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..whats all that about? I'm putting this crap on eBay first chance I get, I'm totally disgusted at the editing ,not because of how it was edited at the time of original release, but because they have not extended the songs to there original length . Ten Years After's 'I cant Keep from crying' with extended guitar solo from Alvin Lee, was nearly 20 minuites long and they put barely 5 minuites of it on here. This could have been made into an extended package, like most reissued/remastered concert footage has been . There is little enough footage of Ten Years After&Alvin Lee out there, yet Jethro Tull's full Isle of Wight 'full' 1 hour set has been released on DVD . Nice remastering, shame about the footage.
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Really dissapointed! I bought this movie exclusively to watch Ten Years After's song I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes, and what a big surprise, just 5 minutes of the original 19 minutes version.
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I too waited 25 years for this to come out as I was there and wanted to relive the major collection of talent onstage. This was definitely the last major festival and the end of the peace 'n' love era.
But the movie was a disappointment to me.
1. Half of it is concerned with the people who wanted free entry - so they weren't really a part of the festival I attended 'cos they didn't get in.
2. The focus is on American bands while the UK bands were probably better overall.
3. At the end when the camera zooms along the portaloos I had a lens poked into my 'booth' and told them to bugger off. I could have made the movie maybe.
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My brother went to this and i've always been envious. He slept through Hendrix (probably judging by the lacklustre performance a lucky break) but said that Cactus, Free and a show stopping Taste were the highlights (there was a promise that the Taste gig was to be released in full-but still nothing!) Anyway all these years later i get to see what he was on about. On the whole musically it was better than Woodstock, but at least at Woodstock you got the whole songs not a lot of edits as on this, but what you do get makes you wish for more Taste of course, Jethro Tull and a brilliant Miles Davis (edited badly) are top notch. The Doors and Leonard Cohen are uninspired and Joni Mitchell is twee. At the end i sympathised with Rikki Farr afterall he promoted the thing why should a load of grumby anarchists expect it to be free and storm the gates. I couldn't help but wish the security guard had belted the moronic American 'radical' (who probably owns real estate now)making an ass of himself by was urging the guard to hit him and felt more sympathy for the guard dog that got killed by the gate crashers. If anyone has read up on the festival the whole thing would of passed off peaceably (as the other two had) if the local council hadn't moved the site. So they were the real villians. The guy at the end who gave his kid LSD is another moron. Actually the whole film is a 'screw you' to the Woodstock generation which i never brought into, but at least 'message to Love' is an honest view of what was essentially the end of love and peace. Shame that there wasn't more music-according to the rock festival site it's out there somewhere!
Rating:  -
If you are looking for a Cecil B. Demille motion picture, you had better look elsewhere. But if you would like an easy trip back in time to see what was important to the youth of that day, this is a great vehicle. Great clips that I had never seen of Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Alvin Lee and Free. What is somewhat disappointing is that they hardly showed any songs in their entirety. And the tight shots of the artists were nice at times but at other times you could almost count nose hairs, making for a loss of perpective.
I went into it (the purchase) without great expectations but I think I got my money's worth, and then some. It was fun to watch.
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