Awesome new DVD available for first time in 45 years....

[DisneyKevin]

Wow.

The DVD showed up yesterday and I watched it last night. I really needed some sleep but I had to watch the DVD.

Impressive. The DVD really is a piece of history. My kids got a kick out the dancers, the music and the clothes. The thought the dancing looked stupid. Which is what the adults of the day said.

The only music I really did not like was the Barbarians. Some of the other groups where so so but I do remember some of their songs.

The liner notes was worth the price of the DVD. To think that Toni Basil from the Hey Mickey song helped with the dancing is a hoot. Glen Campbell was session guitarist in the band. When Chuck Berry was playing and you heard more than just guitar I was wondering if the music had been prerecorded which had not been done. It was all live. Later scenes you could see the band to the right of the stage.

The thing that really stood out was how GOOD the groups were. In this day of lip synching to see the band actually PLAY music and do it as part of a tightly controlled show was amazing. These people had talent and skill. Very impressive.

I have never really liked James Brown's music. But his performance of Please Please Please was awesome. The energy he and his band put into the set and that song was unreal. He and his back up singers were in great physical shape. And this was true for some of the other performers as well.

The only bad thing about the DVD was the stupid screaming teenage girls. Never understood the screaming teenage girl thing. Even my daughter wanted them to shut up and she wanted to know why they kept screaming.

The DVD is a steel at $12-13. The Dick Cavett DVD were he interviews the music groups of the day. The snippet interview with Mick Jagger who looks to be in his 20's saying he could see playing music into his 60's even if he was having to use a cane on stage was a hoot.

Later,
Dan

And Terri Garr was a dancer.

Darlene Love was a backup singer.

 

[Becx N Gav]

Sorry, Kevin. I don't know many of those people that well. I must be too young....-running- rofl

I don't think it's to do with age but good taste

 

[dmccarty]

And Terri Garr was a dancer.

Darlene Love was a backup singer.

There was one dancer who I THINK might have been Terri Garr. I kept seeing this one dancer here and there but only for a few seconds that I thought might have been her.

The clothes of the dancers were interesting. Especially the bikinis. Even Jan and Dean's rugby shirts caught my eye. I did not realize those shirts went back that far.

Later,
Dan

 

[Paul in CT]

My DVD arrived yesterday - well ahead of the predicted delivery, but I did not have a chance to watch it yet. I had to watch Big Bang Theory even though it was a rerun.

 

[*NikkiBell*]

I'm too young to remember Beethoven....but I know who he is and I'm familiar with his work.

Well, we all know that Skip has the worst taste in music on the DIS anyway so...

 

[DisneyKevin]

Well, we all know that Skip has the worst taste in music on the DIS anyway so...

We also know a rhinoceros has no knees so he cant back up or jump.

What does that have to do with knowing who the Beach Boys, the Supremes or Marvin Gaye are?

 

[miss missy]

Sounds interesting for the music of it all for my daughter too! I loved Sgt Pepper!!

I am so thrilled that this is older than me, anything older than me makes me happy these days