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I put off buying this DVD for the longest time because of some of the bad reviews on here. Let me just say I wish I would have ignored all of them, because I really love this DVD. Yes, they interrupt the concert footage to do interviews. So what? I found the interviews very interesting, everybody was very relaxed and spoke from the heart. Yeah, they could have put the interviews at the end of the songs, so as not to interrupt the songs. But, overall, I really enjoyed it and think any true Sabbath fan will as well.

I cannot understand these reviews complaining about being interrupted. The songs are played out as the four members are sitting around talking about the band history.Why the need to watch Ozzy and all sing and play on stage is beyond me.This is the same complaint on Traffic's Last Great Traffic Jam DVD.Get over it! This one is Black Sabbath.

What a terrible production DVD with these interviews interrupted the concert ! Ozzy, Tony..... please for God's sake, get this concert remastered again without interviews and reproduce to the market. A refund for this DVD who purchased ?? A big joke !

Very good but les talking are more LIVE songs would have been great, they cut off some great live meterial!

I've had this DVD since it came out and haven't watched it in years. I just pulled it back out and remembered why. I am reading through all these other reviews and everyone says the same thing. The interview interruptions are unforgivable. Don't get me wrong, I love a good documentary and I will watch one about a band I don't even like, like Nirvana, just to learn the history and hear the characters tell their stories. This could have been a magnificent DVD if they had allowed all the songs to play though uninterrupted and save all the interviews for in between or a separate disc. It's great to hear Bill tell the story of the opium-induced title for NIB, BUT NOT DURING THE SONG. If anyone who has anything to do with Sabbath (SHARON!!!) is reading this, please go back to the drawing board and do this video right. Also, why 1999? Isn't there footage from the TRUE 1997 Reunion shows???

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I am a collector. So, I had to have this and it's a good documentary. Really cool to watch. If your a new fan and want to get an overview of how the started. This is a good one to get. Enjoy!

The footage on this isn't too bad. Some great songs, however there could be some better ones as well. It is a must have for SABBATH fans. There is an interview with the old manager that is pretty insightful. Lots of little tid bits that none of us would have ever known about early SABBATH history. There is a cool story about OZZY beating up a police officer when he was younger. The sound quality is great, except its not really in wide screen. It appears as if production added some cheesy looking black bars to the top of the screen. Drummers will love all of the close ups of BILL WARD pounding on his set.

It was great seeing, firsthand, the early Black Sabbath days, before the split up, fighting and he said, he said! I loved it!

I bought this video on VHS over 10 years ago and nearly wore it out. Great footage of the original Sabath line - up. We get to hear a new song called "War Pigs" from the "new album", with Bill Ward playing a single bass drum kit. The whole band wears jeans and sneakers in early footage and in a few short years Bill has a double bass and the band is wearing platform shoes w/satin (?) pants. This is the best overview of Sabbath from the 70's. The interviews are apparently from the era before the Reunion when apparently they didn't anticipate Ozzy returning. It's actually a pleasure hearing the interviews with Tony and Geezer without Ozzy's big mouth. Another great thing about this video is that the interviews are in between songs not during them and now that it's on DVD you can actually skip over the parts that you don't like. Also includes bonus track "A Hard Road" not on the VHS version. Tony and Geezer tell Ozzy stories and reminince about the early days. Personal favorite is the one about Ozzy beating up a doped up fan who was beating up his little boy in the audience. Overall, it seems short and will make you want to rewind (skip backward) to hear it again. This isn't one of those documentaries that drags on forever (e.g. Some Kind of Monster - ugh), but rather keeps you watching and holds your interest. Also it doesn't contain any back biting or bad mouthing just good natured remininces from Tony and Geezer.

