very intamate but sound is just tepid, Moz singing actually sounds shaky at least in first tune

and its a right pain in the ass to download as well

I only saw the first of the six videos (I you want to see more I guess you have to pay for it). The sound was good, one guitar seemed to be missing from The First Of The Gang to Die, but the image was fantastic, and Moz was very nice, very well-dressed, even speaking several words in Spanish.

The d/l is a pain but I'm thankful someone posted it.

You can download all of the parts for free but you are just required to wait a specific amount of time between d/l'ing the parts. Be patient :-)

Also, I'm running a Mac and it won't play in QT without the right codecs that I can't be bothered to search for. For those having this issue, try using an app called MPlayer. Plays like a charm.

I really like the candid interview bits found throughout. It is great to hear his views on music, its history, people and places, etc. I found him really interesting and delightfully frank.

The sound of the show I thought was pretty decent, too. Keep in mind I'm used to only hearing the well intended audience boots from the tour.

I'd say it is definitely worth downloading.

The quality of the sound (meaning the venue's system) is great, but watching this video a few times there seem to be some strange anomalies.

- The lead guitar on First of the Gang just isn't there. Morrissey's vocals are live, but at the end the music strangely fades out (pre-recorded, but missing guitar?) and Moz does a hilarious adlib on the "A-hey"s
- Let Me Kiss You is the pre-recorded version! Moz' worst nightmare is lip-synching, but it seems to be the pre-recorded vocals as well. But in the middle of the break he says "This is live!" as if to quell any suspicions. I don't get it.

The rendition of I Just Want To is full on with good Morrissey vocals.

Moz you really let me down!. I love your music but why such hatred against America by saying "Mexicans were in California before Americans" or "pop music comes from working class"?. We are a nation that's created a system of free economies meant to be free around the world and then you bash us. After all, who made you earn the millions of dollars you have?. We love free speech but we're are bound to defend freedom.

Morrissey's views on downloading and record shops leave him sounding like your typical old fart.

If anyone would have exploited the internet for music, Morrissey would have. He essentially was the late 70's version of a chat room hawk. So, it seems rather convenient to slag a very natural phenomenon like online music, when he's left to float above the development.

The tired old "cassettes are killing music, cds are killing music, MP3's are killing music," is just, tired. None of the above formats have done anything to "kill" or even slow down music appreciation.

The idea that music marketing is somehow suppossed to remain stagnate so that Morrissey can live in a romantic dream world that was his childhood, is rather narcissistic. After all, that's what he's lamenting, the traditional marketing of music. People can enjoy and covet music in various ways, and that includes ways which are not cherished by Morrissey.

I continue to lose more respect for the man's intellect with each passing interview. He is the epitome of flippant.
 

Moz loves the Mexicans terribly, to the point he smiles in his whole face when he talks to them and about them. Mexico is a very emotional experience for him. So when he tries to rationalize that Mexicans were here before Americans, his reasoning is inevitably being driven by his passion for these people. If we all rationalize in these terms, specially we Americans, we'd have to acknowledge that our ancestors have taken a whole continent-size land from not only Mexicans, but several other people, including those thousands of "indians" they decimated, roughly and grossly called "mongols" and other groups. But probably somebody was here before them too, before they came over here from "Mongolia" by crossing the straight of Gibraltar. I was born in New Mexico, so should I feel like I should take my pilgrim great, great, great, grandad's blame? Do I have the power to hand back the land that once use to be part of Mexico? Morrissey probably got and gets too emotional and simplistic when he makes statements like this - but he made a point which nonetheless is worthwhile as food for rethinking a crucial issue today: aren't we, Americans, allowing too much interference from our current and other presidents in other lands? Aren't we letting too much capitalisation- Americanization spread around, bringing in the heart of other cultures self-loathing, anti-american loathing, the fostering of child labor, perpetuation of underdevelopment (neocolonialism) in nations we know will never reach the status of "free economies", because such term is just a mirage, a concept of perfection in people's minds? (If it wasn't, Irak would have become paradise, according to all that Bush discourse). However, don't all nations, or political regimes play the same game? I think last time we humans had a democracy was when the Greeks were eating grapes and walking peacefully under a sunset discussing "precious things" during Ancient Greece - or when the ancient kingdoms in Africa used a more dignifying political system...maybe. The rest is babble babble.

Can someone please put this on youtube?

Here [youtube.com]

It was just fantastic. What a relaxing day for me! To think I used to find amusement park rides to be the most exciting thing in the world...If I'd known then what I do now, I'd have been following Morrissey around like a hound dog.

There's happiness to get over the struggle.
I understand what you mean.
You've been speaking the words that I understand.