Granted, jimi suffers from some technical problems involving his guitar (it appears to be the pick-ups)but the fact that jimi is still playing when he trails around backstage establishes him once again as the pure genius he is.

The features are commendable with merchandise from the concert open for viewing among others. This is a must buy for any Hendrix fan, period.


Not as bad as people make out   May 22, 2004
 11 out of 12 found this review helpful

God, I'm sick of people slagging this performance off. The older material is performed in a lacklustre manner true, also the technical problems didn't help although I feel that Jimi's struggling with the equipment produced a far more emotive set than for example, the Berkeley concert.

The IOW set has much more passion and feeling than many of his '70's gigs especially the newer material such as Dolly Dagger, Ezy Rider, In from the Storm etc, and the version of Machine Gun is right out there in the stratosphere. If you want to here a bad Jimi performance then track down a bootleg copy of his Arhus gig 02/09/70 - now that is a bad gig!!!

The IOW gig shows a more passionate and humane version of the performer, even if he wasn't in the best of shape.

The 5.1 mix is excellent too

My main gripe with this DVD is that it's not the full set but hey, there's still enough.

Maybe not ideal as an intro to the man, but an absolute classic performance (even tho lots of people including Mr Chandler, stated it was dreadful) in that the struggle with the equipment brings out more passion and feel to the songs in my opinion.


Great to watch.....terrible to listen to.   May 15, 2003
 8 out of 24 found this review helpful

A fantastic film of a terrible show. Don't believe the nonsense that this footage proves just how 'gone' Jimi was at the end of his life. Yes, this is a pretty awful performance, one of Hendrix's worst, but a few days later he played a blistering couple of gigs in the Netherlands. If you aready own every other Hendrix DVD, then you may aswell buy this. If you're a Hendrix beginner - AVOID. This is one ragged, bum-note filled, sloppy, messy gig. The TOTAL exception to the usual Hendrix rule of unsurpassed genius. The thing is, Jimi was so supreme upon the live stage that even a slightly under-par gig would sound awful...and this gig is so far under-par you're gonna have to buy yourself an industrial tunnel excavator to dig it. ('Dig it' ? Gettit?!). Anyway, this show is an incredibly rare example of Hendrix on a BAD day....but one that was filmed incredibly well.....sadly....if you see what I mean!