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Summary: like the finest of wine
Review: Robbie Robertson is a phenomenon...he just keeps getting better and better...musically growing and breaking new ground. It's one of the things that makes this documentary so fascinating, to see the development from the early days to the present, ending as it does with a marvelous live performance of "Ghost Dance".The musical clips are treasures. The moments with Willie Dixon, Bob Dylan (looking like a teenager), a few selections from "The Last Waltz", etc. He's also an expressive and eloquent interview subject...to hear him talk about his youth with Ronnie Hawkins, Dylan writing his songs on a typewriter, and so much more. A great story teller, with subtle wit and sharp observations, he looks like a Native American Gary Cooper, long, lean and comfortable...with relaxed body language and a voice that's so easy on the ears, making this an incredibly entertaining and enjoyable 70 minutes, spent watching and hearing pure genius.
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Summary: A great look at an important artist
Review: The "Going Home" DVD combines a number of scenes from a variety of sources. The most valuable to Band fans will be the footage from "Eat the Document", which remains unreleased. There are some errors in fact in the presentation. The most egregious of these is the inclusion and citing of "Up on Cripple Creek" as part of the Basement Tapes as well as citing 1968 as the year of the Basement Tapes. This is really just a bit of griping from a life-long fan of The Band. As a spokesman for the genre and art form, Robbie ranks up there with Pete Townshend as the finest ever.
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Summary: A great look at an important artist
Review: The "Going Home" DVD combines a number of scenes from a variety of sources. The most valuable to Band fans will be the footage from "Eat the Document", which remains unreleased. There are some errors in fact in the presentation. The most egregious of these is the inclusion and citing of "Up on Cripple Creek" as part of the Basement Tapes as well as citing 1968 as the year of the Basement Tapes. This is really just a bit of griping from a life-long fan of The Band. As a spokesman for the genre and art form, Robbie ranks up there with Pete Townshend as the finest ever.
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Summary: A great look at an important artist
Review: The "Going Home" DVD combines a number of scenes from a variety of sources. The most valuable to Band fans will be the footage from "Eat the Document", which remains unreleased. There are some errors in fact in the presentation. The most egregious of these is the inclusion and citing of "Up on Cripple Creek" as part of the Basement Tapes as well as citing 1968 as the year of the Basement Tapes. This is really just a bit of griping from a life-long fan of The Band. As a spokesman for the genre and art form, Robbie ranks up there with Pete Townshend as the finest ever.
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Summary: Good old footage; bad new footage
Review: This DVD is worth a glimpse for the old film of the Band & a very young Bobby Dylan, but it's hard to take the 90s version of Robbie Robertson seriously when he has that ridiculous piece on his head. Depressing viewing indeed. Wow, how has his hair stayed so brown when all his contemporaries are gray? Incredible! More importantly, his post-Band music is not much chop (it's embarrassing, actually) and he comes across as incredibly vain, single-handedly taking credit for all The Band's music. Still, he has some interesting turns of phrase and the interviews aren't bad. Far better is Levon Helm's autobiography "This Wheel's On Fire" (1556524056)
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Summary: Good old footage; bad new footage
Review: This DVD is worth a glimpse for the old film of the Band & a very young Bobby Dylan, but it's hard to take the 90s version of Robbie Robertson seriously when he has that ridiculous piece on his head. Depressing viewing indeed. Wow, how has his hair stayed so brown when all his contemporaries are gray? Incredible! More importantly, his post-Band music is not much chop (it's embarrassing, actually) and he comes across as incredibly vain, single-handedly taking credit for all The Band's music. Still, he has some interesting turns of phrase and the interviews aren't bad. Far better is Levon Helm's autobiography "This Wheel's On Fire" (1556524056)
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Summary: Robbie Robertson is a legend!
Review: This DVD shows the history of one of the greatest rock performers of all time.Robertson is telling about his roots,The Band,Bob Dylan and many more.There are also recent live shows shown.If you want something to know about the history of music you'll have to see this one!
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Summary: A beginers intro to a historic band that changed rock
Review: This release was informative and also included a few live clips of Robbie as a solo artist.It delves further into the makings of the Hawks with early photos of the boys as they were acquired from other bands.Unfortunately there was no older interview footage of Richard Manuel to really complete the general feeling of the Band portion of the documentary.I felt that a portion of "The Band" dvd could have been combined into "Going Home" to make a good release even better.This is a good follow up to the hopefull impending release of "The Last Waltz" on dvd.
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Summary: Classic,
Review: What a joy! Incredible history and roots. Robbie is not only the consummate story teller from the Band and his solo albums, he's also a pleasure to listen to speak about the history of the Band, their involvement with Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsesse and Eric Clapton and more. There is some incredible archival footage of Dylan playing with the Band from the Basement Tapes era, a great dialog segment between Robbie and Scorsesse about the making of the Last Waltz and a not so trivial Rock N Roll trivia revelation from Eric Clapton that he broke up Cream after hearing the Band and then asked Robbie if he could join. WOW. If you're a Band, Dylan fan or just love good documentaries do not miss this!
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