Stings concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on the 2ndof October 1991 was cut 20 minutes short to fit into a runnign timeof a pay-per-view cable telecast. Fans who had seen an early showduring the start of his yearlong The Soul Cages Tour might havemissed this a lot because much of it came from one of the mostabsorbing elements of the Wiltern concert: a four-song cycle fromSting´s recent The Soul Cages album, a somber, ambitious work thatgrew out of reflections on the death of his father in 1987. Whileother, more accessible songs from Cages, including the wistful,philosophical All This Time, also deal eloquently with the feelingsof loss outlined in the album, the cycle touches on the theme in amore abstract, literary way that defines the boldness of Sting´sartistry and scope. The songs, including Island of Souls, The Wild,Wild Sea and When the Angels Fall, didn´t add up to easy listeningat the Wiltern, and you could sense some fans getting restlessduring the demanding journey. Yet it was also a wholly compellingmusical experience, and Sting´s decision to follow the emotionallydraining sequence with a liberating version of Jimi Hendrix´sPurple Haze was brilliant. By eliminating two of the four songs,however, Sting both sacrificed the power of the work and reducedthe liberating quality of Purple Haze so much that the latter wassimply a vigorous change of theatrical pace. The fans at the Bowl,however, shouldn´t feel discriminated against. Sting stopped usingthe four-song cycle shortly after the Wiltern performance, when histour moved from intimate theaters into arenas. He apparently feltthat the cycle might be too difficult for audiences to absorb inthe larger setting. Still, he would have been well advised inreturning to Southern California to restore it for the Bowl show,because it was a special night, and you´d like to see an artist ofhis quality at his most challenging, especially when theperformance is being documented in a pay-per-view. If the Bowl showdidn´t equal the drama of the Wiltern date, however, it continuedto show that Sting is at the forefront of the valuable new wave ofveteran artists, including Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabrieland Don Henley, who are giving pop a new sophisticated or adultdimension. Looking dashing in a bright yellow vest and blacktrousers, Sting reached back to his Police days for a half-dozensongs, including Roxanne and Every Breath You Take. Stingconcentrated on material from his solo albums-songs that exploreand interrelate social and personal themes about values andobligations. Despite all these months on the road, Sting and histhree-piece band-David Sancious on keyboards, Dominic Miller onguitar and Vinnie Colauita-continue to play the material with theinvestigatory passion of musicians who enjoy looking for newripples of emotion and subtlety in the tunes. Watching Sting, onbass, and Summers, on guitar, side by side again reminded you ofhow daring a move it was in 1983 for Sting to leave one of the mostsuccessful rock groups ever formed to pursue the artistic freedomoffered by a solo career. Yet the excellence of the music itself atthis show -even with the absence of the Cages cycle-made it clearthat the move was absolutely correct.

Track list:
1. All This Time
2. Jeremiah Blues (Part I)
3. Mad About You
4. Driven To Tears
5. Ain´t No Sunshine
6. Why Should I Cry For You?
7. Roxanne
8. Bring On The Night
9. King Of Pain
10. Fortress Around Your Heart
11. The Wild Wild Sea
12. The Soul Cages
13. Purple Haze
14. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
15. We´ll Be Together
16. Walking On The Moon
17. Every Breath You Take
18. Message In A Bottle
19. Fragile

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Condition dvd: lots of small marks but plays fine

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