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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Experience Hendrix
Salesrank: 15504
Released: July 6, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: HENDRIX,JIMI
Title: LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST
Street Release Date: 07/06/1999
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Description of Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (Live at the Fillmore East):
Made less than a year before his death in September 1970, Band of Gypsys was an album recorded live to fulfill a contractual obligation for a long-forgotten deal Jimi Hendrix signed when he still spelled his name "Jimmy." Hendrix had just disbanded the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and in order to dispense with the album as quickly as possible, he put together a new trio featuring Billy Cox (an old Army buddy) and drummer Buddy Miles, whose bombastic singing and thudding drum style would soon pollute FM airwaves across the nation. (Former Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell refers to him here as "William the Concreter," for his cement-mixer sense of rhythm.) They booked the Fillmore East with the idea of recording the shows for a live album, and this DVD features recently unearthed film footage of that historic performance, with Hendrix at the top of his powers (despite Miles's excesses). It also offers several other rare live performances from British clubs in the mid-1960s. The musical moments are mixed with new interview footage, including conversations with the self-effacing Cox and the self-aggrandizing Miles. If you've only heard the CDs (Band of Gypsys and Jimi Hendrix: Live at the Fillmore East), you've only gotten half of this particular Jimi Hendrix experience. --Marshall Fine
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (Live at the Fillmore East) Reviews:
Skip The Interviews...Just Watch The Concert 
2009-05-27 - Having read most of the reviews posted here, I really wasn't expecting this DVD to offer anything remotely resembling state-of-the-art video. I knew that the footage was black & white and I knew that the camera work was at best amateurish. With that said, I was still largely disappointed with this DVD release. Why in the world, other then to expand this to sixty plus minutes, do we have to listen to the ramblings of characters who clearly provide little or no insight into Jimi's music. The bulk of these interviews speak repeatedly about Jimi's viewpoint concerning race. Over and over we're told that Jimi was looking to branch out and reach a contemporary black audience.....Nonsense, I say! In all the interviews and writings I've heard and read over the years, I never once remember him referring to race. If anything Jimi was color blind to race and had no prejudicies or biasis. Jimi cared passionately about music. If he thought he could advance his art he would have played with a group of purple musicians. The color of an individuals skin had absolutely no significance in his world.
Other than the interviews with Buddy Miles, Billy Cox and long time producer and Alan Douglas, the other people who claim to have known Jimi intimately provide the listener with nothing more than thoughtless jiberish. I find it not only insignificant, but down right offensive. I sincerely feel that their words serve to distort Jimi's viewpoint on race, politics and almost everything else they claim he believed. I think Jimi Hendrix was not only a inspirational artist and innovator, he was also a beautiful, thoughtful and highly inteligent human being. Unfortunately this DVD offers little evidence of Jimi's true character.
Buyer beware, it's not the video quality that may leave you feeling cheated. Instead it's the incoherent, senseless and inane patter of the morons whose opinions do no justice to this brilliant artist and extraordinary performer. What a pity!!!! The one true saving grace of this package is that you can view the concert without all these inane and pointless interviews.
C grade at best 
2009-04-11 - Don't get me wrong now, I think Band of Gypsies is some Hendrix's best work. And thats what I thought I was going to get when I randomly purchased this DVD at Best Buy.
However I was wrong, though they do have some great concert footage it is often interrupted by lame-o's like Lenny Kravitz and Slash,(usually at the best parts of the song too) talking about what the music means. LAME!!!!
The DVD would have been much better if it was like the Woodstock DVD, where they played a brief Bio in the beginning and then the whole show.
Furthermore, the DVD isn't all bad, it does have some rare footage, photos from the night of the shows, and detailed interviews with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox, on how the music came into fruition.
So in conclusion, though the DVD does have somethings worth watching, I'm not sure its worth paying full price for (epically since all the best clips are on youtube anyway) so rent, borrow, pirate, or listen to the CD, just don't pay full price for this DVD.
one of Jimi's best show.......must have 
2008-12-20 - These clowns who give this DVD 1 star dont know a dsamn thing about Jimi but just want to see him burn his guitar.
The 60 min black and white footage is all there is of the show on video (with few exceptions) sure its not theater quality, but it shows an amazing concert and using just the 2 cameras they had, they did a great job filming.
The documentry produced by Experience Hendrix was great as well, good to see Buddy Miles and Billy Cox today talking about the show and the setting behind it all.
Jimi truly PLAYS here.
Maybe one day with computers and all, they can go and colorize the show and clean it up, but for now, its all there is and it still rocks!
enjoy
i haven't seen it , but its still worth 5 stars
2008-04-25 - First of all ,if there is any footage of one of the greatest moments in rock history than I think its worth 5 stars. I would pay to see any snippet of this show.(and will)..but mostly i am really annoyed by those taking swipes at Buddy Miles.. first of all Buddy is one of the greatest Soul/Rock singers of all time.. His Buddy Miles Express records were great, Go and listen to the excitment generated on "Train" and "Wrap it Up" from Expressway to your Skull or "Miss Lady" from Electric Church. Not to mention "Them Changes " from the album Them Changes.
Now to say that Buddy was anything less than brilliant on that night at the Fillmore is just nonsense . His hard hitting solid rock drumming was perfect for the Band of Gypsy's. Both Billy Cox and Buddy laid down grooves that allowed Hendrix to really take off and play some of his finest guiar work. And that's saying something given Jimmy's unmatched superiority as a guitarist. Mitch was of course excellent at what he did with Jimmy, but why do we need to compare two completely different styles.. One might argue he overplayed with his jazz sensibilty , undercutting Hendrix... I wouldn't but the point is your talking apples and oranges.. Buddy added something to that night, that no one else could have done...i certainly cant imagine Mitch singing any of those songs that Buddy sang and the interplay between Jimmy and Buddy was something we never heard before .... Message to Love is arguably the greatest 5 minutes of rock and roll ever played....and Buddy is laying it down and complimenting Jimmy's great voice the whole way....God rest his SOUL....
FreeBabyOutThere
2008-04-11 - I don't care who says what. All you have to do is listen to his Ultimate MasterPiece "CRY OF LOVE", a perfect record, and either you know, or you don't. Listen to it. It's good for your mind and soul.
Purpose
