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George Harrison and Friends: The Concert for Bangladesh [DVD]
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October 25, 2005 "Please retry" | — | 2 | $54.95 | $16.39 |
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Genre | Music Videos & Concerts |
Format | NTSC, Color, Dolby, Limited Edition, DVD |
Contributor | George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Mike Gibbins, Klaus Voormann, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Saul Swimmer, Leon Russell, Tom Evans, Ravi Shankar, Pete Ham, Jim Keltner See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 43 minutes |
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Product Description
The Concert for Bangladesh was the first benefit concert of its kind in that it brought together an extraordinary assemblage of major artists collaborating for a common humanitarian cause-setting the precedent that music could be used to serve a higher purpose. The concert sold out Madison Square Garden and has helped to generate millions for UNICEF and raised awareness for the organization around the world, as well as among other musicians and their fans. It is acknowledged as the inspiration and the forerunner to the major global fundraising events of recent years. To quote the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, "George and his friends were pioneers." All artists' royalties from the sales of the DVD will go to UNICEF.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.75 inches; 14.4 Ounces
- Item model number : 603497048120
- Director : Saul Swimmer
- Media Format : NTSC, Color, Dolby, Limited Edition, DVD
- Run time : 1 hour and 43 minutes
- Release date : October 25, 2005
- Actors : George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton
- Language : Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Rhino
- ASIN : B000AYQJJ2
- Number of discs : 2
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Of course, George Harrison's oeuvre was/is the antithesis of "cheap" and "disposable," and this concert, following his now-stone-classic solo debut "All Thing Must Pass," was his finest hour. It's good to at long last see and hear Bob Dylan's performance of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit." But where is George's performance of "Hear Me Lord" from the afternoon show? It's nowhere to be found on either the remastered DVD or CD? His equally gospel-fueled "Awaiting On You All" sounds amazing, so it's hard to think that his performance of the stirring "Hear Me Lord" would be anything less than stellar. So why wasn't that included in either package? I'm assuming that all this was done under the supervision of Harrison, and then his family following his untimely demise. The ommission of "Hear Me Lord" is as glaring as the ommissions on "The Dark Horse Years" boxed set. Very annoying. I'm also annoyed that Dylan didn't appear in the commentaries along with Ringo, Eric, Ravi et al. Of course being a Dylan fan does mean putting up with the man's eccentric quirks (which George evidently did very well). One of the nicest bonuses is seeing and hearing Bob and George dueting on "If Not For You" at the rehearsals, looking at each other each time they sang "if not for you" - very sweet, and their deep friendship and mutual admiration is obvious. Sometimes in our star-struck culture, we need to be reminded that icons are human beings who need refuge from their fame and maybe can seek solace in each other. That said, where is "Hear Me Lord?"
I've not bought the remastered CD. Based on the reviews that I've read here, I'm not sure if I will. Who cares if the gospel voices sounds "dated"; hence the "need" for them to be muted? That sounds suspiciously racist and culturally biased to me. For those of us who have the original LPs and the CDs, we grew up with the asides and ovations that seem now to be deleted. I have no problem with the new cover featuring George - this has always been the iconic Harrisonian image, both Christ-like yet Rasputin-esque in visage - so long as the original cover and art is inside. Starvation is not a pleasant thing to look at, not then and not now, but designer Tom Wilkes made the poor Bengali child sympathetic and universal. I realize the Harrison-the-dead-icon (who, like Lennon, the critics routinely shat upon while they were still living only to cry sanctimonious tears upon their deaths) will sell more copies than a starving Bengali child (Madison Avenue probably figured the people who would buy the "deluxe edition" were the older, hard-core fans who associate the 60s and 70s with now-dead idealism), but let's not forget the WHY of why George organized this pioneering event in the first place.
The Botton Line : Dylan himself, in his encomium to Harrison, called his friend "the sun, the flowers, and the moon." If you love the music of either of these men or both (as I do), you owe to your inner fan to have this DVD in your collection.
Perhaps the grand-daddy of all concerts for charity.
Este DVD encierra mucha nostalgia, tiene una replica del manuscrito en donde George compuso el tema Bangladesh, fotos del concierto, un sticker para tu guitarra, un cuadernillo sobre el concierto y un poster. Es en verdad una edicion de lujo, vale su precio. Sobre el concierto en si, que se puede decir, si eres un devoto de los Beatles sabes de que trata y lo que contiene. Compralo, elige la opcion de sonido que mas te guste y disfruta clasicos como While my guitar gently weeps, es delicioso escuchar por un canal el solo de guitarra de Clapton y por el otro el de la guitarra de George casi al finalizar la cancion. Un dato adicional es la presentacion de Bob Dylan, un motivo mas para tener este DVD. En el segundo DVD podras ver tomas y canciones ineditas y a su vez observar cuan viejos estan los sobrevivientes. Tanta droga y tanto alcohol tiene su precio.
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To be honest I didn't expect the film to look so good. But I think it's been re-mastered. But it's the sound that blew me away. Made me feel like I was 15 again. Oh, what a time the seventies were.
Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2022
To be honest I didn't expect the film to look so good. But I think it's been re-mastered. But it's the sound that blew me away. Made me feel like I was 15 again. Oh, what a time the seventies were.
Le boitier et le disque sont dans un état irréprochable, comme neufs.
Quand à la qualité du disque, il, faut savoir que ce concert date de 1971. Malgré cela, les images sont tout à fait correctes. Quand à la bande son, elle est excellente.
En résumé, bon achat pour les nostalgiques de l'époque "Baba Cool".
Following it with My Sweet Lord, his recent big hit that would later cause legal trouble for him. Clapton, Preston, Voormann, Starr, Bad Finger all featured in the studio version too. I’ve read that the quality of the film recording was awful –I thought George said so himself - but it seems fine here.
AWAITING UPON YOU ALL. Is this the only public performance of this song?
Billy Preston follows whom I think John Lennon would have liked to have been in The Beatles by 1969. Klaus Voormann and Eric Clapton were on the studio version too.
Then fellow Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr offers IT DON’T COME EASY. Voormann and Harrison were involved in the studio version of this too. In fact you can find a version on line where George sings the lead suggesting that he wrote the song – Ringo said George gave it to him.
Continues with BEWARE OF DARKNESS. Clapton and Starr were involved with the studio version too.
WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS with Ringo, Eric and George as on the original studio recording.
LEON RUSSELL sings the Rolling Stones’ Jumping Jack Flash. And Young Blood by Elvis songsmiths Leiber and Stoller. A Beatles version of Young Blood exists recorded during the LIVE AT THE BBC Days.
George continues with HERE COMES THE SUN on Acoustic guitars only. I would have preferred a full band version myself.
Leading into 4 songs by Bob Dylan. With Harrison and Starr. A HARD RAINS A GONNA FALL, IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY, BLOWIN IN THE WIND, JUST LIKE A WOMAN.
George comes back with SOMETHING – this track won’t play on my disc for some reason –
and BANGLADESH.
Questions. Why didn’t Badfinger do COME AND GET IT? or NO MATTER WHAT or because it was a Paul McCartney song?
Why didn’t Eric Clapton do Layla? Contractual reasons?
Why didn’t Ringo do any Beatles Songs or George for that matter? Too close to the breakup perhaps? A bit of Yellow Submarine was played when Ringo appeared but that was it.
In the extras you can see a bit of George and Ringo walking through the back stage area and it’s a pity John and Paul weren’t there to join them.