The festival lineup featured Janis Joplin, The Band, the Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird, Eric Anderson, Tom Rush, Mountain, Mashmakhan and many others. They later wrote a song about the train festival called Might as Well. Ian and Sylvia, soon to be divorced, were also on this tour, and Sylvia's interviewed fairly extensively. The Dead and The Band were my favourite groups back then and seeing them playing back-to-back on the same stage was like rock music heaven. The last line of the Dead song, repeated three times, summed up their concerns. When Ian and Sylvia took the stage that evening they were joined by Delaney Bramlett, Jerry Garcia and others, as Sylvia sang CC Rider. The group appeared with Ian and Sylvia on the famous Festival Express tour and then joined them on prime-time television, when Ian landed hosting duties on Nashville North, later renamed The Ian Tyson Show. Die Geselligkeit der Künstler untereinander, der ständige Austausch und die Tatsache, dass die Musiker alle Freiheiten hatten, führte zu der Aussage von Kenny Gradney:"It was better than Woodstock, as great as Woodstock was." Festival Express is a 2003 rockumentary film about the 1970 chartered train tour across Canada taken by some of the world's biggest rock bands, … In 1995, Garcia, his health destroyed by heroin and massive self-neglect, died of a heart attack at a drug rehab center. The 14-coach passenger train, with “Festival Express 1970” emblazoned in large letters on the side, left Toronto’s Union Station in late June 1970 to take performers to a series of outdoor concerts in Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver. I liked their first few songs, but then they played their only ‘hit,’ As the Years Go By, with its tinny organ and vapid lyrics. Danko was felled by drug addiction and alcoholism in 1998. Next up was a band that really set the crowd on fire. The Winnipeg crowd was by far the smallest of the tour, largely because many people were scared off by riots and violent clashes with the police in Toronto by protesters who demanded the concert be free. We went to the late show, which started just after midnight and we stumbled out into the morning light at around 5:30 a.m., dazzled by the concert, and thumbed our way back 80 kilometres to West Orange, New Jersey. The jaunt was called "The Festival Express," and a camera crew tagged along to capture the shows on film, as well as the constant party that took place en route. The film combines footage of the 1970 concerts and on the train, interspersed with contemporary recollections of the tour by its participants. In 1969, Ian & Sylvia formed the country rock group Great Speckled Bird. In the summer of 1970, right after the Festival Express tour had ended, Ian and Sylvia Tyson went into the studios of CFTO-TV in Toronto to tape the pilot for a new music series for Canadian network television. In 1969, Ian and Sylvia formed the country-rock group Great Speckled Bird. Learn how your comment data is processed. It was a radical hybrid. Anderson acknowledged it was very tough doing an acoustic set in front of a festival crowd, but I was impressed by him. Thanks for your comment, Coleen. From June 28 to July 4, 1970, Joplin and Full Tilt Boogie joined the all-star Festival Express train tour through Canada, performing alongside Buddy Guy, the Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Ten Years After, Grateful Dead, Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Andersen, and Ian & Sylvia. The group appeared with Ian and Sylvia on the famous Festival Express tour and then joined them on prime-time television, when Ian landed hosting duties on Nashville North, later renamed The Ian Tyson Show. Das Duo Ian and Sylvia wurde 1961 (nach anderen Quellen 1959) vom späteren Ehepaar Ian und Sylvia Tyson in Toronto gegründet. That was followed by the electric Dead. When somebody expressed disappointment, he said The Band were terrific and they were almost all Canadians, so they were the right choice to close the concert. The album was moderately successful and they made the list of performers for the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. Just our luck. He was previously married to Sylvia Tyson. They were followed by two polished solo performers playing acoustic guitars. Ironically, the cancellation of the concert in Monreal, June 24, opened a date for the Grateful Dead to play that night at the Capitol Theater in Porchester, New York, instead, widely regarded as one of their greatest ever concerts and happily we were there to enjoy it. All the best to you. Those who did come to Winnipeg Stadium had a fantastic time. The next act was Sha Na Na, which one of my friends accused of  “showing no respect for the Dead.” I liked their energy and thought they were fun. They come across as talented but unpretentious people who share an all-encompassing love of music. Einige der besten Rockbands der damaligen Zeit nahmen daran teil, so auch Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band. Great