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Summary: what the heck
Review: THIS VIDEO SUCKS!!!!!!!!!
THE LIVE footage of the show is the best ,but who cares what Slash has to say about JIMI.When i bought it i didn't realize it was more interviews than footage.so be aware of this.
i think they should have selected a better title for it and had the footage a bonus.THE WORSE part is when jimi breaks into
MACHINE GUN and it cuts to an interview.WHAT THE @*#$.Anyways we all know the story ,so stick with the live footage 3452
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Summary: No way to remember a giant.
Review: The music is, to be kind - fair. Jimi is worth 3 stars but I have to subtract one star for Buddy Miles playing - boooooring. Where was Mitch Mitchel when you needed him? I LOVE Hendrix I own all the records and repurchased the music on cd later. I was inspired to play guitar because of Jimi and later the Allmans. Like most guitar players I have spent hours coping Jimis songs. Despite my honest worship of Jimi, much of his live work was many cuts below his studio efforts. He recorded 'live' in an era with poor to non-exsistant monitering systems and played at stage volumes that made recording hit or. In addition, his affection for partying and showmanship took center stage and often overshawed his playing. Want a great live recording - listen to Red House recorded 'live' in studio by the great Edie Krammer.
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Summary: HENDRIX AND THE BAND OF GYPSY
Review: This DVD should have been more concert material. Instead its more about interviews with people like Lenny Kravits, also Eddie Kramer. This DVD covers some concert material I think the CD was alot better than the DVD. I rated it 3 stars and no more because its an average DVD. The Band Of Gypsys were powerful the footage includes Machine Gun, Foxy Lady, and a few others ENJOY!!!!!!!
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Summary: Nice profile of historic Jimi but buy the DVD not the VHS
Review: I agree with the assessment of others here; the VHS version of this release, which only contains the documentary, contains a lot of talk and not much footage. Unlike the VHS, the DVD release also provides about an hour of raw black and white Fillmore concert footage that has been on the boot circuit for years. Without Jimi or the rest of the band's knowledge, someone shot black and white video of one show in the concert series. The quality is poor but its addition to the DVD release is wonderful! The primary feature of this release is a very good documentary about the Fillmore concerts. The documentary contains valuable interviews and memories recounted by Jimi's friends and associates. Hendrix' Band of Gypsies was arguably his best live performing band. Their groove is solid and, at these performances, Hendrix' soloing is fantastic. Very polished and totally Jimi! A profile of these concerts is quite interesting. For those interested in owning audio of the entire concert series, keep an eye out for a released called "Box of Gypsies" on CD. This release compiles all four shows in a box set of CDs. The audio was taken from the soundboard and is very good quality. If you do a search on eBay, you'll probably surface a copy. It's historic Hendrix.
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Summary: Mixed feelings - needs more music
Review: This band was the greatest of Jimi Hendrix. Tempos are steady, groove is deep and true. It avoids excessive studio meanderings and shows Jimi really playing. He was certainly put together with a couple of white musicians in order to appeal to white audiences, but when you put Jimi together with players that can really groove, it's a whole different world. However, this video has everyone and his brother talking over the music. It's a good documentary, but the concert footage could be more complete. "Band Of Gypsies" is a brilliant disc, so I hope that the CD release of this material lives up to it, but this video becomes more and more annoying, as there's not a lot of uncut music.
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Summary: Perhaps Not For The Casual Fan
Review: While the makers of this DVD splice in enough interview footage to make this DVD interesting once, the quality of the actual performance is vintage video. If you've ever seen live TV shows from the early fifties, this is what you have in store for you. Blurry B&W images, ghosts, and brutal contrast are what you find here, but this is a landmark show for Jimmy and a must have for any Hendrix fan. If you are looking for a DVD to buy someone who kind of likes Hendrix, there are better selections. But any true Hendrix fan knows this performance is one of Jimi's peaks, and any footage at all was a gift from above.
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Summary: Where's the Music?
Review: If you enjoy listenting to the beginning of Jimi live, and then have his music talked over by, doesn't matter, then you'll love this. I threw the damn thing away....
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Summary: Poorly executed
Review: Here we are promised Band of Gypsies Live...perhaps Hendrix's finest hour. What we get are EXERPTS of the concert (brilliant though they are) interupted by interviews. There is not a SINGLE song presented in it's entirety! WHY?! Yes, ANY footage of the concert is welcome but do NOT destroy it by interruptions! I'll wait for an uncut version to come out before I buy it.
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Summary: The best guitar playing ever caught on film
Review: Skip straight to the end of the DVD, to the 57 1/2 minutes of uninterrupted concert footage from the Fillmore East on New Years eve 1969/70. This is Hendrix at his absolute peak, the most intense, passionate, virtuostic playing I've ever heard, and the cameras were rolling. If, like me, you've been enjoying the Band of Gypsies album for 30 years, it's a real thrill to actually see Jimi playing from that concert. Who Knows and Machine Gun are the vesions that appeared on the album. The rest of the show, Them Changes, Power of Soul (or "Shoot Down Some Of Those Airplanes"), Foxy Lady, Stop, and the incindiary Earth Blues did not appear on the band of Gypsies first album, but are equally superb.
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Summary: disappointment
Review: I wan disappointed when i heard this album, especially since his earlier albums were so good, this album took a little bit away from the jimi hendrix legacy!
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