Live at Woodstock [Blu-ray]

Live at Woodstock [Blu-ray]
by Jimi Hendrix

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Actor: Jimi Hendrix
Director: Jimi Hendrix
Brand: Uni
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-11-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Experience Hendrix

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Blu-ray Review: Authoring defect on "A Second Look"
Summary: 3 Stars

I already owned and enjoyed this program on the 2-DVD set, and since I got a Blu-Ray player earlier this year, I decided to buy the(now-deleted) Universal Music Blu-Ray edition, since it can now be had very cheaply, due to the rights changeover of the Hendrix catalogue and the BLu-Ray reissue via Sony Music. While the main program(1080i video with DTS-HD Master Audio) does have indeed have slightly better sound and picture than the DVD edition, I should note that the supplemental section "A Second Look"(a combination of crude black & white home video footage and alternate color film footage from the Warner Bros. film crew) actually looks much worse here than on the standard DVD, with a much smearier, choppier, shakier look on both vertical and horizontal movement. This affects both the B & W and color parts of "A Second Look". The Blu-Ray presents this supplemental program at 480p resolution which should have been identical in quality to the DVD, not markedly worse. I guess I'll hold onto my DVD edition, and watch the main program from the Blu-Ray disc, and watch "a Second Look" from the DVD edition. I suspect a Blu-Ray authoring defect. I don't know if this is corrected on the new Sony Blu-Ray edition.
If you want to pick up a deleted Universal Music edition cheaply, I would say go with the DVD edition. The authoring defect on Universal's Blu-Ray edition means that I can't recommend it wholeheartedly. Yes, the Blu-Ray's audio quality is better than the DVD, but even on the main program(mastered satisfactorily for this Blu-Ray disc), the picture is only a modest improvement over the DVD.

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Description of Live at Woodstock [Blu-ray]

Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 11/25/2008

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.

Aside from the enhanced visuals and audio track expected with the format, the Blu-ray edition of Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock features a wealth of bonus material, much of which is also included in the two-disc standard DVD release. The principal difference is that "A Second Look," a black & white version of the concert shot by an amateur, can now be viewed picture-in-picture along with the official version. The quality is imperfect, but it?s fascinating to see the show from a very different angle than those used by filmmaker Michael Wadleigh and his crew, who focused almost exclusively on Hendrix. Also worthy is "Recording Woodstock," with Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer describing a process that was haphazard at best. --Sam Graham

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