memories. Sylvia Tyson, CM (born Sylvia Fricker, 19 September 1940, Chatham, Ontario, Canada), is a musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster. She is 63. Sylvia Tyson sang, composed and occasionally played piano. They brought their group Great Speckled Bird to the show to become the house band. Festival Express. By the way, I’m curious about how you found this post! Saved by Paul Dittmer. Movies. Ian Tyson sang, played guitar and composed. Festival Express (2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Many in the audience looked like lost souls or zombies on automatic pilot from massive drug consumption. The next number was sung by Bonnie Bramlett and various other artists joined in through the course of the set. I particularly liked the way you interspersed it with clips from the concert. One of the people sitting with us said his life was complete now that he had met Jerry Garcia, which earned him a lecture from Garcia, who told him meeting a rock musician was no big deal and he should aspire to accomplish much more important things in his life. As usual she sang like a fireball, while exuding a deep sense of vulnerability, most noticeably on a thunderous rendition of Cry Baby, completing a spectacularly entertaining Canada Day that cost $10. Durch ihn erlangten sie einen Vertrag beim Label Vanguard Records, bei dem sie Ende des Jahres ihr erstes Album aufnahmen und veröffentlichten. Status: Offline. I remember me and Jerry Garcia crawling onto the roof of one of the train cars and howling like coyotes.”, About four days before Canada Day my pal Dave and I were winding up a long visit to the New York area using my parent’s home in New Jersey as a base and planning to hitchhike back home to Edmonton soon. Courtesy Granamour Weems Collection. Another book by John, the first biography on Ian and Sylvia, has been published titled Four Strong Winds: Ian and Sylvia. 1962 wurde Albert Grossman in New York City auf sie aufmerksam, der zu dieser Zeit auch Bob Dylan managte. Festival Express is a documentary chronicling a week long rock festival going on in Canada with some of the biggest stars at the time, which was in 1970. The Band ended their set with a delightfully rowdy version of Little Richard’s Slippin’ & Slidin’. I had to watch the film decades later to appreciate what a wild train ride they enjoyed. The set with the New Riders was also sharp, ending with a wonderful version of the beautiful spiritual, Cold Jordan, which plays over the final credits of the film. Vollständige Kritiken finden sich auf Rottentomatoes.com. For me, he was the biggest discovery of the festival. We didn’t know that crazy things were happening elsewhere in the stadium. She was only 27. Group: Administrators. The Dead came on next and played the best songs from their two best albums, Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, plus some of their favourite covers, Turn on your Lovelight, and Me and My Uncle, and most memorably an extended version of their own bluesy Easy Wind, with Pig Pen leading the way and a superb extended jam, which you can watch on the extras of the Festival Express Blu-Ray. In around 1976-77 my husband and I helped Ken take those films to the bank to put them in a vault. No one left the train during that week except to perform in the concerts. The people sitting nearby invited the three of us to join them and lit up a joint. So ergaben sich auch eine Jamsession im betrunkenen Zustand zwischen Rick Danko (The Band), Janis Joplin und Jerry García (Grateful Dead), die die Veröffentlichung der Dokumentation nicht mehr miterleben konnten. Festival Express tells the story of the 1970 cross-Canada train tour of some of the most popular musicians of the day. Rider) in Calgary, July, 1970 on the legendary Festival Express tour with special guests. Unlike in standard music festivals where performers came together for a couple of hours or days, the participants in this tour all traveled together on the same train, partying and jamming along the way between concert venues in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary. The Summer of Love was always a misnomer, but this felt like the Winter of Hate. VA - Festival Express (1970) viander: Date: Friday, 24.Mar.2017, 11:30 AM | Message # 1: Generalissimo. Sortierung: Legende: = in Sammlung ja/nein | = verantwortlich ja/nein | = Flohmarkt-Angebot ja/nein. Festival Express-Canada's Woodstock 1970: Anyone who remembers the rock music stars of the 1970’s – Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, the Band and many more will love the 2 hour documentary Festival Express originally filmed in 1970 that opened last week in Toronto and elsewhere across the country. Sykes reportedly demanded that “the children of Calgary be allowed into the festival for free.” Walker bluntly refused and Sykes called him “eastern scum” and “an animal who had come to this city to try and make a fast buck.” Walker, who was a large, fit, broad-shouldered