I have had this video now for almost 10 years, and it is now available on DVD. But to this date, there is no DVD that even compairs to this one as far as the history and footage shown. The live videos and rare tunes played in this documentary is worth every penny i originally paid for it. I still can't believe the footage from Ontario motor Speedway in 1974, showing the massive crowd that Sabbath played, just spectacular. This video covers through early 1978, and touches on Ozzy leaving, but you'll need tape two to see that. On DVD, the 1978 year is completed on DVD 1 ending with "a hard road" and ozzy leaving. So this is a must have for any sabbath fan, and don't foget to buy the Black sabbath story Volume 2 to complete the set.

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If you are an Ozzy freak, then I am very sure that you will probably not like much of this DVD. Here are my gripes with Volume 2: 1) The story is a little inaccurate. I forgot to note in my other review that in Volume 1, there is absolutely no discussion about Dave Walker filling in for Ozzy before he returned for Never Say Die. That period is virtually non-existent in everyone's mind. Same thing here for Volume 2 - there is no mention of Geezer Butler temporarily quitting during the work for Heaven and Hell, leaving Geoff Nicholls and Craig Gruber open as candidates for the bass slot. Although they are important, I don't think that Dave Donato or Ray Gillen are really worth spending elaborate amounts of time on since they only recorded demos with the group (with Ray touring), but the fact that Glenn Hughes is not shown in the opening credits and is barely mentioned is downright criminal. I personally love Seventh Star, so watching the video for No Stranger To Love is fine with me. I think it's a great song and a great video. Plus there were all of the other numerous line-up changes - don't forget about Eric Singer, Dave Spitz, Bob Daisley; etc. 2) There needs to be full, uninterrupted videos - only on YouTube do they have uncut versions of Neon Knights, Die Young, the uncensored version of Trashed, Zero The Hero and the video for TV Crimes. 3) Just as the Volume 4 album was not mentioned in the first DVD, why is there no mention of Mob Rules? I really have mixed feelings about Tony Martin - he has a great voice and he really did an awesome job of singing all of the classics live. Everyone wrote him off as a Dio wanna-be, but there is hardly any similarity between the two. He also wrote a lot of great songs with the band - the only thing is that they are generally stuck between lesser quality songs on each album that he was on. Plus, Geoff's keyboards are given far too much attention which makes Sabbath sound a little bit lighter and dare I say, fluffier? I really think that this should've been the start of Tony Iommi's solo career because those records (except for Headless Cross) are really Sabbath in name only. But I like the video for Feels Good To Me - watching it now, it has a nice retro 90's feel to it. More interviews with Cozy Powell would've been nice as well. There really should be a Volume 3 (maybe even 4?) done next to cover the post-Dio reunion, Cross Purposes, the short lived return of Bill Ward in South America and the nail in the coffin - Forbidden.

Like I said about part I. If your a collector like me. You'll buy it and enjoy it. If your a few fan. You'll enjoy it. If your picky. I wouldn't buy it. Your not going to enjoy it and feel that you should've gotten more. It's a documentary, not a concert DVD. So, it's going to be someone vision of the band. Not yours. I enjoyed it. Could it have been better? Sure. They always can. Iron Maiden "Early Years" is great. This is not as good as that because it's not done by the band themselves. It's the Label's documentary.

I just got this. I'm a huge Black Sabbath fan as well as a Dio fan. I thought there would be a lot of good stuff from that period. There was some, but not enough. Most of it was interviews from people I didn't know were in the band. Part 1 of the Black Sabbath story was awsome. This part falls far short.

I have had this tape for almost 10 years now, and nothing has come along that even gets close to the material on this tape. It is now available on DVD. One difference with the DVD is that Volume 2 starts with the dio years, whereas the VHS starts with "a hard road" and the end of the Ozzy years, which the DVD collection put on volume one. This set covers the Dio years and the post Dio years with Ian Gillen, Glenn hughes, and Tony Martin, ending with the return of Dio and the Dehumanizer album. This set was put out originally at the time of the release of the dehumanizer album, unfortunately Sabbath was pretty well depleted in popularity at that time. So this is a must have for the sabbath fans. I just wish they would release at some point a volume three, to include the post De-humanizer years and the reunion, I'll keep my fingers crossed.

