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PBS '30 Yrs.' doc. edit
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Well, I just got my first look at the PBS-TV 1-hr. edited version of
"30 Years of Maximum R&B", and not having had the chance to see nor
ca$h to buy the full commercial video (yet!), I can say that this was
a GREAT teaser. Yeah, the interviews were mostly fluff, the narration
was negligible, but WOW!, some of that footage is stunning. Where the
heck has all this stuff been all these years?! I didn't know of even
bootleg-market existence of some of these films. The audio was
surprisingly good on almost all of the excerpts included on this
synopsis version. This was the first time in many years that I've seen
the '65 Richmond Festival film, and this print of it was markedly
better than any I've seen before, audially and visually (although it
still has that godawful overdubbed tape loop of screaming girls). And
I didn't know that there was sound footage of the Cow Palace show
where Moon blacked out. Anyway, what there was was very very good, in
my opinion. Now I'm even more anxious to buy the full-length
video....but I gotta wonder, if there's sound film of all of these
different concerts (and each of them surely contains more than what
made the final cut in the full-length release), then there must still
be other shows preserved. (I'm not talking about the later stuff; I'm
referring to the wealth of material from 1967-73, when they were at
their peak.)
If you're like me, unable as yet to purchase your own copy of the full
release, then check this edited program out, especially since it's
free for home taping from your local PBS stations. [Boston folks: It's
on for a rerun this Saturday night (8/27) on WGBH ch.2.]
-stuart@apollo.hp.com