A Night at the Family Dog 1970 (The Grateful Dead / Jefferson Airplane / Santana)

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Filmed on location at the Family Dog Ballroom in San Francisco in September, 1970, the show captures the heyday and diversity of the San Francisco sound with three of the most well known bands to emerge from the scene: Santana, who would release their second album at the end of 1970; The Grateful Dead, including original band member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who were making a name for themselves with their jam-filled performances; and Jefferson Airplane, who were at the time the biggest of the bands from the area.

San Francisco was an area of artistic creation during the mid-to-late 60's. Whether it was art, poetry or music, the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco was the place for like-minded individuals to explore and create. Noted jazz columnist Ralph J. Gleason took note of the exploding rock music scene and produced several television specials and documentaries spotlighting the music emerging from San Francisco. A Night At The Family Dog is one part of a two-part series (the other is Go Ride The Music) that aired on The National Educational Television Network in 1970.

The audio for this program has been extrapolated up to Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes from their original mono source! This show has never sounded or looked so good!

Track Listing:
Santana
-Incident At Neshabur
-Soul Sacrifice
The Grateful Dead
-Hard To Handle
-China Cat Sunflower
-I Know You Rider
Jefferson Airplane
-The Ballad of You And Me And Pooneil
-Eskimo Blue Day
A Super Jam
-All Star jam with members of all 3 bands!

Customer Reviews:

the dead at the dog.......2007-09-09

This is a little piece of history captured for our viewing pleasure...
It only makes you wish there were more old vintage performances available
on dvd... Cheers to eaglevision for keeping the past alive and relevent..

Excellent time capsule.......2007-09-04

this is an approx. 1-hour color videotape, 16-track recorded snapshot of February 1970 performances by these three bands at The Family Dog in San Francisco. Originally produced at the time for public television broadcast; see the review entitled "Amazing Performances" for details ... also disagree w/ "It's Not the 60's" review comment: Grateful Dead were still to break new musical ground from 1970-74 esp. after 1971 when Keith Godchaux joined on piano, as was Santana with even more jazz-oriented 1972-74 albums and lineups (powerhouse drumming from Michael Shrieve here).

for 58 minutes you'll be transported to a time and place in music which can't come back - savor it.

A night at the family dog.......2007-09-01

Glad to see they rereleased this dvd.Performances are great ,the music is right on,but it could have been a lot longer.Buy this dvd to see the great PIG PEN with the DEAD.Priceless.

SAN FRANCISCO'S FINEST HOUR.......2007-09-01

Beyond the film quality which is 1970's average at best, this DVD is Rock essential. Santana, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the light show and hippie dancers is short in length, but still worth every penny. SANTANA - Carlos Santana in recent years admitted the original band was his best. They follow the Woodstock performance here playing two instrumetals proving they were no one hit wonders. "Abraxas" was not out yet, so it was still a work in progress. The musicianship is better than Woodstock, though not the fire. Gregg Rolie, "Chepito" and the rest made this more of a group than in the later years when the guitar hero was backed by... "Who's He Got This Year"? THE GRATEFUL DEAD - Why was this band never the same after Ron "Pigpen" McKernan died? He was the group's premier showstopper. Jerry Garcia was the leader, "Pigpen" the spark plug. He lets it all go on the R&B "Hard To Handle" lifting the room to peak level. The jam on "China Cat" is just a notch bellow "Europe 72". Still doggone good. The drummers sizzle. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Jack Casady's blistering bass solo alone on "The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil" is something to watch and hear. The guy is wired. Grace Slick, vocals and Jorma Kaukonen, guitar are in sync on "Eskimo Blue Day" even though after the song, it's apparent Slick is loaded. This was a great 60's band that splintered later into three parts. The Airplane is better here than at Woodstock and Monterey. THE ALLSTAR JAM is good only for watching. Carlos, Jerry and Jorma seem to respect each other too much rather than trying to top each other. Which band steals the show? It's a three way tie, all having shining moments that will never again will be dupliated. Now that "A Night At The Family Dog" is finally available, I hope next to follow will be the "Fillmore: Last Days" movie on DVD.

