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The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
The Who:  Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Actor: The Who
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Category: Video

List Price: $12.98
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars(70 reviews)
Sales Rank: 35428

Format: Color, Live, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 85 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1

ISBN: 6305126925
UPC: 081227236939
EAN: 9786305126928
ASIN: 6305126925

Release Date: October 20, 1998
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

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Culled from a historic three-hour performance at the Isle of Wight Festival, the English response to Woodstock, this 85-minute Who performance captures the quartet's vivid, dramatic stage presence while gamely wrestling with technical problems and musical lapses dictated by the relatively combat conditions of the show. The 1970 show reflects a band in transition, starting with a raw and lively set of early Pete Townshend classics ("I Can't Explain," "My Generation," "Magic Bus"), familiar concert covers ("Summertime Blues," "Young Man Blues," and "Shakin' All Over/Spoonful"), and a then new, post-Tommy original, "Water," that surprisingly evokes Neil Young's contemporaneous midtempo epics with Crazy Horse.

The bulk of the set is inevitably devoted to a 13-song suite that captures the high points of Tommy itself. For the band's fans and students of live rock, the emerging portrait is engaging, capturing the dynamism of the core instrumental trio: boiler-suited Townshend paces the stage, jumps midchord, and teases the crowd with his signature "windmill" strumming (yawning playfully, in fact, during "My Generation"); the late Keith Moon whirls across the top of his drum kit, crouches tensely as he reins in his formidable power for quiet accents, and mugs shamelessly, perpetually moving; and John Entwistle is the apotheosis of the inward bassist, standing otherwise motionless as he studiously plucks intricate, melodic lines that anchor the melee. Stage center, of course, is Roger Daltrey, whose matador poses, lassoed microphone flourishes, and tossing curls have since become the lingua franca of two succeeding generations of arena rockers.

The camera work hews tightly to the band, succumbing to the fast zooms and sudden cuts of its day and capturing a few telling moments of irritation or fatigue among the members, but there are few establishing shots that take in the full scale of the performing site. Limited stage lighting often bleaches the color from performers and crowd alike, while the audio recording, coupled with doubtless limitations to the sound system, exacerbates ragged vocal pitches. In a post-MTV era when even concert footage is usually subjected to sonic surgery, extra takes and insertions, Live at the Isle of Wight may look and sound crude, but as a document of one of rock's most powerful, passionate bands, it's definitely worth a look, as well as comparative viewing with both Woodstock and Monterey Pop. --Sam Sutherland


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5 out of 5 stars Five stars, yes, but DON'T BUY IT   November 19, 2008
Yes, this is an incredible Who concert. No, don't buy it. Make sure you buy the "special edition" instead because it contains two songs inexplicably cut from this release: "Substitute" and "Naked Eye". It says it's the complete concert. They're lying. The special edition isn't the complete concert, either, but at least it's all of the existing footage. The double CD set contains the entire concert. It's a shame that "Amazing Journey/Sparks" apparently was not filmed or has been lost. The performance of it on the CD set is extraordinary.

Screw Eagle Rock Entertainment and Murray Lerner for me having to buy this concert yet again just to get two songs that, by your own product's description, should have been included from the beginning. Your soaking of hardcore fans like myself is deplorable.



2 out of 5 stars what?...   September 15, 2008
what i got from a seller was lousy sound q. where even best buy employees tested it and said yeah-lousy sound q. how can this b? vs. others reviews of sound. and i wanna hear the who do the song called "DOGS".


5 out of 5 stars At Their Best   May 4, 2008
I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of this DVD. Lots of music and I enjoyed the recent interview with Pete Townsend too!


5 out of 5 stars This is a great early who concert. It is in the era of Live at Leeds and the video and audio are superb   April 6, 2008
This is a great early who concert. It is in the era of Live at Leeds and the video and audio are superb. I had always heard what a good concert this was but never bit on this video. Finally did recently and I am glad I did because these guys always put on a good show and this performance they put on a great one. Sometimes you realize the early stuff from a band is maybe their best and that is true with this concert. Great song selection for a concert.


4 out of 5 stars Kirk Rogers   January 2, 2008
  0 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a little disappointing concert 7 out of 10, The Who were young but if your a Who Fan it is a must see, Great stuff, great merchant an asset to Amazon.com I rate them A+++

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