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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Eagle Rock Ent
Salesrank: 46083
Released: August 10, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.24 |
| Used Price: $5.25 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Color Dolby DTS Surround Sound DVD Full Screen Live Original recording remastered NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
In 1970, 600,000 people came to the Isle of Wight to attend a music festival. At 2 A.M., August 30th, The Who appeared and gave one of the most memorable performances of their career.
LISTENING TO YOU: THE WHO AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT captures the only complete live performance of The Who's legendary rock opera "Tommy" ever recorded. It is also one of the last times the band played this classic album in its entirety on stage.
Track Listing:
1. Heaven And Hell
2. I Can't Explain
3. Young Man Blues
4. I Don't Even Know Myself
5. Water
6. Shakin' All Over
7. Spoonful/Twist And Shout
8. Summertime Blues
9. My Generation
10. Magic Bus
11. Overture
12. It's A Boy
13. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
14. Christmas
15. The Acid Queen
16. Pinball Wizard
17. Do You Think It's Alright
18. Fiddle About
19. Go To The Mirror
20. Miracle Cure
21. I'm Free
22. Tommy's Holiday Camp
23. We're Not Gonna Take It
BONUS FEATURE: An exclusive 30 minute interview with Pete Townshend!
RESTORED! REMIXED!! REMASTERED!!!
Under the expert supervision of Who guitarist Pete Townshend and director Murray Lerner, this historic film has been completely restored, remixed, and remastered to an astonishing level that needs to be seen and heard to be believed!
Description of The Who - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970:
Culled from a historic three-hour performance at the Isle of Wight Festival, the English response to Woodstock, this 85-minute Who performance captures the quartet's vivid, dramatic stage presence while gamely wrestling with technical problems and musical lapses dictated by the relatively combat conditions of the show. The 1970 show reflects a band in transition, starting with a raw and lively set of early Pete Townshend classics ("I Can't Explain," "My Generation," "Magic Bus"), familiar concert covers ("Summertime Blues," "Young Man Blues," and "Shakin' All Over/Spoonful"), and a then new, post-Tommy original, "Water," that surprisingly evokes Neil Young's contemporaneous midtempo epics with Crazy Horse.
The bulk of the set is inevitably devoted to a 13-song suite that captures the high points of Tommy itself. For the band's fans and students of live rock, the emerging portrait is engaging, capturing the dynamism of the core instrumental trio: boiler-suited Townshend paces the stage, jumps midchord, and teases the crowd with his signature "windmill" strumming (yawning playfully, in fact, during "My Generation"); the late Keith Moon whirls across the top of his drum kit, crouches tensely as he reins in his formidable power for quiet accents, and mugs shamelessly, perpetually moving; and John Entwistle is the apotheosis of the inward bassist, standing otherwise motionless as he studiously plucks intricate, melodic lines that anchor the melee. Stage center, of course, is Roger Daltrey, whose matador poses, lassoed microphone flourishes, and tossing curls have since become the lingua franca of two succeeding generations of arena rockers.
The camera work hews tightly to the band, succumbing to the fast zooms and sudden cuts of its day and capturing a few telling moments of irritation or fatigue among the members, but there are few establishing shots that take in the full scale of the performing site. Limited stage lighting often bleaches the color from performers and crowd alike, while the audio recording, coupled with doubtless limitations to the sound system, exacerbates ragged vocal pitches. In a post-MTV era when even concert footage is usually subjected to sonic surgery, extra takes and insertions, Live at the Isle of Wight may look and sound crude, but as a document of one of rock's most powerful, passionate bands, it's definitely worth a look, as well as comparative viewing with both Woodstock and Monterey Pop. --Sam Sutherland
The Who - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 Reviews:
Man, I feel sorry for those poor drums. 
