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Concert For Bangladesh (Deluxe Version) [1972]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 0603497048120
Label : Warner Music Vision
Manufacturer : Warner Music Vision
Publisher : Warner Music Vision
Release date : 2005-10-24
Title : Concert For Bangladesh (Deluxe Version) [1972]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Exempt
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 1972-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 103
Studio : Warner Music Vision
Theatrical releaseDate : 2005-10-25
Number of discs : 2

Customer reviews

review by: sunflower date: 2006-07-14 rating:

A Memorable Occasion
I bought the album of this concert in early 1973 and it was a favourite then. At that time Bob Dylan had played very little live music for a number of years and when George introduces him the crowd goes wild. All the performances are really solid including the unusual opening set with Ravi Shankar. Billy Preston enthusiasm really bubbles over and is one of the highlights of the concert. George Harrison was such a nice guy and his gentle but assured presence seems to permeate the whole concert. If I had to pick out a work that best represented George Harrison as songwriter and man then this would come at the top of the pile. After all these years its really great to see the images with the music on DVD. Highly recommended.

review by: Jersey Bean date: 2006-01-01 rating:

George, Bob and all the crew
A classic must have CD. The benefit concert that started the ball rolling.

review by: date: 2005-11-16 rating:

Historic
This Deluxe package is the business. It is beautiful. It has beautiful sound quality which I for one thought never existed in the original recording. Remastering has become an artform and sometimes adds liitle or nothing to the original but here it is nothing less than dynamite. You can hear Klaus Voorman’s inventive bass playing on ’Wah Wah’. You can actually hear Eric Clapton’s rhythm guitar on ’Bangla Desh’. And much more besides. One feels that one is actually there at this historic concert watching this wonderful DVD. Play Loud as The Plastic Ono Band once said.

The extras are just as revealing. Even the backdrop to the menu selction for Disc 2 with all the musicians walking through a giant hall on the way to the stage to perfom in this historic concert. George Harrison bringing up the rear, with guitar in hand and looking a little nervous. Beautiful comments from among others Eric Clapton (’a time when rock musicians could feel proud of themselves not thinking of themselves for 5 minutes’), Billy Preston (’the mood was so great that I just got up and danced across the stage’). Doing some mad chicken impression. Ego is nowhere to be seen. Just Love. And massive talent. Even the UN Secretary General recites the first two lines of the Bangla Desh song saying this showed the man behind the music. George was and is rightly praised for this at the time daring and heartfelt event. Neil Aspinall is suitably proud of Hari Georgeson as we all should be. So John and Paul didn’t show but was it not absolutely enough to have George and Ringo plus the mercurial presence of Bob Dylan delivering what is possibly his finest ever concert performance? They said at the time that Side 5 (the Dylan side) was worth the price of admission alone, and it is still true 33 years later.

And then we even get treated to some superb outakes including George and Bob performing ’If Not For You’ in rehearsal (this is special!!!). Plus an extra Dylan song ’Love Minus Zero No Limit’ from the first show. Not quite as good as the other four Dylan numbers but incredibly moving all the same. The only minor grumble is the absence of George’s ’Hear Me Lord’ which was (allegedly!) performed in the first show. Was the performance that bad not to include it?! Or maybe this is where the tapes ran out! Minor grumble as I say. Overall Olivia and Co have done us proud this time. Nice one. And one has to say it is great to see Leon Russell today, doing a rather good Father Christmas impression!

This concert was indeed a pioneering event. It is so great to have such a suitably well produced and packaged memento of it. Of a time when the spiritual message of the Beatles was so evidently Alive And Kicking.

review by: date: 2005-11-08 rating:

What a Concert
After some 30 years out of circulation on low fi video, the reissue of this superb concert for charity is most welcome.

What comes across, even more than the (mostly) great music, is the generous spirit of all the performers. George proves himself a great and modest bandleader, not bad for someone who'd never led a group before. Ravi Shankar and his musicians aren't my cup of tea, but the quality and commitment of their performance is clear.

The concert has an engaging, friendly and generous feel which is only tarnished during Leon Russell's misogynistic version of Youngblood (a tune which The Beatles performed pre-1964). Dylan, backed by two Beatles (!), is great, but the show has many highlights.

The picture and sound quality are pretty good considering the age of the source material and the on-stage goings on will bring a smile, and quite possibly a tear, to your face.

The bonus material: interviews then and now, contemporary reports and rehearsals etc, is terrific and makes you appreciate just how much George achieved in organising the event, and how hard he worked to bring it all off. DVD and CD releases include a new Dylan track, Love Minus Zero.

I bought the standard version, as I have the old three LP set with its book already; it's only about half the price of the deluxe version but the DVDs are exactly the same, as far as I can see. And if you don't buy the deluxe set, you'll be able to afford the CDs as well!

A big thank you to the Harrison Estate for bringing this great show back for us to enjoy.

review by: date: 2005-11-07 rating:

Groundbreaking show beautifully assembled on disk
A real treat for fans of George Harrison and the Beatles in general, this package (particularly the de-luxe edition) has been beautifully assembled to commemorate a ground-breaking charity event that, as George himself says, raised awareness of Bangladesh as much as it did money. The film has been lovingly-restored, it sounds great, and the bonus features are fascinating and informative. Stand out moments are of course the Dylan set, Billy Preston's joyous 'That's The Way God Planned It' and Leon Russell's hair, even more amazing on the documentary retrospective! Not quite so good (but forgiveable) Ringo forgetting the words on 'It Don't Come Easy' and Eric Clapton so spaced out that he plays the wrong guitar on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps.' His uncommunicative presence is a poignant reminder that the late 60s had collapsed in a haze of drugs excess, while George's labour of love to bring this show together remind us of both his pure heart and his prescience about the power of music to make a real difference in the world.

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