Bravo! Excellent writing and wonderful story of the Band. I'll bet Grossman had as much to do with cutting them out of the Woodstock movie than anything. I, too, wish the Band's sets would have been included. All of them. I'm not getting out of here alive, so I don't mind the price so much, but I'd have paid double for having the Band on this release. Thank's John for your writing, well done.
Enjoyed this. I follow another Substack (Flagging Down the Double E's) that looked at the entire 1974 tour and was unimpressed overall by the group's sets. (Drugs, boredom, etc.? Unsure...) Wish they'd been on the set as well, but the legal entanglements involved will ensure that doesn't happen. I'll be curious to see if Universal does anything with their stuff given the EU law, but I somehow doubt it.
Bravo! Excellent writing and wonderful story of the Band. I'll bet Grossman had as much to do with cutting them out of the Woodstock movie than anything. I, too, wish the Band's sets would have been included. All of them. I'm not getting out of here alive, so I don't mind the price so much, but I'd have paid double for having the Band on this release. Thank's John for your writing, well done.
Enjoyed this. I follow another Substack (Flagging Down the Double E's) that looked at the entire 1974 tour and was unimpressed overall by the group's sets. (Drugs, boredom, etc.? Unsure...) Wish they'd been on the set as well, but the legal entanglements involved will ensure that doesn't happen. I'll be curious to see if Universal does anything with their stuff given the EU law, but I somehow doubt it.
Dylan is on Sony, The Band is on Universal. It would have been a legal mess to include their sets.