![]() A pair of albums in 1970, Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, focused on acoustic guitars and rustic Americana, and Europe ’72 beautifully extended those songwriting ideas into an expansive live setting. Their live prowess put them on the map first (1969’s Live/Dead was an instant classic), but the Dead revealed themselves as songwriters of the first order in their second decade. A gritty Merle Haggard cover might be followed by a dark and spacey interlude that would stretch on for half an hour. From the beginning, they were renowned for their thick stew of influences-rock, jazz, bluegrass, country, experimental composition-and skill at in-the-moment creation. Indeed, the group’s relationship to that fanbase-their faithful were officially known as Deadheads by the early ’70s-is arguably their most significant legacy, fostering innovations like open tape-trading and the use of the internet to share information. But the Dead would acquire a devoted cult all their own, one that transcended both the geography and the era. ![]() The band-Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron McKernan, Phil Lesh, and Bill Kreutzmann-emerged from the same psychedelic San Francisco milieu that birthed Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape, and the group’s shared house near the corner of Haight and Ashbury during 1967’s Summer of Love became a focal point for the scene. Overall the set is a *** to ****, so just scrapes a ****.The Grateful Dead expanded rock’s horizons with long jams and fierce improvisation, but they also turned their communal aesthetic into a way of life. The second is simply a prison riot that lacks tension and no Seagal. The first is a kind of ‘XxX’ or ‘Fast & Furious’ style action movie but without the cars, blended with almost any Seagal movie, so if you liked those or are a Seagal fan the first might suit you, if not, don’t bother as it’s unlikely to please as realism takes a back seat to action. A lack-lustre follow-up rating a poor **. The first film was fast paced, the second much slower and lacking atmosphere instead relying on swearing rather than action and the script has a number of errors including the gold was actually recovered in the first film. The main menu offering play, audio set up, subtitles and scene selection. Plenty of action and a thumping soundtrack make this a grudging ***** view.ĭisc 2 holds the 2007 sequel in which Twitch from the original is transferred to another prison where he finds himself in the middle of a gang war between the Black and Hispanic inmates but things get even more complicated as Twitch's real reason for his transfer is to find the gold from the heist that featured in the original film. The main menu offers play, audio set up, subtitles, scene selection, special features and trailers. The plot is basic but there are a few good twists and some sub-plots. This is a 2 disc set with each disc holding either the original film or the sequel.ĭisc 1 holds the original 2002 movie in which Sasha Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal) is a car thief but things go bad, Sasha gets shot and ends up in prison alongside Lester McKenna (Bruce Weitz), an old man who stole $200,000,000 worth of gold bricks and hid the loot at an unknown location, but he’s scheduled to be executed. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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