Artist Info:Discography Album length: 3 music videos, 8 song clips & bonus Street Date: October 22, 2002
When you experience something gourmet, it tends to ruin your taste for lesser cuisines. This is almost
the case when experiencing the first of many brief DVD teases this Fall. While tobyMac's Momentum
DVD project isn't part of the Fall 2002 Collector's Series from Chordant, the DVD is still a small
yet plentiful treat for the T-Mac fans.
Momentum DVD is a quality peek into the budding solo career of Toby McKeehan - one third of the
beloved legends, dc Talk. The DVD collects the three concept music videos for Toby's hit cuts
"Extreme Days," "Get This Party Started," and "Irene." Oddly yet uniquely enough, there is also
the inclusion of an alternate ending for "Extreme Days" that leaves you without a doubt why it was cut...
The clarity of the videos is beautiful, giving premium DVD treatment to some fine looking and colorful
videos. Moving right along, brief clips to eight of the songs on his 2001 project Momentum
are present. A neat idea, but a rather unnecessary one, this feature is easily dismissable (Now
a bonus disc with one full song would have been hot). But the extras on the DVD are the real fun stuff.
The photos feature includes about 15 photos with a mix of promos and live concert shots. The live footage
is a special treat as highlights from Toby's Spirit West Coast festival performance are shown. The major
downside and disappointment here, though, was they substituted the recorded album material over the live
backdrop way too often while the live music would have been a lot cooler. It could have been handled a
lot better. Nonetheless, it was still fun watching Toby take the fans behind the scenes. With that, the
best extra feature is actually the behind the scenes look at the filming for the "Irene" music video.
Toby explains several scenes, we see the actual filming, and are introduced to the actors and filmmakers.
A definite plus on the project. Finally, a few interesting trailers/commercials for the Momentum
album are also included.
Momentum DVD is a cool project for the fans of tobyMac's stellar solo debut as it takes the
viewer into a more personal glimpse of the artist. While I would have liked to have heard Toby's commentary
on the music videos as other projects have included, or been offered more live footage, Momentum DVD
isn't meant to be a full-length feature and thus accomplishes what it was set out to do.
- - Review date: 10/17/02, written by John DiBiase
Project Info & Track List
Artist Info:Discography Record Label:ForeFront Records Album length: 3 music videos, 8 song clips & several features
Street Date: October 22, 2002
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