Music Concerts/Videos

The Concert For Bangladesh was the first benefit concert of its kind in that it brought together an extraordinary assemblage of major artists collaborating for a common humanitarian cause-setting the precedent that music could be used to serve a higher purpose. The concert sold out Madison Square Garden and has helped to generate millions for UNICEF and raised awareness for the organization around the world, as well as among other musicians and their fans. It is acknowledged as the inspiration and the forerunner to the major global fundraising events of recent years.

GuitarChina.com 2008 is the official bootleg DVD featuring Chinese guitarists live, backstage, in various musical situations - as well as in a couple of slideshows to open the DVD. Twelve tracks of this kind of material open the DVD, and are followed by six bomus tracks of hand recorded material and slideshows from various performers who traveled to China to play shows. Hard to describe the material on this DVD exactly, it's content is unlike a typical American or European DVD.

David Gilmour In Concert features live concert footage of the Pink Floyd front man, guitarist and lead singer both at the Meltdown Concert and the Royal Festival Hall Concert in 2002. The DVD also features guest appearances by Richard Wright, Robert Wyatt, and Bob Geldorf.

Marty Friedman is an American guitarist (ex-Shrapnel Records recording artist) who is known as the lead guitarist of the thrash metal band Megadeth for ten years, and as a solo artist. He also worked with Jason Becker in the band Cacophony. The Japanese DVD release entitled Exhibit B: Live In Japan. from Marty Friedman, features footage of his performances in Japan in support of his latest album "Loudspeaker". "Loudspeaker" was an almost all instrumental, all aggressive guitar, and an all-out attack! The most aggressive of Friedman's career, according to Marty.

Out of the musically fertile jazz-rock 'fusion' era of the 1970s emerged the Dixie Dregs. Marrying bluegrass with rock sensibilities, baroque pageantry with celtic undertones, the Dregs soon became a band without peers. By 1978, the band had garnered such critical acclaim as to be invited to perform at the prestigious 11th annual Montreux Jazz Festival, sharing the bill with such luminaries as Larry Coryell, Ben Sidran, and Sea Level. The Dregs turned in a blinding performance of unparalleled magnitude, at once passionate and precise.

On The Night chronicles the last Dire Straits tour in the early '90s. Recorded during their 1992 tour at two concerts in Nimes and Amsterdam, (over two years after the release of the band's "On Every Street" full length album), the DVD includes performances of "Calling Elvis", the monster hit "Money for Nothing", it's follow up "Walk of Life", "Solid Rock" and more. On The Night captures the precise musicianship of guitarist Mark Knopler and his band, along with showcasing their expressive songwriting - the two hallmarks of Dire Straits in concert.

Filmed at Birmingham's prestigious National Exhibition centre on the 15th of July 1986 Eric Clapton, along with Phil Collins, Nathan East and Greg Phillinganes gave one of the greatest ever performances featuring a small band format. The set list included four songs fom the (as yet unheard) August album: "Run", "Miss You", "Tearing Us Apart", and "Holy Mother". All four songs were warmly received and some have gone on to become firm favorites with Eric's regular concert supporters.

In June 2004, some of the greatest living guitar players and their bands gathered at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, for a three-day festival to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua. Crossroads Guitar Festival was the ultimate concert for any music lover, featuring one legend after the other: Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Johnson, James Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Walsh, John Mayer, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Santana, ZZ Top, and many more. This 2-DVD set beautifully documents the event and contains almost four hours of content.

Lei Chen, guitarist in the Tang Dynasty Band, was born into a musical family. At the age of seven, he got into touch with music, deciding at age twelve that music was to be his destiny. Chen started his first band at the age of sixteen, New Outline, and then moved to Bejing in 1998 to improve his musical skills. At the end of 2000, he joined the first rock band in China - Tang Dynasty Band.

Recorded in 1992, this classic performance features Mariah backed by an all-star band in the most intimate of settings. Included are the number-one hits "Emotions", "Someday" and the stand-out "I'll Be There" featuring Trey Lorenz. Also included is an exclusive interview with Mariah, behind-the-scenes footage and Mariah's home movies.