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* Crosby, Stills & Nash - Acoustic DVD
The soaring, unmistakable harmonies of Crosby, Stills & Nash bring to life one classic song after another in Acoustic, the unique concert DVD of their greatest hits. This footage was captured live at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater in November 1991

* The Concert for Bangladesh (Limited Deluxe Edition) DVD
Before We Are the World, before the Amnesty International concerts, before
Live Aid, Live 8,
46664, and all the
other charitable and/or political events that have used popular music as their principal draw, there was George Harrison's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, a stirring affair
released here in a fine two-disc set.

* Berkeley in the Sixties DVD
A moving documentary about the 1960s social, political and sexual revolution at the University of California at Berkeley. The documentary traces the anti-war protest movement, the free speech movement, civil rights protests and the formation of the women's movement. Director Mark Kitchell interweaves archival footage with interviews with key leaders of the movement. The soundtrack includes Joan Baez, Mario Savio, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, Jimi Hendrix and The Grateful Dead. "Probably the best documentary on the sixties to date" ...Village Voice Review.

* An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson DVD
A concert recorded an evening in March this year on the Great Stage at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Wilson himself performed several of his classic songs. Extras include interviews and a photo gallery.

* Eric Clapton - Unplugged DVD
This video is a great capture of the MTV unplugged concert.
A must have for all Clapton fans.

* The Doors Collection (Collector's Edition) DVD
This is a must-have disc for anyone who's ever been mesmerized by Jim Morrison and the late-1960s, early-'70s rock phenomenon known as the Doors. It's quite simply the finest audio-visual source of Doors music and history, presented with the full participation of the band's surviving members (Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, John Densmore) and featuring a variety
of bonus features. .--Jeff Shannon

Live at Winterland '68
CD
Historical Footage, interviews and songs from the far-out original San Francisco psychedelic band.

*Rockin' Down The Highway: The Wildlife Concert DVD
It doesn't matter if you got the Doobie Brothers late in the summer of '72 when they had their first hit "Listen To The Music,", or your folks raised you on a steady diet of Doobie's tunes, or you're a Doobie-come-lately, everybody loves the Doobies. In May of 1996 the Doobie Brothers reunited to record and film a special concert, Rockin' Down The Highway: The Wildlife Concert, which benefits the Wildlife Conservation Society

.* The Man Who Fell to Earth (Special Edition)
DVD 1976 Rated:R
David Bowie plays the alien of the title, who arrives on Earth with hopes of finding a way to save his own planet from turning into an arid wasteland. The Man Who Fell to Earth is definitely not for every taste--it's a highly contemplative, primarily visual experience that Roeg directs as an abstract treatise on (among other things) the alienating effects of an over-commercialized society...Jeff Shannon

* Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back DVD Three decades since its initial theatrical run, Pennebaker's legendary film returns to the screen offering a behind-the-scenes account of a young Bob Dylan. Shot during Dylan's spring 1965 tour of England.

* The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over DVD Don Henley, Glen Frey, Timothy Schmit, Joe Walsh and Don Felder never sounded better. Performances of the classics, Hotel California, Take It Easy, are pure quality. Country song, Girl From Yesterday is perfection.

* Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) DVD
Pink Floyd filmed playing live, October 1971, in an ampitheatre in Pompeii at the ancient Roman amphitheatre,
amid the ruins of Pompeii, which lies in the shadow of the still-active volcano of Mount Vesuvius.
Original release date: 1974

* Ella Fitzgerald - Something to Live For DVD
Created nearly four years after Ella Fitzgerald's death, Zwerin's film uses the lush voice and superb repertoire of "the First Lady of Song" as wel as archival footage of early performances, and later television appearances,to capture Ella's pilgrimage from Depression-era New York, through her discovery at the Apollo Theater and subsequent emergence as a swing vocalist and on to her long career as a matchless pop and jazz stylist

* Fly Jefferson Airplane DVD
Eagle vision and Ravin' Films collaborated to create the first Jefferson Airplane DVD. On the DVD is some never before seen concert footage, interviews
and rare photographs!

* The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concerts (4CD-Boxset

* Get Ready: Definitive
Performances 1965-1972
- The Temptations [DVD](2006)

* Marvin Gaye - Greatest Hits Live
in '76 DVD
The Prince of Motown left behind a soul music legacy that is still unequaled to this day. This is one of the few documents of Gaye's charismatic live performances, Gaye's ebullient presence shines convincingly through. Gaye, ever smiling, floats effortlessly through
23 of his '60s and early '70s

* The Grateful Dead Movie(1976)
DVD
The only Grateful Dead video to have received a theatrical release (in the mid-'70s), this film is a real time capsule. See Keith and Donna Godcheaux as integral parts of the band! See the Wall of Sound! See the trippy animation! See Jerry with all-black hair! The photography and sound are crude and not on par with those in some of the more recent Dead videos, notably Ticket to New Year's or Downhill from Here, but its earnestness, and its focus on an era in the Band's history with little other video documentation, more than make up for the lack of polish. There's some above-average music, too, especially "Eyes of the World" and the ever-irresistible "U.S. Blues."
--Anne Hurley

* Grateful Dead - View from the Vault 1-3DVD This three DVD set contains one each of: "View From The Vault I," "View From The Vault II," and "View From The Vault III 650 minutes

* Procol Harum
Live at the Union Chapel DVD
This DVD also includes bonus interviews, tour footage and commentaries. Recorded live at the Union Chapel in Islington, North London, on 12 December 2003. Procol Harum has bucked the trend for 5 decades by creating some of the most thought provoking music ever recorded.

