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Herzberg Festival 2006 DVD (Herzberg Verlag)
The German Traditional Hippie Festival is back with their
2nd official DVD that is filmed by the German Rockpalast.
Again, the festival organizers pull together a cool line up
of old classic bands and new psychedelic bands as well as
classic hard rock bands like UFO. You get to see a lot of
the people at the festival and experience the vibe a bit as
well. They usually talk to someone from each band before after
or in the middle of their song (which is a bit annoying and
totally ruined the Uli Jon Roth track) but in the end you
get a great feeling out of watching it and it makes you want
to come to the festival. Great work from the Rockpalast people
and of course the festival organizers. Some of the highlights
of the DVD for me were Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Soft
Machine, Hidria Spacefolk, Psychedelic Monster Jam and UFO.
But there is a bit of folk (Götz Widmann), mellow rock
like The Gathering and the Herzberg Blues Allstars (the whole
2nd bonus DVD) and this features players from a lot of famous
bands, including 10CC, Camel, Edgar Broughton Band, Colosseum,
Humble Pie… It is a great set of blues and funky music
with great playing… The vocals are mixed terribly low
though…Great festival and a good documentation, just
as last years DVD was..
http://www.herzbergverlag.de
If you dig: Festival documentaries
Scott
Heaven and Hell - Live at Radio City Music Hall DVD (SPV/Target)
I guess everyone who reads this knows that this is the reunion
of the DIO Black Sabbath Line up. What is unique is that they
only play DIO era Sabbath songs and a damn cool selection
of tracks as well and amazing sound as well. Interestingly,
I think the 5.1 DVD has a far superior sound to the normal
2CD version. It was filmed live in NYC and is really well
shot but it still annoys me that when Tony does a guitar solo
that they bugger off to show the drummer and DIO, keep the
fucking camera on the master for the whole solo.. none of
this quick MTV editing shit… It is not that bad but it
could be better. DIO is the master as well and sound amazing
for 63 years old, I believe. Killer versions of a lot of the
songs and a long stretched out version of Heaven and Hell.
The Dehumanizer material sounds excellent as does the two
new songs.. The Sign of the Southern Cross is my favourite
and nice to see it not squished in the middle of Heaven and
Hell like they did on the 1982 tour.
Http://www.black-sabbath.com
If you dig: Black fucking Sabbath, DIO
Scott
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Debris - Into the Sun- Live at the Berg Herzberg Festival
2006 DVD (Herzberg Verlag)
Space Debris plays mostly improvised music and the DVD begins
with shots cruising thru the festival site and coming back
and forth to the stage where the band is playing but never
really showing the band until 17 mins into the DVD. You get
to see a good overview of the type of cool people who come
to this festival and hear some great kraut rock jamming as
well. Electric Friends is a long jam with Tomas switches from
guitar to bass and a real freeform krautrock jam is made.
Mountain is a heavy rocking number with some great Hendrix
inspired guitar, pounding drums and heavy Hammond. Whales’
starts with a long Hammond solo and I really thought he was
going to play the intro to Lazy by Deep Purple but he never
did. This track is really a back and forth jam with Hammond
and guitar trading off before Tomas does a great melodic solo
at the end. Jam Bang is another quite intense hard rocking
jam. This is really well filmed and a great sound and really
brings the feel of those great German early 70’s bands
just jamming away with no regard for trends..music from the
heart. Cool stuff.
http://www.herzbergverlag.de
http://www.spacedebrisprojekt.de
If you dig: Kraut Rock
Scott
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