Good friend to PropertyOfZack, Chris of Wait! Rewind That was kind enough to do a review of All Time Low’s Straight To DVD for the site!

Immediately after opening the packaging you are greeted by special thanks from the band to all of their fan club members. After looking over the thousands of names you realize this DVD is not your normal run of the mill live CD/DVD release.

All Time Low’s Straight To DVD is in its finest form, a collection of great live footage and backstage footage that fans old and new can both appreciate. 

After 2 full length albums and countless tours from California to Japan the boys in All Time Low sure have accomplished a lot since being signed to Hopeless Records in 2006.  The beginning of the DVD finds the boys on the Glamour Kills Tour promoting Nothing Personal, their second major label full-length release.

Straight To DVD is broken down into three sections:

Documentary Feature
Entire 15 song live show
Documentary Outtakes

The documentary covers it all and starts you, the fan, off where it all began in freshman year of high school where the band would meet and put the pieces together to start their journey. The documentary has some really old footage of their first shows and road trips, which for me was really interesting, and I think it will be too for those of us who were not there to witness the band grow up. It allows you to see that even though it’s been almost 7 years, they are still the same kids who dreamed of having a band.

The most interesting part of the early footage had to be how the band’s parents drove them on the their first tours as far as Texas and New York City because they were not old enough to drive alone. Once the boys could drive Alex and Jack’s mothers followed them behind their van to make sure they stayed out of trouble and were safe. Although the band jokes about this, they also admit it would not have been possible without the help of their family.

The show part of the DVD features an amazingly filmed, multi-angle per song full set list that includes guest vocals from: Travis Clark of We The Kings on “Coffee Shop Soundtrack”, Juliet Simms of Automatic Loveletter, as well as Andrew Goldstein of The Friday Night Boys on “Dear Maria, Count Me In”. The live footage is incredible, and the sound quality is very good as well. I went to the GK tour and they sounded just as good.

Of course this would not be an All Time Low review without a comment on their comparisons to blink-182, and on the DVD Alex and Jack do great Tom DeLonge impression in the outtakes.

There are multiple scenes dedicated to their love for the tour crew and how they are a family. This really stood out, as most crewmembers get left behind the scenes and forgotten about. They also had a few scenes that showed a unique look at their off days and all the shenanigans they get into. They really want fans to see how they are in every day life. All Time Low provides a final message to the fans thanking them and how without them, nothing they do would be possible.

Alex:  “We cannot offer you a permanent solution, we just want to offer you a minute to escape”

The DVD was shot on the Glamour Kills Tour at The Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on December 4, 2009.

The CD/DVD combo is $8.99 at Target/$9.99 at Best Buy and  $11.99 at Hot Topic