jbow
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I wish they would release the complete footage from The Atlanta Pop Festival and Woodstock, I don't care if it takes three days to watch it.. I would be interested in seeing everything instead of some polished short segment that someone else decides is good. Never gonna happen is it?
You and I both. The redo of the Woodstock added a minute of Janis but cut it off when she went crazy because they didn't want us to see her "losing it" ... she's not losing it ... she's screaming EXACTLY what we have forgotten to do! To love!
There are other moments ... the Incredible String Band got boo'd off the stage, either before or after a better known American band, but the timing was so bad ... and the folks needed something else, and on a kinda prime time, they ... took a nasty spill! SAD ... very sad ... because their "theater", while a bit on the hippie side of things is very nice and well meaning. If you catch the DVD for the show (that has no ending), you will find that there are nice things in there ... but instead it got thrown into a bad time slot, and no one remembers it, or cares. Robin says the music was fine otherwise.
I find, and maybe I'm a bit paranoid about these things, but I think all music deserves a chance, but some audiences are ... ridiculous, and this one showed it at the end ... garbage! And how much they cared for the music. To me the greatest single "image" in my life! Too many folks don't care.
The other thing is the long cuts that the Grateful Dead had. They probably started the "progressive thing" way before anyone else, but wht they were known for, has NEVER been released, because of the record companies that only wanted songs. We haven't even started discussing the black music in the 1950's and early 60's that the movie studios made sure they could kill, (... see Tom Dowd DVD), and not compete with their own movie artists!
Movie watch time ... look for "Stamping Ground" (was the old title)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245240/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm