Full review to come later. Have to watch it again with pen in hand.
Immediate reaction: The whole first section was okay but it picked up in the second half and I thought the last 45 minutes were incredible.
I wish whoever mixed the sound had jacked up Ringo's voice track a couple of notches. Sometimes she was almost inaudible. Or maybe I'm going deaf.
I've never been more impressed with Ringo's control. I don't mean her voice, although there's that too---I mean her stage presence. Just about everything she did, her posture and gestures, seemed calculated for effect. That probably puts off people who want to see spontaneity and somebody "losing it." She never loses it. It's almost inhuman, the way she holds herself. She's like the Meryl Streep of J-rock.
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