This film 🎞 started with tons of promise.
Unfortunately, it started with nearly twenty minutes of intercut interviews that were either about politics, the way the festival was organized, or other irrelevant matters.
Guys like me just want to hear the music.
But the music edits are awful. They show most of an awful Chambers Brothers opening number that is mediocre.
Then you have BB King, but they cut away.
Then Herbie Mann, with Chain of Fools featuring Roy Ayers on vibes. This is a great cut off of Memphis Underground performed live the same year, but the director cuts away to talk about the concert organizer, about whom I could care less.
That Herbie Mann & Roy Ayers footage is golden-just freaking show it!
The rest of the film 🎞 is just like this.
The only way this film can be saved is to issue a deluxe DVD edition with every musical performance intact without any editing or comments.
As it currently exists, this film 🎞 is defective.
It's ok, but not what I expected.
I want to see SOUL MUSIC not a bunch of commentary and political babble recycled from every sixties documentary ever made.
So that's my bottom line.
Unfortunately, it started with nearly twenty minutes of intercut interviews that were either about politics, the way the festival was organized, or other irrelevant matters.
Guys like me just want to hear the music.
But the music edits are awful. They show most of an awful Chambers Brothers opening number that is mediocre.
Then you have BB King, but they cut away.
Then Herbie Mann, with Chain of Fools featuring Roy Ayers on vibes. This is a great cut off of Memphis Underground performed live the same year, but the director cuts away to talk about the concert organizer, about whom I could care less.
That Herbie Mann & Roy Ayers footage is golden-just freaking show it!
The rest of the film 🎞 is just like this.
The only way this film can be saved is to issue a deluxe DVD edition with every musical performance intact without any editing or comments.
As it currently exists, this film 🎞 is defective.
It's ok, but not what I expected.
I want to see SOUL MUSIC not a bunch of commentary and political babble recycled from every sixties documentary ever made.
So that's my bottom line.