dvd Archive
29 Sep 2020
DVD Review: Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash
The history of rock music is littered with tragic tales of disaster and death. Chief among those is the 1977 plane crash that killed two members of Lynyrd Skynyrd as […]
29 Aug 2020
DVD Review: Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones
Sometimes I cringe a bit when learning that there’s been made a new film purporting to explore a notorious scandal or controversy of the past. There’s a very high likelihood […]
17 Jun 2020
DVD Review: Krautrock: Romantic Warriors IV Part 1
The term krautrock may just be one of those labels that is meaningful only to those who exist inside a kind of bubble. The person on the street, so to […]
28 Oct 2019
Blu-ray Review: Echo in the Canyon
The creatively fertile and incalculably influential Laurel Canyon scene if the middle 1960s is explored in Echo In the Canyon. It’s not quite a documentary in the sense that it […]
29 Dec 2018
Video Roundup 2018
Covering DVDs and Blu-Rays takes more time than reviewing albums; I have to set up in my living room, with a recliner, a couple of cats and (generally) a good […]
30 Dec 2017
Three New Video Packages Worth Viewing
Let’s wrap up (or almost wrap up) 2017 with a look at three video packages on my desk. Ernie Kovacs — Take a Good Look I remember a time back […]
25 Nov 2016
Hundred-word Reviews for Nov./Dec. 2016, Part 5 of 10
Today I take a look at five DVDs, all of which should be of interest to aficionados of 1960s pop culture, and all available only from The Video Beat. National […]
04 Apr 2016
DVD Review: International Beat Music Vol. 1
It’s long been established that The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had an incalculable influence upon pop culture of the 1960s and beyond. What’s perhaps less well-known – at least […]
17 Mar 2016
DVD Review: Frank Zappa and the Mothers — The Lost Broadcast
For an artist who seemingly documented nearly every moment of his live and studio performance – and, not unlike John Lennon and Yoko Ono, considered the entirety of it as […]
19 Feb 2016
DVD Review: Jaco
I’m not sure that the casual music fan even knows who the hell Jaco Pastorius was. Certainly among musicians, his is a name that’s revered: even if you’re not into […]