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[no title] (27 Jun 2005)
[no title]
Date: 27 Jun 2005
Location: Color Line Arena, Hamburg, Germany
Format: DVD
Duration: –
01- DOWNBOUND TRAIN
02- HIGHWAY 29
03- TOUGHER THAN THE REST
04- PART MAN, PART MONKEY
05- ALL I'M THINKIN' ABOUT
06- JANEY, DON'T YOU LOSE HEART
07- RACING IN THE STREET
08- THE RISING
09- RAMROD
10- BOBBY JEAN
11- GROWIN' UP
12- THE PROMISED LAND


Notes from BruceDVDs:

Generation: Master
Video: stage
Audio: cam
Menu: authored
Chapters: songs

The Hamburg 'Devils & Dust' show turned out to be the penultimate night of the European tour after being rescheduled from earlier in the month. Bruce rewarded the home town crowd for their patience with tour premiers of 'Janey, Don't Loose Heart' (on electric piano), 'Spare Parts' and 'Growin Up'. Other rarities included 'Highway 29' and 'Highway Patrolman'. The pump-organ 'Downbound Train' stayed from its debut during the previous show as the opener.

Only some of those performances are included on this single DVD of select songs from the show. Luckily, the supreme 'Janey�' is among the songs captured when the filmer chose to turn on his camera. The tracks are mostly complete, but some are faded out a little early. The footage is shot from the left of the theatre, which gives a side view for the guitar numbers and a head-on view of Bruce at the piano. The picture quality is mercifully free of the digital noise that mars most of the videos from the tour, but there is some pixilation when the filmer uses maximum zoom. It is reasonably steady and carefully filmed, with a good colour balance. The audio is very good for a camcorder source.

Unusually for camcorder video, the transfer is anamorphic widescreen. The disc has been authored with interesting menu designs and despite being incomplete, it is a very nice presentation of the show.