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Isle of Wight [VHS]

Jimi Hendrix (Actor), Billy Cox (Actor), Murray Lerner (Director, Producer) Rated:
NR
Format: VHS Tape
3.8 out of 5 stars 26 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Actors: Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox, John Mitchell
  • Directors: Murray Lerner
  • Producers: Murray Lerner, Alan Douglas
  • Format: Color, NTSC
  • Rated:
    NR
    Not Rated
  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Rhino
  • VHS Release Date: October 22, 1996
  • Run Time: 56 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6304204019
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #400,136 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 starsFor hard core Jimi fans only
By DC from TX on March 18, 1999
Format: VHS Tape
This is a must have for all hardcore Jimi fans like myself. However, this is not really one of his best performances. He went on stage at 2AM in the morning, and looks very tired by the middle of the set. He was plagued with equipment problems, and clearly not happy with his playing on many tunes. Many of these were new songs,not fully worked out, and it shows. That said, however, when it clicks, it's Jimi The Master shining through. Red House is the stand out track,proof that Jimi was a master blues player.Machine Gun and Voodoo Chile have some stunning soloing as well. If you are a novice Hendrix fan, I would recommend you get Jimi at Monterey instead, which is easily his best filmed performance.
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4.0 out of 5 starsOver edited, but still indispensible (DVD)
By Stephen McLeod on October 2, 2000
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I join Michael C. Young's complaints concerning the editing of this footage (see his customer review of May 7, 2000). I can't, however, join his final judgment. Young's review may be a little misleading.
First, although hefty solos were indeed cut, the cuts are pretty clean and the editors left in lots and lots of extended solos in between nearly every verse of the best songs.
Second, Young's review may give some the impression that this film is like so many other unfortunate visual records of Hendrix performances, bits and pieces of music woven into the fabric of whatever narrative/interview neccessity the project advanced. (Think just about any Hendrix "film" you've seen). Not so. The songs all have beginnings, middles, and ends, and where solos are cut, the songs aren't interrupted with inane, self-serving interviews with folks whose fifteen were up long, long ago.
Third, and probably much more controversially, I would argue that, because we know for a FACT that Hendrix himself was highly self-critical, that he used concerts as much as the studio to work out his improvisational vocabulary for a given song, and that he had no idea that this was going to be more or less his last documented guitar playing, maybe the cuts were made in the interests of creating a cleaner account of the songs. I can't say that I would agree with the choices made. Young's point on "Machine Gun" is absolutely right. But I don't agree that the neccessity of editting itself was either shameful or somehow heretical, as Young seems to suggest.
This is not a biographical document. It is the document of a concert. That's why I think that, while Young makes good points, the film is not nearly as bad as he says it is.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsIt's OK...but Blue Wild Angel is better...
By Walter Five VINE VOICE on June 10, 2003
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
for YEARS this was all we had of Jimi's appearance at the Isle of Wight. It's a shorter, lo-fi version of Wild Blue Angel.
Unless you lived with this version, and don't care otherwise, buy the newly released Blue Wild Angel DVD instead, it has MUCH better sound, and the complete performance. Well, almost complete. The CD has two or three tracks, like "Hey Baby/New Rising Sun" that you won't find here.
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4.0 out of 5 starsOne great show, one great man
By A Customer on May 8, 1999
Format: DVD
I found the DVD version of Jimi - Live At The Isle Of Wight to be great. The picture quality is fantastic, much better than the laserdisc version. I was a little disapointed to see some of the tracks on this video edited. For example. Pieces of Machine Gun were cut to make it shorter. Also with Voodoo Chile, Slight Return. I was glad to hear All Along The Watchtower amd Spanish Castle Magic. These two tracks did not appear on the audio CD of this show. Over all it is a great buy if you are a Hendrix fan.
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4.0 out of 5 stars"BLUE WILD ANGEL" HAS MADE THIS DVD OBSOLETE
By Mo Lindsey on November 10, 2001
Format: DVD
You get the legend , live , in ONE OF his last concert performances. This concert was advertised once as his last concert. This was NOT his last concert. After Isle of Wight he performed in Berlin on September 4th and performed his last concert at the Open Air Love & Peace Music Festival at the Isle of Fehmarn , Germany on September 6th. The Isle of Fehmarn was his final concert....not the Isle of Wight.

