Cheap Stamping Ground - A Show with the Major Names of Rock (DVD) (Pink Floyd, Al Stewart Santana, Family Dr. John & Night Tripper, Canned Heat Marcbolan & Trex, Flock Jefferson Airplane, Countery Joe It's a beautiful day, Byrds) Price

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Would've been great to see
I saw this at the late night theatre when it had it's tiny theatre run in the early 70s, and my memory matched what I saw today when playing the DVD, that being a concert that was basically filmed pathetically. Not just poorly. Pathetically. And several of the performances were sub par as well. It's A Beautiful Day's guitarist could not have hit more clinker notes if he dropped his guitar down a flight of stairs. Dr. John's backup singers were singing off key (hey, your only job at this gig is to sing - correctly), Roger Chapman (Family) is a pathetic singer. I have always thought that, especially on this film. Santana was not bad, but where's Greg Rolie? I hear him, but I never see him, even during his solos. The Flock is good, but the horn section is too front and center... rather see Jerry Goodman more. Byrds were boring, and "Old Blue" is a bad choice of songs to put here as their only song played. Country Joe, Al Stewart, and Marc Bolan/T Rex all did good basic performances, but the audio on T Rex (as it is alot in the film) was weak. Canned Heat were great, showing some of the only footage of Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, and of course Pink Floyd were great. The camera crew should've been kept away from the weed, and instructed better. It seems like back then alot of music acts weren't filmed well at all. Staying with the lead singer when there's a lead guitar solo playing is just plain stupid, but then that mindless direction in filming live music happened alot then. If you're a die hard music head from the early 70s you may enjoy this one, if not stay away. Isle Of Wight was filmed better, although you will see more naked people in this one if that's you're thing (pardon the pun).

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What a shame!!
If you are a hard core 70's rock concert fan this MAY be for you. <
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>First, let's say that sound quality and image are less than poor, so if you are looking for top digital transfer: FORGET IT. <
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>Hard Core Fan? If you are so, then you can enjoy (with some effort), what for me are the the highlights of the whole show: Family, Pink Floyd (just a portion of their long performance at the concert), Santana (at his best) and It's a Beautiful Day (simply amazing. Did they play just 2 songs?). Soft Machine's Esther's Nose Job performance is long lost since the days of the first issues on VHS (also, where is the rest of their performance?). <
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>Just half star thinking as a human being and two stars being extremely nostalgic and deeply hard core. There's an audio CD somewhere (bootleg?) that it's worth to be listened to.

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Concert Rocks, but this DVD quality sucks
I have the VHS of this classic, rocking festival. <
>I got the DVD hoping for an upgrade. Ok, what did <
>I get. Well, there are a few more snippits of <
>video in the DVD, mostly of breasts and pot smoking. <
>The video is unquestionably superior, still 4:3 <
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>My beef is with the audio transfer. It is worse than <
>a 2nd generation dub from the VHS, which was questionable <
>at best. At least VHS didn't Constantly cut in and out <
>of stereo at random. This is beyond annoying... it <
>makes the DVD unwatchable. The sound quality on this <
>DVD is abhorrant.. the worst I have ever heard. If they <
>had just done a mono track, I might have liked this. As <
>it was, I threw this in the trash and kept my VHS copy. <
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>Avoid this one. Get the VHS is you can find it, or wait <
>for a better transfer.