dvd Archive
22 Nov 2013
DVD Review: Going Underground
Sir Paul McCartney had no role in the making of Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counter Culture. But to the extent he even knows about it, […]
04 Nov 2013
DVD Review: Deep Purple — Perfect Strangers Live
Deep Purple are one of those bands with a tortured history of lineup changes, stylistic detours, and changing fortunes. While their real-life saga doesn’t rival that of the just-this-side-of-fictional Spinal […]
21 Aug 2013
Album Review: Caravan — Recorded Live in Concert at Metropolis Studios, London
Even when I was a kid, I’d read the liner notes of the LPs I’d buy. And I’d look at the printed inner sleeves when they were included. It was […]
19 Jun 2013
Album Review: Various Artists – The Dutch Woodstock (CD+DVD)
I’m a hardcore Pink Floyd fanatic. Yeah, one of those lot who insists that the stuff they did before The Dark Side of the Moon is filled with untold riches. […]
15 May 2013
DVD Review: Last Shop Standing
Here’s a fun little film. While it has no narrator, Last Shop Standing most certainly has a narrative. Stringing together interviews of record shop owners from around the UK, the […]
12 Mar 2013
DVD Review: Paul Williams Still Alive
It would seem that filmmaker Stephen Kessler (Vegas Vacation) and I have a lot in common. We both look back fondly upon a fixture of our childhood years: Paul Williams. […]
26 Feb 2013
DVD Review: Brian Wilson, Songwriter 1969-1982
A few years back, a British based concern called Sexy Intellectual released a 2DVD set, Brian Wilson, Songwriter 1962-1969. This three-hour-plus(!) documentary took an in-depth critical look at the work […]
12 Dec 2012
Album Review: Mitch Ryder – Live at Rockpalast 1979 + 2004
Mitch Ryder is a tricky figure to pin down. Though he enjoyed a brief string of hits in the mid 60s (first with the Detroit Wheels and then as an […]
11 Dec 2012
Album Review: Renaissance – Tour 2011 Live in Concert
“Carpe diem,” quoth the poet Horace. Even in a dead language, wiser words have rarely been written. And while F. Scott Fitzgerald limited his observation to Americans when he claimed […]
03 Dec 2012
DVD Review: Ike & Tina on the Road 1971-72
If I told you there was a new DVD compiled of a bunch of Ike & Tina Turner‘s home movies, you might well shudder. Thanks to Tina’s biopic What’s Love […]