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Rockpalast: West Coast Legends, Vol. 3 [2009]

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A combination of rock, jazz, blues, funk, and folk music, Spirit have collaborated with legendary musicians from each of those genres. Jimi Hendrix, Thelonius Monk, and Ry Cooder are just three of their many admirers and associates. Duringa thirty year career that spanned 1967 through 1997, Spiritmade several critically-acclaimed albums. This concert, recorded in 1978, marks the band's induction into the ROCKPALAST hall of fame, and serves as a fitting tribute to the late frontman, Randy California, who drowned off the coast of Hawaii while attempting to rescue his son from a rip current.
Tracklisting: 'Rockpalast Intro', 'Rockpalast Jam', 'Mr. Skin', 'Nature's Way', 'Like A Rolling Stone', 'Hollywood Dream', '1984', 'Looking Down From A Mountain', 'Hey Joe', 'Animal Zoo', 'Love Charged', 'It's All The Same', 'I Got A Line On You', 'All Along The Watchtower', 'Wild Thing', 'Downer' (Tampa Jam), 'If I Miss This Train/Rockpalast Jam' (featuring Dickey Betts).

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 4:3 - 1.33:1
Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.78 x 19.05 x 13.72 cm; 77.11 Grams
Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ SPO-DV-90257
Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD-Video, Colour, PAL
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 37 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ 11 April 2009
Actors ‏ : ‎ Spirit
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Studio ‏ : ‎ SPV
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001IT294C
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Keith M.

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2018

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2009

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as this seems to be the only full length concert of spirit on dvd at present then i guess it will have to do,this line-up contains only two original members california and cassidy,the best songs here are the early ones but sadly there are not many of those.and who needs any more versions of hendrix,dylan and troggs songs,where are the great old ones like 'dark eyed woman' 'so little time to fly' 'aren't you glad'and 'uncle jack', cassidy maybe a great drummer but that long drawn out solo is pointless,so is that dreadful synthesizer sound which is heard throughout the concert. i saw the original band in the 60's and this is not a patch on them(oh for some early footage of original line-up) for those of you who remember them as they were stick to the first four albums,you know it makes sense

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C. B. Puddephatt

Spirit in excellent form

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2010

i had many moons ago got into Randy and Ed live LP's of this tour -one of my upmost favourite albums - i saw them live and prefer the albums Randy & Ed put out together since splitting from the Dr Sardonicas era. The postumous box sets and the you tube videos are excellent. The CND Glastonbury you tube video covering "Killer weed/second child" era is equally brillient..certainly far more guitar than earlier-Ed's drumming -fantastic.
Watching parts of this on you tube is a great experience -up with the best!
Favourite songs are often the rarer type "Looking down from a mountain" "Rock 'n Roll planet" while the classics captured perfectly. Well worth it!

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jade laurent

great moment.

Reviewed in France on 29 August 2017

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Ah spirit groupe cult des 70's que l'on retrouve içi à rockpalast pour la fin de leur grande période, la formation n'ayant pas survécue aus 80's; dommage comme le démontre cette très bonne performance avec les solis flamboyants de randy california; grand moment de concert vintage.

qualité son et image: bonne vhs
duration: 1h55

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Ricsheepy

Moog Taurus Unleashed

Reviewed in the United States on 1 November 2011

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As this is really the only Spirit video available, we'll have to put up with common complaints. The aforementioned MOOG with it's single note blasts from Randy, once the wrong note, mostly too loud, not adding anything really. Crowd noise? Not bad. Sound mix? Not enough bass and not enough Fuzzy vocals. Sure Randy's mugging for the crowd and eating his guitar gets a little too much at times. If you compare it to the mugging done by Frank Zappa in the Baby Snakes concert, you'd say Randy is a piker compared to Frank in the mugging department.

How good is it? For 1978 video, this print was really clean. Compared to the cuts that are on the net, night and day. Sure there's some scan lines and such every now and then from the different format, also dropouts more apparent with LCD/Hi Def televisions, but it's as good as it gets.

What earns raves from me is the performance. It doesn't get any tighter. Randy is Randy at his best. He toys with his guitar and plays it without care but skillfully. He makes it look really easy but the chords he's hitting are anything but. Larry Knight is beating the bass up, if only we could have heard him better. When Randy and Larry play together, the tightness continues. The flow is seamless. Then you add Ed Cassidy who does a little mugging himself, but mostly is sweating the beats and making it look easy.

The Spirit "golden 4" songs are as standard as it gets. Just the hits and really are not the stars of the set. "Rockpalast Jam" is one of the best electro jams. "Like A Rolling Stone" is performed over the top, the best live version by Randy. Dickey Betts comes in to jam at the end of the set and gives an idea of what Randy did just after Spirit broke up the first time. Jam. Ahhh, but the best is the drum solo. "It's All The Same" is a great song to begin with, and Randy gets his solo/mugging time, but then it switches to Ed, who plays a 7 minute drum solo that flows and grabs and never stops being something special.

I sure wish I was into this way back when. While it's not perfect by today's standards, it's still a good look in on a tight trio that was all but forgotten in America.

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Robert E. Feder

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Reviewed in the United States on 24 November 2017

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Spirit was one of the great bands of the late 60's, fusing a rock and jazz sound for something sweet and different. The band as it appears in this 1978 performance is only a reduced semblance of their former selves - only Randy California and Ed Cassidy remain. With Larry Knight on base, they present a much more standard rock sound which loses most of the charm of the original band. This DVD rates only 3 stars at best, but as it is the only extant video record of this band, I will probably keep my copy. There is nothing great here, but there is good, bad, and ugly as detailed below:

The Good:
Randy's guitar work
The set list (mostly old Spirit and Hendrix stuff)
Overall video and audio quality of the recording
Ed's drum set
Dicky Betts appearing with the band on the last encore

The Bad:
Randy's singing
Ed's drumming

The Ugly:
The absence of Jay Ferguson on vocals
The absence of John Locke on keyboards
The long stretches of nothing but audience noise in between the numerous encores
The number of times Randy puts the word "Rockpalast" into the lyrics

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kiki-rock

super jam

Reviewed in France on 18 March 2012

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Excellent DVD, trop rare sur spirit et randy california
avec en prime une jam extra avec le guitariste de allman brother (le fameux de Jessica)

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Larry Garcia

For Randy fans only

Reviewed in the United States on 12 September 2009

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I enjoyed this DVD but if you don't like Jimmy Hendrix style guitar you will get bored. Randy California died while saving his son from a ripe tide in Hawaii. I met Randy a few times during performances with his band, Candy Apple, in 1977 I like the song Randy wrote for his disabled friend Peter Franklin on the 3 CD set. Ed cassidy is always great

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