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AC/DC - Family Jewels Actor: AC/DC Number of Items: 2 Format: Color Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Sony Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 71 Average rating: 4.5 "AC/DC ROCKS" If you are a AC/DC fan then buy this dvd. It shows video clips from the Bon and Brian eras. My personal favorites are the flick of the switch and fly on the wall videos. The clips look great and as usual the music ROCKS!. "All of the hype amounts to nothing in the end..." I am surprised at all of the positive reviews on this item. When I bought this disc I was excited to put it in and see all of the great "live" and "never before seen" footage that was SUPPOSED to be there. I expected something along the lines of the Pink Floyd "Making of DSOTM" disc or the Led Zeppelin 4 Disc set. Unfortunaltely, after taking about 5 minutes to FF through the disc, I realized I'd been taken. The so-called "live" performances are old clips that I'd seen before with the actual studio recordings dubbed over it, when I hear "live" I don't expect to hear the track that I could just listen to by putting in the CD. Secondly, there weren't any interviews, commentary, or behind the scenes footage. Nothing on this disc is new (as in never seen before). In the end, it's just music videos and some Bon Scott videos that everyone has already seen. I was disappointed and you may be too. "DVD 1 is perfection." Firstly dvd 2 is not bad with some great tunes on it, but I must say I bought this for the early stuff and have not been disappointed. The quality of the videos is excellent, from Jailbreak to Let There be Rock and the live bits are jaw dropping. One thing I always loved about ACDC was there ability to put a smile on my face - the Let There Be Rock video is hilarious!! They seem to be brimming with confidence. Riff Raff, If you want blood, Long way to the Top ....... its such fantastic rock and roll. DVD 2 doesnt touch it for quality - but what does? "spend your money on a bootleg!" i can't believe that this was released with the band's consent,(or maybe i can)it starts off with bon scott.any scott fan has seen these clips,nothing new.there are no interviews,no back stage previews,or any kind of commentary at all!its obvious that this was a contractual agreement.i am not a fan of brian johnson even though there are a few songs of his that i love.this dvd is horrible as far as the quality in footage of the johnson era to the scott era.look this is garbage waste your money on something better.by the way on show business its malcolm that plays lead so watch how this crap editing tries to show that its angus playing the lead.on 74 jailbreak its malcolm doing most of the leads on this album.malcolm is a better leadplayer than his brother.like i said waste your cash on a better bootleg this just absolutely sucks! "Exactly what the liner notes say it is" I noticed one of the reviews gave one star based on the fact that if you were a "true" AC/DC fan you would have seen it all before which is ludicrous. I consider myself a fan, not a fanatic, and there was very little on this disc that I had seen previously. This is a no frills 40 song disc set that delivers precisely what it promises, some older rare footage of the band in perfect chronological order. I would loved to have seen them remix the disc in DTS or Dolby Digital but that's a minor complaint. Personally the lack of interviews is a plus as you can simply play the discs as if they were a standard cd without the annoying interviews in between each song. Overall video quality is probably about as good as it was possible to make it and sound is reasonable for PCM. If you are even a minor fan, there will be something for you in this set and I simply cannot see how anyone reading the liner notes and then buying the disc could possibly be disappointed. This isn't AC/DC live and in concert, it's a video montage of the band from their early years on and if you're interested in the beginnings of one of the truly great pure rock and roll bands, you'll enjoy this disc.