Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition)
by Joe Boyd, John Head (III), Gary Weis
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Actor: Albert Allen, Arthur Allen, Eric Barrett, Paul Caruso, Stella BenabonDirector: Gary Weis, Joe Boyd, John Head (III)
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Summary: 5 Stars
Well, I guess as long as the Hendrix family parasites can make a few extra bucks it's okay. Buy it for them! Thanks Jimi....
Summary of Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition)
The long-awaited Deluxe Edition of the 1973 theatrical documentary Jimi Hendrix is loaded with extras and completely remastered and remixed to provide exceptional sound and picture quality This is the biography of Jimi Hendrix the world famous guitarist who died much too young. Featuring the guitar wizard on stage and behind the scenes classic concert footage is interspersed with interviews with friends and prominent musicians giving first-hand recollections including Pete Townshend Mick Jagger Eric Clapton Little Richard Lou Reed Buddy Miles and more. Includes songs "Hey Joe" "Rock me baby" "Like a rolling stone" "A Star Spangled Banner" from Woodstock 69 and many more from his beginnings to his Monterey Woodstock and Isle of Wight performancesRunning Time: 103 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 012569698468If any artist deserved a hagiography it was Jimi Hendrix, and Joe Boyd's 1973 "authorized" tribute adequately sanctifies the legend. Perversely for a documentary, it achieves this simply through well-chosen concert footage rather than through the insights of the various talking heads. Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, and Germaine Greer are all wheeled out to wax lyrical about their days with Jimi, but nothing is more eloquent than watching and listening to him play. From "Hey Joe" in grainy black and white on the Ready Steady Go TV show, classic footage of Monterey, Woodstock (yes, "The Star-Spangled Banner"), and the Isle of Wight festivals to an acoustic 12- string rendition of "Hear My Train a' Comin'," Hendrix the musician speaks for himself.
But if Hendrix the musician shines through, this is not the most insightful profile of Hendrix the man. The circumstances surrounding his death, for example, are hardly touched upon (girlfriend at the time Monika Dannemann gets only a few seconds of screen time). Interview footage with Hendrix himself plus some occasionally rambling and incoherent comments from such intimates as his father, army buddies, ex-girlfriends (including Linda Keith, who "discovered" him in New York and brought him to England), and fellow musicians all take second place to the music itself. The most sensible quote comes from Little Richard, who proves once and for all that he's utterly bonkers when he says of Jimi's music: "At times he made my big toes shoot up into my boot." --Mark Walker, Amazon.co.uk
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