Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock
by Michael Wadleigh, Chris Hegedus, Erez Laufer
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Actor: Billy Cox, Jimi Hendrix, Juma Sultan, Larry Lee, Mitch MitchellDirector: Chris Hegedus, Erez Laufer, Michael Wadleigh
Brand: Hendrix,Jimi
Cinematographer: Al Wertheimer
Cinematographer: David Myers
Cinematographer: Don Lenzer
Cinematographer: Michael Wadleigh
Cinematographer: Richard Pearce
Editor: Chris Hegedus
Producer: Alan Douglas
Producer: D.A. Pennebaker
Producer: Frazer Pennebaker
Producer: Janie Hendrix
Producer: John McDermott
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Live, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Experience Hendrix
DVD Reviews of Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock
DVD Review: Double shows
Summary: 5 Stars
This show is mostly a jam session. On the first disc, the camerawork isn't the best. They mostly show close-ups of Jimi's face, but that's because people rarely ever filmed live concerts back then. It's definitely very raw, and the full extended band doesn't completely work for Hendrix. However, this show includes a lot of information about the show, interview footage of what Hendrix was doing at the time, and the concert twice.
I personally feel that although the black and white footage of the show on the second disc is of a lower film quality, it makes me feel like I'm there much more than the footage from the professional cameramen. The young student who videotaped the show was the true professional. Some of the other great features on this DVD include the interview with Eddie Kramer, and the other interview with Billy Cox and Larry Lee. The DVD is great.
DVD Review: Astronomical Groovy Monster
Summary: 5 Stars
Who am I to comment on the poetry of the Angels? Me, a mere mortal, an unholy, absurd wretch of a soul. How dare such a filthy turd as myself dream of scavenging the words that, at best merely hint at the Aural Miracle that is offered here. But I vainly persist...
On that August Monday morning of '69 a haggard, sodden horde found themselves awash in a roiling cascade of fathomless sonics. The dwindling throng, the lingering faithful, were ritualistically cleansed by Astronomically Groovy Monster Waves of Pure Electric Soul. A Cosmic Baptism.
"Woodstock" has assumed the mantle of a tired cliche; a fading symbol of both the surprising potential of our nation's youth, and the yet-unredeemed hopes for profound social change. The festival's memory is further encumbered by the weight of four decades of unrepentant Idolatry and obsessive Mythology.
Myths, it seems, fulfill that odd cultural need to reassure ourselves in our doubtful belief that We Belong Here, that we are forever needing to be reminded that we have a Divine Right to be at any one particular place at any one particular moment... Jimi's astonishing creations tell us that this is a false need, for we ALL Belong not just HERE but EVERYWHERE, because EVERYBODY already is EVERYWHERE. Spiritually, Jimi declares, we ALL have always been, and always will be, ENTITLED TO EVERYTHING, EQUALLY. That's why when I watch this DVD I know HE is still here... and there... and here...
So, words are feeble tools in the service of exalting the majesty of Jimi's Glorious Gift. Perhaps it's better expressed by A Forty Year Smile on the Collective Face of All, two generations later still radiating pearly white and wide.
DVD Review: Greatness Ruined by Poor Editing
Summary: 2 Stars
I was quite excited at the prospect of seeing the "complete" footage of Hendrix at Woodstock. What a disappointment.
At first I blamed the camera operators for zooming in for close-ups when they could have shown Hendrix's fingerwork on solos. After all, "idiot camera syndrome" was pretty prevalent during the 60s.
However, a viewing of the original Woodstock motion picture reveals that there were other camera angles available. For instance, during "Voodoo Child (A Slight Return)" the movie shows full-frontal guitar action where the newer "complete" release opts for close-up nostril shots. It's the equivalent of focusing on a quarterback's helmet while he's running a full-field touchdown. Jeez.
The original film was also released in widescreen format, while the newer version is in "pan and scan." This would've been OK if the editors had just panned and scanned. There were many shots where Hendrix was standing to the far left of the frame, fully visible in widescreen but barely visible in the new aspect ratio.
In my opinion, the makers of this DVD have squandered a golden opportunity to present a historic performance in its entirety.
It's a damn shame.
DVD Review: Excellent Concert DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is a concert that Jimi Hendrix did at the Woodstock festival. The music, of course, is wonderful. The audio quality is actually very good, none of the songs are hard to hear, and everything is crisp and tight. One of the benefits of this particular DVD, is that it has the bonus disk. On this disk, it shows an amateur video of the concert taken by a guy who sneaked on stage during it. If you are a fan of Hendrix, you should already own this concert and not be reading a review. However, if you don't own it, get it as soon as possible. If you are not a Hendrix fan, this concert is still great, because it depicts the "hipi" music very well. I highly recomend this great concert to any one. DVD Review: Hendrix and your hurricane guitar...
Summary: 5 Stars
About forty years have been passed since hendrix first notes played around all the place where Woodstock Concert happened... I never liked Woodstock and the history show us that when they tried to do the same festival 30 years later it was very disappoint... It's hard to believe this hedrix's show happened at 9:30 am cause a lot of problems with the other artists... But even the few people that stayed were blessed with hendrix's magic...
A great material of the most inventive and maybe the greatest guitar player on history... The Woodstock Concert show a powerful magic line on the notes of guitar hendrix and a moment that him was trying to change part of his music...
But it's alaway there, all the great solo and fantastic version, and of course: the polemic star spangled banner and an interview few months ago where hendrix said: I thought that was beautiful... Yeah, we also Jimi...
Don't waste you time and buy this DVD...
Description of Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock
DVD ONE: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock1. Message To Love
2. Spanish Castle Magic
3. Red House
4. Lover Man
5. Foxey Lady
6. Jam Back At The House
7. Izabella
8. Fire
9. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
10. Star Spangled Banner
11. Purple Haze
12. Woodstock Improvisation
13. Villanova Junction
14. Hey Joe
15. The Road To Woodstock: New documentary directed by Bob Smeaton featuring new interviews with Hendrix band members Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Juma Sultan, and Larry Lee, engineer Eddie Kramer, and Woodstock promoter Michael Lang among others.
DISC TWO: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock: A Second Look
1. Message To Love
2. Hear My Train A Comin'
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Red House
5. Lover Man
6. Foxey Lady
7. Jam Back At The House
8. Izabella
9. 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.
Live at Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix's headlining appearance at the most famous festival in rock music history, is rivaled only by his set at Monterey Pop for sheer legendary status. But the two are very different. The rock guitarist was a virtual unknown in America when he delivered his literally incendiary performance at Monterey in 1967. A little more than two years later he was an established star, picked to close this mammoth three-day show (he was slated to appear on Sunday night, but weather and various snafus pushed that to Monday morning). Introduced as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix quickly corrects that to Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, with original drummer Mitch Mitchell and new bassist Billy Cox augmented by two percussionists and a second guitarist (all three are for the most part inaudible, subsumed in the great sonic wash of Hendrix's wailing guitar and Mitchell's thrashing drums). The music had changed, too. Hendrix had started moving away from the format of short, poppy songs with the Electric Ladyland album, and while he still plays "Purple Haze," "Foxey Lady," and "Fire," much of the emphasis in this lengthy set is on extended jamming. Not all of it works, but when it does--as on "Spanish Castle Magic" and a sped-up "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," which leads into the feedback-drenched re-imagining of "The Star-Spangled Banner"--the performance takes off. Little more than a year later, Jimi Hendrix, still regarded as the greatest rock guitarist ever, would be dead. --Sam Graham
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