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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $2 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Live • NTSC In Theaters : November, 1977 DVD Release : 04 October, 2005 |
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Cream - Farewell Concert description Cream's 2005 reunion (after a mere 37 years apart) was big news and a very hot ticket. But anyone wondering what the fuss was all about is unlikely to get much enlightenment from Cream - Farewell Concert. The trio's (guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Jack Bruce, and drummer Ginger Baker) November 1968 gig at London's Royal Albert Hall, the same venue chosen for their reunion, may have been a spectacular display of their instrumental virtuosity and legendary improvisational skills, but you'd never know it from this sub-par document. The sound has been digitally remastered, but the audio is still a turgid sonic sludge. The visuals are even worse, with director Tony Palmer jerking the camera around as if this were an episode of NYPD Blue, layering the picture with dated and distracting psychedelic light effects, and providing far too many close-ups of Bruce's teeth (and almost no wide shots of the entire band). As for the music, well, it's apparent that these boys really could play; surprisingly, Baker's jazz-inflected drum solo is one of the highlights. But their reliance on extended blues jams ("Spoonful," "Sitting on Top of the World," etc.) belies the fact that despite their dismissal of commercial rock music (cf. Bruce's lofty claim in an accompanying interview that "we wouldn't dream" of trying to write a hit single), Cream's four studio albums contain some wonderful pop songs. Farewell Concert includes "Sunshine of Your Love" and "White Room," but for a much more satisfying taste of what they were all about, try the CD or DVD versions of Cream - Royal Albert Hall - London May 2-3-5-6 2005 instead. --Sam Graham |
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| We know the boys were giving it their bloody all, based on everything we've read about their farewell. Unfortunately, this production is nearly ruined by terrible sound, echoing all over the place, and then the abysmal camera work, which reaches a frustrating nadir when the stoned cameraman goes absolutely berserk with the zoom apparatus, wanking that thing for all it's worth in an apparent attempt to simulate an LSD trip (?) (and, my god, the editor left it in!) Other than that the camera is content to crawl up the nostrils of the trio or examine their dental work.
That being said, the interviews are rather amusing, with the lads innocently talking gear and technique. |
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