2003 wurde diese Dokumentation erst bei den internationalen Filmfestspielen in Toronto uraufgeführt, bevor 2004 die DVD im Handel erhältlich war. Trotz dieser Vorfälle und trotz der großen Einnahmenverluste wurde die Tournee fortgesetzt. VA - Festival Express (1970) viander: Date: Friday, 24.Mar.2017, 11:30 AM | Message # 1: Generalissimo. Dave and I took one look at the list of performers and chorused “let’s do it.”. Great Speckled Bird and Festival Express The Ian Tyson Show, early 1970s CTV Television Production from Toronto, Ian Tyson and Jim Colegrove, November 30, 2012, Fort Worth, Texas That’s about $70 in today’s money, but can you imagine how much you would have to pay for 12 hours of that kind of All-Star lineup today? Folk (later, country) singers, active 1961-75. Well done. (Es war besser als Woodstock, so großartig wie Woodstock war). Neben kanadischen Folkliedern wurden auch britische und einige Bluessongs verwendet. Reputation: 2. Ian Tyson, Soundtrack: Road to Nowhere. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Joplin is likely the best white female blues singer ever, and she held nothing back that night. I suspect they were short of good Toronto concert material and cheated a little bit. Things really started to rock when red-hot blues guitar player and singer Buddy Guy hit the stage and had the crowd on their feet with sizzling versions of Hoochie Cootchie Man and Money, using a ridiculously long power cord that enabled him to walk off the stage right up to the crowd while playing up a storm. I had to start with a beauty question. One of the people sitting with us said his life was complete now that he had met Jerry Garcia, which earned him a lecture from Garcia, who told him meeting a rock musician was no big deal and he should aspire to accomplish much more important things in his life. Those excellent sets by the Dead and The Band had the crowd rocking and reeling and Janis Joplin followed at about 1 a.m., backed by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, mostly Canadian musicians. Ian Tyson sang, played guitar and composed. This was at a time banks closed strictly at 5: pm, but he had “connections”. They later wrote a song about the train festival called Might as Well. The Winnipeg crowd was by far the smallest of the tour, largely because many people were scared off by riots and violent clashes with the police in Toronto by protesters who demanded the concert be free. She is 63. He was 55. I know this had quite an impact on my husbands art and love of this era’s music. Durch ihn erlangten sie einen Vertrag beim Label Vanguard Records, bei dem sie Ende des Jahres ihr erstes Album aufnahmen und veröffentlichten. Instead of taking them across Canada on planes, the musicians and their crew went on the VIA Rail (a.k.a. The Calgary concert was a two-day affair and I can’t precisely remember who played on Day 1 or Day 2 and in what order. Den Musikern wurde dabei ein Luxus (z. That day is part of a larger narrative – the greatest rock festival in our country’s history – which Winnipeg was a central part of. Courtesy Granamour Weems Collection. Festival Express-Canada's Woodstock 1970: Anyone who remembers the rock music stars of the 1970’s – Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, the Band and many more will love the 2 hour documentary Festival Express originally filmed in 1970 that opened last week in Toronto and elsewhere across the country. A good story well told. Ian and Sylvia Ian and Sylvia. Festival Express. The film combines footage of the 1970 concerts and on the train, interspersed with contemporary recollections of the tour by its participants. He smiled and said, “That was a magic night, wasn’t it?” Damn right. Während der Tour kam es zu mehreren Zwischenfällen. It was Friday night and the Festival Express was preparing to run out of steam. After a few local bands played, Mashmakhan, from Quebec, followed and were well received. [1], https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Festival_Express&oldid=204284835, „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“, Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) Grandstand –, "Better Take Jesus' Hand" ("Jordan"), Jerry Garcia, "Tears of Rage", Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird. Oktober 2020 um 15:12 Uhr bearbeitet. In this situation you wanted it to go on forever.”. As it turned out the last three performers were the three headliners, the Dead, The Band and Janis Joplin. The 14-coach passenger train, with “Festival Express 1970” emblazoned in large letters on the side, left Toronto’s Union Station in late June 1970 to take performers to a series of outdoor concerts in Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver. “It seemed like time was sort of suspended. Einige der besten Rockbands der damaligen Zeit nahmen daran teil, so auch Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band. The acoustic highlight was a terrific version of the traditional song, Don’t Ease Me In, which the film incorrectly suggests was played in Toronto by using cutaway shots to the Toronto stadium and crowds. It was Friday night and the Festival Express was preparing to run out of steam. It took a lot of research, but it was a labour of love. Chatting with Miss Joplin, Rush, Ian and Sylvia, and other entertainers at the bash, I learn they all dig the Vancouver scene and were disappointed Vancouver as a site for the festival was cancelled. It was called Festival Express, but many people dubbed it Woodstock on Wheels because the bands and solo artists barnstormed across the country on a private CN train, which turned into an endless, wild and crazy jam session and party as it churned west from Toronto to Winnipeg and on to Calgary, staging top drawer music festivals at each stop. I only wish I could have made it to Toronto, but I didn’t think my friend David and I could have gotten to Winnipeg in time for the rest of the tour. So this film is, in effect, a brand new film from 1970. Viele der Musiker blieben in dieser Zeit im Zug, andere erschienen nur bei den Konzerten. I picked up a copy of Rolling Stone magazine two days later and learned about Festival Express. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Members of the Grateful Dead joked about hijacking the train and driving it back to San Francisco. And even more grateful I had gone to the concert. Ähnlich wie bei Woodstock weigerten sich viele Jugendliche, den Eintritt (16 US-Dollar) zu bezahlen und versuchten, die Konzerte zu stürmen und gegen die Polizisten vorzugehen. On July 4th our group of about 10 friends from Edmonton got to McMahon Stadium early and grabbed some good space to the right of the stage. ... Ian and Sylvia, and others sometimes performing together. I told him I was a huge fan and Dave and I started a friendly conversation with him. Near the end of the song the camera pans to the left than back right and I can spot myself and a number of friends grooving away. As a full-time duo by 1961, they performed that year at the Mariposa Folk Festival and in folk clubs in New York and Chicago. Festival Express tells the story of the 1970 cross-Canada train tour of some of the most popular musicians of the day. We had to decide at midnight whether to stay or go as buses would no longer be running to take kids home. Festival Express 1970, a train rented from Canadian National Railways, will start in Montreal on June 24, with a show at the Autostade on the Expo ground, and will roll into Toronto to present two 12-hour rock and folk concerts at the CNE stadium, June 27 and 28, beginning at noon and ending at midnight. Many in the audience looked like lost souls or zombies on automatic pilot from massive drug consumption. 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