Madison Square Garden (New DVD and Blu-Ray)

I got my copy (DVD version) today and watched it. The menu options are ""Play Concert", "Songs", "Audio Setup" and "Bonus Songs".

No extra bonus features unfortunately .

The concert is great though. Sucks that YGLABAN, Runaway and Bed of Roses arent part of the main concert. Also I think they should have put Bad Medicine in it. But ah well it was a good watch. The live audio of Bad Medicine can be heard during the credits.

I'm just quickly checking the DVD. And I am absolutely shocked they left in Dry County - since Jon sounds terrible on that one. A good overdub would do..Also why doesn't Richie do the backing vocals in that one?

Any stand out songs?

I have bought tons of Blu Rays and not one of them has a regional code
I dont think Sony and Universal Records put regional codes
Among BLU Ray makers only 20th Century Fox puts regional codes
and as per stats about 75% of Blu rays released are region free
and I havent seen any site mentioning this BLURAY is locked
Also checked Amazon UK saus both DVD and BLU Ray all regions

Yeah the vocals on Dry County were a bit of a stretch. Same with Always. But man the solo of Dry County was great.

For me, Blood on Blood was great even though the first verse and chorus was sung accoustically.

The crowd goes off with It's My Life which is to be expected.

Dont know why Chapel Of Love is listed on the back cover as one of the songs performed. Only 1 chorus is performed right at the end of Living in Sin. Its all over in seconds.

The intro guitar strums of Have A Nice Day missed the accoustic guitar but that was only minor.

Was great to have Richie perform I'll Be There For You. His voice is just amazing.

Whole Lot of Leavin surprisingly goes well, as does We Got it Goin On.

Hallelujah was beautiful. Dave on the keys and Jons vocals goes over really nicely.

All in all a great DVD. One thing which did bug me a little though was the few shots of Jon in between songs when he was wiping his face or getting a drink and the lights were off. A crowd shot wouldve been much better. I also think that the shot of Jon coming off stage as Richie took the lead vocals was uneccessary. But again, these are just minor things.

Oh and one other thing... I really really really wish Lay Your Hands On Me was performed. It's one of my favourite live songs.

jon's vocal on this version of dry county is just the same as all the other performed in this tour. dry county on LH tour is better than on Hand tour.
it's not like '93 era of course. in '95 jon could sing dry county more easily but he was a little colder.

in this kind of song the instrumental part is very important: this version is amazing instrumentally.

richie has never done the backvocals on dry county since Hand tour: i don't know why. maybe because he can't.

Thanks, looking forward to it.

Just got an email from play.com saying my Blu-Ray has shipped!!!

Bought mine today as well and I think it's a great dvd. I played it from start to finish and absolutely loved it. Finally a great BJ dvd in decent quality. I love Always, I'll Be There For You, Hallelujah, Keep The Faith. Dry County isn't the best, but nice it's on the dvd. This one will be in my dvd player for the next weeks

It looks like you are on the DVD, Deb. There are quite a few shots of you during Blood on Blood .