Last Waltz Blu-ray Disc
One of the best rockumentaries ever done. Great music throughout (excepting fat old Hawkins, but I guess he had to be in there, and that pukey and untalented N. Diamond), well edited and paced. The on-screen interviews of Robertson, Helm, Danko, Manuel and Hudson were pretty unenlightening (not the most talkative or extroverted crew, and perhaps they were laced with something powerful at the time), but this film is a time capsule of the mid-1970s, in terms of the fashions and style of that era. This was sorta the Twilight of the Counterculture, the truly last great gathering of the rockers of the 1960s captured on film. Less than a year after this film was released, the Punk/New Wave era was ushered in and a new pop culture dominant was on top. It's sad to watch this film today and realize that Danko and Manuel are dead and Helm has been silenced by throat cancer.
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Very well done, with a hand made feel to it that fits the theme. The music is great, and it resists the urge to over-produce.
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Last Waltz Blu-ray Disc
Update: This weekend the Last Waltz will live again. A local music venue is having a farewell concert to its old space before it closes down for renovations (It's a century old church that has been run as an alternative music presenting organization by a non-profit board. The building's foundation is crumbling and we're rebuilding). As a send-off the Artisitic Director has assembled the local music community and assigned them all parts in a re-creation of the Last Waltz. Five guys are all playing the roles of members of the Band and guest artists will recreate the concert song for song in the roles of Ronnie Hawkins, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Paul Butterfield, Joni Mitchel, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan. Original Post: Admittedly it must have been a bit of a breeze to make the best concert film ever by assembling the greatest performers of a generation on a single stage and putting one of the greatest directors of all time at the helm, but often these things look good on paper but don't pan out. But the musical period of 1968 to 1973 could not have been better served for a time capsule than this film.
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