5/5 This Man is 70? YUP!
  by Peter C. Knickles (Brurnswick Maine)
I am so inspired by this concert I have watched it 5 times in the last two weeks! The set list was dynamic and well paced which is a tough feat when you consider Ian has more than 300 songs in his catalog. Both Mott and solo well represented. Mick Ralphs played thoughout entire show. I thought he would only guest on a couple of songs. What a treat. Ian talks alot explaining some tunes and "war" stories. Really nice camera work. And the interview with Ian is sincere, revealing, & long. I haven't enjoyed a concert video this much in years Get it mate - brilliant!

5/5 Hunter to me is as good as Dylan, The Boss? & Joel combined!
  by Thin Timmy (New Orleans, La.)
Ian Hunter is most known as singer for
Mott but his solo work is the most
impressive to me. What songwriter has
written so many great songs but ignored
by critics & radio? nobody! Every album
show his genius but mainstream will not
catch on. Thank goodness his loyal fans
still support him. I'm sorry to say I
haven't seen Hunter live since 80's but
he doesn't come to near New Orleans. I
hope to afford to soon but until then
this DVD is just awesome. Great rock.

5/5 Great concert, great performer
  by The Duck (Bonney Lake, WA USA)
This is a must for anyone who loved Mott The Hoople and Ian's early solo albums. My buddies and I had those on the turntable so much in the early days that we wore the albums out. Ian is a superstar as far as we're concerned.

4/5 Very fine, my complaints amount to quibbles.
  by Frank Lynch (Brooklyn, NY USA)
The set list is great, it's fun to see Ian Hunter back with Mick Ralphs. It's a well-balanced set list drawing from Mott the Hoople and Hunter's post-Hoople solo recordings. I have to take this back: the set list not just great, it's impossible to argue with it in any substantive form. Bravo!)

Hunter's voice is raspier than I remembered it, uh, THIRTY years ago, but I'm not going to complain about it. Mott has been on my radar screen since they were on "ABC's In Concert," a Friday night show where you watched on your TV and listed through your stereo FM radio. He's welcome to age, and he's aged well.

So, those quibbles. "The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nothing But the Truth" is kind of the show's centerpiece. I don't have a problem with that, it's a great tune. But the mix during the first guitar solo, by Andy York, emphasizes the drums over the guitar. When Mick Ralphs does HIS solo on the tune, suddenly the guitar is given its proper emphasis.

Second quibble: on "I Wish I Was Your Mother" (the best Bob Dylan tune Dylan never wrote), York tries to make his guitar sound like a mandolin. The two instruments aren't the same, and it's only a partial success: on the higher notes York does well with ultra-fast picking, but if you remember the Mott recording, during the chorus the mandolin went into a medium register - - this is missing from this recording. Watching York (me, for the first time), he seems very talented - - as someone who plays guitar more than mandolin, I'm surprised York couldn't make the leap the mandolin.

BUT. THESE. ARE. QUIBBLES.

This show is well recorded, it's a fine set, and I frankly have no idea why I bothered to register these quibbles in the context of what is really a fine DVD.

5/5 Ian Hunter Musical Icon
  by JAMES OBRIEN (Austin, TX)
Unfortunately the setlist is missing from the official description of this DVD.
So here it is.. buy it.. you'll love it!


Rest In Piece
Rock'n'Roll Queen
Once Bitten Twice Shy
Twisted Steel
I Wish I Was Your Mother
Knees Of My Heart
23A Swan Hill
Irene Wilde
The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth
Rollerball
Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Roll Away The Stone
Saturday Gigs
All The Young Dudes
The Journey
Dead Man Walkin'
Just Another Night
Cleveland Rocks
Michael Picasso
Standin' In My Light
All The Way From Memphis