The Who Live in Texas ‘75

The music is loud and played with high spirited energy. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the show is filmed, from the most part, using a single camera that looks like it was parked in the cheaper sides to the side of the stage. The director tries to compensate with a lot of cheap tricks, like slow motion photography and ‘cool’ special effects, but there’s no covering up the fact that you can only see part of the band most of the time. The camerawork improves as the show goes on with the addition of a second camera that shots the band from about 20 rows back on the floor, and there are even some shots that look like they were made from a camera on stage. They’re out of focus most of the time, but it’s still a better view than the one you have for the opening songs. The music is good, though, so maybe this is a concert DVD you want to turn the picture down and just listen to it.