The Who - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
by Murray Lerner
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Actor: John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Pete Townshend, Roger DaltreyDirector: Murray Lerner
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), PCM Stereo; English (Original Language), PCM Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
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Summary: 5 Stars
wow. Wow. WOW WOW! WOWWWW! I can't even put a sentence together, I'm so utterly slain by this DVD. When The Who walk on stage at 2am at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, they are four scrawny, vaguely nerdy British boys who might be working on your car. When they walk off, what feels like a sweet, sweet eternity later, they are ten feet tall and hewn out of marble.If you were wearing peg-leg cords, penny loafers and a crew-cut in the 60's, if you thought Nixon was doing a pretty good job in Vietnam, if you felt that the military industrial complex was good for the country because it provided jobs, you will hate this CD. You will hate everything it is about. You will hate it now as you did then. Go away. But...
If you thought we were standing on the brink of a brave new world where Love was no longer in chains, where the souls of humanity were no longer imprisoned in the shackles of conventional thinking... if you stood at a concert like this and thought you could see a better tomorrow, buy this DVD, because about 15 minutes into it you'll be seeing it again; you'll be throwing chairs through your windows, wanting your hair to grow faster, running up to the attic to find those old bell-bottoms and those calfskin boots, you'll be turning it up louder and louder, you'll go out to the front of your conformist suburban house and you'll break out a step ladder and you'll spraypaint a gigantic "peace" sign on the front of that two-story colonial and your wife and you will make love on the front lawn and get arrested and... just buy it.
Description of The Who - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
In 1970, 600,000 people came to the Isle of Wight to attend a music festival. 2 A.M., August 30th, The Who appeared and gave one of the most memorable performances of their career, with early hits and live Who staples culminating in one of their last-ever complete run throughs of the seminal rock opera "Tommy." Songs: Heaven and Hell, I Can't Explain, Young Man Blues, I Don't Even Know Myself, Water, Shakin' All Over, Spoonful/Twist and Shout, Summertime Blues, My Generation, Magic Bus, Overture, It's a Boy, Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker), Christmas, The Acid Queen, Pinball Wizard, Do You Think It's Alright, Fiddle About, Go to the Mirror, Miracle Cure, I'm Free, Tommy's Holiday Camp, We're Not Gonna Take It.Filmmaker Murray Lerner's documentary Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival--The Movie took more than a quarter-century to make it to theater screens. But when it finally did, Lerner's footage of the Who's incendiary performance at that open-air show proved to be a real highlight. Lerner's complete coverage of the group's appearance, generally considered by true believers to be among their greatest shows, can be seen in this excellent concert film. A full year after the band's ragged concert at Woodstock (at which guitarist Pete Townshend, according to legend, was suffering the ill effects of a drug-spiked drink), the Who brought their potent act to the troubled Isle of Wight fest, making rock & roll history with a magnificent noise. Except for an allusion or two by singer Roger Daltrey, there's no mention in the film that the band was between their lengthy tour in support of Tommy and the recording of an album they would eventually scrap (substituting it with the epochal Who's Next). This concert contains three then-new tunes from the aborted project (and they're so awful you'll instantly understand why it was dropped), but much more important is the band's rendering of an abridged but thrilling Tommy and full-blooded shouts of some old warhorses: "Shakin' All Over," "I Can't Explain," and "Magic Bus." Comic relief is provided by the late Keith Moon, whose exchanged witticisms with Townshend grow lengthy enough at one point to demand an actual, discrete, click-to scene of their own on the DVD release. Otherwise, as far as the DVD goes, there are no other goodies; this great concert speaks for itself. --Tom Keogh
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