Saturday, June 17, 2006

East Village, 1970

Simply put, there are no "Legitimate" copies of Journey Through The Past. When it was released in 1973 (at the US Film Festival), the response by the public was so negative that Shakey had a slight problem finding a full time distributor (ie no one would touch the film with a ten foot pole). The only copies floating around that I know of are taped from USA network and are copies of copies of copies. True story: I paid $25cdn for one of these bootlegs off of eBay. The visual quality was below average and the sound quality ranks slightly beyond wretched, but I was so obsessed with learning exactly what the hell was going on on the soundtrack (ever hear the album? it's pretty weird...Make's Queen's Flash Gordon soundtrack sound like The Beatles at their peak), that I was prepared to shell out a bit of cash to find out. If you're a diehard Shakey fan, then you might consider this an investment. There's some really cool behind the scenes work on Harvest, plus a sequence of CSNY at the filmore east on 5 June 1970 (Stills and Young's guitar duel on 'Southern Man' is a wow!), but mostly it's just weird stuff like Neil roaming through a garbage dump, Crosby criticizing Richard Nixon's policies while smoking a joint, and four black-clad Klansman riding around on a beach. There's also a sequence where a guy is talking to his truck (the vehicle in question actually answers back, but the sound quality on the tape is so bad that the replies can't be made out).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068776/board/nest/16421264

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