Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300269781 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6300269787 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: July 01, 1991 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1991 Sales Rank: 21884
Amazon.com: If 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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Trash.......I or You could make a better Jimi movie
This is my 2nd review...Amazon deleted my fist one for foul language.
I bought this movie way back in 1987 when it was on VHS, it was horrible then and still is today.
The video clips are really ... Read More
Rating: - AS PROMISED AND I LOVE IT ! WOULD RECOMEND IT TO ANY HENDRIX FAN. UNBLEIVEABLY GOOD
ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT! WOULD HIGHLY RECOMEND TO ANY HENDRIX FAN, OR ANYONE WHO LOVES A GREAT PERFORMANCE.
Rating: - jimi hendrix moviee
I love this movie and loved it years ago when I saw it in a movie theater. A real collector's treasure for all of you fans out there of the great Jimi Hendrix.
Rating: - LET TH GOOD TIMES ROLLTHIS REALLY TOOK
THIS TOOK ME BACK TO SOME REALLY GOOD OLD SCHOOL MUSIC THAT I COULD ENJOY.
Rating: - The single best biovideo about Jimi Hendrix
All things considered, I'd say this is the best comprehensive video of Jimi's early years as a backup guitarist and his titanic rise to the top in the rock world of the mid 60's. The amazing talent of his songwriting ... Read More
- Trash.......I or You could make a better Jimi movie
- AS PROMISED AND I LOVE IT ! WOULD RECOMEND IT TO ANY HENDRIX FAN. UNBLEIVEABLY GOOD