Elvis on Tour
A Hard Day's Night
Gimme Shelter
Tommy
Jimi Hendrix (1973 doc)
Elvis on Tour
A Hard Day's Night
Gimme Shelter
Tommy
Jimi Hendrix (1973 doc)
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The Jimi Hendrix film is great. I've had that on VHS for ages, taped it off Cinemax probably 25 years ago. Lots of good interviews in that one. I also like Elvis On Tour a lot too. I think I saw Gimme Shelter, again probably about 25 years ago. The main thing I remember is Paul Kantner mouthing off at the Hell's Angels for beating up Marty Balin.
Yep, it's pretty much still the best doc of him out there, IMO. Hendrix needs an anthology set done, like The Beatles did.Originally Posted by GuitarGeek
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Seen it a couple of times myself. Probably the best documentary that's been made about him.
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The only one I've ever seen is Elvis on Tour, and if you have any interest in Elvis at all, it's excellent.
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No 200 Motels? What!?
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I saw a Hendrix film in a theatre in the early 70s, where he plays that acoustic 12-string. Is this the one being shown on TCM?
...or Let It Be?No 200 Motels? What!?
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I believe that's the one!
Still never seen that!
Well, they sorta have.
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Yes, it is. In fact, that one version of "Hear My Train A-Comin'" is the only footage of its type. The only other acoustic performances I've ever heard are home recordings.
Not really.
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VH1 Classic is also showing the Who at the Isle of Wight in 1970.
'Let It Be'...has that been shown *anywhere* in decades?
The Beatles killed its release. They are, quite frankly, embarrassed by the whole thing. I think George was the one who objected the most. I can see a day where Paul, the sentimentalist, and Ringo would authorize it. I'm not sure how much Olivia might have a say, in the case that George asked her to never let it see the light of day. Even then, I couldn't see that happening. George would like have eventually permitted it.
That being said, I just got a DVD of it made from an original uncropped German 16-mm print. Apparently, even the theatrical releases (not to mention the previous official releases) were cropped. It's still a lot of fun to watch, especially the rooftop. And the audio is fantastic.
I bet someone could make a killer movie from the existing footage. There were, like 96 hours filmed. There are plenty of known gems amongst all those hours.
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Over the past few years I've picked up several films with prog-rock ties. They're mostly awful:
* More by Barbet Schroeder
* La Vallee by Barbet Schroeder
* Wonderwall by Joe Massot
* Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni
ronmac, I felt the 'it's so depressing' hype for 'Let It Be' was way overblown. The Twickenham sessions were pretty grim, everybody knows that, but the only argument in the actual film (the Paul/George one) has been seen endlessly, including within The Beatles' authorised 'Anthology'. The final edit is rather rambling and could certainly be improved upon, however. Sadly I fear the moment has passed- it should have been when '...Naked' was released.
I gather the last time it was shown in the UK on TV was the early 1980s, I guess not long after John Lennon's murder. This, I guess, is where all the bootlegs came from!
I agree.
Ah, but, if Apple were TRUE capitalists (no pun intended), they wouldn't have released them together, anyway. Do it years apart when one doesn't dilute the sales of the other.
I've maintained for years that they should release the Glyn Johns or George Martin original "Get Back" album. It's loooong overdue. I like it more than LiB.
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^The Spector 'Let It Be' is a mish-mash; he includes pre-song chatter yet also piles on string/vocal chorus overdubs on some songs.
Actually talking about re-editing films, I'd like to see 'Elvis On Tour' re-edited. (They actually did do just that with 'That's The Way It Is' but weirdly removed 'I Just Can't Help Believin'.) If anyone watches this tonight, watch for the scene I talked about with this old man- it goes on for a couple of minutes!
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I think they wanted to keep it to just showing good movies.No 200 Motels? What!?
A bigger one for me in the "absent" department would be Space Is The Place. But I imagine no broadcaster in America has the balls to show Sun Ra's classic blaxploitation/sci-fi/concert film.
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I've never seen Let It Be either, apart from one or two clips that MTV used to show on their old Closet Classics show (ie Get Back and Let It Be itself).Still never seen that!
They've been showing a lot of interesting concert things lately. They've been pushing what I assume is the most recent Dream Theater concert video (looks like Portnoy's replacement on drums), and they had the Grateful Dead Movie on the other night. Unfortunately, I couldn't stay up to see how much of the film got cut (last time I saw them show the Grateful Dead Movie, they cut Weirdness/Morning Dew, which was unforgiveable).
And they keep rerunning the last two or three Rush concert videos, including the Time Machine deal. I hear one of my friends is visible in some of the crowd shots (it was filmed here in Cleveland, I would have gone, if i hadn't been stabbed in the back by my former employers).
Then they would have skipped Tommy, too.
Yes really.
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