Tommy Castro - Live at the Fillmore [VHS]

Tommy Castro - Live at the Fillmore [VHS]

Tommy Castro - Live at the Fillmore [VHS]
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Actor: Tommy Castro
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, Live, NTSC
Running Time: 60 minutes
Release Date: 2000-02-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Blind Pig
Studio: Blind Pig

VHS Movie Reviews of Tommy Castro - Live at the Fillmore [VHS]

Movie Review: Great Player!!
Summary: 4 Stars

Not his best show ever but compared to some other "blues bands" on the road it's a strong 11. Band is tight, vocals are spot on and his style is electric. Good video and sound for the venue. One of my most "watched" at parties videos. Stellar on our 52 inch plasma!

Movie Review: Half Live at the Filmore.
Summary: 4 Stars

I'm a big Tommy Castro fan, especially the earlier stuff and that's what you get here. Tommy and the band sound great, the sound mix is good but what disappoints is that you only get half or part of the show, just 10 songs with total running time less than a hour long. The extra's include some bio stills and a short six minute interview with Tommy and not much else. The set list could have been much stronger, but again keep in mind this is not the entire concert. I enjoy this disc more each time I play it and I suggest if you're a fan to check it out anyway and enjoy the show.

Movie Review: If you like the blue's ....
Summary: 3 Stars

I'm not sure ... I've listened to Tommy Castro for a long time, so I figured I'd get this video. Just seems to be lacking something, but is still most enjoyable.

Movie Review: EXCELLENT SOUND MIX, BEST NEW ACT ON THE BLUES SCENE
Summary: 5 Stars

This is my favorite band. I love my Stevie Ray Vaughn stuff, but it's tough to not have anything new come out of your favorite artist, like ever again. With the Tommy Castro band I'm able to see how they change as time goes on. A great live band, this DVD catches some of their great hits with incredible sound. Make sure you have the 5.1 audio mix on, it literally sounds like you're there. My favorite performance on this disc is 'Nobody Loves Me Like My Baby', which didn't make it onto the CD version. Likewise I was disappointed though to find that they didn't include 'sex machine' by James Brown on the DVD, which was on the CD release of this live performance.

Movie Review: Great performance
Summary: 5 Stars

Tommy Castro revisit for us the soul music and the rock music in a great performing show, with a very efficacious rhythmics section. A great moment of happiness.

Summary of Tommy Castro - Live at the Fillmore [VHS]

This muscular set of soul-edged electric blues offers encouraging evidence of the ongoing survival instincts for modern bluesmen: decades after the first assurances that the blues were dead, modern interpreters continue to pack concert halls and, now, buttress their audio recordings with computer-friendly extras (as on the companion CD culled from the same performances) and DVDs mixed with true 5.1 sound.

If Castro's record company is augmenting the presentation to keep pace with the times, this San Francisco-based guitarist and singer otherwise delivers a no-frills package that works confidently within the more upbeat end of the blues spectrum. Shorn of explicit scholarship or careful allusions to regional parent styles, this is proudly blue-collar blues rock designed purely for partying. With his short, slicked-back hair and a buffed-up physique clad in black slacks and polo shirt, Castro doesn't resemble anybody you'd expect to find in the smoky juke joints or shotgun shacks of blues lore; his athletic performing style and grinning ebullience likewise seem incongruous if considered in the context of traditional blues' more harrowing, confessional standards. There isn't a hellhound in sight, but then Castro's enthusiastic Fillmore audience clearly couldn't care less.

In fact, Castro and his quartet (covering bass, drums, and tenor sax) flex a sturdy, if generic, blues style that reaches for the same '60s soul economy audible in the early sound of Robert Cray, whose own career began with the sort of pumped-up bar band aesthetic that Castro plies here. Like Cray, Castro's songbook is largely preoccupied with sex and heartbreak, albeit without the lyric invention that Cray and original collaborator Dennis Walker achieved. From a technical standpoint, the show is well shot and cleanly recorded, its surround mix simply adding ambience to the traditional stage mix presented by front and center channels. Those familiar with Castro and the CD version of the same show will note that Blind Pig uses a slightly different song list here; it's worth pondering whether the DVD, which clocks in at just 60 minutes, would have been improved by including the other songs available on CD but not here. --Sam Sutherland

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