man in his late twenties, proudly claims he then dropped Sykes with a roundhouse punch in the mouth, cutting his knuckles on Sykes’ teeth, and then jumped on him, and had to be pulled off the Mayor by a senior RCMP official from Edmonton K Division, who Walker claims said he did well, but he couldn’t punch the Mayor again. Special event from 13th January to 4th March 2018 that provides the opportunity to see tropical butterflies flying about in the glasshouse. One of the train cars said Festival Express and another said Bar Car, she added “because that’s where the action was.” She then gave the promoters a case of tequila and said “The train is for remembering, the tequila is for continuing”. From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson.From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, she and Ian also fronted the country-rock band Great Speckled Bird. You would have, too. I was devastated when Janis died a few months later. The Festival Express got underway on June 27 & 28 1970 when the vision of ace promoter Ken Walker to hire acts including Eric Andersen, The Band, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Robert Charlebois, The Grateful Dead, Ian & Sylvia and The Great Speckled Bird, Janis Joplin, Mashmakan, Mountain and Buddy Guy had come to fruition. Both songs are available on the film’s Blu-ray/DVD extras. The concerts were linked together because all the musicians travelled and lived together on a private Canadian Railroad train which was open only to the perfomers, roadies and a few groupies. Chatting with Miss Joplin, Rush, Ian and Sylvia, and other entertainers at the bash, I learn they all dig the Vancouver scene and were disappointed Vancouver as a site for the festival was cancelled. When Ian and Sylvia took the stage that evening they were joined by Delaney Bramlett, Jerry Garcia and others, as Sylvia sang CC Rider. Thanks Larry. Getting called 'on the carpet' I got an email from the movie promotion company asking if I'd like to do any 'red carpet interviews' for the premier of Festival Express, the documentary of the famed Canadian train trip and concerts back in 1970. Festival Express is a documentary film about three concerts that took place in 1970 during a one week period. Ian And Sylvia Buddy Guy Rock Festivals Janis Joplin Grateful Dead Concert Posters Day … Things really started to rock when red-hot blues guitar player and singer Buddy Guy hit the stage and had the crowd on their feet with sizzling versions of Hoochie Cootchie Man and Money, using a ridiculously long power cord that enabled him to walk off the stage right up to the crowd while playing up a storm. Festival Express Movie Premier, Galaxy Theatre, San Francisco July 12, 2004. Ian And Sylvia. I remember some of my good friends – Patti and Bruce Charter among them – remaining outside shouting “Make it free” and holding signs. Festival Express was well worth waiting for. I have a confession to make. After a few local bands played, Mashmakhan, from Quebec, followed and were well received. Then we would hitchhike on to Calgary for the final leg on America’s Independence Day, July 4th and 5th, and then head home to Edmonton. ... Ian & Sylvia & The Great Speckled Bird appear courtesy of Bearsville Records Jerry Garcia appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc. Der Festival Express war 1970 eine Konzerttour vom Osten zum Westen Kanadas. It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Thanks for your comment, Barbara. Jan 2, 2018 - Explore MotherMcree13's board "Festival Express 1970" on Pinterest. The tour was a financial flop, and thanks of a fight between the festival promoters and the film producers, no film was edited or exhibited. Bachman later confessed he was so nervous he misspelled ‘American’ and skipped the rest of the songs he planned to play. The loss of Ron “Pig Pen’’ McKernan, the soul of the group, who drank himself to death in 1973 was also a major blow. Randy Bachman, formerly of the Guess Who, came on stage with an acoustic guitar and played a couple of songs, including the Guess Who hit, American Woman. Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Ian & Sylvia, Great Speckled Bird ‎– Festival Express Label: Magna Pacific ‎– 11467 Ian And Sylvia Buddy Guy Rock Festivals Janis Joplin Grateful Dead Concert Posters Day Studios Friends. In addition, the train footage shows Jerry Garcia playing and singing the song with Sylvia Tyson. Wow! The real action was taking place on the CN private train, however. See more ideas about Ian and sylvia, Sylvia, Folk music. One of the festival highlights was a product of the camaraderie that developed on the train. Instead of taking them across Canada on planes, the musicians and their crew went on the VIA Rail (a.k.a. Further, if the protesters thought the ticket prices were too high, why didn’t they just not go? Festival Express Backstage Pass from McMahon Stadium (Calgary, Canada), Jul 4, 1970. Clipper (Parthenos sylvia). Deadheads of the world, unite