Search - Mountain: Live in Texas 2005 on DVD

Not even a Hill

Timothy Barrow | Auburn, GA USA | 02/09/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I'm a major fan of the band and go all the way back to their begining. I saw the original band with Felix several times in the 70's. When I got "Sea of Fire", Mountain's other DVD, I was absolutely thrilled with it. It became and still is one of my top ten concert DVD's in a very large collection. I was anxious to have this one as soon as I learned of it. I got it, listened last night, and WHOA, what happened between "Sea of Fire" and this? Its a 2005 concert with only a stereo option? What's up with that? That would not be so bad if the stereo mix was good, but it's not. It is inconsistent in volume (up and down) and just does not engage you. The video is awful. Bad shots from bad angles, shaky cameras, and it's dark. The band's performance is pretty good, but its too short and does not get you excited anyway. I did not care when it ended. "Sea of Fire" was shot in a small venue, but it captured the excitement of Mountain's performance with a bunch of us old geysers in attendance that were there "in the day", but this one looks like its shot in a high school gym with a cover band. I have to question if this is an authorized, official release. Mountain has no mention of it on their web site. It has all the earmarks of a bad bootleg and I would be surprised if the band did authorize this shoddy release. They are however still a good band, and in "Sea of Fire" they show it. Get "Sea of Fire", avoid this one unless you want to see for yourself how badly this was produced."

Absolute Rubbish

Dominic P. Settemio Jr. | 02/01/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Being a Mountain fan for many years i am so disappointed in this very poorly produced DVD. The picture quality looks like it was shot with a vhs camera from 1986! The sound is even worse. It is THE most disgraceful music dvd i have ever seen. And i am quite sure the band itself had nothing to do with this because i don't think they would want this"

The Sleighride Overturned...

Jack Briggs | 02/17/2006

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Well, where do I start. I have genuinly never been so dissapointed with a product in my life. Basically this is a hell of a band, doing a good performance, with possibly the worst production team of all time. The sound is up and down, the camera angles are lame, it fades into tracks 30 seconds into them. In Politician, the volume level goes from about 1db to about 120db and then back down about 40 times within 5 minutes, absolutely shocking. I have Mountain bootlegs on DVD from 1978 which are better quality than this! Compared to Sea of Fire from a few years back, this is a complete and total let down. Avoid this at all costs, a complete and utter letdown."

BOOTLEG VIDEO MASQUERADES AS REAL THING

Raphael S. Rose | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK | 06/12/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"IF THIS ISN'T A BOOTLEG WAY BELOW PROFESSIONAL QUALITY BAD DAY AT THE ROCK CLUB VIDEO THEN I'M A YOU KNOW WHAT! DON'T BUY IT!!!! The technical quality is poor, sounds bad, and has no credits or features. I have never seen a professional video with this kind of bad editing or unacceptable picture image except in low quality bootle videos."