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Review Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd / John Mayall And Friends
Actors & Directors
  • John Mayall
Release date: 2006-02-20
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.39

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Review John Mayall / John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers - Live At Capitol, New Jersey
Release date: 2008-07-28
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.41

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Review Johnny Lang / Jonny Lang - Live At Montreaux 1999
Release date: 2008-08-18
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.98

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Review Universal Music Operations / B.B. King - Live [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • B.B. King
Release date: 2008-02-25
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.24

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Review Universal Island / Santana - Sacred Fire - Live In Mexico [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Nydrle
  • Carlos Santana
Release date: 2002-12-16
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.60

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Review Warner Music Vision / Led Zeppelin: DVD (2DVD) [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Carruthers
  • Led Zeppelin
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 320 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £11.20

Review Led Zeppelin: DVD (2DVD) [2003] / Warner Music Vision:

Legendary and long sought-after, this live Led Zeppelin collection is nothing less than the rock music equivalent of the Holy Grail. Quite simply, this is what all the fuss was about. Given that they were the biggest band in the world, Zeppelin were notoriously camera-shy in their heyday. Their official filmic legacy until now has been just the fascinating but flawed The Song Remains the Same. While this new set presents some previously unseen footage from the same 1973 Madison Square Garden gigs, its real wonders lie in the earlier (1970) Royal Albert Hall footage and the later Earls Court (1975) and Knebworth (1979) concerts. Everything here looks and sounds new-minted, thanks to painstaking restoration and remastering of both audio and visual sources, a Herculean labour of love on the part of co-producer Dick Carruthers working hand-in-glove with Jimmy Page. Trawling through thousands of yards of previously unseen film and unheard tape recordings-some with missing visuals, some with missing audio-Page and Carruthers have chosen only the best possible footage available. They were also at pains to make the segments segue seamlessly so that the viewer is treated to what feels like a continuous concert-just sample the transition from a grainy Super 8 "Immigrant Song" (Sydney, 1972) to "Black Dog" at MSG. Highlights? It's not hyperbole to say that every powerhouse minute of this collection (some 230 minutes of concert footage plus another hour and a half of extra DVD material) is a rare musical and visual treat. But hearing Page's violin bow work on "Dazed and Confused" in DTS or Dolby 5. [+]
1 is an experience not soon forgotten. On the DVD: Led Zeppelin two-disc set presents all the footage in pristine 4:3 picture ratio (the Madison Square Garden footage is letterboxed) with Dolby 5. 1, DTS or PCM Stereo sound options. Note that the audio is uncompressed for maximum ear-shattering enjoyment. The menu screens do not pop up beforehand, but have to be selected. It's well worth doing so. Enjoy the music first, then discover that even the menus have been painstakingly designed to provide still more unseen footage and unheard recordings (some screens don't cycle round, but present another song in its entirety). Extras include rare TV appearances, interviews and bootleg footage. -Mark Walker.

Review Sony Bmg / Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Pride And Joy [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Stevie Ray Vaughan
Release date: 2008-01-14
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.98

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Review Roy Buchanan / Roy Buchanan - Live from Austin, Tx [2008]
Release date: 2008-04-21
Run time: 32 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.24

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Review Various Artists / The American Folk Blues Festivals 1963-1966 - The British Tours - Various Artists [2007]
Release date: 2007-05-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.41

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Review Warner Music Vision / Eric Clapton - Live In Hyde Park [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Jerry Portnoy
  • Andy Fairweather-Low
  • Steve Gadd
  • Dave Bronze
  • Eric Clapton
  • Julia Knowles
Release date: 2001-10-29
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.95

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Review Universal Music Operations / The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Monterey [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • D.A. Pennebaker
Release date: 2007-10-29
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.98

Review The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Monterey [1967] / Universal Music Operations:

If any artist deserved a hagiography it was Hendrix, and Joe Boyd's 1973 "authorised" tribute The Jimi Hendrix Story adequately sanctifies the legend. Perversely for a documentary, it achieves this simply by 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 Ready Steady Go, classic footage of Monterey, Woodstock (yes, "The Star-Spangled Banner") and the Isle of White 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 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. " On the DVD: This is a dual-layer disc, with a widescreen (1. 85:1) print on one side and a standard (4:3) ratio version on the other-although watching in widescreen is redundant, as the film is shot in 4:3 anyway. There are no extras other than a theatrical trailer (despite being advertised as such a menu and scene access surely don't count as "special features": what use is a disc without them?) -Mark Walker.

