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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Could've Been So Much More!!--But Kinda Dropped The Ball!,
By HE WHO FUNKS BEHIND THE ROWS!! (Seattle & San Diego) - See all my reviews
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Now, being an almost life-long fan of the revolutionary,
innovative and now iconic Parliament / Funkadelic, being first turned on to them at a very early age in the early 70's by my mother and older cousins and buying the records and attending the "P-Funk Earth Tour" as a teenager during the height of their success in the mid to late 70's, I dived at the chance to buy this DVD documentary about one of the baddest and most crucial musical alchemists of the last 50 years!!---Bernie "Insurance Man" Worrell!! Other than Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, YES, ELO, and maybe a small handful of less important artists, nobody has done more for electronic instrumentation or the keyboard in general than Mr. Worrell! He almost single-handedly created the language of how synthesizers are used in pop music today!--Funk, Rock, Pop, Alternative, HIP-HOP...whatever!! In fact P-Funk was alternative long before the phrase was even coined!--(Can Y'all Get 2 That??) I just feel like this was a great opportunity that was half-azz wasted because very little was really said about the man's upbringing (no young photos, surviving family members, etc.) were mined to shed light on where this prodigious talent was nurtured! It was like...yeah, he had a mother, and she kept him sheltered from ghetto life, and he could play Mozart and Bach, etc. at age 5 and composed his own concerto at age 8, but it didn't go too much more in depth with it. I like alot of the interviews with admiring musicians from rock to funk to hip-hop who give it up to Bernie's genius, but you would've thought that George Clinton and Bootsy Collins' interviews would have been given carte blanche and gone unedited along with a few more of the great surviving P-Funk musicians like Gary Shider, Cordell "Boogie" Mosson, etc. (who weren't even interviewed!) thrown in to boot! This was his most prolific and groundbreaking period after all!! And what about the scarce use of P-Funk video footage and musical material that would've given people who've never heard of Bernie a chance to hear his work and go out and buy it!---Duh!! Even his work with The Talking Heads in the 80's could have been better handled and interviewed. "Burnin' Down The House" was my jam back in '82/'83!! I agree with another reviewer who said that the documentary's director/producer assumes that everybody already knows who Bernie Worrell is, instead of doing this in true documentary and revelatory form as one would do on say, the bio channel or "Behind The Music"... I was also distressed that Bernie is living a near transient existence now--still going from gig to gig and hotel to hotel at his age (63 or 64) because like so many of the great black artists of the past, he lacked the business saavy of today's less talented but more business-minded artists and was grossly and shamefully bamboozled out of any monetary rights to his legacy! That is an outrage and a crime!! He should be living like a king on his writer /publishing royalties and treated like the innovative genius that he is! Life is so unfair! Mos Def, Prince Paul and one other musicians said that Bernie should be getting checks from Moog, Korg, Yamaha, etc. for all the business he brought to their industry! I agree!! I just felt that this documentary could've been so much more!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
could be better,but it's bernie so dig it!,
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pretty awesome for what it is!it would've been cool to have a pro dissect bernie's style,phrasing,etc,but what you get with this cd is still cool.the part where bernie gets the guy in the club for free as his guest was cool,and shows how much of a freindly guy he is.the dvd is more about bernie as a person than explaining his music intricately.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing,
By daddyrob999 "999" (outside chicago, Il) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth (DVD)
I wish they would have let him speak a bit more and edit the live performance more reasonably. The film is too "artsy." I just want the facts and some music, but that is not what is here. A shame.
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