Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working: Rare Performances 1968-1978 [VHS]
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Actor: Muddy WatersEdition: VHS Tape
Format: Best of, Black & White, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 55 minutes
Release Date: 1999-10-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Yazoo
Studio: Yazoo
VHS Movie Reviews of Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working: Rare Performances 1968-1978 [VHS]
Movie Review: Muddy A Little Muddy
Summary: 3 Stars
Recently I watched this German cinema produced film concert documentary compilation as a companion piece to the documentary of Muddy's life- "Muddy Waters Can't Be Satisfied". If you need background about the life and work of this important blues artist and innovator check out my review of it in this space. And get the film. If you just need a flat out "short course" in the electric blues of Mr. Muddy Waters and his various bands then this is the ticket. Some of the concert material is so-so, some is excellent. What you want to get this one for though is his incredible extended version of "Mannish Boy". Hoochie Coochie Man, indeed.Movie Review: Great Footage of a Legend
Summary: 5 Stars
Guitar players can learn a lot from this video. Great footage of Mud in several live performances. A must have.Movie Review: Great picture,horrible sound
Summary: 3 Stars
A chance to see Muddy Waters perform live is always welcome,however upon putting this disc in my machine i was extremly shocked at the sound quality.I have some of this footage from other sources (Japenese Laserdisc and foreign rebroadcasts on private vhs tapes)and they sound great,I have no idea how the producers of this disc have massacred it,but it was a GREAT dissapointment when I know what it should have been.Be warned if you purchase this.Movie Review: Buy only the VHS tape and not the DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
Muddy Waters is Muddy Waters regardless of the quality of the recorded sound. He is the MASTER. The producers of this tape could have spent some time getting a better recorded mix. The VHS tape has liner notes where the DVD doesn't. This is living history. The MASTER at work. This is recorded documented proof that a blues band can work with three guitar players at the same time. A "MUST HAVE" for any real true blue BLUES fan.Movie Review: Very disappointing. No effort to remix the music
Summary: 3 Stars
I would only recommend this DVD to hard-core blues fans. It is only because I am such a fan of the Blues that I gave 3 stars. Yes, Muddy Waters is a true blues legend, I would never dispute his talent. However, the producers of this DVD did not make any effort to remix the sound. Every song, even those from the late 70's, sounds like the band is playing in a tin can. There are better blues DVD's to buy before this one.Also, there is absolutely no information with this DVD. If you want to know who the band members are, you are out of luck.
Muddy Waters deserved MUCH better than this DVD offers.
If you are interested in a quality re-mixed DVD, then I highly recommend "Blues Masters". Muddy in on this DVD and the sound is outstanding.
Summary of Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working: Rare Performances 1968-1978 [VHS]
Die-hard Muddy Waters fans will welcome this 12-song, 54-minute compilation of excellent live performances, but for an introduction to the legendary bluesman's music, blues neophytes may wish to look elsewhere (perhaps to In Concert 1971). Culled from three separate videotaped concerts for German television (from 1968, '74, and '78), these recordings are modest in quality (mono mixed for two-channel stereo), while the visuals provide routine two- or three-camera studio coverage. But these are indeed "rare performances" as the packaging promises, and they show Muddy Waters and his exceptional hand-picked sidemen in the prime of their latter-day incarnations, after acknowledgement by the Rolling Stones and other fast-rising rockers led to Muddy's renaissance period as the father of modern blues.The indisputable highlight here is the '78 performance of "Mannish Boy," in which Muddy rips into a gospel-like delivery of one of his greatest signature songs. Pianist Pinetop Perkins joins in for a fun romp on "Caldonia" (giving a bluesy alternative to the better-known Louis Jordan versions), and Muddy's slide guitar (particularly on the title track) is as good as it ever was. Likewise for his vocals--they grew richer, deeper, and more commanding with age. It's a shame this Shanachie/Yazoo DVD doesn't provide liner notes or details about these specific performances, but this is electric blues in its purest form, from its purest practitioner, and we can be grateful these recordings have survived for posterity. --Jeff Shannon
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