Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock

Starring:Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox, Mitch Mitchell (II), Larry Lee (VI), Juma Sultan, Jerry Velez
Director: Chris Hegedus, Erez Laufer
Studio: Mca
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Jimi Hendrix's appearance at Woodstock may have been one of his most celebrated performances, as the producers of this DVD put it. But it would be a stretch to call it one of his greatest. By the time the guitarist finally took the stage, weather and endless logistical delays had pushed the show to Monday morning, a day after the festival was supposed to have ended. By then, the audience was too tired, hungry, wet, and stoned for Hendrix's set to be the expected apocalyptic finale. Hendrix himself was reportedly so wasted that he collapsed from exhaustion as soon as he left the stage.

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DVD ONE: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock
1. Message To Love
2. Spanish Castle Magic
3. Red House
4. Lover Man
5. Foxey Lady
6. Jam Back At The House
7. Izabella
8. Fire
9. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
10. Star Spangled Banner
11. Purple Haze
12. Woodstock Improvisation
13. Villanova Junction
14. Hey Joe
15. The Road To Woodstock: New documentary directed by Bob Smeaton featuring new interviews with Hendrix band members Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Juma Sultan, and Larry Lee, engineer Eddie Kramer, and Woodstock promoter Michael Lang among others.

DISC TWO: Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock: A Second Look
1. Message To Love
2. Hear My Train A Comin'
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Red House
5. Lover Man
6. Foxey Lady
7. Jam Back At The House
8. Izabella
9. Fire
10. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
11. Star Spangled Banner
12. Purple Haze
13. Woodstock Improvisation
14. Villanova Junction
15. Hey Joe
16. Jimi Hendrix Press Conference: Color film footage of never before seen Jimi Hendrix press conference held September 3, 1969 at Frank's Restaurant in Harlem. Hendrix answers questions about his Woodstock festival performance, his rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner" and the festival's cultural impact.

Customer Reviews:

Worth every penny, and then some.......2007-07-06

This is most of Hendrix full set at Woodstock, and if you own the
Woodstock DVD, there is missing footage of the Hendrix set.

Well these guys dug through garbage cans, and home video to get every
scrap of video available. The story is told in the include booklet.
These guys dug through trash cans to get every piece of 16mm film, some
B&W, and private footage, that is the only footage that exists when the
film crew ran out of film simultaneously, and a student videographer was
still rolling is priceless. TO find footage to complete the Star Spangled
Banner only now, and enhance it, enhance the audio, remix it to 5.1, and
come out with a DVD that is worth every penny is so excellent! I can not
thank them enough for their hard work in producing this DVD.

If you own the Woodstock DVD set, buy this, you will not be sorry. If you
are a Hendrix fan, this is a simple must have. If you are a Woodstock
fan, this is a must have. Actually, if you are a Baby Boomer... There is
footage on this DVD that has never been published before... And only $10.

Jimi Hendrix...Woodstock....this a classic...........2007-06-08

This is probably the best DVD you can own if you want to capture the magic of Jimi Hendrix.

The Best Hendrix DVD.......2007-05-30

The production is not too bad, especially for a live concert. The footage of Hendrix does not have any added material mixed into it (a few shots of the crowd). I really liked the second guitarist in the band. It would have been nice to have had more of that sort of thing in Hendrix performances. The other Hendrix DVDs are of what look to be great performances, but the production quality is poor, or the event itself had problems or you have people imposing their impressions of the event onto the performance. With this one, you can sit back, watch Hendrix perform, its reasonably well produced and a good sampling of Hendrix works.

Star Spangled Hendrix dvd.......2007-04-18

This dvd is essential viewing for all of my guitar students. The maestro's set was performed in daylight and there is a lot of focus on his hands. The two percussionists are low in the audio mix, but . . . who cares?!?! You know who the REAL star is! Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell accompany the maestro Hendrix marvelously. The interviews are quite fun, and the extras make this product worth the price . . . but the real meat is in the music . . . and it's MEATY (slow start, . . . but not FOR LONG).

Jimi Hendrix at his best.......2007-03-11

I believe Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock to be his best live performance from the other performances that are now available on DVD. Jimi had shelved the "Experience" (Noel Redding to be specific) and had put together a group of good friends and old Army buddies. The people in his life who knew him as Jimmy the person ,not as Jimi the guitar God. Though I am certain that they were in awe of his talent,who wouldn't be? He had a new direction he wanted to go and this band was the realization of that dream for him. In my humble opinion, I feel it worked very well. My only regret is that he wasn't able to see this formula to it's fullest potential. He gave the Woodstock audience a sampling of all of his different styles of playing. And with Larry Lee playing second lead/rhythm guitar ,Jimi was able to switch to the role of a backing /support guitarist, something not seen often.Though I wish Larry Lee had opted not to wear the scarf with the fringe hanging over his eyes! This performance was very fresh and ran very smoothly. It was obvious he was having a good time. And just when everybody thought he had reached the highlight of his performance ,he pulls out the Star Spangled Banner. People who don't admire Jimi Hendrix hear the Woodstock version of the Star Spangled Banner as a great disservice to the sanctity of our national anthem. Those of us of admire Jimi for what he is -a genius, hear Hendrix transform his Stratocaster to mimic the sounds of war complete with land mines, missles,crys,confusion,mingled with Taps. Jimi performed the Star Spangled Banner in a way that only he could, like all of his music. I watch my DVD's of his performances, and being a guitarist myself, I have an idea of what he did ,but I don't think anyone will ever figure out how he did it.

