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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Rhino / Wea
Salesrank: 126624
Released: September 11, 2001 |
| Our Price: $8.50 |
| Used Price: $6.85 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Color Compilation DVD NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
A collection of early performances of many of rock's greatest legends. Songs: Let's Work Together (Canned Heat), So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star (The Byrds), Eight Miles High (The Byrds), Something in the Air (Thunderclap Newman), Fire (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown), Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues), Summertime Blues (Blue Cheer), Itchykoo Park (The Small Faces), Happy Jack (The Who), Hold Onto a Dream (The Nice), The Mighty Quinn (Manfred Mann), Atlantis (Donovan), Are You Ready? (Pacific Gas & Electric). 60 minutes.
Rock Icons - Psychedelic High Reviews:
Read my lip synch--Skip This 
2007-12-15 - I'm so tired of lip synched material. Especially when a few great live performances are thrown in--The Byrds and The Nice. I'd rather be Youtubing than watch boring dvd's like this.
'Rock Icons - Psychedelic High' (Rhino/WEA) 
2006-12-28 - Best thing this so-so compilation DVD has going for it is it's price. A solid forty-five minutes worth of vintage TV clips of the like of Canned Heat, The Byrds, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (FIRE!), Small Faces, Keith Emerson's pre ELP band The Nice among others. Quality is about as good as can be expected. Okay, but certainly nothing to write home about.
Cool dvd 
2002-09-30 - A good look at what vidio was like back before we had MTV to mess it all up rock on !
A reasonable collection of vintage performances
2002-04-07 - Okay, let's get something straight ... this is a budget DVD put out by Rhino that collects some classic late 60's and early 70's performances from the Beat Club TV program (Germany). About half of these are actual live performances and the other half are the standard lip-synched performances -- basically early music videos. Why everyone is getting bent out of shape over this DVD is beyond me. There's no mention of Mountain or Black Sabbath on this disc, so enough of this "not as advertised" nonsense.
Sure, some of the performances are a bit silly and somewhat poorly lip-synched at times, but guess what(?) ... they're old performances. What do you expect? Modern music videos contain plenty of lip-synching, so what's the big deal? Early 80's music videos look pretty silly by today's standards too.
Anyway, this disc is reasonably priced for seeing some intriguing performances by The Who, The Moody Blues, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Nice, Manfred Mann, etc. Yes, The Byrds performances are circa 1971, but that's when they performed on the show. This disc is not an attempt to cross-license multiple performances from multiple shows and collect them all. The back of the DVD clearly states that the performances come from Beat Club.
Give this budget DVD a break!
Two reasons to buy this DVD - Keith & Keith.
2002-02-16 - First let me say that I agree with the other reviews. Most tracks are lip synced, etc. However, it does offer a rare glimps of a young Keith Moon attacking the drums and a rare glipms of a young Keith Emerson (in The Nice) attacking the piano. The Keiths are great, the rest is throw away. I'm giving one star per Keith....
