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Megadeth - Rude Awakening Actor: Megadeth Number of Items: 1 Format: Explicit Lyrics Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 107 minutes Studio: Bmg Distribution (VI Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2002-04-09 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 59 Average rating: 4.5 "A fitting testament to a great band's career" How do I love this DVD? Let me count the ways: -Dave. Any discussion of Megadeth's DVD should start with him. In addition to his prodigious musical abilities, he also proves himself to be quite a stage presence. Sure, he doesn't say too much onstage, but he doesn't have to. His voice here is in fine form, as menacing as ever, and he and Al Pitrelli tear it up on guitar. -The song selection is pretty damn good. Sure, there was no "Five Magics" or "Addicted to Chaos," but as the saying goes, you can't please all the people all the time. Every album gets represented except for "Risk," which I doubt most fans will miss anyway. Megadeth classics like "Reckoning Day," "Peace Sells," "Hangar 18," "Trust," and "Sweating Bullets" get treated here, and I severely doubt anyone will feel cheated. -The performance of "In My Darkest Hour" is a tear-jerker. Even the guitar riffs are brooding and evocative, and Dave's tortured vocals and lyrics make the song one of the few in thrash-metal history that can accurately be described as moving. It sounds even better here than on CD, and is in my opinion definitely the highlight of the show. -You get to see Jimmy Degrasso annihilate his drum kit. The drum solo at the end of "She-Wolf" is completely gratuitous, and man is it great. -The sound quality is uniformly cystal clear. The guitar solos, especially, come out extraordinarily well. -It's Megadeth, for crying out loud. I shouldn't have to tell why you should want to see such a comprehensive concert from one of metal's defining bands. "Pitrelli rules !" Nopthing to say. It's perfect. Absorbing every advantage available for DVD technology, MEGADETH released his first (and probably last) oficial live DVD. And what a concert! The eprfromance is breathtaking, they simply don't stop, it's hiot after hit. Jimmy DeGrasso is amazing, Ellefson is animated. But Al Pitrelli steals the show. The new guy in Megadeth show why he's a consumated pro, handling the Megadeth tunes with esay, care and passion. "got to have if your a fan" good sone selection , great sound , strong cameras angles , very solid performance from then band , i was very impressed with there stage performance . "A nice testament for an awesome band" Certainly it wasn't the best oportunity to release a DVD, tough the band is good, i thinh that the best incarnation of it includes Marty Friedman and Nick Menza. And the best material available is the one until the Countdown... album, and certain Crypting...pieces. But regardless of that, and of the fact that the bonus tracks doesn't exist. And that this "bonus" underground section damages the dvd more than improve it (black and white and blurry takes it's not what you expect from a good DVD). The material is excellent. De Grasso and Pitrelli are very good musicians, and look very tight in the band. But i find that most of the time it seems that Dave is a little unpassionate about the show, and certainly he lost a lot of his vocal qualities (Train of Consequences is a mess). Instead the audio mix is awesome, one of the best in the market, and the direction is pretty dinamic and accurate too. The set will entertain you in it's entirety, and for me it's kind of refreshing to revisit those five "bonus songs" after watching the main set. The other bonus sections, like the one from Paul Gargano it's just and ode to the band that adds nothing new. But on the other side the Megadeth on Megadeth documental is one of the more straight to the point one's. You can surely watch or read better interviews, but this one surely will keep your attention. Definitely it's a must have for good fashioned music fans, with pretty correct versions of such classics as Wake Up Dead, Hangar 18 and Trust as highlights, in my opinion. Since the DVD and The album brings the same music, buy The DVD and experience the whole concept of a band that helped to trademark the metal forever, and in a terrific quality format. "Perfect Legacy for a monumental band" I'm more of a Judas Priest fan, but this DVD blows Priest's Live In London DVD away! The sound is incredible - best I've heard for a metal DVD. The band is tight (Al Pitrelli pulls it off well). All the classics are here. Great B-roll footage as a bonus. With Mustaine's recent injury they may not be back around. This is the best testament to the power of Megadeth we could hope for. No fancy stage set, no cheap theatrics, just good solid metal. Even if you're not a huge MD fan (I only have two of their CDs), you will not be disappointed with this DVD. It is money well spent. Very satisfying.