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Bob Dylan and The Band

1969-1970

Compilation DVD

VIDEO: NTSC (29.97), 720x480, 10080 kb/s VBR.

AUDIO: AC3, 256 kb/s, 2 chnls.

NOTES (from source): Here is the DVD of Bob Dylan live at the Isle Of Wight in 1969. Remarkable footage, thought never to have existed, this DVD captures part of Dylan’s performance that day, as well as some other appearances that year beginning with Dylan’s spot on The Johnny Cash Show on May 1st, 1969, performing “I Threw It All Awayâ€, “Living the Blues†and dueting with Cash on “Girl From the North Countryâ€. Then comes the all-important Isle Of Wight footage. In 1969, the Isle of Wight pop festival was Bob Dylan’s festival. This amazing footage is all that we have of Dylan’s performance that day, and features the following tracks: The Weight (The Band), I Threw It All Away, Highway 61 Revisited, One Too Many Mornings, I Pity The Poor Immigrant, Minstrel Boy (cut). Rumor has it that this black and white footage was shot by a friend of John Lennon’s who sat between him and Yoko at the foot of the stage. Whether this is true or not, the picture and sound are remarkably good. The DVD continues with a handful of newsreels from the Isle Of Wight Festival, featuring still more footage of Dylan that day. The DVD rounds off with some footage of The Band live at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh in November 1970, shot in color for Dutch television: Time To Kill, The Weight, This Wheel’s On Fire and Up On Cripple Creek.

TRACKLIST

Johnny Cash Show – ABC TV 01-05-69

I Threw It All Away

Living The Blues

Girl From The North Country

Isle Of Wight Festival – Sunday 31-08-69

The Weight (The Band)

I Threw It All Away

Highway 61 Revisited

One Too Many Mornings

I Pity The Poor Immigrant

Minstrel Boy (cut)

Isle Of Wight Festival – Newsreels

The Band – Syra Mosque Pittsburgh November 1970 From Dutch TV

Time To Kill

The Weight

This Wheels On Fire

Up On Cripple Creek

***PS NOTE: This is a mixed bag compilation -- some pro-shot and some aud-shot video

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This is really strange after a 5am wake and bake.

:crazy:

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"HWY - An American Pastoral"

an unreleased film by Jim Morrison (1969)

approx 52 mins.

NTSC version

Color

"KILLER ON THE ROAD"

Already getting a taste of filmmaking while attending UCLA with Ray Manzarek, Paul Ferrara, and Frank Lisciandro, Morrison and The Doors found themselves featured in a 1969 short documentary. Created by Lisciandro, Ferrara, and Ferrara's high school chum Babe Hill, Feast of Friends is an underrated classic of rock cinema, with glimpses of a performance by The Doors that caused a near-riot. Well-shot and edited, and loaded with classic Doors tunes throughout, it still has yet to see the light of a legitimate video release, although bits and pieces of it are scattered throughout various Doors releases. Of course, its been available in bootleg form for years.

Inspired by this cinematic excursion, Morrison founded his own production company (in order to keep these efforts as a separate entity from The Doors) and hired Lisciandro, Hill, and Ferrara to help him create a new, fictional work. Writing and financing the project on his own, production of HWY began in the spring of 1969.

HWY is a stark 50-minute-long film, almost completely without dialogue. The references to '60s cinema are abundant. The influences of Jodorowsky, Antonioni, Warhol, Anger, and Godard seem to be present. Created by former film students, the references were most likely intentional (especially in the case of Morrison) and, in this way, HWY will likely have a much deeper meaning to experimental film students than to the average Doors fan.

In a 1969 interview with Howard Smith, Morrison summarized the film: "Essentially, there's no plot, no story in the traditional sense; a person, played by me, comes down out of the mountains and hitchhikes his way through the desert into a modern city, which happens to be L.A., and that's where it ends."

"The only reason I [acted in HWY ] is because I couldn't think of anyone else to do it, you know, and it was just as easy for me to do it. I might do some films. I don't know. I'm not that crazy about being an actor, I'd rather be a director or a writer, something like that, but you know, if I had the chance, I'd probably do a few films. Why not?"

- Don Alex Hixx

Subterranean Cinema

http://www.greylodge.org/occultreview/glor_017/HWY.htm

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