Jimi Hendrix
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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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title: Jimi Hendrix
theatricalDate: 05-02-1973
purchase date: 05-02-2006
publisher: Warner Home Video
published: 28-06-2005
price: $19.98
net Rating: 4.5
MPAA Rating: R
minutes: 103
last lookup time: 160893424
genre: Documentary
fullTitle: Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition)
features: AC-3
Closed-captioned
Color
Dolby
Original recording remastered
Subtitled
Widescreen
NTSC
edition: Deluxe
director: Gary Weis
John Head (III)
Joe Boyd
currentValue: $14.32
created: 160893424
country: us
aspect: DVD
asin: B0009E3234