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Jimi Hendrix
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Jimi Hendrix
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by Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, Stella Benabon, Eric Barrett, and Paul Caruso
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Sales Rank : 71602
Available from Amazon
$3.94
on 8-28-2008
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Actors: Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, Stella Benabon, Eric Barrett, Paul Caruso
Directors: Gary Weis, Joe Boyd, John Head III
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French
Region: Region 1 U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: November 30, 1999
Run Time: 102 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  63 customer reviews
Product Review
If any artist deserved a hagiography it was Jimi Hendrix, and Joe Boyd's 1973 "authorized" tribute adequately sanctifies the legend. Perversely for a documentary, it achieves this simply through well-chosen concert footage rather than through the insights of the various talking heads. Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, and Germaine Greer are all wheeled out to wax lyrical about their days with Jimi, but nothing is more eloquent than watching and listening to him play. From "Hey Joe" in grainy black and white on the Ready Steady Go TV show, classic footage of Monterey, Woodstock (yes, "The Star-Spangled Banner"), and the Isle of Wight festivals to an acoustic 12- string rendition of "Hear My Train a' Comin'," Hendrix the musician speaks for himself.
But if Hendrix the musician shines through, this is not the most insightful profile of Hendrix the man. The circumstances surrounding his death, for example, are hardly touched upon (girlfriend at the time Monika Dannemann gets only a few seconds of screen time). Interview footage with Hendrix himself plus some occasionally rambling and incoherent comments from such intimates as his father, army buddies, ex-girlfriends (including Linda Keith, who "discovered" him in New York and brought him to England), and fellow musicians all take second place to the music itself. The most sensible quote comes from Little Richard, who proves once and for all that he's utterly bonkers when he says of Jimi's music: "At times he made my big toes shoot up into my boot." --Mark Walker, Amazon.co.uk
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