Murder City Devils - Rock & Roll Won't Wait

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Studio: Music Video Dist.
Product Type: DVD

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ROCK & ROLL WONT WAIT (MURDER CITY DEVILS)

Customer Reviews:

The MCD on DVD.......2004-09-18

The Murder City Devils were one heck of a great band. Seeing as how they have long since broken up, this DVD, Rock & Roll Won't Wait, is about as close as anyone will get to seeing what they were like.

The MCD's looked like a motorcycle gang in the middle of a week long bender. They swaggered and spit and seemed really dangerous. They were one of the greatest things to behold on stage. It was a pure cosmic mix of Keith Richards's outlaw magnetism and Neil Diamond's endering everyman. I miss them very much.

In full fairness, I was at several of the shows featured on this DVD (namely the Bumbershoot show with the Marine's in those yellow shirts). In a just world, every teenage boy from Bakersfield to Omaha would have a poster of organist Leslie Hardy up on their bedroom walls.

But alas, the Murder City Devil gang collapsed. They helped jump start the whole "garage rock/Detroit revival" thing before The Strokes and Jet even set foot on a stage. They helped to save rock from the Lump Beezkits and that awful San Diego scene which dominated the airwaves at the turn of the century. The Devils just didn't survive long enough to get any of their deserved credit.

This DVD is much more like a VH1 "Behind the Music" special than anything else. The band is amazingly nice and polite. Much attention is given to their roadie "Gabe", a wonderfully nice guy who steals the entire film.

A friend of mine from Reno says that "Rock & Roll Won't Wait" doesn't work because the Devil's are just "too nice". I dont know. I enjoyed it, the only problem is that once you see it you realize what could have been.

Definitely worthy to be part of a fans library.......2004-08-19

These guys (and a gal), the six members of Murder City Devils, put more heart and soul into their alcohol fueled rock music then most bands could ever dream of, and what happened? Two years straight on the road, a handful of albums and then they broke up, which is all our fault, because somehow, they didn't quite reach the breaking point of being a successful band. They had the potential and definitely the talent, but for whatever reason couldn't get there, which is sad. The radio can play the same two Social Distortion songs over and over for the past ten years, but not one Murder City Devils single? (...)

Anyways, this is a pretty decent band DVD, about an hours worth of material, from just `hanging around' footage to live clips and interviews, it's definitely worthy to be part of a fans library.

Murder City Devils - Final Show: Halloween 2001

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Like the 60s, if you remember it, you weren't there
Was there
You Will Be Missed
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Murder City Devils - Final Show: Halloween 2001
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ASIN: B0007YXPDS
Release Date: 2005-05-10

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END,THE:FINAL SHOW HALLOWEEN 2001 (MURDER CITY DEVILS)

Customer Reviews:

Like the 60s, if you remember it, you weren't there.......2005-12-18

This warts-and-all concert film captures the bittersweet, drunken conclusion to the Murder City Devil's brief and influential career.

On Halloween, 2001 the Devils played their last show, only weeks after the announcement of their break-up and mere months after the release of Thelema, their darkest, most powerful, and indecently shortest album. Like everything else the band did in their 4 years together, the show was an explosion of gigantic noise, gut-tearing longing, and alcohol fueled desperation. The knowledge that these songs would never again be played added to the intensity performance.

The band is clearly drunk. The crowd is clearly drunk. Andrea Zollo is clearly drunk. It may be that the people holding the camera are drunk as well. Notes are missed, stage banter transforms in to slurred rants, and everyone seems to be either disproportionately happy or disproportionately sad.

There is nothing that seems "staged" for this film. This is further away from "Stop Making Sense" than any other movie of its kind. This was never meant to capture the band at their very best. There is no theme or message to underscore the film. There is no obvious intent to editing choices. The film feels as organic and real as the concert did all those years ago and, as such, is an enjoyable and vital document of a time and place that is no more.

Was there.......2005-09-29

I haven't had the chance to see the DVD, but I don't need to. I was at this show, on October 31st 2001. I can tell you right now it was an idcredible finale to one amazing band. Living right next store to Seattle gave me oppurtunity to see them some 30 times.

They were one of the greatest punk/rock bands of all time, and we still very underrated. I have the cd (RIP) of this show, the quality is great, but it was nothing like the real thing. This was the only Murder City Devils show that I decided just to stand and watch. All the other times I was in the pit at the front of stage, or on stage singing with Spencer. But this time I just stood there, and said goodbye.

After the end of the Devils and shortly after Botch, the Seattle scene seemed empty, and I haven't been to nearly as many shows since. RIP my friends, RIP

You Will Be Missed.......2005-06-14

Review by Ray Harkins:

For those uninformed, The Murder City Devils were one of the better, if not verging on best, rock/punk bands in the past 5 or so years. They encompassed everything that was great about music and really just wrote some simple, catchy songs that really drove their point across.

Unfortunately for us due to an incessant touring schedule and line-up changes, The Murder City Devils decided to close up shop after a wildly successful tour with At The Drive In shortly before the close of 2001. Most of the MCD fans picked up the last Sub Pop release of their final live set on record, but very few saw any footage of the band from that particular show.

This DVD captures every sweat-filled moment that The Showbox Theatre held on Halloween 2001. The sound quality is superb, the extras are plenty (with interviews and commentary) and above all the footage is accurately captured from multiple different camera angles.

It would be a shame if this DVD or band got overlooked, but with this piece of their catalog existing, I am sure that will be a hard thing to do.

---------.......2005-05-13

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