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

A Night at the Family Dog 1970 (The Grateful Dead / Jefferson Airplane / Santana) 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 1...	Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Jefferson Airplane Live at the Fillmore East 1969 Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Live at the Fillmore East 1969 features the definitive edition of Jefferson Airplane, icons of 1960s psychedelic rock and political agitation. Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden hold down the free-floating rhythms on bass and drums, Jorma Kaukonen launches ...	Fly Jefferson Airplane	Festival Express The vintage concert footage alone makes Festival Express a memorable and worthwhile endeavor, offering scintillating performances by Janis Joplin, the Band (their rollicking version of "Slippin' and Slidin'" is particularly mind-blowing), the Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, and others ...	Go Ride the Music and West Pole Following on the heels of the release of "A Night At the Family Dog" last year, this new DVD brings together two more TV programs from noted music critic and Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph J Gleason, covering the San Francisco psychedelia scene of the late sixties and early seven...
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival - Criterion Collection The Monterey International Pop Festival, the three-day event staged in 1967 that has become one of rock music's most famous and in some ways greatest concerts, gets the royal treatment with this three-disc boxed set. Material on two of the three discs has already been widely av...	Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 It wasn't all peace, love, and drugs that made San Francisco the fulcrum of the burgeoning hippie scene in the mid '60s. According to this sprawling 77-track, four-disc set--the third in Rhino's ongoing Nuggets series--it was the music that nurtured and helped create Haight-Ashbu...	At the Kabuki Theatre Recorded in December of 1970 in San Francisco, this is the Last Show Recorded with Members John Cipollina and Dino Valenti. Includes 18 Live Tracks and a Bonus Four Studio Tracks Recorded in 1969 with Nicky Hopkins.	At the Family Dog Ballroom 2007 archive release featuring a fantastic Jefferson Airplane concert from their heyday, recorded at the famous San Franciscan venue of The Family Dog Ballroom in September 1969 when the group was at the peak of its considerable power. Only recently unearthed from the archives, t...	The Grateful Dead Movie Filmed at San Francisco's Winterland during their 1976 ""Steal your face tour"", the group performs 19 of their hits.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: GRATEFUL DEADTitle: GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIEStreet Release Date: 11/09/2004

Thank God - Finally NO Grateful Dead
I'm sure this will be an unpopular review, but watch the DVD for the LACK of Greatful Dead content. The San Francisco scene was much more than the Dead...most folks seem to have forgotten that.

ROCKIN' AT THE RED DOG
Not having seen this video yet, I must still say this: To appreciate this DVD, you must understand that there is VERY LITTLE original footage of ANY SF bands from this period. The heyday of the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, particularly related to The Charlatans, was '65/'66. We didn't have video cameras back then, for crying out loud! ANY surviving footage is to be treasured, now! If it wasn't for Monterey, there'd be next to nothing of the early days of bands like JA or Big Brother, either. BUY IT WHEN YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY! The Charlatans were different ... not the best, but they, like so many, were plowing new ground, and that alone is to be appreciated ...

The Puzzle Comes Together
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
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
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.