Phil Upchurch – Ohne Filter (Concert
Series)
Picture: C Sound: B- Extras: C+ Concert: B-
Phil
Upchurch is yet another session musician getting his due in this DVD
installment of the German TV concert series Ohne Filter, this time taped
October 28th, 1992. Yet
another good Blues guitar player, the famous session player has played for a
huge roster of the tip name in the music business and even scored a Top 30 Pop
single back in 1961!
Well,
he’s looking good and playing at least as well on the following songs:
1)
6
To 4
2)
Invitation
3)
1225
4)
Blues
March
5)
Whatever
Happened To The Blues?
6)
The
Tide Keeps Lifting Me
7)
Angel
Eyes
8)
I
Don’t Want Nobody
It never
ceases to amaze me the dozens of Blues titles that just keep coming out on DVD,
while many of them have been among the over two-dozen Ohne Filter releases we
have covered to date. Still, it does
not feel like any kind of comeback for Blues, but too often a substitute for
those who are unhappy with the decline of Rock and are not going to settle for
second-rate candy-coated Country. Gavin
Christopher is the guest lead singer, bringing a dynamic that is not stuck in
any genre, joining the set half way through.
The 1.33
X 1 full frame PAL color video is one of the softest installments we have seen
in the Ohne Filter DVD series to date, with color a bit off and
very limited definition. The
sound is available in the usual PCM CD-type 2.0 16bit/48kHz Stereo, as well as
a very slightly better Dolby Digital 5.1 AC-3, which combine either way to make
you feel like something happened to the picture. Besides repeating the same stereo cords ad placement, other DVDs
in the series, and Ohne Filter
producer interview, it has a biography of Upchurch as par for the course in
this series.
- Nicholas Sheffo
