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Summary: HE LIVES!
Review: If you are a true Hendrix fan the first five minutes of the video will be worth it. This movie includes interviews from friends, fellow musicians (like Clapton, Jagger, and Townshed! Oh my!), his father and...of course..Jimi himself! It also has famous performances from Woodstock, Isle of Wight and Monterary Pop. You will enjoy this! Trust me!
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Summary: AWESOME MOVIE ABOUT ONE OF THE BEST GUITARIST EVER!!!!!!!!!!
Review: If you have any love for the guitar and Jimi Hendrix this is a must buy. Has awesome live shots of Jimi whaling, and very interesting interviews from some great musicians, along with some of his friends and his father (the Clapton and Townsend interviews were my personal favorates). It is the type of movie that you will watch many times over, so personally there is no way not to recommend this. The only thing that I could tell you is that if you are looking for just Jimi performances (although this one has a great many) without any interviews (because after a few time interviews do get annoying), then look at some of the recommendations on this page for other DVDs. But if your looking for a DVD with a pretty in dept view of Jimi, check this out.
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Summary: AWESOME MOVIE ABOUT ONE OF THE BEST GUITARIST EVER!!!!!!!!!!
Review: If you have any love for the guitar and Jimi Hendrix this is a must buy. Has awesome live shots of Jimi whaling, and very interesting interviews from some great musicians, along with some of his friends and his father (the Clapton and Townsend interviews were my personal favorates). It is the type of movie that you will watch many times over, so personally there is no way not to recommend this. The only thing that I could tell you is that if you are looking for just Jimi performances (although this one has a great many) without any interviews (because after a few time interviews do get annoying), then look at some of the recommendations on this page for other DVDs. But if your looking for a DVD with a pretty in dept view of Jimi, check this out.
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Summary: don't throw away your lp!
Review: In all fairness, this is a documentary of the musician's career, not a purely musical cd, therefore its producers are entitled to a presentation they deem relevant. However, what is a documentary about Jimi Hendrix if not his music? Some judicious cuts are made in the sometimes rambling monologues of the interviewees, notably Hendrix's father, and that's fine. Furthermore, the interviewees are smart and interesting, and between them manage to give us a straighforward, not fawning, portrait of a shy, complex genius. But several cuts have been made to music as well, and that's not fine at all. In fact, few tracks are complete (for instance, Johnny B. Goode lacks its terrific intro, and both Machine Gun versions are substantially chopped down) and a lot of Jimi's banter is gone as well; it may not have been crucial, but I, for one, enjoyed it. So, I'd say, for the visual effect, this dvd is priceless - and, inevitably, much sharper than the vhs version - but if you also want the complete music, every note of it, and if you're lucky enough to have the original double-lp, keep it! The album was never issued as a cd, although parts of it are doubtless strewn across the various sludge Jimi's estate keeps dredging out of somewhere to make a buck.
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Summary: Great Documentary
Review: Originally released just two years after Jimi's death you get passionate interviews from the people who knew him. Featuring a young Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, and also people who knew him well, we learn a lot about Jimi. Also the concert footage is spectacular. I hope Experience Hendrix releases a DVD of the Monterey Festival (part of which is included on this DVD). What a great concert. This is a must.
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Summary: Track list
Review: Rock Me Baby [Monterey, 67] Wild Thing [excerpt, Monterey] Machine Gun [part 1, Isle of Wight, 70] Johnny B Goode [Berkeley, 70] Hey Joe [Monterey] Purple Haze [Berkeley] Like a Rolling Stone [Monterey] Star Spangled Banner [Woodstock ,69] Machine Gun [excerpt, Fillmore, 70] Hear my Train [London, 67] Red House [Wight] In From the Storm [Wight]
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Summary: A Must Buy
Review: Run don't walk and order this video if you are a Hendrix fan. The first 5 minutes are worth the price of admission. There you get a small clip of Jimi in rare footage playing what sounds like bagpipes in a war march song, of course he is only using his Stratocaster. You also get to see interviews with Eric Clapton and Pete Townsend and hear what they have to say about Jimi. They were slightly threatened by his talent.
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Summary: There must be some way out of here
Review: The trick with this video is being able to suss out the facts from the baloney. The individuals interviewed for their views on the guitar legend seem by and large to be less that abstemious in their consumption of the evil weed. Still, it paints a portrait of the world's greatest hard-blues instrumentalist that makes him comprehensible to us mere mortals without stripping him of the dignity his exalted reputation has earned him.Recommended mode of viewing this video: keep your thumb on the rewind button so you can go back over the songs time and time again. My personal favorite is his version of Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone."
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Summary: Jimi Plays DVD
Review: This is an entertaing documentary that was theatrically released in 1973. It features classic live performances, plus many interviews, including Pete Townsend, Clapton, Little Richard, Mick Jagger, and many others. The DVD looks fine. It has the imperfections of the source film, but they're not too bad. One odd choice was to put the widescreen version on one side of the disk, even though the film is in the 1.33:1 ratio. The widescreen version ends up being a "four-sided letterbox." My advice: just play the full screen side.
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Summary: Exceptional collection
Review: This is how a bio should be done! It's a nice treat to have a lineup including Little Richard, Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, and Mick Jagger provide first-hand recollections of times spent with Jimi. It's supplemented with generous screen time for his dad and 3 or 4 former girlfriends, which is entertaining. To top it off, there is incredible, well-produced footage of Jimi in concert and in the studio, and the live appearances span his career. You can actually see him morph from a wide-eyed young prodigy into an exhausted curiosity. You can even hear it in the short interview segments that feature Jimi himself.
This ran as a Friday night midnight movie for about 50 weeks in a popular New Orleans theatre in the early 1970's and became one of the hottest tickets in New Orleans (where brilliant musicians are truly appreciated)during its run. I saw it at least a half dozen times then, and it is still as riveting today. If you get it, you won't be disappointed, and it is the perfect introduction to anyone who is not familiar with the story of Jimi Hendrix.
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