From viewing this DVD for the first time,I can NOW remember WHY I don't usually flip over that many DVD releases.I mean,this Story Of Black Sabbath is like a bad joke.It's got some good footage,but it should have had much more of Dio and Ian Gillan.Never cared for vocalist Tony Martin at all,but the clip here for "Headless Cross" isn't half bad.As for the songs performed with Dio,which were "Die Young","Neon Knights" and "TV Crimes",they should have completely edited the interview DURING the dang song!Those first two,I believe I saw them on Don Kirshner way back when.A total of 45 minutes of the music segment,plus several 'waste of time' extras.For Sabbath die-hards and completists only.Sure glad this DVD didn't cost me much.

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I loved every song performed by Queen. It is a great loss Freddy Mercury's death. This very special Blu-ray (remastered version) is the main gate to my old flashback times. The SHOW MUST GO ON and, by the way, WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? That's it!

I am a huge fan of queen, and you'll love this new blu-ray version of one of their concerts. this is a must see for true "Queen" fanatics. and if you don't have a bluray player, u must get one to experience full on high definition your missing that regular DVD doesn't.

This is an excellent concert that was shot before the days of their decline (in my opinion), which was the synth-filled sounds of the eighties. This concert DVD captures the magic of Queen at their greatest. A must-buy!!

If you're slightly interested in this, buy it. Stunningly clear video and sound and a great performance by one of the best concert bands ever. I wish more concert videos were shot like this

I strongly recommend you to buy this product. It has a very good sound and video quality considering the age of the footage. Also it features some comments made by Roger Taylor and Brian May. This is one of those concerts you don't wanna miss. R.I.P Freddie Mercury

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I was led to believe that the dvd was was a condensed version fron the original dvd.What lost me was that they played parts of a song instead of a shorten version of the dvd. why would I pay to see bits and pieces.

I would highly recommend this seller. The product arrived earlier than promised and in excellent condition.

LIVE AID. WHAT AN EVENT IN 1985. SOME OF THE BANDS FEATURED IN THIS DVD ARE STILL BIG STARS IN MUSIC IN 2009. GREAT DVD FOR ANY MUSIC FAN.

The combined Band Aid / We Are The World / Live Aid onslaught felt like not only the death of popular music but a brutal lynching of it. Now, it gives me an insight into post-war German denial - there are people today who still believe that the vile arena ceremony in the Wembley circus sunshine on that awful 1985 day is worthy of celebration. A cultural assault so distressing that it posed an interesting question to which I have to admit to wrestling with: Save the music or the children? I knew stronger-willed characters with an equally sensitive musical aesthetic as myself, mentally able to deal with their preferred genocidal outcome. I still feel my compassionate wishy-washy liberal preference (feed the f******* world) was the right one but it certainly, most probably reprehensibly, didn't make me happy. I flogged some carefully chosen contemporary 80's records and sent a fair portion of the proceeds to Africa; the rest on era-surviving drugs and a rape charity.

product received was as advertised, and in great condition. Would buy from this vendor again.

