Author Topic: Review - Legends Live At Montreux (Read 131 times)

David Houck · « **on:** January 09, 2006, 08:01:11 PM »

This DVD was mentioned in another thread. It came today and I just finished watching it. Very cool! The lineup is Eric Clapton - guitar and vocals, Steve Gadd - drums, Marcus Miller - bass, Joe Sample - piano, David Sanborn - sax. In my view, this turned out to be a better showcase for Clapton's playing than the Cream reunion. Nice tone, and some nice blues based soloing. And for me, Marcus was the other big highlight; especially the one tune he played on six string fretless. Pretty cool!

bracheen · « **Reply #1 on:** January 10, 2006, 03:13:20 AM »

Thanks for the tip Dave. Sounds worth checking out. Is Stevie Ray Vaughan's Montreux show on the DVD also? I stumbled across it one day on PBS without having a clue as to who he was. Wow! I was mesmerized.

Sam

adriaan · « **Reply #2 on:** January 10, 2006, 04:17:00 AM »

There's a whole series of Montreux shows out on DVD - mostly 70s and 80s. There's even one of Charles Mingus in the 70s.

Another series I've seen at just 5 euro each is ALL STARS - I bought two. There's no info at all about the contents, but at least the songs listed appear to be the ones played.

(1) James Taylor, 'You've got a friend' - still with hair on the cover, but quite bald on-screen. The show looks like it was recorded around 2000. Jimmy Johnson is playing very tastefully indeed.

(2) Grateful Dead, 'Bird Song' - this is a compilation of a couple of shows from different eras. Phil is playing a Tribute-shaped bass (dual P's, eagle inlay on large headstock) in an otherwise acoustic show. And there's an 80s/90s stadium concert where Phil's playing a narrow-spaced headless Modulus 6 - whilst having a particularly bad hair day - and a very grey-haired Jerry playing Tiger.

jacko · « **Reply #3 on:** January 10, 2006, 05:19:29 AM »

The 'legends' dvd should arrive with me in a couple of days. I'll have to keep my eyes open for the james taylor show. That Grateful dead dvd is sitting in my drawer under the title 'Still alive and well' if it's the same one - it has Brent playing on both shows. It's available for ?5.99 from 101cd - https://www.101cd.com/video/info.asp?id=814518

Graeme

adriaan · « **Reply #4 on:** January 10, 2006, 05:28:26 AM »

The setlist is identical, so it's probably the same contents. They did pay a little more attention to the cover photo - yours appears to be printed backwards ...