Greater Vision - Quartets: Live At NQC, CD Review

Feb

2004

Greater Vision - Quartets: Live At NQC

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Label: Daywind
Producer: Greater Vision
Website: [url=http://www.greatervisionmusic.com]http://www.greatervisionmusic.com[/url] and [url=http://www.daywindrecords.com]http://www.daywindrecords.com[/url]
Song Titles: “He Is To Me” (with Glen Dustin), “We Seek Your Face” (with Jeff Chapman), “Just Ask” (with Gene McDonald), “When He Washed My Sins Away” (with Jeff Pearles), “He’s My Savior” (with Tracy Stuffle), “I Didn’t Know” (with Rod Mays), “God’s Grace Reaches Farther” (with Gene McDonald), “Rocked On The Deep” (with Mike Holcomb), “He Loves Me” (with Eric Bennett), “Crown Of Bright Glory” (with Christian Davis), and “The Longer I Serve Him” (with Ed O’Neal)
Most Greater Vision fans already own a copy of Quartets on CD (Read Deon’s review here). It’s my job to tell you why you may or may not want to own a copy of the live video by the same title as well. For those unfamiliar with either product, a different bass singer is used on each track. The CD that released last year contained 15 songs in all, including four where they took a bass vocal from a previously recorded song and added their voices to it. In this fashion, CD owners are treated to Greater Vision singing with deceased bass legends JD Sumner, Rex Nelon, and Brock Speer. A George Younce vocal was used for the fourth song of this type. The remaining 11 tracks used current popular bass singers like Tim Riley, Tim Duncan, Gene McDonald, and Eric Bennett. The DVD consists of those same 11 songs, captured in a performance at the National Quartet Convention in 2003.
Different bass singers are used on two of the songs for the DVD. Favorite Bass Singer Fan Award winner Gene McDonald pulls double duty, filling in for Tim Duncan on “Just Ask” as well as the song he originally recorded on the CD. Rod Mays, winner of the Greater Vision Bass Singing Contest, sings “I Didn’t Know” in place of Tim Riley.
So why should you buy a video when you already have the CD? Well obviously, you can see them in addition to hearing them on a video. The camera work is good and the sound quality is decent for the most part. Another reason to buy the video is the emcee work by Gerald Wolfe. He gives background information on each song and each singer as he makes his introductions. Wolfe has a good sense of humor that compliments the performance.
As this video progresses, it becomes bigger than the individuals on the stage. Midway through “He Loves Me,” what had been a concert suddenly becomes a worship service for all the men on stage. That sense of worship is maintained thru the end of the video, concluding with Ed O’Neal joining Greater Vision for “The Longer I Serve Him.”
Quartets: Live At NQC connects on a number of different levels . . . fans of Greater Vision, quartet fans, new songs, old songs, entertainment, worship, etc. There’s something here for everyone. It would be nice if the DVD had menus so you could jump directly to your favorite song, but that’s my only real complaint about this video. It’s good to have both the CD and the DVD to compare and contrast. Both are top notch overall.

Reader Comments

I bought this on video the other day and I really enjoyed it. I loaned it to a church friend and he raved over it. It's good quartet singing, a very inspiring time, and Gerald's emcee work is fantastic. Top notch video all the way.

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/01/2004

I got the DVD last week and loved it. The moment with "He Loves Me" is the highlite of the whole video. Ed O'Neal singing "The Longer I Serve Him" is quite memorable as well.

I did notice a few songs where there definitely is some overdubbing from the original tracks. I noticed it on "Rocked on the Deep" more than any song.

It was comical seeing Glenn Dustin mess up on his song. You can see his facial expressions.

All in all, an excellent video. I agree with David's rating.

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/02/2004

You may remember that Rodney Griffin was on vocal rest during NQC, so I'm sure the stacks were over-emphasize at the actual performance. It doesn't appear to have been overdubbed after the fact, though. I say this because there's a point on a song where they didn't un-mute Gene McDonald's mic quickly enough. Surely they'd have fixed something like that.

That's why I used words in my review like "good" and "for the most part" rather than "superb" or "excellent" to describe the audio/video aspects of this DVD.

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/02/2004

Great DVD! I agree with your review David. It not only brought back the memory of being there live, it is a high quality product in its own right.

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/03/2004

It was awesome at NQC last year. Looking forward to getting my copy of the video.God has truly blessed these guys.Maybe Rodney will be able to sing this year.Great review.

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/04/2004

I love this DVD!

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/06/2004

DBM said: It would be nice if the DVD had menus so you could jump directly to your favorite song, but that's my only real complaint about this video.

Take the jacket...counts songs...plus one...skip to that #...voila!

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/11/2004

Russell, wow, thanks for your solution. I had no idea you could do that! I wonder why you have to add one to the song sequence number . . . :laugh:

All kidding aside, though . . . almost every other company making music DVDs includes navigation menus of some sort. When I hit my <Menu> button on my computer DVD player while watching this DVD, it actually locked up, forcing me to reboot my computer . . . that's just annoying. It's the only real wart on this otherwise excellent project.

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/11/2004

I commute from Atlanta, GA to Orlando, FL once a month for business purposes, which is an 8 hour drive. I put in this CD when I left Atlanta and it was still playing when I got to Orlando 8 hours later! Does that tell you what I think about it! It really brought back a lot of memories hearing my friend, the late Rex Nelon, doing what I think he would have been superb at, holding down the bass part in a male quartet. Maybe, Jake has got him singing bass with him now!

Commented by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) On 03/29/2004

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