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Full Access [VHS]

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Really a nice dvd -- helps getting to know Hank, Jr. in his home environment. Very entertaining and includes some of his top hits.

A combination of his personal life and music. Mostly personal life. Would have liked it better, if there was more music.

This DVD is decent. I wish there would have been more singing in the DVD. It tells alot about Hanks life that I didn't know and that's cool, but I feel like this is more of a documentary than a music DVD. It does have a few of his hits, but it rarely plays them all the way through. However, if you are a Hank fan, I would say it you should have it for your collection.

The concert portion of this dvd was filmed at the "Omni" in Atlanta, before a packed crowd. The documentary portion was filmed at one of his ranches in Montanna and at his farm in Tenneesee. Hank Jr. and his band perform outstanding before this packed Atlanta crowd. It begins with his band being on stage, then he walks onto the stage and starts performing "My name is Bocephus". He performs some songs with his band and some without his band. His band is very impressive, you get "Animal" playing a big red double necked guitar,
saxaphone players, Steel guitar, drums, and bass guitar. His classic hits are performed. Some highlights include "Young Country"- "ole Hank would be proud and Elvis would too". Others include "Born to Boogie", "Family Tradition", and a "Country Boy can Survive". Also, he performs a "fun song" near the beginning portion of his concert which is "Buck Naked". I didn't realize he could be so humorus.It's really funny. He's a great entertainer.The concert ends with the performance of "If the South Would Have Won, We'd had it Made". This is very upbeat. The entire band is at their best! He sings the song to "Ronnie Van Zant" - "Ronnie, we'd had it made in the Shade". "Made in the Shade" was a Ronnie Van Zant song. In the song he declares that everyday would be "Fat Tuesday", and the band switches to a mardi gras beat, as Hank holds an Umbrella and does the New Orleans Mardi Gras Strut. He would put Hank Williams picture on $100 bills, and the day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday, and the day young Skynyrd died, you don't know how much we cried. The performance is outstanding. During the song, he mentions something good about every southern state. Outstanding!!!! The documentary portion shows a very mature, very sober, and very responsible businessman - Hank Jr. You get to see him on one of his ranches in Motanna, taking care of chores, and then at a BBQ at his farm in Tenneesee. Merle Kilgore from the old "Louisian Hayride" is in the documentaty. The documentary is not separate from the concert. The documentary and concert are mingled together. Sometimes it seems the documentary portion drags on too long, especially after the performance of an excellent song. I wish the two portions were more separated. Overall, it is an excellent Dvd, well worth the inconvience of the mixed portions.

It's pure Hank, hamming it up on stage like he does in all his concerts. Ad libbing, playing several instruments and singing great songs. It's one big party when you go to his concerts. I'm pretty sure he doesn't forget the words to songs he wrote - as stated in one of the other reviews. He's just having fun and so is everyone else. It's nice to see him at the ranch, good to see he knows how to ride and do several ranching chores.

I call this "Almost full access" because they could have the whole concert on this dvd.
The rest on this dvd could have been included as a bonus.
Good music snd interesting filming of Bosephus in the Montana outdoors.Well spent money,good beer music.

This DVD gives you the best ever look into the life of Hank, on and off stage. There is a great concert look, as well as how he loves to spend time in Montana, to enjoy his time away from music,to go hunting, and be at his home in Cutbank, Montana.
ALL Hank fans should have this DVD in their collection. Don't miss this one, you may not get the chance again! The insight from the late Merle Kilgore is priceless. Enjoy it, I know I do!

essential viewing for any hank jr or country music fan plenty of good ole music and some quite revealing fact's aboua't hank jr. well worth it's purchase

Hank Williams Jr. records great music. His studio recordings are fantastic. However, as this film makes clear, he is not much of a performer. It seems that he is too disoriented on stage to actually sing the songs the way they are meant to be sang. He is usually singing out of key, rambling the songs, rather than singing them. That makes it impossible to follow along with him, making even his all-time greats unbearable to listen to live.

When I saw the title, "Full Access," I thought this would be more of a documentary with some reflections on his life. Hank doesn't mention anything of his earlier years, other than he mentions, in passing, about his accident on Ajax Mountain. Merle Kilgore gives more of an account of Hank's early career, but even that is not much.

This is clearly not worth the money. It is basically a Hank in concert video with a few scenes of what he does in his personal time, which of course, are very shallow and do not really give anyone who knows who Hank is much in the way of new information.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Hank or Hank Jr. is in this DVD. Good Buy!