at a theater playing “Festival Express.” There is also The Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Mashmahkhan and Ian and Sylvia Tyson (doing a … Saved by Paul Dittmer. They demanded that the promoters, who lost a small fortune on the festival because of the protesters, should hand over most of the money from ticket sales to those protesters and the bands should play for free, despite their significant expenses – which sounds as spectacularly stupid now as it did then. Ian appears fleetingly off to the side of the stage every now and then, which was enough to make me go, OMG, Ian Tyson! The filmmakers also interviewed the rambunctious Ken Walker, the primary promoter of the train tour, who lost a vast amount of money, along with his partner, Thor Eaton. I noticed that in the documentary Jerry Garcia can be seen smiling and applauding Sha Na Na at the end of their set. The performers, who didn’t have swim trunks and hadn’t had a shower during their 2 ½ days on the train, went for a massive skinny dip in the pool, including Janis Joplin, who shocked the pool manager, according to Walker. Required fields are marked *. Barbara Stone. “I don’t know where you’ve been all week, but we’ve been at a party.” – Janis Joplin. Great memories, thanks for sharing this story. We all sat down together, passing the joint around, toking and talking. The next number was sung by Bonnie Bramlett and various other artists joined in through the course of the set. Usually a performer wants to get there, do his job and get home. Festival Express thanks for the memories! Festival Express is a 2003 documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Bros, Ian & Sylvia's Great Speckled Bird, and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Ian & Sylvia's first and self-titled album on Vanguard Records consisted mainly of traditional songs. Festival Express 1970, a train rented from Canadian National Railways, will start in Montreal on June 24, with a show at the Autostade on the Expo ground, and will roll into Toronto to present two 12-hour rock and folk concerts at the CNE stadium, June 27 and 28, beginning at noon and ending at midnight. Ian And Sylvia. We had to decide at midnight whether to stay or go as buses would no longer be running to take kids home. What a day! Format: DVD. Ian and Sylvia Ian and Sylvia. Night fell and on came the country rock band, Flying Burrito Brothers, playing their hit, Lazy Day. Tom Rush memorably sang Murray McLauchlan’s beautiful Child’s Song, and was followed by Eric Anderson’s set, highlighted by his best known tune, Thirsty Boots. I love that you found it, and so if you see this, just let me know! Chatting with Miss Joplin, Rush, Ian and Sylvia, and other entertainers at the bash, I learn they all dig the Vancouver scene and were disappointed Vancouver as a site for the festival was cancelled. Informationen zum Album Festival Express (2005) ... Ian & Sylvia & The Great Speckled Bird (Unbekannt) Janis Joplin (USA) Mashmakhan (Kanada) New Riders Of The Purple Sage (USA) Tom Rush (USA) Seatrain (USA) Sha Na Na (USA) Diverse Interpreten (Unbekannt) 3 Tonträger. The albums can be defined as early country-rock music. So I will carry on describing the performances and the atmosphere to the best of my recollection. I had to start with a beauty question. Joplin is likely the best white female blues singer ever, and she held nothing back that night. Dies führte zu einer negativen Publicity, aber auch dazu, dass spontane freie Konzerte neben den eigentlich geplanten stattfanden. Title: Festival Express. In the summer of 1970, right after the Festival Express tour had ended, Ian and Sylvia Tyson went into the studios of CFTO-TV in Toronto to tape the pilot for a new music series for Canadian network television. Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, wow. Der Festival Express war 1970 eine Konzerttour vom Osten zum Westen Kanadas. Sounds like quite the weekend. Ian And Sylvia. Tracklist: Grateful Dead - Don't Ease Me In The Band - Slippin' and Slidin Solo on the train by Jerry … Mit diesem Album erlangten sie ersten Erfolg und wurden 1963 zum Newport Folk Festival geladen. Produced by Todd Rundgren, the record failed when Ampex was unable to establish widespread distribution. I’m glad to hear my post triggered some sweet memories for you. “It was a train full of insane people careening across the Canadian countryside, making music night and day, and then, occasionally, we’d get off the train and go play a concert,” said Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh. That day is part of a larger narrative – the greatest rock festival in our country’s history – which Winnipeg was a central part of. Exactly three months after her Calgary performance Joplin overdosed on heroin. A few songs later he stepped onto a fork lift which carried him right out to the crowd as he used his ridiculously long power cord. I loved the Dead in those days, when they were at their peak, and it was heartbreaking to see the