Rick Vito In Concert: Ohne Filter

Well after a three year wait there is another, and early, concert of the great and innovative Albert Collins. If you don't already have BOTH Baden-Baden concerts, you'd better snatch up the Amazon deal now. OK the Inakustik people have produced some fantastic concerts in the past 4 or 5 years- they are clearly better than even the Montreux series. Great sound and picture! Albert Collins is the only performer to be featured on TWO Musik Pur DVDs (Hey the Albert King one has not been released except in Japan). This is really worth it too!First of all Albert plays with a stripped down band- only 5 pieces. He has his oldest Icebreaker Johnny B. Gaden, who use once the bassist for the Staple Singers, with him and only one horn, a sax (Abe Locke)! Very unusual and like the original Blues Bands of the 1950s (see Buddy Guy on the Blues Masters Vol 2 (Rhino) and Howlin' Wolf in the "Devil Got My Woman"). So Albert has an interesting and different sound. His guitar player. Rob Noll has a great tone and does a bit of Albert King and Hendrix which none of his guitarists ever did and he plays a good slide as well. The drummer, Casey Jones played with Buddy Guy and Junior Wells and a lot of Chicago session work. He is also featured on the Grammy Award winning LP "Show Down" with Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland.This January 1985 set begins with "Listen Here" as it does in the 1988 set, but it has a different groove with the smaller band. "If Trouble Was Money" one of his signature songs, written by Albert and his wife Gwendolyn- who also wrote "Mastercharge", by the way, is the slow blues for the set. This tune was originally recorded live in Japan and later appeared, towards the end of Collins life, as a duet with Gary Moore. This tune goes into one of his lesser known instrumentals "Skatin'" with a funk groove and it livens up the proceedings- but it's short!"The Highway Is Like A Woman" is a cool 50s like R&B tune. A bit sexist, but not as much as "I'm gonna hit a Brick upside your head" in the next tune "Brick". On this one he has harpist Southside Johnny who joins the band (I can't ever remember Collins with harp and slide guitar in any of his records or bands- although Albert does play a good harp himself on the "Show Down" set). He then introduces, rather fondly, "The Things I Used To Do" written by Eddie Jones (Guitar Slim). Collins did this tune many times and has many versions of it- I like the one on his "Best of" CD released posthumously. This one is the most true to the original and has a very controlled and understated solo section by Mr Collins."I Got That Feeling" has a great groove and sort of shows us where Collins music went in the next eight years until his death. I like the version on the other DVD (1988) with Debbie Davies singing with him. This was the period in which Collins started to get recognition and fame. After being known only in Texas and California for years. He first toured Australia in 1985 and came back again in 1986 and 1992. Collins premature death was a blow to the Blues World and robbed us all of his creative talents. No other guitar player sounds like Albert (Joe Bonamassa has a few moments however!).The final tune "Frosty" is his most famous ever. This is a signature tune to match Freddie King's "Hideaway". He plays it superbly and much different and more true to the original record than the 1988 show and it also has a good solo from Mr Noll as well (much different than Duke Robillard's in the 1988 show). Albert ends with his "walk' into the crowd with his great long lead (Guitar Slim was the first to do this- ask Buddy Guy). I love the story from Antone's in Texas where Albert was playing and walked out the door of the club came back and after the song a pizza was delivered, he had played down the street walked into the next door pizza place and ordered a pizza- while playing the whole time!!!Get this DVD, material showing Albert Collins in action is very scarce. The program is wonderful and even there is some overlap with the 1988 DVD and the Mt Fuji show, the groove and feel of this show is unique.Note: in 2009, Why is the proper review of this disc in this column and my review of the earlier show, another whole show in Baden-Baden the lead review for this product? Why has this happened? And I've lost all my votes too?

