During my high school years I had a double cassette of the soundtrack to this movie and listened to it incessantly – so much so that when I saw the film sometimes it was hard to marry what I’d envisioned with what I was seeing.
This remains an impressive doco, chiefly because of the quality of the actors involved – Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills and Nash (my personal favourite), etc. Not as strong as Gimme Shelter, but then no one dies.
There are some hippies sun bathing, a cooler than cool dude on a motorbike who organises it, a funny hippie nurse who is great talent, Max Yasgur, lots of mess. You can make fun of boomers, and you should, but they sure knew how to party.
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