I WANT MORE.......2007-08-30

Musically this dvd is 5 star material, If it were a cd this would be a 5 star review. Problem being the brevity and editing. This dvd is much too short (about one hour). The editing flaws include slo-mo shots of a chick hippie-dancing in a sheer dress w/out a bra (even as I type this I feel wrong complaining) the problem is it'll be during peak jams where I would rather see Jerry or Santana's hands or even facial expressions than borderline soft-core porn. The material is great though, Pigpen on video alone is worth the price. It's obvious the cameraman got into the "special punch" that night and just shot whatever the hell he felt like tripping on. For completionists.

Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock

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The Puzzle Comes Together
Amazing and Historical
Straight From the Horse's -- er -- Dog's Mouth
The only footage of the Charlatans are on this DVD
Psychedelic Music Backstory

Rockin' at the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock
Starring: Big Brother & the Holding Company , The Grateful Dead , Howard Hesseman , Jefferson Airplane , and Quicksilver Messenger Service
Director: Mary Works
Manufacturer: Monterey Video
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ASIN: B0009GX2JG
Release Date: 2005-07-05

Description

With music by The Charlatans, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Lynne Hughes, Mark Unobsky, Dan Hicks, Alice Stuart, Ph Phactor Jug Band, Final Solution, Wildflower, Boston Wranglers, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service

Directed By: Mary Works

Their names and music became legendary: Big Brother & the Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the house band - The Charlatans. If the psychedelic sixties were born in the dancehalls of San Francisco, then they were conceived in a saloon in Virginia City, Nevada where the musicians carried Winchesters & the kitchen served French gourmet meals.

The psychedelic era fostered cultural growth and artistic expression. The Red Dog Saloon was the incubator for the lightshow and psychedelic poster art, an entire lifestyle that truly defined a remarkable era and defied classification as it weaved it's tapestry of free love and music, which the Grateful Dead would spread around the world.

Filmmaker Mary Works (assistant editor "Titanic", "Saving Private Ryan") was entrusted with access to the lives, antics and attics of this unique extended rock and roll family that grew out of these wild times.

DVD Features - A conversation with the filmmakers, Where are they now?, Jim Marshall Photo Gallery and Interview

Customer Reviews:

The Puzzle Comes Together.......2007-08-02

Thanks to these excellent dvd, the pieces missing from my puzzle of how the San Francisco sound and psychedelic music formed have been put into place, and the picture is clear to me now. The dvd was quite entertaining and engrossing, and it was nice to see that so many of those pioneers of that scene are still around today. I had never heard any music by the Charlatans until watching this dvd, and now i want to hear more! The question left for me now is, who influenced who? Were the Charlatans the main influence on the development of the Grateful Dead's, or Quicksilver Messenger's Service music, or did all have an influence on each other?
Rockin' At The Red Dog has , after one viewing, become an integral part of my music video collection.

Amazing and Historical.......2007-02-05

This DVD says it all--the history, the music of the era, the culture of the 60s San Franciso-Virginia City, NV scene that helped to create it..amazing Charlatans.

Straight From the Horse's -- er -- Dog's Mouth.......2007-01-30

I gave this DVD every star available. It is solidly produced and presents a robust explication of a Movement which is taken for granted now, but was, lest we forget, ephemeral and wildly improbable in the extreme. Yet it happened. Chaos theory spins a tale of the "butterfly effect" which can eventually power a hurricane on the other side of the Earth. How did the long hair of the Hippie's actually come about? Were Hippies "slobs", "bums", "idiots"? No, they were perfectionists, actually, as any Grateful Dead roadie could endlessly testify. The accessability of the story is perhaps too clear and immediate for viewers to credit on first viewing. This film will get under your skin. It is neglected, discounted anthropology. It is important.

