At the risk of sounding effusive, let's pause for a moment and consider some of the flaws of this release, or at least of the limited marketing effort that went into the art on the cover. Starting with the riot footage, if you've come to this DVD for some crazy action and human indecency, return it and pick up a Girls Gone Wild DVD or better yet, save your money and stay home and find Cops on TV (it's on almost 24 hours a day on some channel or other). You get about three minutes worth of some goon announcing that the fire marshal has cancelled the show and twelve more minutes of home movie footage of people milling around outside talking about how "crazy" it was inside with no actual evidence of said craziness, until some post riot damage shots at the end. Perhaps the only redeeming scene consists of the LA fire department hosing down a crowd hanging around on a corner, and even that's obscured by a fire truck parked in front of those people. To be fair, the director, Richard White, admits as much about the "riot" footage. He states in the 8 minute "director's comments" (not commentary and not full length) that, "in my opinion, the riot footage sucks."

Book ending the one song Bad Religion sound check at the actual "riot" show and four or five minutes of broken glass footage is a Bad Religion show from the 1988 Suffer tour, recorded at Cal State Northridge. While not redemption necessarily, this footage is about all that's worth watching on this DVD. It sounds better than you would expect for its age and the technology involved in recording it, and it's a decently long 35 minute sampling of Bad Religion around the time Suffer was released. The Along the Way video easily bests it, however, so if you're going to get one or the other, skip "the Riot" entirely.