Rock n’ Roll Will Never Die! kicks off at Trailers from Hell, with director Allan Arkush introducing “Festival Express.”
Director Bob Smeaton’s rock ‘n road-trip movie, featuring
some of 1970′s preeminent musicians on a five day train tour through Canada, is
an essential time capsule of what happened when the swinging sixties made its
awkward leap into the unforgiving after-party of the ’70s. There are
eye-opening run-ins with hostile fans along the way but the camaraderie of the
musicians, including Janis Joplin, The Band and The Grateful Dead keeps spirits
high (literally). Because the tour was a financial disaster, the footage sat
unused in a garage for years before being resurrected for presentation at the
2003 Toronto Film Festival.
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