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Thursday, March 28
The Indiana Daily Student

ROCKIN' DVDS

Experience the shows you wish you were at and relive the ones you barely remember

Only a handful of things in life are better than being at a great concert. But even if you were at a show, you probably never experienced it from the angles where a professional film crew had access. Getting a deluxe-packaged DVD is as close as you can get to wading through the mud at Woodstock, riding a drug-fueled train with The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin in "Festival Express" and seeing David Byrne dance with a lamp in "Stop Making Sense."\nSince this was the weakest week for DVD releases since the week after "The Matrix" came free with your DVD player because it seemed to be the only DVD coming out, we decided to dedicate as much space as we could to our favorite concerts captured on film. We set our reviewers loose to send in their reviews of what they consider to be the most memorable concert DVDs, and we were overwhelmed by the response. We got everything from a collection of the best artists around in "The Complete Monterey Pop Festival" and "The Last Waltz" to DVDs that highlight one band in their prime (The White Stripes, Radiohead, My Morning Jacket) and a bunch more we had to cram onto the Last Word page. As with any list, there were several we had to leave off (We didn't include any footage of The Beatles), but these are the most complete packages we could find in our collections. \nThe DVDs are all solid A's, so we didn't bother with grades. Turn up the surround sound and wish you were here.

Click Below for our recaps:

\nMonterey DVD\nWoodstock\nStop Making Sense

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