2009-12-06 - So I finally got to see the greatest rock drummer of them all. Even better visually than he is/was recorded. So animated, so fast, so precise. Pretty funny back and forth with Pete too. Yes, this is the first time I've seen The Who, my all time fave band. Reviews here are interesting. Those who have seen them before think it's the greatest dvd due to the energy of the band, and not withstanding the shakey filming and so-so audio. I must say, it's absolutely incredible. The small stage has them all close together, which is cool. They really interact well. Seeing Keith and Pete do their things up close is something I've waited a long time for. Pete's incomparable fingerwork, Keith's legendary mastery of the skins. This is an amazing performance and I'm so glad I bought it. You will be too.
No need to buy the Blu-ray version
2009-09-15 - Was so excited to hear this was coming out on Blu-ray, as it might be the best one-band rock concert I've ever seen recorded for posterity on video.
But if you already own the DVD version of this, there's no real reason to spend the extra money on the Blu-ray version. There's no extra footage nor bonus features on it compared to the DVD, and no real distinctive sound improvement from the DVD 5.1 remaster on the special edition. Even the cover is 99% identical to the DVD version. The video quality is virtually identical as well.
Bottom-line- if you haven't bought either yet, I can't recommend this concert enough. But if you already own the DVD version Special Edition, don't waste your money on the Blu-ray as well. I guess there's only so much you can do with video and audio recorded in 1970.
Who stunning on Blu Ray
2009-07-17 - For anybody considering weather to ditch your standard DVd release in favor of the Blu-Ray, do it now is my advice. The picture is so much better in terms of clarity and brightness, the colors are much more vivid, and it's all together less dark picture it makes this an essential purchase. Another very big bonus is the fact the Blu-Ray is in 16.9 Aspect whereas the regular DVD is 4.3. As for as Audio goes certainly a notch better there as well, I am not able to hook up the full Surround to give it a thorough listening in that mode, but as far as PCM Stereo goes it is still amongst the best sounding vintage live DVD I have heard
the who at their zenith 
2009-06-20 - DVD is just stellar for music titles, thanks to the ability to jump to individual songs (not to mention the far superior sound quality). Three new top-notch releases demonstrate that with ease. The Who Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 ($24.98; Eagle Rock) is a thunderous pleasure. I can't speak to whether it might have been remastered even better (the filming of the concert seemed fairly haphazard) but when the band took the stage at 2 am they were in full rock star mode, each one wearing an outfit more ludicrous than the last and the band as tight as ever. It's not flashy but the immediacy is palpable and Keith Moon looks positively possessed as he flails away gleefully on the drums. Great fun and only $4 more than regular DVD on sale at Amazon. I don't have that edition to compare it to, but if you want it and haven't bought it yet, the BluRay is worth the extra few dollars. Visit me at michaelgiltz dot com.
Possibly The Best Who Footage In Existence
2009-02-19 - This is it ... the master film of The Who in their prime. Some may disagree with me here, but I think this is a better performance than "Live At Leeds." To me, Leeds was lacking the raw energy that was picked up at this performance. I personally don't care how bad the picture or sound is. It is still The Who and it is still very exciting.
I have heard several of the CDs and DVDs from The Who's 2006/07 Encore Series. In fact, I've only ever seen The Who twice in my life -- and neither time featured Entwistle or Moon. Taking this in to consideration, I view this DVD as a chance to fully experience The Who as they were meant to sound.
The Who, on this DVD, are looking young and fit as they explode through a bunch of their early hits, including "I Can't Explain," "Young Man Blues," "My Generation" and an almost complete run through of "Tommy." Probably my favorite part of the video is Pete during "My Generation." He looks like a machine doing endless windmills and cool guitar licks.
Some Who completists will be upset to learn that a couple tracks from the concert were ommitted from this DVD release. "Naked Eye" and "Substitute" were played at the concert, and are on the 2-CD release of this performance, but are not on the DVD. This matters little to me, because what is here is electrifying and energetic enough for me to easily give this five stars.
Long Live Rock!