The only footage of the Charlatans are on this DVD.......2007-01-21

I have to agree with some aspects of the negative reviews found here: Yes, if you're looking for stories revolving around the popular bands of the area, don't buy it. Actually, only buy this, if you heard or read of the Red Dog Saloon before. Because then it's safe to assume that you are really familiar with the development of the music scene in San Francisco in the 60s. Because then you don't have to rely on this DVD to learn who the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane were.

If the Red Dog Saloon does ring a bell, buy this DVD. Buy it, because it contains the only known footage of the Charlatans, the real pioneers. True: If you listen to their sound you would never guess that they were the spearhead of the music scene back in 64 and 65. But that's not the point. This DVD basically explains why the Charlatans worked as a band, as an image and as a visual focus point that drew people because it was way cool.

Also to be seen on DVD: Excerpts of the Red Dog Reunion concert back in the early 90s with the Charlatans and Big Brother And The Holding Company. Lynne Hughes is there, too. The background of the Light Machine is explained. Interviews with people from the scene less famous than the typical names associated with it. Oh yes, and music. Music that is virtually forgotten by most of us today but still belongs and is easily identified as part of the dawn of psychedelic rock.

The bottom line: Great if not fantastic DVD for people interested in the background of the music scene. It concentrates on the Red Dog and leaves therefore little room for the more famous bands of the area. But that was not the intention. The DVD is a joy to watch. It is great to listen to the interviews. I will treasure this DVD.

Psychedelic Music Backstory .......2006-04-16

I consider this an essential documentary of the sixties music scene. It's a story that might well be lost without this film.

If you're expecting a Grateful Dead video, like all the other videos from this company, then don't bother buying this one.

I'm really quite shocked by the one star reviews of this fascinating video. I guess either you get it or you don't.

Rockin' at the Red Dog isn't boring - it's hip, man, you dig?

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good little movie

Dead Dog
Starring: Jeremy Sisto , Emily Cline , Paige Turco , Adrienne Shelly , and Stephen E. Stapinski
Director: Christopher Goode
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ASIN: B0007YMVM4
Release Date: 2005-06-07

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Why should infidelity, hypocrisy and murder ruin a perfectly good relationship? Tom and Perri are a successful couple residing in New York City with their dog, a Golden Retriever named Sophie. Tom is crushed when Sophie is hit and killed by a car while Perri is walking her, and angered that someone would drive away from the scene without any apparent remorse. As time passes, Tom's anger becomes an obsession to make the hit and run driver pay for his crime.

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good little movie.......2007-07-19

this movie was well acted and a quaint little film. worth the money to buy and add to your dvd collection

Horror Classics 08 - Dead Men Walk / The Monster Maker

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alpha is not
Terrific Double Dose of Creepy Horror From Poverty Row's "Producer's Releasing Corporation"
Chilling Fun!
DEAD MEN WALK and THE MONSTER MAKER make a fun time!

Horror Classics 08 - Dead Men Walk / The Monster Maker
Starring: George Zucco , Mary Carlisle , Nedrick Young , Dwight Frye , and Fern Emmett
Director: Sam Newfield
Manufacturer: ROAN
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ASIN: 6305636435
Release Date: 1999-10-26

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Dead Men Walk--In dead men walk we are treated to two George Zucco's, as he plays twin brothers; one being a doctor, and the other a student of the occult. Dwight Frye plays the vampireâ€™s assistant. Frye would later go on to fame as Renfield in the classic Tod Browning version of Dracula. Monster Maker--Mad Scientist J. Carrol Naish exacts his revenge by injecting victims with acromegaly. Also stars future Frankenstein Glenn Strange.

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alpha is not.......2006-08-30

i will never buy an alpha product again. this is very poor quailty as are all the alphas i have bought. this is a good movie, but the picture is so poor it is not worth it..

