Was wondering if anyone else has checked out this DVD, I got it yesterday and its great. Some great performaces by the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Flying Burito Bros, the Band, and Buddy Guy. In one scene it almost looked like one of the shows would turn into a scene from Altamont but its cops beating up fans and Jerry Garcia tries to calm everyone down. This is a great DVD if anyone is looking for new stuff.

I hear the dvd has alot of extra footage.
How is the sound quality?

It is superb, very natural & warm. The Band are really hot. Gram Parsons & the Burrittos, Delaney & Bonnie, etc - highly recommended. Many impromptu jams while on that train...

Okay! Sounds like a must have. Thanx John!

It is a great DVD for anyone who likes any of those bands, the sound quality is also great throughout the whole DVD.

How was Janis? She was supposed to be at her best on that tour! She played Seattle Sicks Stadium, you know. I spoke to a lady who worked for a radio station. She and Janis sat on a blanket after Janis's show. All Janis could say was, "The sun was in my eyes and I couldn't see the crowd!" The lady said Janis was really sweet and totally the opposite of the 'star' that one would expect from a singer who, at that time, blew the world away. Too bad she blew herself away a couple of months later in a hotel room in Los Angeles.

"The wonder of Jimi Hendrix was that he could stand up at all he was so pumped full of drugs." Patsy, Patsy Stone

Great film if you like music from that period. Loved the part where they stopped the train to buy all that booze from a bemused shopkeeper. Gerry Garcia is great too asking the crowd for 5 minutes of "coolness" and then getting the Dead to play for free to pacify the morons outside who didnt believe in paying for music. Interesting that most of the musicians seemed to be on the side of the police when the trouble erupted and and had no time for the troublemakers. A lot of events were nearly ruined during that period by people who refused to pay for entertainment based on some utopian principle that these gigs should be free - basically they were gatecrashers and a pain in the arse.

Andy

Janis was the star of the film: absolutely incendiary though nearly everyone was great apart from the doo wop band in gold lame outfits. Excellent jamming and hanging out scenes on the train. Everyone seemed to have such a great time, it really made you wish you were there.

John R - I might be wrong but I don't think Gram was in the film. Wasn't it the burritos after Gram had left? (still good though)

haven't watched the DVD - but saw it in the theaters - better than Woodstock movie - and one of the best all-time movies about rock'n'roll ever, IMO. A must-see. Band's performance is one of their best. Janis is good (not her best) and Buddy Guy is mind-blowing.

Buddy Guy is great, he sings with such passion and his guitar playing is mind blowing.

Not surprising the muscians side w/the police. I mean "Music should be free, like the air" is pure 60s excess (or post 60s). And they play for the'people' who demand it, to keep trouble minimized, but then there are the thousands who paid for tix. Beyond the great music & artists, it captures the counter-culture at a weird point - 1970 - when it was really imploding.



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Saw this recently - Good stuff and a nice picture of 1970.

Wow are things that slow. We are digging up old bones tonight?

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

One of my favorite things to do on here. Thanks for noticing! I'm out!

john r Wrote:
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> It is superb, very natural & warm. The Band are
> really hot. Gram Parsons & the Burrittos, Delaney
> & Bonnie, etc - highly recommended. Many impromptu
> jams while on that train...

Maybe I'm losing my mind, but as I recall Gram wasn't in the film.

And Delaney and Bonnie are only seen jamming on the train, not performing on stage.

But the Dead were great. Sang in tune and everything.

No Grams, lots of grams though.

Wow, saw this post with my name on it and thought I was seeing things. Long time ago I started this thread..

The Janis footage is priceless. She is fun, energetic, positive and imminently REAL. When she is "on" she is fearless, completely out on the limb, tears her heart out and leaves blood on the stage. This country has produced no better blues and soul singer. When she does "Ball & Chain" she gives me goosebumps.

Buddy Guy rocked and The Band were very good. Loved the drunken Rick Danko strumming on the train singing with joplin.

This dvd has some of the best footage of some fantastic bands available. No Gram with the FBB, but you can't have it all. Great to see the Dead with Pigpen, The Band rock it up and Janis has it dialed up. The train footage with the jams is also worth the price of admission. Buddy Guy shows what made him famous. Music fans should have this one in their collection.

Any footage of Sam Cutler?

Yeah, very nice DVD.

Brings back those days . .

Mashmakhan was a great band.