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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


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