After an introduction from none other than Joey Ramone, who talks about how excited he is to be seeing a Dead Boys reunion, the band launches into Sonic Reducer which starts the set off nicely. What you'll notice as soon as they hit the stage is how glammed out Stiv Bators looks here (complete with what appear to be black leather chaps!) with his mop of black hair all teased out like he's auditioning for The New York Dolls or something, or maybe an eighties hair metal band. He looks like he could be in L.A. Gunns! Goofy outfit aside, Bators sounds great here as does the rest of the band, who aren't dressed nearly as ridiculously as their frontman, who is completely naked with his dick tucked between his legs by the end of the show!

There's a lot of energy captured here, both on stage and in front of it. While the band tears through their set members of the audience get up on stage and dance around and everyone seems to be having a good time and The Dead Boys play really well here, even when they launch into a couple of cover tracks later in the set where Cheetah Chrome can be seen essentially attacking his guitar and playing off of Bators' enthusiasm.

The complete track listing? Sonic Reducer/All This And More/Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth/Calling On You/I Won't Look Back/What Love Is/I Need Lunch/Ain't Nothing To Do/Down In Flames/Son Of Sam/Detention Home/3rd Generation Nation/Tell Me/Search And Destroy/Flamethrower Love/High Tension Wire/Sonic Reducer

Audio options are Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, the only differences being that the 5.1 track spreads out the audience and background noise a little bit. Aside from that, there's not much difference between the two mixes. The audio fares noticeably better than the video. The levels are well balanced and there isn't much in the way of hiss or distortion to complain about. For an older, amateur recording this isn't bad at all.

MVD has supplied menus and song selection but the real bonus is an interview with Stiv Bators and Frank Secich from a 1980 television show called Good Morning Youngstown (15:24)! The video has been sourced from a dupey looking VHS tape (it's in REALLY rough shape) but that doesn't really matter, it's pretty cool to just see it here in the first place. After an introduction from some guy in a suit with an afro we launch into the Sonic Reducer video, which mixes live footage of the band with some audience reaction shots and some old archival Nazi rally clips and WWII combat footage and some footage of some old video games.

From there we get down to the interview where they discuss how people react to the band and to Bators in particular and they talk about Frank's career with the band. From there, they talk about the origins of punk rock and about the English Mod revival and how the Mod's are clashing with with Skinheads and the National Front. From there they discuss a People Magazine piece on the Dead Boys and how John Belushi sat in and played drums with the band when they played on his birthday at the Whiskey in Los Angeles. From there they talk about the future of the band and what they're up to, as well as how the scene has changed over the years, and the pressures of the record industry.