Terrific Double Dose of Creepy Horror From Poverty Row's "Producer's Releasing Corporation".......2006-04-08

What a joy it is to finally come across these two formally hard to find releases from the infamous "Producer's Releasing Corporation", or "PRC", as it was commonly known during it's heyday in the 1940's. Famed for being the lowest of low of poverty row studios in Hollywood, PRC was considered even a step down from the equally infamous Monogram Studios, and was regarded as basically the end of the line for any actors forced to work for them. I am a big fan of their horror efforts however and in actual fact they produced some interesting low budget horror efforts starring such horror veterans as Bela Lugosi and George Zucco, in among their speciality which was "B" westerns. Here we have two very creepy efforts in "Dead Men Walk", and "The Monster Maker", that make for a most entertaining chilling double and were originally designed to take war time audiences minds off the horrors occuring all over the world. Both films have good casts for such "B", efforts and star the likes of horror stalwarts George Zucco (a PRC regular in among his "A" efforts at the major studios like MGM), who in "Dead Men Walk", plays very different twin brothers, and Dwight Frye, forever known from his role in the original version of "Dracula". While certainly produced on low budgets and shot in record time by veteran "fast", director Sam Newfield, both efforts are well worth checking out with the makeup in "The Monster Maker", being of an especially high quality for such an effort as this.

"Dead Men Walk", (1943),is a vampire story, a subject not usually tackled by PRC however don't expect a typical vampire character as horror lovers have all grown used to in the Hammer Studio efforts. Shot in an amazing six days here George Zucco plays very opposite twins; Dr Lloyd Clayton a kindly small town doctor, and his unbalanced brother Dr. Elwyn Clayont who lost his mind while delving into occult research during a stay in India. The story opens at Elwyn's funeral where it is revealed that Lloyd was forced to kill his insane brother in self defence. All does not run smoothly after the funeral however when Lloyd is clearing out Elwyn's possessions when he is cursed by Elwyn's unbalanced hunchbacked assistant Zolarr (Dwigth Frye), who states that his master will take revenge on Lloyd and his niece Gayle (Mary Carlisle) from beyond the grave. Very soon a strange murder takes place in the area where a woman is completely drained of blood and Lloyd soon gets the fright of his life when his supposedly dead brother appears to him very much alive and threatening him. Zolarr in fact has stolen Elwyn's body from the crypt and he has been revived as a vampire who is now determined to reek vengenance on Lloyd and his family no matter what it takes. Very soon Gayle begins to fall ill from what looks like anemia and it is revealed that Elwyn is preying on her, slowly draining her of blood. Despite Lloyd's best efforts to stop Elwyn's attacks he has a hard time stopping his deranged brother or gettign anyone to believe him uncluding Gayle's fiancee David (Nedrick Young), who begins to suspect Lloyd of the murders. When local busybody Kate (Fern Emmet),learns too much of Elwyn's activities and is also found murdered the local townspeople take the law into their own hands believing that Lloyd is responsible for all the deaths and must be stopped. Lloyd however convinces David of his innocence and of his brother's sinister plan and with his help Lloyd finally tracks down the location of Elwyn's body at Zolarr's house. In a final fiery confrontation both men fight to the death in the flames of the burning building ending the story with another funeral, this time it being Lloyd's.

"The Monster Maker", (1944), is a surprisingly nasty little effort and outlines the story of a decidely unbalanced scientist (J. Carrol Naish), who steals another scientist's research into the baffling disease of acromegaly, murders him, and then assumes his identity as Dr. Igor Markoff. One night at a piano recital he sees beautiful Patricia Lawrence (Wand Mckay), in the audience who is the daughter of renowned pianist Anthony Lawrence (Ralph Morgan). Struck by her resemblance to his late wife Dr. Markoff begins to pursue her despite th efact that she is engaged to Bob Blake (Terry frost). When Anthony visits Dr. Markoff to warn him to stay away from his daughter a fight breaks out and Anthony is knocked unconsious. While he is out the deranged Markoff injects him with the acromegaly virus and very soon Anthony is displaying all the symptons of the disease such as rapidly swelling limbs. Consulting his doctor he is referred to the supposed "expert", in the field Dr.Markoff who not only straps Anthony to a table not allowing him to leave but uses blackmail to force Anthony to give him his daughter in return for saving his life from the disease now turning him into a grotesque monster. With the help of Markoff's spurned assistant Maxine (Tala Birell), who against her better judgement actually loved Markoff, Patricia and Bob come to Anthony's rescue who then breaks loose and in the fight with Markoff kills the mad scientist. Maxine is aware of Markoff's cure for acromegaly and then assists in injecting Patricia's father with the vaccine that is the cures which gradually restores him to his former self. At the conclusion we see Patricia, Bob, and Maxine attending Anthony's first concert after the restoration of his health.