Review Sony Bmg / Rory Gallagher - Live At Cork Opera House [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Rory Gallagher
Release date: 2006-07-03
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.47

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Review Xl Recordings Ltd / The White Stripes: Live Under Blackpool Lights [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Carruthers
  • The White Stripes
Release date: 2004-11-22
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.99

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Review Warner Music Vision / Cream - Royal Albert Hall - 2,3,5,6 May 2005
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Bruce (II)
  • Martyn Atkins
  • Ginger Baker
  • Eric Clapton
Release date: 2005-10-03
Run time: 130 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £11.27

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Review EMI / David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live from Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • David Gilmour
  • Graham Nash
  • Richard Wright
  • David Crosby
  • David Bowie
  • David Mallet
Release date: 2007-11-20
Run time: 313 min.
Price: £10.54

Review David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live from Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import] / EMI:


Review Universal Island / Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Larry Lee (VI)
  • Juma Sultan
  • Erez Laufer
  • Billy Cox
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Michael Wadleigh
  • Chris Hegedus
  • Mitch Mitchell (II)
Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 219 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.09

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Review Warner Music Vision / Eric Clapton - Crossroads Guitar Festival [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Clapton
  • B.B. King
  • ZZ Top
  • Ron de Moraes
  • James Taylor (XVII)
  • J.J. Cale
Release date: 2004-11-29
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £11.12

Review Eric Clapton - Crossroads Guitar Festival [2004] / Warner Music Vision:

Although it could have been twice as long, this double-DVD set effectively captures over three hours of highlights from one of the most comprehensive and diverse collection of guitarists ever assembled for a single event. Recorded over three days in June of 2004 to benefit Eric Clapton's Crossroads Center in Antigua (as do the sales of this set), the show is not surprisingly heavy on the rootsy blues and country that comprise Clapton's primary inspirations. But it also includes folk (James Taylor), gospel (Robert Randolph & the Family Band), fret-shredding rockers (Steve Vai who delivers a dazzling performance), jazz (John McLaughlin), and, most interestingly, Indian classical music (a stunning piece from Vishwa Mohan Bhatt). Most compelling are the rare and sometimes unusual collaborations. Joe Walsh and Taylor clown around on "Steamroller Blues" and Booker T. & the M. G. 's back both Joe Walsh on a rollicking "Rocky Mountain Way" and Los Lobos' David Hidalgo tearing into a sizzling "The Neighborhood". Clapton and J. J. [+]
Cale share the stage as do Clapton and Carlos Santana, and a show-stopping blues summit with Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Hubert Sumlin, B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Clapton is a treat for all involved. There are some shortcomings. The event isn't presented in chronological order-different stages, days, and backing bands are shuffled with Clapton's own set scattered throughout-ZZ Top's closing is a bit anticlimactic, and there are many omissions due to time constraints. But every act rises to the occasion, and this expertly recorded and shot DVD gives the viewer a front-row seat to a once-in-a-lifetime experience. -Hal Horowitz.

Review Warner Music Vision / Eric Clapton - Unplugged [1992] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chuck Leavell
  • Eric Clapton
  • Milton Lage
  • Nathan East
  • Andy Fairweather-Low
  • Steve Ferrone
Release date: 1998-08-24
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.85

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Review Katie Melua / Katie Melua - Concert Under The Sea [2007]
Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 66 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.86

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Review Steve Miller Band / Steve Miller Band-Live from Chicago
Release date: 2008-06-09
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.15

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Models & Brands:
John Mayall And Friends, John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers - Live At Capitol, New Jersey, Jonny Lang - Live At Montreaux 1999, B.B. King - Live [2008], Santana - Sacred Fire - Live In Mexico [1993], Led Zeppelin: DVD (2DVD) [2003], Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Pride And Joy [1990], Roy Buchanan - Live from Austin, Tx [2008], The American Folk Blues Festivals 1963-1966 - The British Tours - Various Artists [2007], Eric Clapton - Live In Hyde Park [1996], The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Monterey [1967], Rory Gallagher - Live At Cork Opera House [1987], The White Stripes: Live Under Blackpool Lights [2004], Cream - Royal Albert Hall - 2,3,5,6 May 2005, David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live from Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import], Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock [1969], Eric Clapton - Crossroads Guitar Festival [2004], Eric Clapton - Unplugged [1992] (NTSC), Katie Melua - Concert Under The Sea [2007], Steve Miller Band-Live from Chicago

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