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JOE CURTIS REVIEWS
"Leon Russell fans have a very special treat in store for them with the recent release of the concert DVD 'Out of the Deep Freeze' The Lost Reels. These 'lost reels' are just that, rare and wonderful lost performances from Russell's live 1972 performances in Anaheim and Long Beach, California, as well as Charlotte, NC. They've been painstakingly restored and blended into one concert performance by film maker Jeff Haas. Through this rare film footage, we can visit the '72 era of outdoor concerts and psychedelia like a trip through the 'Time Tunnel' of 1960s TV fame. It's just like being there, as opposed to, looking back to, the time when all this was new and groovin' 'Deep Freeze' is a rare and wonderful visual and listening experience filled with hallucinatory-like super-imposed images here and there of Russell and his Shelter People band. It also features superb audio reproduction that mesmerizes and dazzles the senses.
This talent is not to be missed, either in this masterpiece of early '70s concert presentation on the Deep Freeze DVD, or anywhere this living legend of all that is music, performs in his still incredibly enjoyable and highly entertaining live concerts around the world.
This writer saw Leon Russell perform live in '72 and again this year in 2011 .. and there's nothing like it. Nothing like an incredible show the way Leon and his amazingly good band perform .. tight, energetic and always mesmerizing and hard-to-believe good! It's not often that this writer attends a concert of such monumental importance and entertainment as one that Leon Russell gives .. but this is it. He had it in '72 on this DVD, and continues in that same vein of excellence in musicianship and likeable personality now part way into the 2nd millenium. That's the kind of talent that's a gift from God, as is this very fine performance brought to us through the magic of live film footage and the painstaking restoration of Jeffery Haas and his devotion of showing off Leon Russell at his very best.
To own this DVD is to own a piece of the past that lives now as it did then .. with vigor, life and the best enjoyment and creativity in music there is. Please do yourselves a favor and add this superb live Leon Russell 'Deep Freeze' DVD to your collection. You won't be sorry .. you'll just be very, very happy you did!"
by Joe Curtis
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Culture Shock - (A blast from the past)
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