Bob Dylan – 1975-1981: Rolling Thunder & The Gospel Years / 2006 Music Video Distributors / 241 Minutes / http://www.highway61ent.com / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Reviewed 10 March 2006 To properly capture the entire history of a musician or any other public figure over forty years is great for individuals that might not have been alive for part or nearly all of the period covered to get a sense of what exactly…
Drive-Thru Records DVD Volume IV / 2006 Drive-Thru / 8 Videos / http://www.drivethrurecords.com / Reviewed 13 January 2006 For individuals that want to know what exactly Drive-Thru Records was up to in 2006, this DVD is a necessary purchase. There are eight videos on this DVD, featuring Hellogoodbye, Dave Melillo, The Early November, Halifax, Hidden In Plain View, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business, Socratic, and An Angel.…
Control the Airspace / $20.00 / [email protected] / http://www.illrepute.com iLLRePuTePRoDuCTioNS, 747 1/2 Avalon Ct , San Diego, CA 92109 Control the Airspace DVD – This is simply a movie that focuses a lot on skateboarding and surfing. With tons of footage of both aforementioned sports, filmmaker Casey Kindred also intersperses the action footage with interviews of a host of friends and individuals. Tying together birds, airplanes, and the air a…
V/A – Reggae Showdown Vol 1 / 2006 MVD / 120 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Reviewed 17 July 2006 This DVD needed to e released just for the simple fact that Dennis Brown’s life ended soon after this footage was taken. To not release this DVD would be an injustice to the memory of Brown and to all of the fans that ey gained since ey started out all those…
Death of A President / 2006 Newmarket / 93 Minutes / http://www.newmarketfilms.com / Reviewed 22 October 2006 If someone has not at least heard of this movie, their head has been in a hole for the last few months. Simply put, what director Gabriel Range does with this film is envision a world in which United States President George W. Bush is assassinated. One can view this movie in many…
Chris Adler and Jason Bittner – Live At Modern Drummer Festival 2005 / 2006 MVD / http://www.moderndrummer.com / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Reviewed 05 May 2006 This is not what I expected from a drumming clinic. Instead of just being a drummer taken out of context, the performances during this DVD have a live guitarist that works with them to show the interplay between the two instruments. While there are panoramic shots…
Noam Chomsky – Imperial Grand Strategy / 2006 MVD / 220 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Reviewed 29 May 2006 DVDs that deal primarily or completely with speeches are hard to pony up the money for; this is due to the fact that the video section of the disc is unnecessary. Individuals can just listen to what Chomsky is saying, and not have to look at the screen once. Of course,…
Charged G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats / 2006 MVD / 113 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Reviewed 07 July 2006 G.B.H. was one of those UK82 punk bands that I never really got into. There were a lot of those bands, like D.O.A. and The Varukers, and I never got into them because they are passed over a lot of times for those 77 punk bands that are just…
Captain Beefheart – Under Review / 2006 MVD / 180 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Reviewed 29 May 2006 Captain Beefheart is an example of a cult musician that practically everyone listens to, but like the Dead Milkmen and Love, I have no clue about the style of music or the allure that the artist provides. What “Under Review†does is show a documentary about the act, as well as throw…
Candido – Hands of Fire / 2006 MVD / 69 Minutes / http://www.mvdb2b.com / Reviewed 29 May 2006 I understand there are more nations in the world and more languages in the world than the United States and English, but one needs to know that “Hands of Fire†is done completely in Spanish. This DVD has subtitles, but if individuals get tired of reading, this DVD might be a little…
