, from the audience seating themselves to the end of the encore.

Excellent for the ear and the eye.......2004-03-13

This is a fantastic video of one of the most impressive Japanese arts that mixes music and stage. The men and woman that perform here spend years training and the rhythmic and physical drive of this performance is amazing. The video is well edited and the comments useful despite the fact that the interviewer (from the Grateful Dead) lacks any kind neutrality and that the questions he asks are rhetoric. But, fortunately he is not the one on stage, and the music and tradition of Japan survive!
Watch it in a big screen and with speakers.

Good semi-documentary, but not a concert film.......2004-02-29

Like the two reviewers before me wrote, Kodo is/are great and their energy is very evident. I won't repeat the same flaws in the dvd as did the other reviewers, but I will add an additional let down of the dvd.

Obviously the cinematographer and editors didn't know the taiko pieces or the concept of Kodo and taiko playing. There are wonderful close-ups of the various members only, there are an excess of them. I am also an aspiring taiko player and part of the essence of taiko is the beautiful flow of the players and their form. Anyone who has ever seen Kodo or any accomplished taiko group will marvel at the unison of the players' movements. They should be harmonious. In this dvd, there too few wide angle shots of the "whole ensemble". Especially in Zoku and Miyake (which is only about 10 second worth of filming), the essence is the view of all of the performers together. Taiko is not just auditory, but visual as well.

On the plus side, the documentary portions were great. It's always good to see an insight to the performers and their craft. But if you are expecting a live Kodo performance from beginning to end, you will be disappointed. It's geat to see Kodo on film and to have them in your home, but... a little better marketing and honesty go a long way. If you see "live" in a title, it's okay to insert documentary portions, but don't cut short the performances. If memory serves, there's only a couple of songs that are filmed in their entirety. The rest are only excerpts.

Great performance by the best taiko group.......2004-02-20

I'm a taiko player and I think this DVD is excellent. The picture and sound
quality of this DVD are good enough for me. I'm not an audio geek. I care more
about the performances on this DVD than about the technical inadequacies.
In particular, I enjoyed seeing different Kodo members playing different
parts than what was recorded in the 1992 video titled Kodo. This 1995 Acropolis concert
was recorded after Leonard Eto left Kodo and in it, Ryutaro Kaneko is the
leading taiko player of the Eto's song Zoku. Kaneko's performance has a different
flavor than Eto's but is just as great. (If you want to know more about Kodo,
you should also watch the 1992 video "Kodo" and the 1983 video "Heartbeat
Drummers of Japan.")
The performances of Monochrome, Yataibayashi, and Miyake are masterpieces.
No taiko group can play better than Kodo. You can feel their positive spirit
in this DVD.
I like Mickey Hart's interview segments between songs. He covers great
material in those segments for Kodo fans. For example, he asks Kodo members about
how taiko drums are made. He also talks about the different "flavor" that women
bring to drumming. This was really great for me, as a taiko player, to hear
and realize. His interviews make this DVD even more valuable.
The only reason I don't give this DVD 5 stars is that three of the songs are
cut short. It's especially sad that such a beautiful song as Miyake, with such
beautiful form, isn't shown in its entirety. I wish I could see the whole
thing.

Average customer rating:

Great DVD

Charlie Adams, Stories and Solos

Manufacturer: KLS Productions, LLC
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Product Description

This is the story of Charlie Adams, drummer for Yanni. In this biography, we follow Charlie from infancy to the present. You'll see never before seen home videos, along with Charlie's revolving, upside down drum set and other video clips from Charlie and Yanni's rock and roll band, Chameleon. There are many behind the scene stories never heard by the general public and footage from Live at the Acropolis video. In addition to the incredible drum solos and other concert footage, Charlie shares his personal story of having children, including two autistic young boys and his family's struggles and hope for them and the autism community.

Customer Reviews:

Great DVD.......2004-09-16

This DVD provides some great up close and personal views of this fabulous drummer. It provides a very different prospective to the traditional ways you see a performer either in a concert setting or on television. Highly recommended to all you drummer types out there. This DVD also contains some very heartfelt insight into autism.

I wish there were longer sets of the drum solos. The only downside in my opinion.

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