* A Night at the Family Dog 1970 (The Grateful Dead / Jefferson Airplane / Santana) DVD
Filmed on location at the Family Dog Ballroom in San Francisco in September, 1970, the show captures the heyday and diversity of the San Francisco sound with three of the most well known bands to emerge from the scene.

* Festival Express DVD
Finally released at the Toronto Film Fest in 2003, this 90-minute film by Canadian director Bob Smeaton documents the legendary 1970 tour with The Band, The Grateful Dead, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Ian and Sylvia, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Tom Rush, Buddy Guy, Eric Andersen, Mountain, Ten Years After, Traffic, Seatrain, Charlebois, James and the Good Brothers, Cat Mashmakan and The Modern Rock Quartet.

* Elvis - The '68 Comeback Special (Deluxe Edition DVD)
Originally telecast December 3, 1968, as simply Elvis. At the time, Presley was a rock-'n'-roll memory. He labored in an increasingly hokey Hollywood career while the '60s British invasion, garage rock, and psychedelic movements made his hip-swiveling '50's persona seem woefully uncool. This '68 Comeback Special re-established his position as rock royalty.

* Jazz on a Summer's Day/A Summer's Day With Bert Stern DVD
Part concert documentary, part pop-cultural time capsule, Bert Stern's Jazz on a Summer's Day chronicles the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with an approach as deceptively relaxed, even impulsive, as the music itself. He documents American jazz at a notably golden moment in its development--diverse, adventurous, and still broadly popular, this was jazz not yet under the shadow of rock and youth culture, played by an integrated artistic community a few short years away from social and political turmoil that would boil divisively to the surface during the '60s.

* Jesus Christ Superstar (Special Edition)1973 DVD
If you were a hippie, you'd understand. JC Superstar was a box office failure and a spectacular generational success. This was typical of the times-- the Vietnam-era, them-vs.-us schism between ''regular'' society and us long-haired rabble-rousing free-love dope-smoking troublemaking hippies. JC Superstar was the first time anyone dared consider Jesus as a very ''human'' kind of person-- with fears, uncertainly, even a lack of faith on occasion, just like anyone else. The film had cutting edge choreography, great music with incredible lyrics, and just enough experimental cinematographic efforts to make a hippie smile and their parents shake their heads... Rad Delaroderie

* Jimi Plays Berkeley DVD
This critically acclaimed performance is considered to be one of the best of the legendary guitar player's career. The show was taped on May 30, 1970, at the Berkeley Community Center during the Cry of Love tour. The 55-minute release features Billy Cox on bass, and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The band performs a number of Hendrix classics, including "Johnny B. Good," "Hear My Train a Comin'," "Purple Haze," "I Don't Live Today," "Hey Baby (New Rising Son)," "Lover Man," and, of course, Jimi's rendition of the "Star Spangled Banner."

* Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser DVD
1989 The executive producer of this exemplary documentary about jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk is Clint Eastwood. Great 1968 footage, shot by Michael and Christian Blackwood, documents Monk in the studio, on tour, and off stage, which on its own would make this essential jazz viewing.

* Rebel Music - The Bob Marley Story DVD
tells the fascinating and heart-wrenching story of legendary reggae superstar Bob Marley, his extraordinary life and revolutionary music. A gifted musician, an inspired poet, and a prophet of peace who fervently decried the injustices of all people by remaining true to his roots, , his life was claimed by cancer in 1981 at the age of 36

* Stepping Razor Red X DVD
As a member of the Wailers with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer and as an artist in his own right, Peter Tosh is widely considered one of the most influential figures the reggae world has ever seen. He was referred to as"the Malcom X to former bandmate Bob Marley's Martin Luther King, Jr"

* * The Complete Monterey Pop Festival - Criterion Collection(1968) DVD
Many legends of rock held their debut performances there, in front of an international audience, including Janis Joplin (who had not been heard outside San Francisco), the Who and Jimi Hendrix (who had been heard only in England at that time), and the San Francisco psychedelic pioneers (Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and the Fish, even Moby Grape).

* The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection DVD
1970 Gimme Shelter has a double meaning: it's the title of a Rolling Stones song, and the feeling one has after witnessing this disturbing documentary. Filmmakers Albert Maysles and David Maysles concentrated his fly-on-the-wall cameras on the Stones' most fateful gig: the 1969 free concert at California's Altamont Speedway. To maintain crowd control, the Stones made the fatal error of engaging the services of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang. The chaotic results included the fatal stabbing of a spectator, which was recorded on film.

* 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut) DVD
It was 1969 -- the Summer of Love -- and some 400,000 people gathered on a farm in upstate New York to get down and naked to the music of Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, Arlo Guthrie, David Crosby, and many, many others. This was more than just a music festival. It was a three-day celebration of the counterculture and everything for which it stood.