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Italian director Mario Bava is quite possibly one of the most influential horror directors out there, his films have been an inspiration for generations of filmmakers. Besides being a far more economical purchase, the Anchor Bay/Starz Mario Bava Collection Volume 1 adds a pair of new Tim Lucas commentaries to the mix. For fans previously unaware of Bava, this new set is a great opportunity to discover one of horror's most artistic directors. A long-overdue showcase of Bava's amazing talent with a camera, Anchor Bay's The Mario Bava Collection, Volume 1 brings together almost all of the noted horror director's most significant films of the 1960s. This set includes Black Sunday, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Black Sabbath, Knives of the Avenger and Kill Baby...Kill!. Though each of these films have been released before in various editions, Anchor Bay's tantalizing box set provides a fascinating compendium of the maestro of Italian horror's creepy cinematic visions, making it an essential package for Eurohorror fans. Black Sunday:- The first film from this boxset is Mario Bava's most famous and well known gothic horror masterpiece Black Sunday. Before she is burned at the stake by her brother for being a witch, Princess Asa Vajda (Barbara Steele, Nightmare Castle) casts an evil curse on her family name. Centuries later, the bodies of Asa and her evil henchman Javutich (Arturo Dominici) are accidentally revived by Dr. Kruvajan and his assistant Dr. Gorobec, allowing the cunning witch to begin plans to possess the body of her lookalike descendant Katia (Steele) and kill the remaining Vajdas. Mario Bava's first credited feature is still the number one film of the Italian Horror renaissance, startlingly original and genuinely creepy. It introduced the icon Barbara Steele to the screen and is probably her best film as well. The blend of vampire and witchcraft lore is atmospheric (all of those real crypts and broken stairs) and violent. Black Sabbath:- Bava's horror anthology packs in three tales of terror, narrated by Boris Karloff (Frankenstein) my personal favorite tale would be "A Drop of Water". In "The Telephone," Rosy (Michèle Mercier) is haunted by the incessant late-night calls that threaten to drive her over the edge. "The Wurdulak" stars Mark Damon as Vladimire d'Urfe, a traveler who discovers a headless corpse out in the woods before arriving at a small cabin where a family awaits the return of Gorca (Karloff), the vampire-hunting patriarch who has warned his family that he may return as a blood-sucking beast. Finally, in "A Drop of Water," nervous nurse Helen (Jacqueline Pierreux) steals a ring from the body of a medium who died during a séance, and pays an evil price. Probably Mario Bava's most accomplished screen gothic, Black Sabbath shows the director excelling with a trio of contrasting horror tales. Bava demonstrates great skill with his actors, giving Boris Karloff what may be his last classic horror role. The Girl Who Knew Too Much:- This was probably one of the earliest Giallo films, it was kind of slow moving at first but not bad overall. Nora Davis (Letícia Román), a young American tourist in Rome, accidentally witness a cold-blooded murder. Everyone else is convinced it was just a dream, and even Nora isn't sure it was real until she stumbles across newspaper clippings about a series of "alphabet murders" which have all taken place in the same street. Fearing she is next on the killer's list, she tracks down the culprit with the help of Dr. Bassi (John Saxon). Knives of the Avenger:- The weakest film in the boxset, it's sort of a mini Viking epic type of film. The most interesting thing about Bava's career was his ability to make diverse films from all kinds of genres. With her husband presumed lost at sea, Queen Karen (Elissa Pichelli) and her son Moki are protected by blade-wielding Viking warrior Rurik (Cameron Mitchell). When the sinister and traitorous Hagen tries to take the absent King's place and plunge his people into a fruitless war, it's up to Rurik to stop him. Kill Baby...Kill!:- The final film in this boxset is also one of his best. Coroner Dr. Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) arrives in a small village to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. Working with the local police inspector, Eswai learns that the villagers live in mortal fear of the ghost of Melissa Graps, a young girl who was killed 20 years ago by a drunken mob in the streets. Kill Baby...Kill! finishes the set off in high gothic style, giving fans another vital entry in the Bava filmography. Boasting some of the director's best visuals since Black Sunday, this fascinating, loosely plotted ghost story saw Bava finally gain mastery over his Technicolor palette, and with this film he unleashes a series of simply awe-inspiring compositions. Generally speaking, the discs all look quite good especially the crisp and distinctive Black Sunday and the revelatory Kill, Baby...Kill! transfer. Several trailers, text bios and two interviews with John Saxon and Mark Damon also appear on each disc. The Mario Bava Collection, Volume 1 is another outstanding box set from Anchor Bay that will mostly appeal to die-hard Italian horror fans, but it also serves as an excellent (and affordable) entry point for those who want to be introduced to this prolific director. Recommended.

This film is one of the best horror films I have ever watched. Though it is vintage, it is excellent and ranks high with the best of the oldies. This film is absolutely fascinating gothic horror.

