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Category: DVD
Actors: Rusty Anderson, Abe Laboriel, Paul Mccartney, Brian Ray, Paul Wickens
Director: Mark Haefeli
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Studio: A&E Home Video
Brand: A&E
Label: A&E Home Video
Format: Ac-3, Color
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Running Time: 115 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 134340
UPC: 733961134346
EAN: 0733961134346
ASIN: B001CQS7L0
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: November 7, 2006
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Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 115 minutes
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The eternal fascination with all things Beatle pretty much guarantees an audience for any offering from the group and its respective members, and that will likely be the case with Paul McCartney: The Space Within US, a documentary recorded during his 2005 world tour (and broadcast in truncated form by A&E). Not that it's by any means bad. McCartney and his crack four-piece band are seen performing a variety of Fabs faves, from the delightful trifle that is "I'll Follow the Sun" to the genuine masterpiece that is "For No One" (the latter is a solo job, as are "I Will," "Yesterday," and others); as Apple computer poo-bah Steve Jobs, one of the many talking heads on hand to sing Macca's praises, points out, just hearing these classics played and sung by the guy who wrote (or co-wrote) 'em is a treat, and the great sound and high-definition video certainly don't hurt. On the minus side, the camera spends a lot of time in the audience, capturing their rapturous and often quite touching responses to the music. There are also bits focusing on a Beatles-obsessed family from Columbus, Ohio, all three generations of which are excited, to put it mildly, when Sir Paul pays them a brief visit before going onstage, and on two astronauts on board the International Space Station, for whom McCartney plays "English Tea" (from his 2005 CD Chaos and Creation in the Backyard) through a live feed from his Anaheim, California gig. These tangents may be distracting to fans who just want to watch McCartney and company at work, but considering that this was dubbed "the Us Tour," they should hardly come as a surprise. Same goes for the disparate line-up of celebs and others, ranging from Bill Clinton and various academic types to Tony Bennett and Eddie Vedder, whose comments punctuate (and occasionally interrupt) the music. Bottom line: there are better McCartney concert videos (like Live in Red Square), but this is a Beatle we're talking about here. For many, that will be more than enough. --Sam Graham More McCartney Concert Stills (click for larger image)
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 How About A Re-release Of This As A True Mc Cartney Concert Without All The Audience Shots and Interviews? January 1, 2009
How many people would like to see this Blu-ray McCartney concert re-released as a true concert experience without all the interviews and audience shots? I would hope original camera tapes are available somewhere. Hopefully they isoed each camera individually to it's own individual recording tape when this captured live on tape. That would have been the smart way to record such an event. That way they can cut to any tape at any time they want in post production.
I think the audio needs a little work also. To me it seems a little overmodulated on 2 channel and there's not much punch in the bass.
Anyone with a good system notice not much bass?
Nice Show, Too many audience cuts, Specified Dolby Digital Missing December 20, 2008
Those using optical or coaxial audio connections beware that the specifications (even on the label of the disc jacket) are wrong.
This disc does NOT have Dolby Digital (or ANY non-PCM) multi-channel tracks, which means that only stereo PCM is sent over the above legacy digital connections.
Certainly an A/V receiver or pre/pro can convert the two-channel into pro-logic or other DSP to imitate a multi-channel ambience but that is not what this multi-channel disc should be.
Ironically, a person looking at the disc jacket at the local store would make the same mistake because the specified Dolby Digital track is missing. Such track is useful to many millions of legacy A/V receivers not having HDMI or not using multiple 6-8 analog cables.
A similar case is the Elton John Blu-ray. They have chosen to only include PCM tracks and ignore millions of multichannel listeners with legacy A/V receivers with typical optical/coaxial digital inputs by not including any Dolby or DTS track on the discs.
The performance was very nice and much better than one recently aired on one paid channel where Paul's voice was not up there. His voice on this disc is much better and the group made a good representation of the original cords/songs without major transformation, which is what my memory since the 60s wanted to hear live with the original writer, hopefully not the last time.
The quality of the video was good; I even projected it on a 135-inch screen in CinemaScope format to provide the impression of an even wider stage without changing geometry of the image objects (using anamorphic lenses). It was like being there.
The director seemed to have the objective of showing the audience reactions at almost every other cord, which to my eyes was a bit too distracting. I was wishing that the camera would stop doing so many shifts between audience and stage, and sit still a bit longer to show Paul perform as one would experience at the actual event.
But overall is a good show to keep and to repeat viewing, because he is not getting any younger and his compositions and performing style are to be heard and viewed from only him to satisfy good memories of the past 50 years.
Rodolfo La Maestra
Paul is the king!!!! November 22, 2008
touching performance, the band is great, excellent repertoir, anythong you need in a godd dvd!
The Next best thing to seeing him in person May 19, 2008
I have to admit Paul has never been my favorite Beatle. Paul however is the last of the Beatles who wrote music.
I do enjoy many songs Paul has written with the Beatles, with Wings and as a solo performer.
What you have here is history. Paul McCartney and John Lennon are the two greatest composers/writers of the last century.
This is a chance to see one of the Masters displaying why he is so popular and fameous.
Paul opens the show with Hello, Goodbye and it just goes uphill from there.
Another thing that was cool was how he ended a song with Foxy Lady, the old Jimi Hendrix tune.
He does Beatles classics like Got to get you into my life and Penny Lane, among others.
To me the hightlight of the show was when he did Jenny Wren and English Tea for the current album.
He also closes the show with Yesterday and other big hits from the Beatles days.
This is not as good as seeing him in person, but it is the next best thing.
 The space to fill March 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Paul's peformance during this tour is still strong. The tracklist of the concerts are mainly beatles songs and they sound pretty good.
The edition of this DVD is not what real fans wait: not a complete concert set (again). I wonder why Macca keeps on doing this; doesn't he know there are special features sections in order to insert all that stuff he likes to add?
The band is Ok, though I particulary don't like the 'show-man' drumer at all.
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