selfdeified Well....Do you love Jimmy, 60'S, and hippies? Then yes! Rent me!I joined a nudist vegetarian commune after watching this. I was born in the 70's and got robbed. I could not go see Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin...This gave me a spiritual taste of what the "movement" was really about. I also got to see the real Rainbow Bridge in Hawaii. I feel films like this are necessary to show the people younger than us what is was about also. I believe the Utopian like atmosphere that they were trying to create was ideal, however clouded by the overuse of the drugs. I often think to myself, besides Jimmy, are any of those people alive? They were into some heavy partying.

steve-wimer and/or the heart and the mind, a term, antahkarana, in Sanskrit or a yoga. This rather pretentious title for a "cosmic surfing film" features surfing by Mike Hynson, a surfer who's model with low rails resembles a thin Phil Edwards model(Endless Summer fame), and his Maui buddy Les Potts (hashish inside the surfboard) at small Maalea (highlighted by a Greenough inspired inside the tube looking out sequence), a red-hot David Nuuiwha (U.S. Champion) doing sideslips and smooth turns, B.K.(Sunset beach legend), Herbie Fletcher(the guy perpetually arching on the nose off the point at San Onofre), and others filmed upside down and backwards to resemble a drug experience. Surfing is used as a metaphor for "the spirit of 1969" or peak of the counter-culture or drug deluded "revolution" that a few of us experienced. The film explored sexuality, drugs, yoga, aliens from space, music, ecology, nutrition, astrology, and science during an extended "rap" discussion by an ensemble of acid laced hippies, a philosophic young follower of yoga, a obviously deluded earth-mother talking about our "space brothers", and an interesting scientist. Of course, the best rap is by a drunken Jimi Hendrix, which is printed on the inside sleeve of the out of print "Rainbow Bridge" album on Warner-Brothers. You can find it for about $25 on EBAY. The film features "Dolly Dagger" as she arrives in Los Angeles, hitchikes to San Diego airport, down the Pacific Coast Highway through Laguna and San Clemente, past Black's and Swami's, enroute to Hawaii. She has been sent to "inspect" the Rainbow Bridge Meditation Center on Maui to make sure no one is wasting money, which is a laugh. During this trip the film mixes sound and scenery to pull off visual metaphors. For example, you hear a 747 airplane as a seagull takes off from the beach, a dog barking as a drill instructor marches recruits, et. al. Once on Maui, Dolly Dagger gets high, and pops around talking drivel with the other hippies. She is obviously an uneducated moron, and was a famous groupy. If you read a few of the books on Jimi Hendrix, one of them documents in her in detail. She is most famous for her ability to score drugs and sucking the blood from the finger of Mick Jagger. She is also buck-toothed and ugly. How did Hendrix fall in love with her? Anyways, the film climaxes with an outdoor concert by Jimi Hendrix. This is Hendrix at his best, near the end of his days, as Mitch Mitchell slams at the drums along with the lackluster bass of Billy Cox. Despite the absence of Noel Redding; this is the best footage of Hendrix in concert you will ever see. If you are a Hendrix fan, I suggest you fast-forward to the concert. If you want to see the surfing, there isn't much. The film needs to cut everything but the surfing and the concert. The soundtrack album on Warner Brother is worth buying, too.

dalbert9244 I bought this DVD hoping for a great Hendrix concert. I was way off. He only plays very litte and even appears drunk in a few scenes. And just when the music starts getting good, it ends suddenly. I thought it was a faulty DVD, returned it to the store and the next one was the same thing. If your really hard up for some Jimi, there is about 15 to 20 minutes, and that is it!!

lvcalanca Rainbow Bridge is a favorite of mine because it features Jimi Hendrix. His music performance is great and he looks like he is having fun with it. Also, you are treated to some candid conversation between Jimi and other people which let's you see him as just a regular guy who is maybe just a little different than other people.