sell your mother, cash your chips, mortgage the family home, hock the heirlooms, grandmas jewels, sell shares and stocks, rob the bank, do the overtime, sell your assets, put your organs on e bay baby, forego the holiday you planned, skip lunch at that fancy restaurant downtown with your girl or man, just listen to me and do what ever you have to do to get $40 and buy this 3 disc dvd and you will see why i love this band so very much, totally immersive, brilliant music and lyrics and some witty banter from the killer, the line he offers a heckler 'i'll get back to you, i'm just in the middle of a gig,' is a perfect epitaph. not that it's the end of the church, i'm certain it isn't, but there's some thing to be said for that line on a gravestone of any musician who has worked very hard perfecting his craft to the point evidenced here.
i was very fortunate to have seen this show, the same night as the dvd was filmed and the church have been documented very well here. this is three decades of music preformed over the course of three complete albums, played completely live with no overdubs, this is the very essence of a church gig, four/ (five with craig)individuals who have not just mastered their craft, they have mastered the craft of playing together, intricate interplays exist within this music, the clash of tones producing some extra dimension in sound and something i was very worried may not be captured in a live dvd, yet here it is, fully completely for humanity to send to space after the voyager satellite, just to show humans make intelligent and beautiful rock and roll.