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Interesting show but DVD is odd

M. Barrows | 06/21/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I wasn't blown away by this particular performance (prefer Pongmaster DVD over this one) but I had an odd experience with the DVD and wanted to pass it along. My copy makes the worst racket when it is spinning in the player. Actually loud enough to distract from music unless you have it cranked up. I tried it in all 3 of my players with the same result, so I'm not sure why that is. I've never run into this before. If anyone else runs into the same issue, I'd love to know about it. I knocked a star off for that alone and another for just a mediocre performance (IMO)."

A Nice Addition To The Ozric's Live Releases

Edw | CA | 02/02/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The Sunrise Festival is a worthy addition to the Ozric Tentacles live releases. It features original keyboardist Joie Hinton, and drummer Merv Pepler, who rejoined the band for a brief stretch in 2007. At first glance, the setlist may look somewhat standard, containing a number of songs found on prior live releases (likely due to the re-inclusion of Hinton and Pepler). However, after cuing it up, I was pleased to discover that both the audio quality was great and the performance was quite strong as well. Although some songs do not feature extended jamming, they are played extremely well- everyone sounding very confident, and many of the older songs yield interesting fruit in hearing the different keyboard sounds Joie and Ed are now using since some of these songs were documented on Live Underslunky in 1992. The Sunrise Jam is also great to hear the band jamming a bit. My only real wish would be for the show to be a little longer. Hearing the Ozrics live is a complete- in depth experience, and this 70 min disc sounds great, but leaves the listener wishing there were a couple more songs/spaces to complete the trip. All in all however, it is simply a great treat to hear the band still making music with three of its original core members over twenty years after they first began playing together."

Buzzin

Mr. C. Hewitt | 07/15/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I Thought This DVD was not bad, shame it didn't have Zia in da mix etc, When the discs in the player it makes noise, I found this rather disturbing, anything there etc"