Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6768 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-03
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Disappointing ... but better than nothing I suppose
To me the Faces were one of the very best rock bands of any era and Rod Stewart in those days a truly great lead vocalist. I looked forward to this DVD as while excellent CD recordings exist in abundance, live video footage from those days are extremely rare. However welcome to find any sort of live footage, this is ultimately a pretty poor package.
It is marketed as a "DVD Biography", but really isnt anything of the sort. Neither is it a live concert or series of concerts. The video quality ranges from dire to passable, but never very good as can maybe be expected of arbitrary recordings from the early '70s. However the sound is even worse and this is surprising given what can be done to "clean up" old recordings.
The songlist is limited and some of the faces best material absent and some of the songs advertised on the cover are only excerpts and some of them pretty brief. The running time is little over an hour.
All in all I could not recommend it highly, although for under a fiver it's won't break the bank and it does give a glimpse of the greatness of one of rocks very best.
There is another DVD out soon of a live faces concert in London so hopefully that will be better.

Rod The Rock God
What a collection...every track a GEM.
This proves that ROD is the greatest white soul singer of all-time.
I love this to bits. I love everything about Rod from his haircut to his taste in women.

A worthwhile addition to your collection
Looking at the different styles, and listening to them as well, this album gives a real flavour of the period. Rod Stewart and The Faces are a taste which you either love or don't care much for, depending on your musical choice at the time. These guys were raucous rockers and knew how to party. The attitude is one of confidence in their look and in their status in the pop world, gained from setting trends as much as following them. Mixed with this rock edge is a blend of folk, blues, soul and pop which just comes from playing with music and the instruments around them. The mixture of styles comes from the mixture of talents and influences on those talents in the band itself.

Even if you have to listen a couple of times through, you will find a few gems in this collection and some rare glimpses of the links with the Rolling Stones, including some Jagger/Richards compositions. Watch out for John Peel playing mandolin on Maggie May in the Top Of The Pops track.

On the down side, there are a few editing hiccups, like splicing together a mimed video with a live impromptu chorus taken up by the audience and band after the song had finished. Other tracks were limited quality on recording, but apart from that, a really worthwhile set of songs and video film captured on this DVD.