It was a great experience. I was 18 and hitch hiked to Monterey with a girl and her Doberman. One ride all the way. As soon as we got dropped at the fairgrounds, some people asked if we had a place to stay, took us to their pad, let us shower, and made breakfast. That was a good sign. I had no desire to go to Livestock; nothing could ever compare to those three days in Monterey. You see all the people with coats and blankets because it was cold at night and early morning. For weeks before we had been hearing the ads on the radio (KRLA)about all the performers and they kept saying the Jimi Hendrix Experience. We had no idea who this guy was; we were going to see and hear everyone we could. But that night, after The Who had tried to demolish the stage and Lou Adler and John Philips were scrambling to regain order, the stage went dark and a lone figure walked to the mike at center stage. When the spotlight came on we could see it was Brian Jones. He introduced Jimi Hendrix and when I saw, and heard, the most amazing things ever done or played on a Stratocaster (on any guitar for that matter)life wasn't the same. Hendrix took music to an alien world and came back with sounds and style that were beyond my imagination. This film is not the greatest quality and certainly--in a technical sense--pales in comparison to contemporary concert movies and videos; however, it was the first true rock festival, and if you were there you know what I mean. But if you let go of the need for cinematic purity and enormous production values, what you'll enjoy is an island of (not corny) peace, love, and incredible music.
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Great teaming of Meredith and LoBianco as partners
24 June 2009
This is one of several episodes that feature partners Tony Calabrese (LoBianco)and Bert Jameson (Meredith),the totally irreverent, but fiercely loyal, robbery/homicide detectives. The chemistry between these two and their hilarious good cop-bad cop routines with suspects and civilians alike, make these episodes some of the most memorable of the anthology series. The sense of how close partners become, and how important the bond between them is to their survival, even to the exclusion of spouses, is very clear. If you ever thought Don Meredith was just a country-boy quarterback or color commentator to Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford, you should watch him in this role. IMHO.
Perhaps the best episode of the most realistic cop show on TV.
24 June 2009
Warning: Spoilers
This episode was originally title "The John Wayne Syndrome," but due to obvious reasons, the name was changed. It is reported that the LAPD adopted the episode as a training film at the academy. Cliff Gorman plays a patrol officer at the point early in his career, (and very true in reality), when many cops become their job, and are consumed by the emotional attachment to "saving all victims and arresting all the perps." When he feels his college student wife, played by Kim Darby, is no longer emotionally available, and lost in the abstract world of academia--while he lives day to day in the gritty real world of life and death on the street--he snaps. (You'll have to watch it to get the full impact.) This episode (and for that matter, the entire series) is a must-see for viewers who think NYPD Blue or Law and Order are "cop" shows. Consultant Joe Wambaugh added much of the authenticity to the show; on the heels of The Choirboys and The Blue Knight. IMHO.
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