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03-16-2006, 09:08 AM
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From Aint It Cool News:
Hey folks, Monki here sending in my last SXSW review....
AWESOME: I F*CKIN’ SHOT THAT
Holy crap.
Let me preface this whole bit by saying I’m a HUGE Beastie Boys fan. I have unfortunately never seen them live in concert due to circumstances out of my control. I actually did have a ticket to their show in Dallas with Rage Against the Machine, but Mike D fell off his bike in New York and broke his collarbone. The tour was postponed, and ultimately cancelled when Rage Against the Machine disbanded. I was crushed. I still have the tickets around here somewhere.
That being said, let me repeat; HOLY CRAP.
If I were to get hit by a bus tomorrow and for some reason never have the ability to go to a live Beastie Boys concert, I would actually be okay with that. This film captures the experience of their live show perfectly.
Back in 2004 the Boys had an idea to give 50 fans Digital-8 cameras at their Madison Square Garden show. These fans were told they could do absolutely anything they wanted as long as the NEVER STOPPED FILMING. What resulted was an authorized bootleg of that concert, and the best performance of any musician captured on film I have ever seen.
The film starts with the general set-up of the idea, showing the room full of fans, and then goes right into the concert and doesn’t stop for an hour and a half. The grittiness of the digital-8 works in favor of the whole project. It gives it this voyeuristic feel that shooting with HD just wouldn’t do. In fact, the only mark against the movie for me is the usage of some higher-quality cameras for a few angles. The digital-8 just has the feeling of someone showing off something that they recorded that they weren’t supposed to.
The editing on this piece is just incredible as well. Two cameras were placed on both of Mix Master Mike’s turntables and the cutting goes back and forth along with the slider on his mixer, the result is a whirlwind of editing and cuts that seriously rock your head. If you can’t stand the Mtv insanely-fast style of editing, you may want to sit this one out. The faster paced songs are matched with faster-paced editing, and the slower songs are matched with slowing down of the shots and tweaking of the colors and what-not. The result is a performance piece that will make you want to get up and rock. Watch this movie on a big screen with a few hundred of your closest friends, and crank that stereo up to eleven because you are going to want to have this one kicking you in the chest.
Enjoy Adrock, MCA and Mike D from every possible point of view from the Garden, from the cheap seats all the way to the side of the stage. I can’t say enough about this movie. It was the perfect way for me to finish off my SXSW 2006 experience just as the music-philes turn the town upside down and take all the good parking....
-Monki
From Aint It Cool News:
Hey folks, Monki here sending in my last SXSW review....
AWESOME: I F*CKIN’ SHOT THAT
Holy crap.
Let me preface this whole bit by saying I’m a HUGE Beastie Boys fan. I have unfortunately never seen them live in concert due to circumstances out of my control. I actually did have a ticket to their show in Dallas with Rage Against the Machine, but Mike D fell off his bike in New York and broke his collarbone. The tour was postponed, and ultimately cancelled when Rage Against the Machine disbanded. I was crushed. I still have the tickets around here somewhere.
That being said, let me repeat; HOLY CRAP.
If I were to get hit by a bus tomorrow and for some reason never have the ability to go to a live Beastie Boys concert, I would actually be okay with that. This film captures the experience of their live show perfectly.
Back in 2004 the Boys had an idea to give 50 fans Digital-8 cameras at their Madison Square Garden show. These fans were told they could do absolutely anything they wanted as long as the NEVER STOPPED FILMING. What resulted was an authorized bootleg of that concert, and the best performance of any musician captured on film I have ever seen.
The film starts with the general set-up of the idea, showing the room full of fans, and then goes right into the concert and doesn’t stop for an hour and a half. The grittiness of the digital-8 works in favor of the whole project. It gives it this voyeuristic feel that shooting with HD just wouldn’t do. In fact, the only mark against the movie for me is the usage of some higher-quality cameras for a few angles. The digital-8 just has the feeling of someone showing off something that they recorded that they weren’t supposed to.
The editing on this piece is just incredible as well. Two cameras were placed on both of Mix Master Mike’s turntables and the cutting goes back and forth along with the slider on his mixer, the result is a whirlwind of editing and cuts that seriously rock your head. If you can’t stand the Mtv insanely-fast style of editing, you may want to sit this one out. The faster paced songs are matched with faster-paced editing, and the slower songs are matched with slowing down of the shots and tweaking of the colors and what-not. The result is a performance piece that will make you want to get up and rock. Watch this movie on a big screen with a few hundred of your closest friends, and crank that stereo up to eleven because you are going to want to have this one kicking you in the chest.
Enjoy Adrock, MCA and Mike D from every possible point of view from the Garden, from the cheap seats all the way to the side of the stage. I can’t say enough about this movie. It was the perfect way for me to finish off my SXSW 2006 experience just as the music-philes turn the town upside down and take all the good parking....
-Monki