This 2 DVD set focuses on 2 performances that have been chosen by Van to create his first ever DVD release. Dating from 1974 and 1980, they illustrate the evolution of his songwriting over this period and include many of his best loved tracks.
In an empty, abandoned linoleum factory, west of London, some of the legends of rock, blues and jazz were brought together for an historic and amazing session. Who was there? Eric Clapton was, and Jack Bruce and Buddy Guy, meeting Eric for the first time in what was to be a long relationship of the two greatest blues guitarists of a generation. Great drummers Buddy Miles and John Hiseman and the
enigmatic superstar Stephen Stills. The extraordinary jazz legend Roland Kirk plays with his Quartet and then jams with the rockers. The Modern Jazz quartet, one of the greatest ensembles in the history of modern music, add an ethereal, spacey calm to the
proceedings. Only to have it shattered by Buddy, Jack, Buddy, Dick Heckstall-Smith, jumping on Mary Had A Little Lamb! A powerful, haunting recording of one of the last great sixties musical events.
Prog-rockers Yes return to the stage in this 2003 performance at the Montreux Festival. Though decades may have passed since the group’s heyday in the 1970s, Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Chris Squire, and Alan White have lost none of their edge. Laying into deep cuts like Siberian Khatru, Long Distance Runaround and I’ve Seen All Good People this group of grizzled legends delivers a smoldering rock performance.
Frank Zappa?? acclaimed film Baby Snakes on DVD for the first time. Baby Snakes provides on and offstage glimpses of arcane behavior engaged in by Zappa and fellow musicians. Winning first prize at The First International Festival of Musical Films in 1981, and First Prize in a French Animation Film Competition, Baby Snakes became an instant cult hit when it premiered at the Victoria Theatre in Times Square NYC during Christmas week of 1979, the film ran 24 hours a day throughout the week. Starring Frank Zappa with musicians Adrian Belew, Terry Bozzio, Patrick O’Hearn, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Peter Wolf and Roy Estrada, assisted by the legendary John Smothers and New York’s Finest Crazy Persons.