Average customer rating:

This has better Audio than the 2005 version.
Abbreviated Concert Experience
A Defining Moment
Not Hendrix's Fault
Great concert! Questionable packaging.

Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock
Starring: Jimi Hendrix , Billy Cox , Mitch Mitchell (II) , Larry Lee (VI) , and Juma Sultan
Director: Chris Hegedus , and Erez Laufer
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: DVD
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Release Date: 1999-07-06

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Jimi Hendrix's appearance at Woodstock may have been one of his most celebrated performances, as the producers of this DVD put it. But it would be a stretch to call it one of his greatest. By the time the guitarist finally took the stage, weather and endless logistical delays had pushed the show to Monday morning, a day after the festival was supposed to have ended. By then, the audience was too tired, hungry, wet, and stoned for Hendrix's set to be the expected apocalyptic finale. Hendrix himself was reportedly so wasted that he collapsed from exhaustion as soon as he left the stage.

Customer Reviews:

This has better Audio than the 2005 version........2005-10-28

While the 2005 version has the complete concert, this 1999 version has its stereo soundtrack mastered at 448 kbps, while the 2005 stereo soundtrack is at 198 kbps. This results in that the 1999 one has more headroom and dynamic range and less compression then the 2005 version.

Abbreviated Concert Experience.......2005-08-04

From what I've read on the Experience Hendrix website, a new Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock DVD will soon be released (Sept 13th, 2005) which features more tracks, bonus material, and even a 2nd DVD containing black-and-white footage of the show filmed by a guy who was on the front row. My advice is: WAIT. Don't buy this version. Buy the Deluxe Edition that comes out in a month.

A Defining Moment.......2005-02-12

I'm giving this 5 starts because its Hendrix.

I agree that the editing could be better. And it seemed like the first part of the concert Hendrix was struggling to get things going. But once he did, that was all she wrote!

I can't listen to his Star Spangled Banner without getting chills. In that moment, in that short piece of unexpected unrehersed music, Hendrix grabbed the whole of the USA by the neck, looked it in the eye and said "You broke your covenent with God, and your promise to your people!" Who else could have bore the weight of such a musical statement?

We should be grateful that a Hendrix once walked the earth. With all due respect to Beck, Reid, Vai, and others; when we speak of the realm of heavily amplified electric guitar, in the end, there is only Hendrix.
There will never be another like him.

Not Hendrix's Fault.......2004-10-26

Hendrix really shows what a modest musical genious he was in this performance. You also see his perfectionist personality through his facial expressions of dissapointment, even after an amazing performance. I completely agree with the previous reviewers- where are the other several songs that he played??? And why the heck would they rearrange them???? I was really irked to find out that so many songs were left out. Another thing i do not like is the way they filmed only his face during a solo or major finger action. I would rather have seen his whole body, or at least his fingers. Anyways, all the songs are on an average Hendrix-scale great. The Star Spangled Banner, Purple Haze, and Woodstock Improvistion, which continues as a whole for nearly 20 minutes, is incredible, and as enjoyable to listen to as it is to see. This is definitely a dvd on my top Hendrix live performance list, i just do not like the format or the incompletion they used.

Great concert! Questionable packaging. .......2004-10-17

The concert is legendary, but the DVD package fall short of definitive.

Here is what you get:
This DVD contains 10 full length songs from Hendrix's Woodstock concert, namely: "Fire", "Izabella", "Red House", "Jam Back at the House", "Voodoo Child", "Star Spangled Banner", "Purple Haze", "Woodstock Improvisation", and "Villanova Junction." A small segment of, "Message to Love" and, "Hear My Train a Comin'" is played over the opening and closing credits respectfully.

Here is what you don't get:
1. There is no fotage of Hendrix playing six songs from the concert, namely: "Message to Love", "Spanish Castle Magic", "Lover Man", "Hear My Train a Comin'", "Foxey Lady", and "Hey Joe."
2. The set list song order has been rearranged. This is unfortunate because there was a natural flow of momentum with the original song order. The concert started off loose and Jamming, then it tightened and rocked in the middle of the set, the climax being, "Star Spangled Banner." At the end of the original set list Jimi calms the mood down with, "Villanova Junction." For some odd reason Alan Douglas enjoys reconfiguring Jimi's set lists, his trademark is to start all concerts with, "Fire", Jimi NEVER opened with this song.
3. The picture has not been cleaned up. Although the image quality is very good it would be nice to see a widescreen version of this concert. The Woodstock movie is now available on DVD widescreen so why not this concert?
4. The original audio mix was used on this DVD. The two percussionists are inaudible and Jimi is mixed right up front.
5. There are no DVD extras, no interviews, no 5.1 mix, nothing.
6. There is NO BOOKLET contained in the DVD package. A booklet might answer some questions about the missing songs and the audio mix. Maybe the percussionists were not recorded to audio tape? Maybe some of the songs were not filmed? Maybe the original negative has been damaged or lost? Maybe the original muli-track audio tape has been lost? A small booklet with the history of this concert and DVD release could answer these questions.

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