I'll Do Anything: Live In Concert [Blu-ray]

A Fantastic Live Performance, as Expected!
Having seen Jackson Browne in concert many times, I doubt if any "set list" was ever repeated. He's too fluid and tuned in to his audience to let a list keep him from connecting with his fans. As a life-long fan, I don't measure the quality of his performance by what he choose not to do, I think it's more sensible to comment on what he presented to the audience. This concert was an hour and forty-five minutes of what I consider some of my favorite Jackson Browne tunes. Truth is, he didn't have enough "Top 40 hits" to play for an hour and a half. But his best stuff has always been the songs you never heard on radio. And this concert is loaded with his best stuff!
It's almost an acoustic performance, but he has enough solid backing here to do some of the things he hasn't done in a while, and do them well. If you're a true JB fan, you'll love it. If you're more of Top 40 person, try FM radio and get the same stale, dated tunes you apparently crave.
I purchased the Blu-ray, and...

it's great.....
I hate to sound like everyone else when I say I've seen Jackson Browne in concert many times over the past 35 plus years. I was lucky to catch on at the time his second record (For Everyman) was current, and so for many years have enjoyed his talent. Late For The Sky is surely one of the most important records of the historic era of stereo records/rock and roll/FM radio. By purchasing and listening to his records, I can confirm that there are many great songs in his catalog. But saying so, I'm no more qualified to rate this dvd concert than any other fan.

I ordered it a couple days ago, it arrived yesterday, I watched it last night. I last saw him in concert a couple years ago when he was touring solo/acoustic/small venues. This concert is more recent, with a complimenting group of younger musicians backing him up. Like many older fans probably feel, there's no substitute for David Lindley in my opinion for the violin/pedal steel flavor of the early Jackson Browne...

AMAZON: Please don't listen to the complainers!
Having just noticed that Amazon has put this item "under review" and no longer provides it in a more affordable offering sold directly by Amazon, I went to read the comments to see why this is. All I can say is, "See (complainers) what you have done?! You have now helped feed right into Amazon being able to make the product only available from their third party sellers, thus causing people to have to pay more for it!! Do you really think, after the factory has already produced thousands of copies of this Blu-ray, that they're going to discard them, go back to the drawing board, and produce it all over again with surround sound?! If you do, you're living in la-la-land (and even if they eventually do so, in the meantime people who want to buy it now, and who would buy it as it is now offered, are unable to obtain it without having to pay more for it, or being satisfied with buying it in DVD format and missing out on getting it with the HD quality video in Blu-ray, and probably HD...

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