Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (Live at the Fillmore East)

Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (Live at the Fillmore East)

Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (Live at the Fillmore East)
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Actor: Jimi Hendrix
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-07-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Experience Hendrix

Movie Reviews of Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (Live at the Fillmore East)

Movie Review: C grade at best
Summary: 3 Stars

Don't get me wrong now, I think Band of Gypsies is some Hendrix's best work. And thats what I thought I was going to get when I randomly purchased this DVD at Best Buy.

However I was wrong, though they do have some great concert footage it is often interrupted by lame-o's like Lenny Kravitz and Slash,(usually at the best parts of the song too) talking about what the music means. LAME!!!!

The DVD would have been much better if it was like the Woodstock DVD, where they played a brief Bio in the beginning and then the whole show.

Furthermore, the DVD isn't all bad, it does have some rare footage, photos from the night of the shows, and detailed interviews with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox, on how the music came into fruition.

So in conclusion, though the DVD does have somethings worth watching, I'm not sure its worth paying full price for (epically since all the best clips are on youtube anyway) so rent, borrow, pirate, or listen to the CD, just don't pay full price for this DVD.




Summary of Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (Live at the Fillmore East)

Made less than a year before his death in September 1970, Band of Gypsys was an album recorded live to fulfill a contractual obligation for a long-forgotten deal Jimi Hendrix signed when he still spelled his name "Jimmy." Hendrix had just disbanded the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and in order to dispense with the album as quickly as possible, he put together a new trio featuring Billy Cox (an old Army buddy) and drummer Buddy Miles, whose bombastic singing and thudding drum style would soon pollute FM airwaves across the nation. (Former Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell refers to him here as "William the Concreter," for his cement-mixer sense of rhythm.) They booked the Fillmore East with the idea of recording the shows for a live album, and this DVD features recently unearthed film footage of that historic performance, with Hendrix at the top of his powers (despite Miles's excesses). It also offers several other rare live performances from British clubs in the mid-1960s. The musical moments are mixed with new interview footage, including conversations with the self-effacing Cox and the self-aggrandizing Miles. If you've only heard the CDs (Band of Gypsys and Jimi Hendrix: Live at the Fillmore East), you've only gotten half of this particular Jimi Hendrix experience. --Marshall Fine

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