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Disc 1: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock
01 Message to Love
02 Spanish Castle Magic
03 Red House
04 Lover Man
05 Foxey Lady
06 Jam Back at the House
07 Izabella
08 Fire
09 Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
10 Star Spangled Banner
11 Purple Haze
12 Woodstock Improvisation
13 Villanova Junction
14 Hey Joe
Disc 2: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock: A Second Look
01 Message to Love
02 Hear My Train a Comin'
03 Spanish Castle Magic
04 Red House
05 Lover Man
06 Foxey Lady
07 Jam Back at the House
08 Izabella
09 Fire
10 Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
11 Star Spangled Banner
12 Purple Haze
13 Woodstock Improvisation
14 Villanova Junction
15 Hey Joe
16. Jimi Hendrix Press Conference: Color film footage of never before seen Jimi Hendrix press conference held September 3, 1969 at Frank’s Restaurant in Harlem. Hendrix answers questions about his Woodstock festival performance, his rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" and the festival’s cultural impact.
DVD Features:
* Soundtrack mixed by Eddie Kramer, Jimi's original studio engineer.
* Documentary: The Road to Woodstock
* Featurette: Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock - A Second Look. Features never before seen video footage of "Hear My Train A Comin'
* Press Conference
* Nashville Roots
* Recording Woodstock
* Rare artifacts and memorabilia
Reviews:
Richie Unterberger @ Allmusic.com
His iconic performance of "Star Spangled Banner" aside, Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock set was not among his greatest concerts. He was working with an unwieldy short-lived band that, in addition to drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, also included a second guitarist and two hand percussionists. He was playing before a tired, half-emptied-out crowd not long after dawn as the closing act of the festival, and his material sometimes drifted into unfocused improvisations. However, this particular DVD is likely to be the best visual document of that appearance. Unlike previous releases of the show, it has nearly everything he performed from that set, running over 80 minutes (as opposed to the 57 minutes of previous editions) and including six songs not seen or heard in previous versions.
Disc one of this two-DVD set focuses on the footage the Woodstock movie crew took of the concert itself, with a mix that heavily favors Hendrix's guitar and vocals and Mitchell's drums. Hand percussionists Jerry Velez and Juma Sultan, as well as second guitarist Larry Lee, are all but inaudible, though you can see them (indeed, Velez often seems in paroxysms of ecstasy, so exaggeratedly animated are his stage mannerisms). The camerawork heavily concentrates on Hendrix as well, and while it's an uneven show, it does contain some excellent highlights. His radical reinterpretation of "Star Spangled Banner" (used in the Woodstock film) is one, of course, and his explosive rendition of "Fire" is another. In addition to some of his most popular numbers ("Hey Joe," "Purple Haze," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," "Spanish Castle Magic"), room was made for some more recent and more obscure material as well, including "Message to Love," "Izabella," and "Lover Man." Generally, though, the longer the song, the less riveting the performance, with "Woodstock Improvisation" in particular veering toward unstructured aimlessness. The concert footage is bookended by documentary sequences with interesting interviews, done decades after the event, with numerous figures associated with the event, including Mitchell, Cox, Lee, Sultan, Woodstock promoter Michael Lang, and even Rob Leonard of Sha Na Na (who did their set right before Hendrix's).
The bulk of disc two is devoted to something of a low-budget alternate Hendrix-Woodstock film. Most of the footage in this version was shot on black-and-white videotape by college student Albert Goodman. As he didn't capture the entire set, the gaps are linked by excerpts from the Woodstock crew's color footage to create an uninterrupted whole. Goodman's footage is low-budget, with some wavy and broken images, but does record much of the concert from different angles than the Woodstock movie's cameras did. It also has some footage from a song, "Hear My Train a Comin'," that the Woodstock crew didn't catch, as they needed to change film when it was being performed. It's far less well done and enjoyable than the footage on the first disc, but as a DVD extra, it does add to the visual material available from this historic concert, for those who want it. Also on the second disc of this DVD are interviews with engineer Eddie Kramer (who recorded the set); a segment with Cox and Lee, discussing their days with Hendrix in Nashville in the early '60s; and film of a press conference Hendrix gave on September 3, 1969, in Harlem, where he answered some questions about Woodstock. The best of those soundbites comes when he explains his rendition of "Star Spangled Banner": "We play it the way the air is in America today. The air is slightly static, isn't it?"
Edward C. Barile @ Amazon.com
A few years ago, I reviewed the Hendrix Woodstock DVD released, I think in 99. I thought mistakenly at the time that it was complete. I had to retract that statement.
Now the Hendrix family has released the full performance, or at least everything that exists on film on his performance at that landmark Woodstock festival.
There are 2 DVDs, one with the complete filmed version, that the promoters were able to get on such short notice. This is the completion of what we already had.
The second DVD is an actual taped real time video that someone had taken with a camera and kept for 35 years until the family got him to release it with this set. Now everything Hendrix did that was recorded is available.
The quality of the first (filmed) DVD is fine, that of the second is spotty (it was mostly in black and white) supplemented with clips from the filmed version where the video had dropouts. The video version has the only clip of "Hear my Train Coming" - the film guys were reloading at that time.
This is of great historical value, and all Hendrix fans will want to own it, simply because it has the whole thing. Of course I never get tired of watching Hendrix play his music. Watching him play the guitar is as good as listening to him, because his visual performance is a separate entertainment in its own right. I highly recommend this.
Опрос находился тут, но падение форума тот топик пережил плохо, только резуьтаты голосования...
