Rick
Vito In Concert (Ohne Filter)
Picture:
C+ Sound: B- Extras: C+ Concert: C+
Rick Vito
has been a Rock guitarist who has been around since the 1960s and has played on
the usual important albums and been on some big tours. He even reached a new, if short lived high,
when he became one of the two guitarists who (as it turned out) temporarily
succeeded Lindsey Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac when Buckingham felt he had had
enough. After that four-year stint,
Vito was again on his own, and that included this April 25th, 2000
appearance on the German TV concert series Ohne
Filter.
The problem with this concert is that it takes
forever to get started and when it finally works in the latter half, does not
wipe away what did not work earlier. No
doubt Vito has talent and some heart, but the following is not the strong set
it could have been:
1) Steamliner
2) Wouldn’t
Lay My Guitar Down
3) Voodoo
Woman
4) When The
Big One Comes
5) Feels
Just Like Home
6) Homework
7) Carry It
On Home To Rosie
8) Long
Black Car
9) Another
Woman
10) Little Sheba
11) Blues Town
12) Trouble In Trying Times
What I came away with is a talent that has still
after all these years not reached its peak, because the right project that
would really click simply has not come along.
It happens, and though you may think “if Fleetwood Mac did not do it,
what would?”, know that the best projects are the ones that show off the talent
to best effect. Hope Vito finds it.
The full
frame PAL color video is about what would expect for a taping of the time,
having limits in its good color and limited definition. The sound is available in the usual PCM
CD-type 2.0 16bit/48kHz Stereo, as well as a slightly better Dolby Digital 5.1
AC-3, which plays better all around.
Too bad this was not in DTS. The
depth in the 5.1 here is not bad, if not quite as good as the Mark King
DVD. Besides repeating the same stereo
cords ad placement, other DVDs in the series, and Ohne Filter producer interview, it has a biography of Vito that
explains his survival success. We’ll
see what he does next.
- Nicholas Sheffo
