Any ideas on where to find the original? Best of all, there's a wonderfully warm and open communal spirit evident throughout which in turn makes this picture a true joy to watch. Only Lemieux would know. How could these people play so wasted?) Interesting to hear that the Dead played better to their own fans! When the scene built I the 80's, I'm the only one I knew who had any knowledge that a festival express existed.Hopefully I still have the book. Despite the entire tour being filmed and recorded, very little of the Dead’s performances has come to light. Import New Clip; Locate Missing Clips; Create or Edit Disc; Manage Artist or Show; Leaderboard; Vitals; FAQ; Find. The movie evokes emotion and although the film is about sheer indulgence in the rock star lifestyle, partying on a train for a few weeks , it seriously made me want to be there to experience the summer of 1970 across Canada. People of the world, join the love train! I would have given my left arm to have been on that train but it wasn't to be.Let me tell you... this film just comes close - but no cigar - to how it REALLY was like to be there as it happened. Some of the most tremendous artists of the 60's all join together to have a mobile party that ran across Canada. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour boasting major acts like Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and The Band. I think I just found a rarity buried in the last 6 minutes of a 56-minute video from the Trans-Continental Pop Festival July 1970. It has a few things.One was one of those flimsy 45's that was Janis with Jorma singing some blues in 1964 or so. The footage was lost in legal proceedings for years, but ninety hours of raw negative and forty hours of uncut sound recording fortuitously found their way to the Budge Crawley vault in the National Archives of Canada. (Like a good bunch of Dead Heads).And while there we no real wildlife sightings, Jerry (of course), saw a black bear scratching his back on a tree from the caboose.I mentioned this account to Jerilyn Brandalias once and she was super excited. The filmmakers may not have film of the "who can deny, who can deny it's not just a change in style," verse, or their may have been other reasons, like cutting it short to fit it into the desired film length. Opinion from a complete non-fan of the music.... A singularly unique experience in the annals of rock n'roll! Festival Express This is a documentary based on footage shot when the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and others toured Canada by train in June/July 1970. Director Bob Smeaton keeps the pace hurtling along at the same constant speedy clip as the train and astutely nails a certain infectiously lowdown cool, breezy and mellow groovy vibe. This comment has been removed by the author. I'm that way myself. Robbie Robertson also shows up at 5:25. At times the performances are ragged and raw but they are so much more alive then the carefully balanced and perfectly structured shows of today. I attended the Toronto Festival Express show and recorded the whole thing on cassette. I'm 22, I didn't grow up with this stuff, my only knowledge of The Band is that Scorcese directed a film on their last concert. An excellent pulling together of it all, we know a lot more now than we did a week ago.One small correction to Deadlists and Slabicky. The Dead, Janis, The Band all had very good performances. I also have some Toronto newspaper clippings. What a trip! sums charged for the shows, so many people got in free and the promoters nearly lost their shirts. Made the correction, good catch. A Festival Express 2-DVD set with bonus material was released in November 2004. Some of the "travelogue" shots in the film could have been dumped to make more room for the music. With Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, The Band, Rick Danko. A true gift. I loved this film. I must say, Altamont it was not. This is a belated reply, but I've posted all the newspaper coverage of the Calgary show I could find here: http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2018/07/july-4-5-1970-mcmahon-stadium-calgary.html. There is a lengthy tape of one of the jam sessions on the train, with several guitarists & pedal steel: There seem to be lots of guitarists, and Garcia is on pedal steel through track 4. There was no second day in Calgary. Lusciously Lovely Leading Ladies), At the Movies: Collateral/Code 46/Stander/Little Black Book/Festival Express. Shobuz99. Band performs Organ Solo Outtakes on Festival Express, 1970. I actually ended up being a location music recording engineer for the past 40 years, doing major concerts and awards shows across Canada and the USA, though I've never worked with the Dead in any professional capacity, unfortunately. Both Janis and The Band played on the first and only night and they were the last two performers. Internet Movie Database. The musicians consented to an additional free show in Toronto. I was there at the Toronto performance(s). Since the Cold Jordan at the end of the film is identified as NRPS (and director Smeaton says he looked for footage but couldn't find it), it looks like the audio tape was labeled NRPS. One of the last great rockumentaries indeed! Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. The year was 1970. 1970. Festival Express. Use the HTML below. [Toronto Film Festival program leaflet] Garcia, Kreutzmann & Weir can also be seen in the nighttime jam with Ian & Sylvia doing CC Rider, probably the same day. Will report back if I find it. The Grateful Dead performs live at Winterland in San Francisco in October 1974. Picture and sound which has to be seen and heard to be believed, and best of all, the wonderfully detached humour the director brings to the forefront, this film, more than any other I've seen, lets us see for ourselves what the sixties were really like... Just caught this movie by the off chance at the Toronto film festival, it was a masterpiece. Add the first question. "Festival Express" is proof positive of this. The band is playing on a flatbed truck in a park, and the hairstyles are the same as in the 6/27/70 acoustic set footage seen in Festival Express but the clothes are different. These shots of Garcia were also used in the Hard to Handle on the film’s bonus DVD.). You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Anonymous. A few things I recall:Dawson was Janis' boy-toy on the train. I also have about 30 seconds of Super 8mm footage and audio of Jerry trying to calm the crowd down earlier in the day after some kid from the audience got up, grabbed a mic and said that "the cops are busting heads outside the stadium". The jamming was- wow.I wish we could have seen more of that. The set was short due to time constraints. Shot in picturesque Veneta, Oregon, this long-bootlegged recoding captures the Dead very... See full summary ». The bands travel to them in a train partying and jamming. 2) China Cat Sunflower-I Know You Rider 3) Me and My Uncle 4) Easy Wind 5) Cumberland Blues 6) Turn on Your Lovelight. I wasn't there but I grew up hearing music like this, and I thank my lucky stars for being around in that time.
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