SnoopyStyle In 1970, various musicians, their support and a film crew travel after a festival in Toronto to festivals in Winnipeg and Calgary on a chartered train. Some of the musicians include The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy and Sha Na Na. It's five days of music, drinking, drugs and hard partying. There are also protesters demanding free concerts and ticket sales suffered. This is both a concert movie and shows the action on the train. "Woodstock was a treat for the audience, and the train was a treat for the performers." The music on the train is a bit different than the concerts with various groups jamming. The money talk is a bit of a bummer. For me, the highlight is Janis Joplin's concert performance which is electric as always. She also does jam out like so many others. The train looks like insanely fun and is truly behind the scenes. The greatness comes from these artists spending extended time together.

donbanf Just watched this last night, found it to be extremely interesting for myself and anyone who is interested in music of this era. Thank you DJ whose name I can't remember from KFOG here in SF Bay Area for mentioning this movie on the air the other day. I recalled I had heard of this movie and never saw it and forgot all about it. This was almost like a little "mini Woodstock" or Monterey Pop with some of the same artists. As vdg comments here, "More more please!" I couldn't agree more. At the end of this DVD, you just wish it could go on and that there was more concert footage. Amazing footage of Janis Joplin, close up, so close you can see her skin complexion. Amazing too to see Jerry Garcia and others when they were SO young and getting to hear a bit of conversation with them and hearing their thoughts about music and life at the time. Brief, but very insightful, this is a candid look at an actual unscripted unorganized event that for the participants was great fun and if you watch, it's like you're on the ride with them. Now if only Jimi Hendrix had been there, I would give it ten out of ten.

sfride67 I give this film a 10 out of 10 because it is exactly as billed--both a behind-the-scenes and in-the-audience look at three music festivals and the train rides between them and the artists who performed and the promoters who put the whole thing together. The two-disc offering is very generous, the movie and several additional concert performances on disc one and interviews and a short about the production of the movie and more on disc two. Anyone who is a fan of these artists in particular, or of the music scene of that era in general, should not miss this ride across Canada with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Band, and..as they always say.."more."

doug-decker As a person who attended the Toronto show, not showing Traffic, who have rare video appearances, was a drawback. I was hoping they would be in the extras on the DVD. I remember hearing from people after the event that it could be called "the rip-off express". Nothing could be further from the truth. Saying to someone that I saw one of Janis's last performance is always a highlight. The movie did show a lot of the "bullshit of the day". I laughed then and did when I saw the film. I saw the film in its limited release, and three times as a DVD. As concert videos go, it is very good, as a view of the times, (good and bad) it is also very good.