It was not the first sign that the whole thing was going wrong ... but it was when people knew the music was not happening, and some of the folks around it, were not happening either.  The music stagnated because of the hippy thing and the media dump and trash show, and then no one in California was standing up for anything meaningful ... almost all of them were trying to cash in like everybody else!

 

It was getting bad in California, with too many drugs and too much of too much anything ... and the way it was handled in Santa Barbara? ... and it became ... you get into it, or you are not cool ... and that's when you knew that it was dead and gone, and not a thing in all that music meant anything to anyone! Nobody gave a cahoot! It was all crap and meaningless and just an excuse to get laid or stoned!

 

Sorry ... not all of us were out of it! And a lot of the music MEANT A LOT for me, and SPOKE for me, but most of it was not in California anymore, but in Europe. Even the Grateful Dead became a bad joke! And I still talk about it, in case you have not noticed. The California heyday for music ended with that concert. It also took a lot of wind off the festival years and big concerts for quite sometime!

 

Altamont -- About the infamous concert. It is also a really good look as to how bad and corrupt things had gotten in California. You could tell that the "wrong" people were in charge of the music and "bringing it to the public". Seeing Marty Balin get his face smashed in, and then the othe rincident is not something that makes you feel good, and this film lets you have it.

 

Sympathy for the Devil -- Jean Luc Godard. One of these days, this film will be worth seeing, but so far this is the worst Godard film ever made.

 

Let it Be -- Probably one of the best, and saddest documentaries ever, and I wanna know why his jerk'ness or Yoko are not allowing this film to be remastered and released. It is magnificent in every minute of it. The bad side of it, is that the bootlegs had AT LEAST another hor of material that could be added to the film to make it better, more interesting and fun ... but nooooooo ... gotta hide John getting mad at his fellow Beatles and George getting mad ... if you want me to play I will play and if you don't I won't! ... moments that makes them PEOPLE instead of rock stars! I don't think that we will see this in our lifetimes because of the jerks and robbers, still surrounding the Beatle stuff and the fact that Paul and Ringo don't give a damn anyway ... their "star-hood" is better and more important!

 

It Might Get Loud -- It's worth watching and get a nice idea of what these folks are about ... and I like Jimmy explaining one song ... which is the best moment in the film for me! The Edge is empty for my tastes. Jack is ok, but I'm not impressed with the music! There are far better guitarists that should have been a part of this!

 

Behind the Music -- The VH-1 series is not all out yet ... and there were some excellent ones in there. Some of the better ones I remember was the one on David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane (I don't want to be some geriatric singing rock'n'roll bitch at 60!), Queen (absolutely magnificent and it handles Freddy's last days beautifully!) for starters. I saw a whole bunch of them, but those were probably the best I remember still. Too many of them, though, were just absolute kissing a$h trash! Even the one on the Bee Gees was good.