Love and Music (1971)

Directors:

Hans Jürgen Pohland
George Sluizer

Release Date:

14 October 1971 (West Germany)

Genre:

Documentary | Music

Plot:

Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Plot Keywords:

1970s | Pop Festival | Band | Stage | Rock Festival

Cast

Marty Balin	...	Himself (as Jefferson Airplane)
Skip Battin	...	Himself (as The Byrds)
Marc Bolan	...	Himself (as T-Rex)
The Byrds	...	Themselves
Canned Heat	...	Themselves
Jack Casady	...	Himself (as Jefferson Airplane)
Joey Covington	...	Himself (as Jefferson Airplane)
Elton Dean	...	Himself (as Soft Machine)
Dr. John	...	Himself
Family	...	Themselves
Mickey Finn	...	Himself (as T-Rex)
The Flock	...	Themselves
Pink Floyd	...	Themselves
David Gilmour	...	Himself (as Pink Floyd)
Jerry Goodman	...	Himself (as The Flock)
Bob Hite	...	Himself (as Canned Heat)
Hugh Hopper	...	Himself (as Soft Machine)
It's a Beautiful Day	...	Themselves
Paul Kantner	...	Himself (as Jefferson Airplane)
Jorma Kaukonen	...	Himself (as Jefferson Airplane)
David LaFlamme	...	Himself (as It's a Beautiful Day)
Harvey Mandel	...	Himself (as Canned Heat)
Nick Mason	...	Himself (as Pink Floyd)
Country Joe McDonald	...	Himself
Roger McGuinn	...	Himself (as The Byrds)
Gene Parsons	...	Himself (as The Byrds)
Mike Ratledge	...	Himself (as Soft Machine)
Carlos Santana	...	Himself (as Santana)
Grace Slick	...	Herself (as Jefferson Airplane)
Al Stewart	...	Himself
Larry Taylor	...	Himself (as Canned Heat)
Bill Thompson	...	Himself
T-Rex	...	Themselves
Roger Waters	...	Himself (as Pink Floyd)
Clarence White	...	Himself (as The Byrds)
Richard Wright	...	Himself (as Pink Floyd)
Robert Wyatt	...	Himself (as Soft Machine)

Also Known As:

Rock Fieber (West Germany)
Stamping Ground (USA)

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Soundtrack:

Open Up Your Heart

Interesting Film

Thanks to Youtube, I have seen various clips of this film and it looks like a pretty interesting look at one of the most famous post-Woodstock festivals. In this film you get a very mixed bag of performers including Woodstock veterans (Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe McDonald, Canned Heat and Santana), great bands who never quite caught on (Its a Beautiful Day and Family) and future superstars (Pink Floyd). The thing I really liked about it were the interviews that gave you a look at how the scene was during that era. Also, it was interesting to see a lot of these artist either at their ascendancy, as was the case with Pink Floyd and Santana, or at their decline, as was the case with Jefferson Airplane who were just about to lose Marty Balin as he was to quit a few months later.

However, the only complaint I have about the film is the fact that it sounded like whoever recorded the sound for the festival messed up when recording the crowd noise and went back into the studio later and recorded various people in a small room to simulate the crowd reactions.

Nevertheless, this is a fairly good rockumentary.