Do you enjoy GOOD horror movies? Tired of those bored movies about a stupid with a chainsaw? Looking for clasic movies of dark and sinister atmosphere? Well, if so, this is for you. Blood, superstition, legends, witchcraft and violences, mixed in 3 master pices of gothic horror (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath and Kill Baby Kill). No blood baths or stupid monsters, but pure emotions, suspence and fear. Plus, a pure mistery, intrigue and action: "the girl who knew too much", a film with a dark sense of humor, adventure and romance. An if that is not enought for you, you may have a clasic film of adventur, vengance, violence, action and death: "the knives of the avengers" Watch the kives flying and men dying, The knives of the avenger. You won't regreat.

This five early films show Bava developing from B&W - which he does in a really eerie way - to his first colour projects. There are some fine chills in these movies, which include a great turn from Boris Karloff. These are psychologically intense in many places and all are well worth seeing. This is a fantastic set.

Mario Bava is probably one of the most important and influential, yet lesser known, genre directors to come out of Italian cinema. His films combined an art house sensibility within the 'exploitation' tag they we're labeled with. As it's been noted elsewhere here, he was a master of the gothic horror film, yet his body of work included such genres as Science Fiction, Greek mythology, Viking Sword and sandal tales, Crime capers, serial murderers, anti heroes, sex farces, westerns, surrealism, and psychological tales. His real love was special effects photography, yet he was capable to delivering decent performances from actors. He started off wanting to be a painter, and yet, in spite of that disappointment and yet following in his father's footsteps, he accomplished more as a cinema photographer and director through painting with light and celluloid. One of the stunning aspects of his career was the fact he was able to accomplish more with the limited budgets of his films, then what many new directors do in Hollywood with their multi million budgets, and their unlimited resources of computer effects. While that might seem an overstatement, considering the many visual delights one can find in the standard Bava film, even a below par films, he's the kind of director that can inspire other filmmakers with his ideas. He was a master of trick photography, especially glass mattes and the layering of images. His skills with lighting a scene, colored lighting, the use of shadows and splashes of light, has been imitated by others, yet many other filmmakers just haven't had the same panache. All of the films included in this first Bava box set, demonstrate all of the above points. "Black Sunday" and "Black Sabbath" have remained his two most celebrated and praised films, and for good reason, but I'd like to comment about other three lesser known films in this set. "The Girl Who Knew Too Much", (1962) which was released in the states under the title "The Evil Eye", the Italian title being "La Ragazza Che Sapeva Troppo", has been noted as the first giallo, is the biggest surprise of the set and a real gem of a film, although it might simply play as quaint to contemporary eyes. It was Bava's final film in Black and White and yet it demonstrates what mastery he had of even that medium. The charming Leticia Roman stars as a visiting American tourist, while staying with her aunt and after a red herring at an airport involving tainted cigarettes, meets John Saxon, a doctor who is treating the sickly aunt. That night the aunt dies of a heart attack that Nora witnesses, under distress, she flees the apartment for the streets of Italy, after being attacked by a purse snatcher, she believes she witnesses the murder of a woman. She convinces Marcello (Saxon) to help her investigate the 'alphabet murders', Valentina Cortese plays a woman who may or may not be the sorted protagonist of this cat and mouse game. While the film is a satire on a Hitchcock thriller, it remains an innovative and fun film. Ironically, and of interest, it was released in 1963 in the States at the height of the Cuban Missle Crisis, and was his biggest commercial disappointment. "Knives of the Avenger", (1966) going under the Italian title of "I Coltelli Del Veniccatore", is a lesser film. Bava was probably a director for hire on this project. It manages to be a fairly interesting Viking sword and sandal take on "Shane". Cameron Mitchell stars as Helmut, a drifter who was a ruler named Rurik, a man who was shunned by his people, and gave up his title to roam the earth, until he finds atonement. The main part