Certainly the storylines for these two PRC efforts could be called loopy and inconsistent however they both make for very enjoyable viewing. Aside from the extremely nasty element present as the basic premise of 'The Monster Maker", that film's production values are surprisingly good with the makeup for Ralph Morgan's transformation courtesy of Maurice Seide, who's wizardry was responsible for transforming Orson Welles into an old man in "Citizen Kane", and for the outstanding makeup transformations achieved in such efforts as "I Walked with a Zombie", and "First Yank into Tokyo". As with all "B" or "C" efforts such as these there are numerous continuity errors in the stories, and unexplained loose ends to the story but they are actually fun to look for such as when George Zucco's eye glasses in "Dead Men Walk", disappear and then reappear again in the one scene or where in the film's fiery climatic scene suddenly a whole group of villagers appear near the open window looking in at George Zucco fighting with his brother that weren't there in the last angle shot.

Hollywood's "Poverty Row", studios are most certainly a thing of the past but their product with time has developed a real cult following among "B" movie enthusiasts. This particular double is one I'm very fond of and is well worth exploring. It constantly amazes me that such enjoyable results, whatever their debatable artistic merits, were often achieved with mere six or seven day shooting schedules. It says alot for talented actors such as George Zucco that no matter how absurd the material he had to work with he always manged to pull off good performances even under such rushed conditions as he does here which still manage to intrigue viewers to this day. Enjoy!

Chilling Fun!.......2002-01-06

Well worth the money.These two lesser known horror features from the forties are just the thing to satisfy those looking for vintage chills.
Fun movies, well presented.
Lets see more like this on DVD.

DEAD MEN WALK and THE MONSTER MAKER make a fun time!.......2000-12-19

Roan Archival presents perhaps one of its most entertaining, if not distateful, volumes of "Horror Classics" devoted to preserving the "Poverty Row" pictures of Monogram and PRC. THE MONSTER MAKER is a particularly enjoyable (if not tasteful) hour of sick fun. J. Carrol Naish is superb as Dr. Markoff, a specialist in an elepantitis-like disease. Markoff uses his knowledge to gain control of his foes. In this particular story, he desires the hand of the daughter of brilliant pianist Frank Morgan. When Morgan refuses, he is injected with a virus that turns him into a deformed mess. When Naish discovers a cure, he uses it as a bargaining tool in a very sick and twisted way. This particular films is full of "mad scientist" cliches, yet I couldn't help but be utterly enthralled, especially by the higher-grade casting. As for the techincal side of this film, the print is a better than average one in quality. For the most part, THE MONSTER MAKER looks and sounds beautiful. But like most Poverty Row flicks, it is met with scrathes, speckled and at least one minor film jump. These are not distracting, however. The other side of the disc contains the campy DEAD MEN WALK with menacing George Zucco and the brilliant Dwight Frye (1931 DRACULA). What we have here is basically DRACULA told for the umpteenth time. The similarities in plot and in characters are oh so obvious. What saves this film are superb performances by Zucco as twins (one, if you haven't guessed, is cursed with VAMPIRISM!)and by Dwight Frye in one of his final roles. As for the technical side of this film, you get about the same quality as MONSTER MAKER print wise. DEAD MEN WALK seems to be more frequented by scracthes, splotches and speckles and a couple of film jumps, but overall its not distracting. Both films have attractive menus that are easy to navigate. This is definitely a GREAT value and highly recommended to those interested in this genre

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