dvd Archive
02 Nov 2012
DVD Review: David Bowie – The Calm Before The Storm: Under Review 1969-1971
It’s a shopworn cliché to claim that David Bowie is and has always been a chameleon. Yes, his music and onstage/public person have gone through a series of calculated ch-ch-changes […]
01 Nov 2012
DVD Review: John Lee Hooker – Cook With the Hook: Live in 1974
“Do you wanna boogie? Do you wanna cook with the Hook?” So implores John Lee Hooker on the audio track of the DVD menu on Cook With the Hook: Live […]
30 Oct 2012
DVD Review: Johnny Winter – Live From Japan
There’s no point in tip-toeing around it: blues guitarist Johnny Winter is old and frail. The cumulative effects of decades of drug and alcohol abuse/addiction (happily, he’s clean now) coupled […]
29 Oct 2012
DVD Review: The Move – The Lost Broadcasts
The Move are one of those sixties groups that got lost in the transatlantic shuffle. They arguably had it all: great songwriting, strong vocalists, an a ready-made visual image. A […]
14 Sep 2012
DVD Review: The Beatles – Their Golden Age
The story of The Beatles has been told countless times. So the first question that comes to mind – even before popping the new DVD The Beatles: Their Golden Age […]
14 Aug 2012
DVD Review: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – The Lost Broadcasts
My music-loving friends (a redundant phrase, that) and I occasionally indulge in an old joke: whenever the subject of certain musical acts come up, one of us will mention how […]
12 Jul 2012
DVD Review: Little Richard – Live at the Toronto Peace Festival 1969
In retrospect, one shouldn’t have any right to expect a show-stopping performance from Little Richard in 1969. He was more than a decade past the apex of his career and […]
07 Jun 2012
DVD Review: The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show – The Complete Series
As the Hudson Brothers like to remind us, John Lennon told them he considered them the “kings of Saturday morning.” But they were more than that. Sort of an Osmonds-meets-Badfinger, […]
04 Apr 2012
DVD Review: Public Image Ltd. – Live at Rockpalast 1983
Time really does change things. It was Halloween night 1983 when Public Image Ltd. took the stage at WDR’s television studios for a concert. But now, shy of three decades […]
28 Mar 2012
DVD Review: Todd Rundgren – Todd Live
Todd Rundgren is a visionary artist. And like all true visionaries – those who follow their muse where it leads them – his output has been, in the minds of […]