of the story involves Karin and her son Moki, the wife and child of a rival king believed to be dead. Argon, who has taken over the kingdom through treachery, wishes to marry Karin at any cost, leaving the woman and the boy to remain in hiding until her husband, Arold, can return. Of course Helmut is intertwined with all of these characters and protects the mother and son. For a Bava film, the relationship between Helmut and Moki is touching. While there are some good action sequences, this film is far more introspective than you'd expect. Visually, it's a beautiful looking film. "Kill, Baby...Kill" (1966), which is known under it's Italian title "Operazione Paura", is another exceptional gothic inspired ghost tale. Martin Scorsese used this film as an inspiration for some sequences of "The Last Temptation of Christ". A remote village is tormented by the ghost of a little girl who is driving people to kill themselves. Giacomo Rossi-Stuart is a coroner brought in under the advise of an inspector to uncover the mystery. Erica Blanc assists and may be the key to this whole matter. Some very surreal and innovative photography can be found in this film. Max Lawerence's role as Burgomaster Karl is strange yet effective, and Giana Vivaldi as Baronness Graps is memorable. The flagship of this set is "Black Sunday (The Mask of Satan)" / "La Maschera Del Demonio" (1960), has probably been the most critically praised and, in some respects, over-analyzed film of Bava's career. It does live up to its hype of a masterpiece of Gothic horror. Bava's use of black and white photography is masterful. There's a real sense of bleak decay in every frame of celluloid. After a famous opening sequence where the witch princess Asa, and her Warlock brother Javutich are impaled with Masks, two centuries pass where two travelers, Professor Kruveian and Dr. Gorobec unwittingly break open the crypt of Asa, triggering her resurrection as an all powerful Vampire. After Asa calls back Javutich from the dead, Kruveian and Gorobec (John Richardson) are pulled into the castle of the doomed Vaida family, the decedents of Asa. Princess Katia seems to be the identical decedent of Asa and a romance develops between her (Barbara Steele) and Gorobec, in the midst of a day and night of supernatural murder and mayhem. This film took the Hammer films of the 50s to the next level with it's images of perverse sexuality and sadistic horror. Simply put, essential viewing. Arturio Dominici's Javutich is probably one of the most memorable henchmen to appear in horror, and Steele's Asa has become iconic. This is the English dub version of the film After Bava followed up with "Hercules in the Haunted World" and "Erik The Conqueror" (1961), as well as the "The Girl", Bava returned to gothic horror in 1963 with an even more effective anthology, "Black Sabbath (The Three Faces of Fear)" / "I Tre Volti Della Paura". Film anthologies are hard to pull off, usually it requires a unified vision to make it work, for example, George Romero's "Creepshow", yet Bava manages another masterful job with three tales. "The Telephone" about a woman who is stalked by a caller at her home who threatens to kill her, "The Wurdalak", a tale of a doomed family fated to Vampirism and Mark Damon's character who is lured into this family, as well as "The Drop Of Water" about a nurse who is stalked by the ghost of a dead medium,.her former employer. Boris Karloff anchors this film as well as plays the Vampire in "Wurdalak" and it's considered one of his best performances. Fair warning, this isn't the AIP English print of the film, but the superior Italian language version. The DVD's of "Black Sunday, Black Sabbath, The Girl Who Knew Too Much" includes a generous portion of extras. Excellent Audio commentaries from Tim Lucas, a good ratio of film and TV spot trailers, Bava biographies and biographies of other cast members, a retrospective of Mark Damon's work is included with the "Black Sabbath" set, as well as a very informative interview that's included in "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" DVD of John Saxon's experiences of working on that film. As far as their aspects ratios are concerned, the widescreen formats of these discs range from 1:66:1, 1:77:1, to 2:35:1. All will fit into the widescreen format's of 16x9 screens with ease. My only complaint is the absence of substancial credits for "Knives of The Avenger", it's fairly apparent they were added in post for the prints of "Knives" as well as "Kill, Baby...Kill", yet the quality of all of the prints are excellent, great color saturation, and a richness to the prints that shows an improvement from the Image DVD additions. Highly recommended collection.