Festival Express

Festival Express

By Bob Smeaton & Frank Cvitanovich

  • Genre: Music Documentaries
  • Release Date: 2014-04-29
  • Advisory Rating: R
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Director: Bob Smeaton & Frank Cvitanovich
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, Netherlands
  • iTunes Price: USD 7.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
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7.1
From 22 Ratings

Description

In the summer of 1970, some of the era’s biggest rock stars took to the rails for Festival Express, a multi-artist, multi-city concert tour that captured the spirit and imagination of a generation. What made it unique was that it was portable; for five days, the bands and performers lived, slept, rehearsed and let loose aboard a customized train that traveled from Toronto, to Winnipeg, to Calgary, with each stop culminating in a mega-concert. The entire experience was filmed both off-stage and on, but the extensive footage and sound tapes of the events remained locked away for decades, only recently having been rediscovered andrestored. The film Festival Express is a momentous achievement in rock film archaeology which combines the long-lost material with contemporary interviews that add important context to the event nearly 35 years after originally being filmed.

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  • Exceptional Footage

    5
    By menominee
    Often forgotten about, this tour while not the most spectacular, is a rare glimpse into the past of bands like the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, and many more. The highlights for this Dead Head is the chance to see Jerry in his prime. There’s almost no color footage of the Grateful Dead in before the late 80s. All we really have are these recordings, Beat Club, Bremen 1972, Winterland 1974 (I would love a complete recordings + dvd box Dave, wink) and closing of Winterland 1978. Not much else is circulating, making this movie solid gold.

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