Now available on DVD, Festival Express, the rock-doc chronicalling the 1970 cross-Canadian crazy train tour featuring the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, and others.
See: Janis Joplin rocking on stage like a tornado earthquake of heartbreak two months before her death, Rick Danko in the train's fully loaded bar car howling in her ear with boyish drunken enthusiasm while Jerry Garcia takes a beautifully sloppy solo and declares, "Janis, I've loved you ever since I first met you." Something to see, for sure.
And there's the curiosity of how one of the Flying Burrito Brothers looks suspiciously like San Francisco Giants client services dude extraordinaire Rocky Koplik with an afro. Anyway, check it out. Just to see Janis do "Cry Baby." On a 10-point scale, it starts at 11 and just explodes from there.
But, as always, don't just take my word for it.
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