The DVD displays inconsistencies that are typical from the original film source. It is in stereo(uncompressed PCM soundtrack) , it has been highly edited down to 56 minutes , and there are no DVD extras.

"Blue Wild Angel" has made "Jimi Hendrix: Live At The Isle of Wight" obsolete. I'd highly suggest "Blue Wild Angel" over this DVD.
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4.0 out of 5 starsJames Marshall Hendrix, Unparalleled Rock Guitar Genius
By Bob Kaiser on June 6, 2002
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
The concensus among fans seems to be that this is far from Jimi Hendrix's best filmed performance, and I would concur with that assessment. If you are only going to buy one Hendrix concert on DVD, you will be much happier with "Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock." On the other hand, if you are a true Hendrix fan, or a collector, "Live at the Isle of Wight" will be a valued addition to your collection because you know that any opportunity to see the most talented rock guitarist ever to sling an axe across his shoulder on film is a delight, if only for the part it plays in the documentation of rock history. Keep in mind that this is the guitarist who probably inspired more than one of a circle of British artists then widely considered guitar gods to contemplate giving up playing guitar as they sat in the audience, slack-jawed and wondering how this genius got those sounds to come out of his guitar, when they saw Hendrix perform in the UK. They knew they would never be as good as Hendrix.
Though they have their moments of brilliance, the performances on this DVD are routine at best, lazy and lackluster at worst and, as has been stated so many times before, the concert was plagued with equipment problems. But a routine performance by Jimi Hendrix would be rated phenomenal if turned in by any other artist. You can see Jimi, several times, trying to tell someone that he can't hear his vocals adequately over the stage monitor, which causes some of the singing to be off-key. Though he does a decent job on it, he forgets the words to "Spanish Castle Magic," one of his masterpieces, and does some on-the-spot improvising. But Hendrix still shines in numerous places on this disc, and it is those places that redeem the concert.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

great

Published 7 months ago by eric diehl
5.0 out of 5 starsFor Those Who Have Never Heard, or Heard of, Hendrix

I have no quarrel with the critical comments of other reviewers with regard to this Murray Lerner-produced filmed portrayal of Jimi Hendrix, playing at the Isle of Wight Festival,... Read more

Published on January 1, 2010 by Kindle Customer
2.0 out of 5 starsPoor Jimi

It's obvious that Jimi wasn't in good shape when he performed at the Isle of Wight. His singing is atrocious and he often forgets lyrics to his own songs. Read more

Published on July 28, 2008 by Daniel B. Pepper
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Despite Shortcomings

I have read all the reviews and I think a lot of people here are kidding themselves. This is Hendrix and no matter how sloppy he plays, compared to anyone else, ever, he blows them... Read more

Published on September 30, 2004 by Alistair Lawrence
3.0 out of 5 starscollectors piece

you'll refer to this one now again, not often, but you'll be pleased you have it in the collection.
the man is clearly from another planet.

Published on November 8, 2002 by Matt Garcia
3.0 out of 5 starsNot Good But ok.

When I boutht this dvd, I thought I was gonna see a whole concert. Was I totally wrong! This is not an entire concert. But who would forget Jimi's searing rendition of red house? Read more

Published on November 7, 2002 by Lucas Wahl
2.0 out of 5 starsexcellent concert -- pitiful editing

My favorite Hendrix concert, bar none -- but what a terrible job Alan Douglas did when editing this concert. Read more

Published on September 23, 2002 by Krishna M. Sadasivam
5.0 out of 5 starsDon't cheat yourself out of a really great DVD!

Anyone who thinks that this performance is lackluster, lazy, or anything but great is out of his frigging mind. Read more

Published on August 29, 2002 by Edward C. Barile
5.0 out of 5 starsSure it isnt the best, but it's HENDRIX

I agree with others that this is not the best Hendrix you can find, but the world is short on Hendrix performances. I enjoy watching even BAD Jimi Hendrix... Read more

Published on November 23, 2001 by Robert Espenschied
3.0 out of 5 starsAs powerful as alays. . .but. . .

Well, although Jimi Hendrix is as powerful as always, Jimi looks bored and tired during this performace. Read more

Published on October 9, 2001

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