My CD/DVD set arrived in yesterday's mail - woo hoo!!!!

Got through the first CD last night and the DVD is playing right now (what a great way to start the work day - a cup of coffee, going through my email, and The Bambi Molesters providing the audio/video back drop. Sweet!

I definitely want to try this on my DVD player at home.
Looking forward to the HD download, too - whenever it becomes available.

Outstanding work by you and the band, Dalibor!!!!
I love the look of the video and, of course, the sound is just stellar.

Mark

There are no wrong notes, just some questionable choices.

So of course I love the Bambi Molesters, and have all their cds, even the 45s and a cassette tape.
So I was really looking forward to the live CDs and DVD.
But I figured it would be my luck that it wouldn't play in my dvd player.
So I had a friend convert it to a US version DVDr playable in my player.
But he also upconverted it video and sound wise, and played it on his 108 in. projection screen and thru his really nice home stereo.

Absolutely Stunning!
this is a must own package.
even with the location code issues, which most people can get around by playing on yer computer, or international dvd player.

I love how its a lot more of their mellow/melodic songs.
I really like their layed back vibe.
Not that they can't really rock out, which they do on a good number of songs here.

I also really love the added keyboard and horns to some of their older songs, and some cool surf standard covers they chose to put in too.
Yes The Bambi Molesters have become so much more than a "surf band"
but it's nice to know that they still hold those ties closely.

There was discussion of them possibly coming to play here in 2012,
but it didn't work out. I still keep my fingers crossed for them to come play the USA someday. But I can treasure and watch this DVD until that day happens.

Get this now!
Tell a friend to get this now!
show it to people that may not be instro fans,
I think this would be a good way to convert people to our side.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Last edited: Mar 06, 2012 15:00:50

I finally got a copy and listened to the CDs.

INCREDIBLE. I love all the extra organ and horn stuff added. I was kind of expecting just a regular live album thing (which I'm usually not such a fan of) but this is so much more. The Bambis show that they are truly an incredible band, not just as a surf band, but a class act musical entity.

I have yet to have time to sit down and watch the DVD...

Science friction burns my fingers.

Bump!

I've been trading email w/ Dalibor looking at alternatives to get the download going for those having challenges getting the DVD working and remembered seeing that Slow Boat Films hosted a trailer, but also appeared to have full film downloads of other projects.

Looks like they are now hosting the HD movie download, currently as a purchase (8.00€). Inquiry sent about potentially getting a download credit for those who purchased the CD/DVD pack.

http://surfguitar101.com/news/story/748/

Fady

El Mirage @ ReverbNation

Just a point of feedback for the HD download. I'm wondering why they used a single RAR file, since the MP4 is already highly compressed.

I think there might be something called an auto-unrar script?...

Also, I'm planning on downloading this real soon. When I leave this evening, I'm watching netflix right now and my new shitty internet connection can't handle downloading and streaming at the same time.

My old internet connection got me 3.6 mb/s, it was amazing. And when download from usenet at that speed I could also stream video in HD and surf the web, it was amazing.

.MKV is the video container of choice for me. It is awesome.

Has TV DVD/Bluray players caught up with the MP4 codec yet, for that matter.

Might be worth mentioning for those with older NTSC players who are hoping to drop the video file on a dvd (as data burn) that divx/xvid AVI container is the most compatible.

Is it in better resolution than the version on the disk? I know it says HD, just wanting to make sure.

720x480 "can" be upscaled. Upscaling doesn't look anywhere near 720p though. And 720p just isn't nearly as good as 1080p on displays larger than 40" or so in my experience. I'll be watching this on a large TV so 1080p would have been ideal. Especially due to the low file size(compression) this just isn't going to be as beautiful as it could have been. File should have been somewhere in the 8gb range for a 90 minute movie and the human eye not really picking up compression. A blu-ray version of this would have used all 25gb completely.