UK: Reunion - Live In Tokyo

Should have been better
The DVD quality is lacking in my opinion. Both the stereo and 5.1 are very muddy, not clear at all for this day and age.
The videography is also of poor quality.
As far as the song selection goes, it is top notch, although Wetton looks bored most of the time.
The guitarist fills in nicely for Holdsworth, he was also on the UKZ ep and played well.
The drummer fills in nicely for Bruford/Bozzio.
I missed a shot to see them last year in NYC, so this is a nice fill in, but they could have mastered the whole thing a heck of a lot better.
This is just my opinion, please no flaming at me.

Well played show
This is Jobson and Wetton + Alex Machacek & Marco Minnemann (both excellent players on this & their own stuff). No Bruford/Holdsworth (of course) - they lost interest in it back then & more so now. Few if any musicians could fill their shoes but IMO these songs are done about as well as they could possibly be played live - even with all the difficulties of reproducing the same keyboard sounds from the time and pulling off the violin work to boot. EJ & JW didn't really play their ages - EJ played as nimbly as 1978 & JW's voice sounded surprising good (better than I would've expected).

As others have mentioned they did look rather bored - or perhaps just too serious? Technically excellent performances but it didn't appear to be much fun doing it. Also, the video quality is by no means state of the art & the audio quality perhaps could've been better. The mix was good so there was nice separation between the instruments. Even with the audio/video not being perfect it is all &...

Living legends of prog . The drummer is outwordly.
The path to the inmortal musical stature of Jobson and Wetton included these bands: Curved Air, Zappa, Roxy Music,Family, King Crimson, Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep, Asia and more.
For anyone that has followed this giants'carrer, this DVD is great! except for the sound, which is indeed not at the level us fans expect. Sounds like a great bootleg, no more.

I even did not miss Tery Bozzio, even though he is one of my top ten drummers ever. I was really, really pissed off to know that Bozzio was not in, but in a few seconds this Marco Minneman straightened me out. He plays with incredible taste and accuracy. In fact , he is kind of the star here, visually and soundwise. And about the guitarist? holy s***! Jobson hired nothing but the best for this gig.

Now, the most important thing: The music... great as ever. The quality of these songs makes them prog classics. Jobson's keyboard and violin work is outstanding in this DVD. And wetton still has that great voice...

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