way heavy drug use, especially Jerry’s later heroin addiction, de-railed the band and paved the way to his early death. “There was no escape. “You just looked at me and I looked at you. 146:22. The recollections of the great time on the train are tinged with a sadness about those losses. He smiled and said, “That was a magic night, wasn’t it?” Damn right. Sadly, the three stars of the film, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia and Rick Danko all died way too young. Viele der Musiker blieben in dieser Zeit im Zug, andere erschienen nur bei den Konzerten. The Dead were scheduled to perform at Altamont but after arriving by helicopter they quickly realized things were totally out of control and got back on the chopper, wondering what had gone terribly wrong. INFO: Source: WEBRip Video compression mode: [MKV,1080p][H.264,AC3] Size MB: 2600 Total Run Time mn. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Einige der besten Rockbands der damaligen Zeit nahmen daran teil, so auch Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band. From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson.From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, she and Ian also fronted the country-rock band Great Speckled Bird. She looked like a mess with her hair in tangles and her flawed complexion, but, as always, her heart was fully on display as she torched the audience with the sheer power of her voice and the underlying pain of her life and relationship failures. 8 mm film had to be converted to 24 mm and there were serious problems synchronizing the audio and video, not all of which matches perfectly in the finished product. See more ideas about Ian and sylvia, Sylvia, Folk music. DVDs. Three of Bob Dylan's "Basement Tapes" compositions are covered on these albums, most of the rest were written by Ian or Sylvia. Festival Express is a documentary film about three concerts that took place in 1970 during a one week period. Members of the Grateful Dead joked about hijacking the train and driving it back to San Francisco. Unlike in standard music festivals where performers came together for a couple of hours or days, the participants in this tour all traveled together on the same train, partying and jamming along the way between concert venues in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary. I couldn’t have thrown a better party. Ken Walker thanked Janis for coming and she replied “Next time you throw a train, invite me.” I have never seen performing artists so clearly having a great time. Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker (m Tyson) sang together in Toronto clubs as early as 1959. “It was a totally unique experience,” Sylvia Tyson said three decades later. Messages: 32329. Dave and I took one look at the list of performers and chorused “let’s do it.”. Sylvia Tyson started performing professionally in 1959 as one-half of the internationally acclaimed folk duo, Ian and Sylvia. He was 55. You'll forgive me when you look at Sylvia Tyson's photograph. The ad for the Festival Express. “I’ll carry the rest of my life that I’ll never get the chance to meet with Jerry and Janis again,” Buddy Guy said wistfully in 2003. ... Ian and Sylvia, and others sometimes performing together. Great Speckled Bird was a country rock group formed in 1969 by the Canadian musical duo Ian & Sylvia. The party was finally over but many of the musicians didn’t want it to end. There was a blues car, a rock car, and a folk and country car producing some impressive cross-genre connections, like rock guitarist Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead playing some nasty blues licks while blues ace Buddy Guy wails “I just can’t do it baby.”. FOLK MUSIC EPHEMERA, circa 1960s. I picked up a copy of Rolling Stone magazine two days later and learned about Festival Express. Dave and I entered the stadium early and found a good spot to place our sleeping bags. As it turned out the last three performers were the three headliners, the Dead, The Band and Janis Joplin. The crowd could not have asked for more. The entertainers were warming up for their last three nights together. Janis and Jerry called the promoters on stage and presented them with a huge toy train, signed by all the musicians. [1], https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Festival_Express&oldid=204284835, „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“, Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) Grandstand –, "Better Take Jesus' Hand" ("Jordan"), Jerry Garcia, "Tears of Rage", Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird. The director, Bob Smeaton, recorded interviews in 2003 with many of the surviving musicians who put into words what the experience was like for the performers and how much they loved the train ride and treasured the memories. Sylvia Tyson started performing professionally in 1959 as one-half of the internationally acclaimed folk duo, Ian and Sylvia. 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