Musicdvds Comedic Note Wilco Singer’S Solo Video Hits Funny Bone

WINNIPEG SUN AV Friday,October 27,2006 winnipegsun.canoe.ca 27 MusicDVDs Comedic Note Wilco singer’s solo video hits funny bone JEFF TWEEDY news.The bad news: The emphasis on certain artists Sunken Treasure Live in the seems lopsided — six songs Pacific Northwest from Buffet and only one from Nonesuch | Warner We’ve known for years that Elton? — and all the celebrity introductions interrupt the Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy was flow.Still,hardly a disaster. a brilliant songwriter. But #### BAD BRAINS here’s something we didn’t Darryl know: Dude is freaking GINGER BAKER Live at CBGB 1982 hilarious. Check out his Sterdan MVD concert DVD Sunken In Africa Live at CBGB 1982 features MUSIC Eagle Eye | EMI the world’s greatest hardcore Treasure Live in the Pacific Hippie rock stars + too Northwest and see if you FROM THE BIG APPLE TO THE reggae-punk band,captured much money – common at the height of their powers, don’t agree. Filmed during a sense = entertainment. solo acoustic jaunt earlier BIG EASY: THE CONCERT playing in the birthplace of Ginger Baker in Africa follows American punk rock,during a this spring, the 90-minute FOR NEW ORLEANS the former Cream drummer follows Tweedy and his guitar three-day Various Artists on a bizarre 1971 odyssey residency that from town to town as he Rhino | Warner through Northern Africa to strums Wilco numbers like As natural disasters go, spanned Nigeria, where he supposedly Christmas Eve Shot in the Arm, I am Trying Hurricane Katrina was a wanted to build a studio. to Break Your Heart, Heavy doozy.On the to Boxing Day Armed with a Range Rover,a of 1982.What Metal Drummer and War on plus side,so small camera crew and the War, along with the was the more could sort of wide-eyed innocence any punk fan occasional tune by his old benefit that would get you taken band Uncle Tupelo and his concert possibly hostage today, the ginger want? Except perhaps the side project Loose Fur. But captured on giant roams the Sahara, dazzling as these intimate From the Big other three hours of footage determinedly jamming with that were left on the cutting- performances are, his Apple to the amateur and professional between-song banter is Big Easy. This room floor to make this one- performers who all seem to hour DVD of Bad Brains almost as entertaining. two-disc set captures a have one thing in common — raising the roof at CBGB with a Whether he’s joking about massive,star-studded gig they’re set that includes Big Take his stint in rehab (“Maybe staged last fall at Madison tolerating his Over, Banned in D.C., Riot you heard about it … It was Square Garden.Naturally,it’s hamfisted Squad, Right Brigade and Pay on the crawl on MSNBC”), weighted toward New Orleans bashing on to Cum. I and I want more. bantering with a female fan talent,with performances by the off- ###1/2 who wants to marry him Crescent City icons like Allen chance he’ll (“You’d be soooo miserable”) Toussaint,Irma Thomas,Dirty give them JOY DIVISION | AC/DC: or convincing a crowd of Dozen Brass Band and The some money. chatty hipsters to “shut up Neville Brothers.Kindred Still, it’s hard BACK IN BLACK and listen — to me!”he spirits like John Fogerty and not to smile at Baker’s Under Review makes it clear he could have Jimmy Buffett also contribute, naivete — and at the live Chrome Dreams | MVD a pretty decent standup along with stars like Simon footage of an intense Fela Like all rockumentaries, career if this music thing and Garfunkel,Bette Midler, Kuti performance in a rain- how you feel about the British doesn’t work out. Diana Krall,Elvis Costello and soaked open-air club. series Under Review is likely a #### Elton John.That’s the good ### reflection of how you feel about the topics in question.If you’re a fan of Joy Division or AC/DC’s Back in Black — the HALLOWEEN FARE two latest subjects — you’ll see these exhaustively researched DVDs as compelling chronicles Hilarious Slither is slimy good fun of bands that managed to survive the Take zombies, alien worms oblivious to a meteor untimely and humans hideously crashing behind them deaths of their deformed by contact with (meteors being the chariot of singers.If,on same.Add gallons and choice for invading aliens). the other gallons of goo. Put those Meanwhile, Starla (Elizabeth hand,you’re ingredients in the hands of Banks) and her husband not geek-master James Gunn Grant (Michael Rooker) fight enamoured and let him infuse it with the over her not being in the with the same manic energy he wrote mood. Grant finds a more minutiae of doomed into the Dawn of the Dead willing participant in Brenda Manchester post-punk Ian remake.The result is Slither, (Brenda James), and heads Curtis’s life — or interested in a hilarious, self-referential to the woods, where they hearing wanky British critics neo-Body Snatchers, which stumble across the remains put AC/DC’s finest album takes the mickey out of the of the meteor and the world’s under a microscope for nearly alien-monster genre the way biggest maggot. One spiny two hours — you’ll probably Scream did slasher films. dart later,the game is afoot. think Under Review is too Moreover,for the kind of Slither aspires to be slimy obsessed for its own good. horror geek who keeps the Slither opens with two fun on a stick — and it Either way,you’d be right. Scream channel in business, dreary cops conversing succeeds. Joy Division: ### it’s a reference fest. inanely in their cruiser, - Sun Media AC/DC: ##1/2.

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