I was disappointed. This DVD does not give Zakk Wylde any justice for his huge talent. The sound is REALLY low quality. I am not sure if it is the mixing or a poor recording equipment, but the sound is just wrong pretty much all the way - very bassy, very muddy, no definition whatsover. I have a really good DVD player/recorder and all my musical DVD sound top notch! So there is something clearly wrong with this particular title.
Quite frankly, I don't think I will ever watch this ever again - so bad is the sound quality.
The extras are kind of entertaining. The guitar lesson is fun and could be even interesting, especially for ZW wannabes. It also shows Zakk in a more mellow, down to earth mode, which he is not ashamed to illustrate.

Closing words: Great expectations, but a poor sound quality ruins this DVD. Better get some Ozzy concert and HEAR Zakk in his full Gibson-growling glory.

Never get tired of watchin B.L.S
Review date: 2004-06-04 Rating: 10 out of 10

this was the thing we all needed, we had listened intensly to all the albums no wait...masterpieces and now we are blessed with the dvd. This is one of the best metal gigs i have ever watched, the mix is awsome, Zakk sounds so great on it its a true live performance. It was great seeing Rob from Metaliica playing on it aswell little did he know in the oncoming months he would join `tallica. Nick is well and trully one of the most underatted guitarists out their he and Zakk play off eachother so well its fun to watch. The crowd are awsome, to drink the whole venue dry is some accomplishment and one in which i am very jelos of!
The extra footage is great too, the guitar lesson from the king of Shred, and RaeRaes 3 mins of fame not to mention the stupid tish just to show even the metal gods like to goof around.
a dvd you will never get tired of every song sounds great, i wont give too much away, just that Black Label rule live.
Blee Black Label.

A true definition of Heavy Metal
Review date: 2004-04-14 Rating: 10 out of 10

Zakk Wylde is undoubtedly one of the best guitarists of our time and a pure representation of heavy metal, this DVD proves to be a perfect example of what metal is all about, but let me break it up for you...

LIVE CONCERT
In front of 2000+ eager fans Zakk and his Black Label Society play an amazing set list, from the heavy's such as 'Genocide Junkies', and 'Berserkers' to the sombre 'Spoke In The Wheel'. The crowd is amazing and are truly the kind of fans you expect a band like this to have (the kind of fans that drank the venue dry of all alcohol) who sing along and cheer to every song.
Zakk mentions his 'distaste' for Limp Bizkit, but any fan of his already will find that as no surprise, and he dedicates a song to the military serving in Iraq, something that has obviously upset a fellow reviewer. But regardless of your opinion on the two subjects, this is a very heavy and very down to earth show.

INTERVIEW
While Zakk is almost defiantly drunk in this interview, making it slightly hard to understand what he says, you can get pretty much understand all of it, and it will have you laughing. Zakk covers a wide range, from his first ever concert (in which the deal was made using a hatchet) where they trashed the house, to him joining Ozzy Osbourne's band and living his dream.

GUITAR LESSON
I'm only a beginner guitar player so this Lesson was far to complex for me to handle, it's amazing to see how he can make something that sounds so great seem so simple (which sadly it isn't).

EXTRAS
The extras vary widely, including footage of Zakk playing the American national anthem at an ice hockey game, a couple of songs from a show in Tokyo, A few songs from an acoustic show, the music video for the single Stillborn, touching footage of Zakk and his daughter singing a song he wrote for her, and finally some hilarious footage of the band after a heavy drinking session.

Overall I strongly recommend this DVD to any Black Label Society fan, and any Metal fan in general, I promise you wont regret it.

Shut up Zack
Review date: 2004-02-12 Rating: 2 out of 10

This was my first experience of the Black Label Society. I'd heard that Zack Wilde was a legendary guitarist so I was quite keen to see my friend's copy of the dvd. I'll make this as brief as possible; the songs were substandard, the guitar playing nothing special and at times pretty rubbish (definately not good enough to warrant the extended one-man guitar display half way through the set in which Zack 'pays homage' to Jimi Hendrix, i.e copies him while missing the point of Hendrix's Star-spangled banner performance), the rants about 'true rock' or whatever were embarassing and the insults towards Limp Bizkit (though I hate Limp Bizkit as well) were rich coming from a redneck still clearly stuck in the early 90's. What's more, towards the end of the set he goes off on a completely ignorant and frankly racist rant about going to war with Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm not saying that pro-war people are by definition racist, but the stuff he says is quite plainly xenophobic and stupid. In the end I just didn't think his music was at all good enough to excuse his pathetic ramblings.

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