2/10
Dull
30 December 2017
I've been a massive Pearl Jam fan since 1991, but this is just so disappointing.

I was expecting a full concert film, but instead got a Chicago Cubs promo.

Being an Englishman, I don't care about baseball or this particular team. I also have absolutely no interest in a bar which happens to be close to the stadium - I can go to any stadium in England and find a bar close-by where fans congregate on match days.

Why they couldn't have put a full concert on one disc and the baseball content on separate disc for anyone who felt the need to watch it could do so is quite beyond me.

Obviously, the actual music (what there is of it) is great, but I've no idea why 'Black' is cut short & the full version is only an extra! Maybe I just don't understand the genius of Danny Clinch.

An opportunity totally wasted for me - I don't want to have to sit with the remote in-hand ready to skip the boring baseball sections. This is destined to gather dust along with that other Danny Clinch 'masterpiece' Immagine in Cornice, which is similarly disjointed and tedious.

If I'd have known the film's format beforehand, I wouldn't have got the Blu Ray. I'll stick to 'Touring Band 2000', 'Live at the Showbox' & 'Live at the Garden'.

One for completists & Cubs fans only.
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