Lynyrd Skynyrd - Rock Case Studies

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Rock Case Studies

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Rock Case Studies
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Actor: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Brand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Classic Rock Legends
Product features:
  • This in depth critical review explores the like and work of an iconic American rock band. With the band s best known and most loved songs as its backdrop, it features fascinating new interviews with a team of respected critics, journalists and musicians, who take the viewer to the heart of the Lynyrd Skynyrd story. Format: DVD AUDIO Genre: MUSIC DVD Rating: NR Age: 82388002

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Movie Review: British primer on Skynyrd
Summary: 4 Stars

I've looked at the video but I've yet to read the entire book. The video is interesting, the highlights being the footage of the band from its two Old Grey Whistle Test appearances and critic Mick Wall's description of first meeting the band and experiencing their robust party habits. The other two interviewees are writer/rocker Geoff Smiles (who also wrote the booklet) and a former employee of road managing legend Peter Rudge.

Fair enough, these blokes encountered the band and experienced some of their notorious behaviours. But musicologists they ain't (ok, maybe Smiles is,although I'm not sure what else he's written). Smiles even goes so far as to tell us in fairly authoritative detail what was wrong with the band's plane when it crashed and killed leader Ronnie Van Zant and other members.

I do, however, agree with the overall sentiment of this effort, especially Smiles' -- that the authentic Skynyrd is the band that ended with that plane crash, and everything since then with the name Lynyrd Skynyrd has been more of a tribute band.

Where this product leaves me hanging is the analysis part -- this is supposed to be a case study of the half-dozen albums by the pre-crash Skynyrd, and while our hosts touch on all of these albums, you're not really getting a thorough musicological examination. In other words, this is technically shallow -- except, as I mentioned, the description of what may have happened to the right engine on that airplane.

Final thought -- I would love to get my hands on the entire early Whistle Test performance (the second is available on the "Bullets" reissue), just to further delve into the early Skynyrd. That early performance of "Free Bird" is terrific until the very end when Ed King decides to throw down some licks that don't really fit with what Allen Collins is doing. It's a train wreck, and it made me appreciate the later versions of the band in a way that I had not.

UPDATE: Finally started reading the text, and it is a decent read. It's flawed and more of an essay and history than a "case study," but author Geoff Smiles (who also is one of the three interviewed in the DVD) adds some meaningful context to the Skynyrd saga. I'm not sure this band will ever truly get its due for various reasons, but the producers of this book and DVD make a game effort.....for fans of the original band, this is worth it.









Summary of Lynyrd Skynyrd - Rock Case Studies

This in depth critical review explores the like and work of an iconic American rock band. With the band?s best known and most loved songs as its backdrop, it features fascinating new interviews with a team of respected critics, journalists and musicians, who take the viewer to the heart of the Lynyrd Skynyrd story.
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