This is a fantastic blues rock concert. I've seen Marcia Ball perform live at a New Orleans Jazz festival, and she is fantastic. So, are the other 2 ladies on this dvd. Marcia plays the piano, and sings lead vocals. Sarah Brown plays the bass guitar and sings lead vocals at times, and Angela Strehli sings lead vocals at times. Plus, their backing band has an electric slide guitar player, a saxaphone player, and a drummer. Marcia Ball was born in Texas, but raised in Louisiana. She is now based out of Austin, Texas. She is a regular performer at the New Orleans Jazz Festival every year.This dvd has excellent sound quality and excellent visual quality.Note: Angela Strehli collaborated with the late/great Stevie Ray Vaughan, several times. She is on the Stevie Ray Vaughan album "Live From Carnigie Hall". She sings lead vocals on the song "C.O.D". while SRV plays his guitar. Angela has a fantastic blues voice.A Quote from the back of the dvd package: "Marcia Ball, Angela Strehli, & Sarah Brown are each natural talents in their own right, and together they are an unstoppable trio of Texas blues. In an exciting show, they whip up a storm of explosive blues rock, steamy swamp soul, and sparkling folk sounds. It's the southern sound at its best." I totally agree with this qoute.Since the amazon product description does not give the song set, then I will. The songs are as follows:1.Red Hot2.I'd Rather Go Blind3.Mean Mistreater4.It Hurts Me Too5.Dreams Come True6.I'm Gonna Make it7.Tell Me Why8.You can if You Think You Can9.It Hurts To Be in Love10.Bad Thing11.Good Rockin' Daddy12.Fool in Love13.I'm Ready14.Somethings's Got a Hold on Me.Overall, this is one great blues rock dvd, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys blues rock. You will not be disappointed in this on, for sure. Thanks!!!

i've tried and tried, over the years to like bruce springsteen, but his 'thing' has never quite 'clicked' with me!there ARE some bruce songs i am really fond of however, but i think southside johnny (and co.) BLOW BRUCE AWAY!!having said that, there probably are a few bruce fanatics now 'itching' to 'put me away'!! my friend tried valiantly and hard to 'sell' me on southside, until i saw a show in the D.C. area with the smithereens (whom i LOVE!!) that night was a bad night for dinizio and company!! (boy, do i miss mike mesaros!) (GET TO THE POINT, BOB!!) -in short, southside blew away the smithereens; and made a huge fan of ME! -GREAT SHOW!!this DVD is really, really good!!, as another reviewer stated somewhere, its' worth having the DVD just for 'walk away renee'!! i'm supremely tired of 'gunslinger' electric guitarists, but thoroughly enjoyed the playing of bobby bandiera, GREAT horn section, too! southside ALSO can write; which i did not know!? -some of HIS songs are fine! i love the way his band sticks more to R&B/blues, than performing the 'anthem' style rock that bruce plays, (ding, ding, ding went the glockenspiel!) -but just to play devil's advocate, i HAVE never seen bruce LIVE! -nevertheless, i find it hard to believe i would like bruce's band as much as i like southside!!

Sehr geehrtes Team! Ich bin sehr zufrieden mit der gelieferten DVD. Hochachtungsvoll Bernd Heyer

It is a video dvd of incognito in concert and I enjoyed it very much. It is quite old which includes some of there old hits from the album 100 degrees and rising.

Great Rockin' New Orleans and Texas Blues music with a Great Beat! This was filmed in late 1991 in Germany while they were on tour in Europe. These ladies put on a Fabulous show that will leave you in Awe! They are that Good .Highly Recommended for Blues and early Rock'n'Roll fans.

Excellent produit, reçu très rapidement. Je vous en remercie. Musicalement, c'est très bon mais je suis un inconditionnel de Rick Vito. En visionnant ce DVD, on peut apprécier la technique de son jeu dans les premiers morceaux et c'est très enrichissant; A recommander à tous les amateurs de guitare.

タワー・オブ・パワーの９８年のライヴを収録しています。このシリーズはドイツのＴＶ音楽番組「Ohne Filter」の映像で貴重なものが多いのでファンは必見です。リージョンフリーなので日本のＤＶＤプレーヤーやＰＳ２で観れます。収録曲：1. Strokes 752. Souled Out3. I Like Your Style4. You Strike My Nerve5. East Bay Way6. Soul Vaccination7. What Is Hip?8. Squib Cakes9. Diggin' On James Brown10. Soul With A Capital "S"11. So I Got To Groove