American Drummers Achievement Awards Honoring Steve Gadd With A Special Tribute To Armand Zildjian

Steve Gadd and the late Armand Zildjian are both exceptional at their respective crafts. I attended this show and I can tell you that the performances at the show were very inspiring. I can only hope the video quality captured what I witnessed. If you are a drummer, you should see this show - very well done by the Zildjian Family.

Quick review. This is for TRUE DRUMMERS to watch. I loved it, but the content is way above what most would ever envision. GREG

This dvd is very good. Great quality of image and sound. If you like the drum you will like this concert. The songs are very varied and the dvd has very good extras.

I was very excited when I heard about this DVD and I pre-ordered my copy. I'm a huge Steve Gadd fan but, honestly, I was more interested in seeing Vinnie. Both of them deliver their usual solid playing but, if you're a real fan of either, none of the drumming will blow you away. The entire band is just sick, though, and they make the high price of admission to this disc worth it. I love Michael Landau, Jimmy Johnson and Tom Scott and they deliver superb, rocking and swinging performances. Anybody who knows these guys (and Vinnie) from The Baked Potato in North Hollywood will love their playing on this disc. The James Taylor segment was nice but not memorable. The one annoying part of this disc, for me, was the long and boring introductions of countless people paying tributes to Steve or Armand Zildjian. Luckily, you can jump past them to the music. Overall, I would say that this disc is overpriced for what you get, especially since the "bonus" disc is pretty weak, but if you're a hardcore fan I would get yourself a copy.

This dvd is a MUST for any drummer.Steve Gadd has influenced just about every drummer over the last 25 years. The concert portion of the dvd is great. Vinnie and Rick Marotta are incredible and the production brings you right there. Crank it on your 5.1 system-the audio is amazing.What puts it over the top-way over, is the bonus material. There are old clips of Gadd performing in various bands from the 70's on up. For the Gadd fan, these are priceless. There is a Gadd bio that should be shown on tv. Its the best piece I've ever seen about his career.Then there are interviews with everyone from Eric Clapton, who tells he won't perform without Gadd, to Chick Corea talking about the historic records they made together and on and on. There are days of viewing, watching and learning. Steve is one of the masters of our time and I am glad to have this dvd to begin to understand what he has meant to music and to drumming.If I could, I'd give it 100 stars. Hudson rocks.

If you are a fan of Steve Gadd (and every drummer who plays the drums should be) you will love this dvd. It is a tribute to an amazing musician. The concert is great-both the performances and speeches. I especially like the biography on Steve. And the bonus material on disc 2 is incredible. From the interviews with people like Eric Clapton talking about what Steve brings to their music to the rare old clips of Steve performing. This is not an instructional dvd and should not be compared to one (like someone did in a review on Amazon). It is a historic document of one of the premier musicians of our time and well worth the money.

I got this DVD from my wife at Christmas, I was so looking forward to it and when I watched it I kept waiting for great performances to fill my ears and eyes. Well I did get a few of them, thanks Vinnie. I popped the second dvd in hoping that it would have great bonus features, nope! The menu screen has sound bites of additional material that didn't make the cut and the stuff they put in the video is of bad quality due to age (the Army band song is cool though) I have an extensive drummer DVD collection and would say that the Steve Smith DVD is the best one going at this time. Kirk

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As good as I expected

This is a fantastic 2 disc set, with loads of interesting interviews, rare footage, and background information on Steve Gadd. Not only that but you get some great live music from the event itself, which basically features Steve Gadd's current band (as of 2015) with the addition of Tom Scott on Sax. They play a variety of material from Chick Corea to James Taylor (who is there singing).I'm not a drummer, and even if you're not a particular fan of Gadd this is still worth getting as it will point in the direction of some terrific music that Steve Gadd has been associated with over the years. For me his time with Chick Corea has been a recent obsession of mine. The Friends album in particular is very good.Many of the speeches are interesting if you're a musician. Even if half of what they say is exaggerated for the show, he has still been an influence on countless musicians.The set on 2 discs and there is over 6 hours viewing in in total!