New release: 'Festival Express' 1970 tour - Joplin, Dead, The Band

[Atlas Mugged]

http://theband.hiof.no/films/festival_express.html

I'm a bit startled by all of the amazing stuff being released on DVD all of a sudden.

[knowbody0]

1. lots of stuff started in the 70's just wasn't finished

today is sureal for me

[clover]

2. janis said, if i remember an old recording that i had and lost,

made during the train trip : "it's all the same fucking day, man."

[murielm99]

4. I have that recording!

And all the Janis vinyl, too.

She also said something similar in a Newsweek interview. To her, it was ALWAYS the same fuckin' day. That, and "get it while you can" sums up Janis' philosophy.

[Fenris]

3. I saw it in the theater a few weeks ago.

I'm not even really a fan of any of those bands but I loved the movie. There's a scene on the train in which Rick Danko and Janis Joplin duet drunkenly while Jerry Garcia plays lead. In the haze of all those drugs and alcohol, Garcia didn't miss a fucking note. Incredible. Definitely worthwhile movie.

[sangh0]

5. Janis is INSPIRING on that

Her performance makes it clear in a way her recordings didn't.

Janis rocks!