01 Message to Love
02 Spanish Castle Magic
03 Red House
04 Lover Man
05 Foxey Lady
06 Jam Back at the House
07 Izabella
08 Fire
09 Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
10 Star Spangled Banner
11 Purple Haze
12 Woodstock Improvisation
13 Villanova Junction
14 Hey Joe
Disc 2: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock: A Second Look
01 Message to Love
02 Hear My Train a Comin'
03 Spanish Castle Magic
04 Red House
05 Lover Man
06 Foxey Lady
07 Jam Back at the House
08 Izabella
09 Fire
10 Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
11 Star Spangled Banner
12 Purple Haze
13 Woodstock Improvisation
14 Villanova Junction
15 Hey Joe
16. Jimi Hendrix Press Conference: Color film footage of never before seen Jimi Hendrix press conference held September 3, 1969 at Frank’s Restaurant in Harlem. Hendrix answers questions about his Woodstock festival performance, his rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" and the festival’s cultural impact.
DVD Features:
* Soundtrack mixed by Eddie Kramer, Jimi's original studio engineer.
* Documentary: The Road to Woodstock
* Featurette: Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock - A Second Look. Features never before seen video footage of "Hear My Train A Comin'
* Press Conference
* Nashville Roots
* Recording Woodstock
* Rare artifacts and memorabilia
Reviews:
Richie Unterberger @ Allmusic.com
His iconic performance of "Star Spangled Banner" aside, Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock set was not among his greatest concerts. He was working with an unwieldy short-lived band that, in addition to drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, also included a second guitarist and two hand percussionists. He was playing before a tired, half-emptied-out crowd not long after dawn as the closing act of the festival, and his material sometimes drifted into unfocused improvisations. However, this particular DVD is likely to be the best visual document of that appearance. Unlike previous releases of the show, it has nearly everything he performed from that set, running over 80 minutes (as opposed to the 57 minutes of previous editions) and including six songs not seen or heard in previous versions.
Disc one of this two-DVD set focuses on the footage the Woodstock movie crew took of the concert itself, with a mix that heavily favors Hendrix's guitar and vocals and Mitchell's drums. Hand percussionists Jerry Velez and Juma Sultan, as well as second guitarist Larry Lee, are all but inaudible, though you can see them (indeed, Velez often seems in paroxysms of ecstasy, so exaggeratedly animated are his stage mannerisms). The camerawork heavily concentrates on Hendrix as well, and while it's an uneven show, it does contain some excellent highlights. His radical reinterpretation of "Star Spangled Banner" (used in the Woodstock film) is one, of course, and his explosive rendition of "Fire" is another. In addition to some of his most popular numbers ("Hey Joe," "Purple Haze," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," "Spanish Castle Magic"), room was made for some more recent and more obscure material as well, including "Message to Love," "Izabella," and "Lover Man." Generally, though, the longer the song, the less riveting the performance, with "Woodstock Improvisation" in particular veering toward unstructured aimlessness. The concert footage is bookended by documentary sequences with interesting interviews, done decades after the event, with numerous figures associated with the event, including Mitchell, Cox, Lee, Sultan, Woodstock promoter Michael Lang, and even Rob Leonard of Sha Na Na (who did their set right before Hendrix's).
The bulk of disc two is devoted to something of a low-budget alternate Hendrix-Woodstock film. Most of the footage in this version was shot on black-and-white videotape by college student Albert Goodman. As he didn't capture the entire set, the gaps are linked by excerpts from the Woodstock crew's color footage to create an uninterrupted whole. Goodman's footage is low-budget, with some wavy and broken images, but does record much of the concert from different angles than the Woodstock movie's cameras did. It also has some footage from a song, "Hear My Train a Comin'," that the Woodstock crew didn't catch, as they needed to change film when it was being performed. It's far less well done and enjoyable than the footage on the first disc, but as a DVD extra, it does add to the visual material available from this historic concert, for those who want it. Also on the second disc of this DVD are interviews with engineer Eddie Kramer (who recorded the set); a segment with Cox and Lee, discussing their days with Hendrix in Nashville in the early '60s; and film of a press conference Hendrix gave on September 3, 1969, in Harlem, where he answered some questions about Woodstock. The best of those soundbites comes when he explains his rendition of "Star Spangled Banner": "We play it the way the air is in America today. The air is slightly static, isn't it?"
Edward C. Barile @ Amazon.com
A few years ago, I reviewed the Hendrix Woodstock DVD released, I think in 99. I thought mistakenly at the time that it was complete. I had to retract that statement.
Now the Hendrix family has released the full performance, or at least everything that exists on film on his performance at that landmark Woodstock festival.
There are 2 DVDs, one with the complete filmed version, that the promoters were able to get on such short notice. This is the completion of what we already had.
The second DVD is an actual taped real time video that someone had taken with a camera and kept for 35 years until the family got him to release it with this set. Now everything Hendrix did that was recorded is available.
The quality of the first (filmed) DVD is fine, that of the second is spotty (it was mostly in black and white) supplemented with clips from the filmed version where the video had dropouts. The video version has the only clip of "Hear my Train Coming" - the film guys were reloading at that time.
This is of great historical value, and all Hendrix fans will want to own it, simply because it has the whole thing. Of course I never get tired of watching Hendrix play his music. Watching him play the guitar is as good as listening to him, because his visual performance is a separate entertainment in its own right. I highly recommend this.
Опрос находился тут, но падение форума тот топик пережил плохо, только резуьтаты голосования...