Product description

Public Enemy - Live From The House Of Blues [DVD] [2001]

Price: £12.99
RRP: £11.99
Binding : DVD
EAN : 5060009230346
Label : Sony Bmg
Manufacturer : Sony Bmg
Publisher : Sony Bmg
Release date : 2003-08-25
Title : Public Enemy - Live From The House Of Blues [DVD] [2001]
Actor : Public Enemy
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2001-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 85
Studio : Sony Bmg
Theatrical releaseDate : 2001

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
This 2001 video documents a Public Enemy gig at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. While it catches the band in their mature years, with rap sidekick Flavor Flav the wrong side of 40 and Chuck D looking somewhat tubby, they've lost little of the energy of their late-80s heyday, with Flav screeching an extraordinarily elongated "Yeeeah boyzzzzzz!" into the microphone as proof of their enduring stamina. Professor Griff, temporarily dismissed from the band, is back in the fold here, while the Security of the First World continue to go through their stiff onstage manoeuvres. Much of this is a greatest hits parade, with "911 is a Joke", "Public Enemy No 1", "Rebel Without a Pause" (voted by IUncut/I magazine the best single of 1975-2000) and "Fight the Power" among others. The nuclear hip-hop backbeats of these hip-hop milestone killers are a little subdued in the live mix, while a predominantly white audience here suggests the extent to which PE had, in spite of their voluble media renegade stance, been subsumed into mainstream taste by the end of the 20th century. Sadly, their militancy was superseded by the more desperate sounds of gangsta rap--but if they're banging on a familiar drum here, there are moments of sheer showmanship to break up the monotony. DJ Lord's scratching interlude is dazzling: hip-hop's equivalent of the lengthy drum solo, only vastly more entertaining. --IDavid Stubbs/I

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