ian and sylvia festival express

Neben kanadischen Folkliedern wurden auch britische und einige Bluessongs verwendet. The other founding members were Amos Garrett on guitar and occasional vocals, Ben Keith on steel guitar, Ken Kalmusky on bass and Ricky Marcus on drums. Deadheads of the world, unite at a theater playing “Festival Express.” There is also The Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Mashmahkhan and Ian and Sylvia Tyson (doing a … Another book by John, the first biography on Ian and Sylvia, has been published titled Four Strong Winds: Ian and Sylvia. Ian and Sylvia (manchmal auch Ian & Sylvia) war ein kanadisches Folk- und Country-Rock-Duo. Next up was a band that really set the crowd on fire. FOLK MUSIC EPHEMERA, circa 1960s. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. A good story well told. I have a confession to make. Members of the Grateful Dead joked about hijacking the train and driving it back to San Francisco. “She drank me under the table. The albums can be defined as early country-rock music. It was called Festival Express, but many people dubbed it Woodstock on Wheels because the bands and solo artists barnstormed across the country on a private CN train, which turned into an endless, wild and crazy jam session and party as it churned west from Toronto to Winnipeg and on to Calgary, staging top drawer music festivals at each stop. Status: Offline. I nodded my head or vice versa and you just played.”, “I recall getting into a drinking contest with Janis Joplin and I was seriously out-matched,” recalled Ian Tyson. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. He was 55. I’m glad to hear my post triggered some sweet memories for you. Saved by Paul Dittmer. From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson.From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, she and Ian also fronted the country-rock band Great Speckled Bird. The loss of Ron “Pig Pen’’ McKernan, the soul of the group, who drank himself to death in 1973 was also a major blow. The concerts were linked together because all the musicians travelled and lived together on a private Canadian Railroad train which was open only to the perfomers, roadies and a few groupies. Thanks Larry. Tom Rush memorably sang Murray McLauchlan’s beautiful Child’s Song, and was followed by Eric Anderson’s set, highlighted by his best known tune, Thirsty Boots. “It seemed like time was sort of suspended. I noticed that in the documentary Jerry Garcia can be seen smiling and applauding Sha Na Na at the end of their set. The induction featured a rare live performance by the duo (accompanied by David Celia on guitar) in Toronto to an enthusiastic audience including Gordon Lightfoot , The Good Brothers , Greg Keelor , … You would have, too. Ian & Sylvia's first and self-titled album on Vanguard Records consisted mainly of traditional songs. I particularly liked the way you interspersed it with clips from the concert. The Calgary concert was a two-day affair and I can’t precisely remember who played on Day 1 or Day 2 and in what order. She wrote her first song, ‘You Were On My Mind’, in 1962, and three years later it reached #3 on the Billboard chart for a group called We Five, subsequently hitting the British charts as a hit for Crispian St Peter. “It was 24 hours a day. “First, I’m going to pick you up – and then I’m going to put you down!” – Buddy Guy. JERRY GARCIA, SYLVIA TYSON, FESTIVAL EXPRESS, 2003 Surrey, UK, 23 Jan 2018. The director, Bob Smeaton, recorded interviews in 2003 with many of the surviving musicians who put into words what the experience was like for the performers and how much they loved the train ride and treasured the memories. They demanded that the promoters, who lost a small fortune on the festival because of the protesters, should hand over most of the money from ticket sales to those protesters and the bands should play for free, despite their significant expenses – which sounds as spectacularly stupid now as it did then. I thought he sounded pretty good and was disappointed he didn’t play more. I split from my friends and went inside – just could not understand why it should be free… Seeing Janis at about 2 am was a lifetime memory – I was already a huge fan and she was everything!! Larry. 12 hours of entertainment from some of the best rock bands in the world for $10 or $12 is an insane bargain. Informationen zum Album Festival Express (2005) ... Ian & Sylvia & The Great Speckled Bird (Unbekannt) Janis Joplin (USA) Mashmakhan (Kanada) New Riders Of The Purple Sage (USA) Tom Rush (USA) Seatrain (USA) Sha Na Na (USA) Diverse Interpreten (Unbekannt) 3 Tonträger. 1962 wurde Albert Grossman in New York City auf sie aufmerksam, der zu dieser Zeit auch Bob Dylan managte. Während der Tour kam es zu mehreren Zwischenfällen. You'll forgive me when you look at Sylvia Tyson's photograph. Learn how your comment data is processed. The entertainers were warming up for their last three nights together. Jan 2, 2018 - Explore MotherMcree13's board "Festival Express 1970" on Pinterest. The tour was a financial flop, and thanks of a fight between the festival promoters and the film producers, no film was edited or exhibited. We all sat down together, passing the joint around, toking and talking. Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker (m Tyson) sang together in Toronto clubs as early as 1959. Produced by Todd Rundgren, the record failed when Ampex was unable to establish widespread distribution. Unlike in standard music festivals where performers came together for a couple of hours or days, the participants in this tour all traveled together on the same train, partying and jamming along the way between concert venues in Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary. As we where walking from his office to the bank he told us the story of these film. Ian Tyson was born on September 25, 1933. I remember some of my good friends – Patti and Bruce Charter among them – remaining outside shouting “Make it free” and holding signs. See more ideas about festival, janis joplin, joplin. I have been a Buddy Guy fan ever since. I suspect they were short of good Toronto concert material and cheated a little bit. Durch ihn erlangten sie einen Vertrag beim Label Vanguard Records, bei dem sie Ende des Jahres ihr erstes Album aufnahmen und veröffentlichten. The concerts were linked together because all the musicians travelled and lived together on a private Canadian Railroad train which was open only to the perfomers, roadies and a few groupies. The line-up included many of the greats of the era, including The Band, the Grateful Dead, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Ian and Sylvia and the Great Speckled Bird, Sha-Na-Na, and Janis Joplin. I always enjoy Canada Day because I love this country the way every immigrant does. It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. During a break in the music we went wandering through the crowd and I found myself face-to-face with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Dave and I took one look at the list of performers and chorused “let’s do it.”. The ad for the Festival Express. Festival Express is a documentary chronicling a week long rock festival going on in Canada with some of the biggest stars at the time, which was in 1970. I only wish I could have made it to Toronto, but I didn’t think my friend David and I could have gotten to Winnipeg in time for the rest of the tour. The real action was taking place on the CN private train, however. It was great to have an opportunity to hang with some people you liked but normally didn’t get to spend much time with.”, “You could walk in and you wouldn’t ask me what I was playing,” recalled Buddy Guy. The ad for the Festival Express. That’s about $70 in today’s money, but can you imagine how much you would have to pay for 12 hours of that kind of All-Star lineup today? “It was a totally unique experience,” Sylvia Tyson said three decades later. It took a lot of research, but it was a labour of love. Those were wonderful times. Tracklist: Grateful Dead - Don't Ease Me In The Band - Slippin' and Slidin Solo on the train by Jerry … It was Friday night and the Festival Express was preparing to run out of steam. One of the people sitting with us said his life was complete now that he had met Jerry Garcia, which earned him a lecture from Garcia, who told him meeting a rock musician was no big deal and he should aspire to accomplish much more important things in his life. By the spring, the Festival Express was ready to roll with a dream lineup: Joplin, the Band, the Grateful Dead, Ian and Sylvia (along with their influential country-rock band, the Great Speckled Bird), Buddy Guy, Traffic, Ten Years After, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Tom Rush and Eric Andersen were all … It was a radical hybrid. Jerry took a long, deep toke and a seed popped loudly. We made great time and got to Winnipeg in the afternoon of the day before the concert, just like the musicians, for whom the promoter Ken Walker rented the Pan Am Pool on Grant Avenue. In addition, the train footage shows Jerry Garcia playing and singing the song with Sylvia Tyson. I loved the Dead in those days, when they were at their peak, and it was heartbreaking to see the way heavy drug use, especially Jerry’s later heroin addiction, de-railed the band and paved the way to his early death. In the summer of 1970, right after the Festival Express tour had ended, Ian and Sylvia Tyson went into the studios of CFTO-TV in Toronto to tape the pilot for a new music series for Canadian network television. We didn’t know that crazy things were happening elsewhere in the stadium. From June 28 to July 4, 1970, Joplin and Full Tilt Boogie joined the all-star Festival Express train tour through Canada, performing alongside Buddy Guy, the Band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Ten Years After, Grateful Dead, Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Andersen, and Ian & Sylvia. The entertainers were warming up for their last three nights together. She was only 27. Ian Tyson was born on September 25, 1933. The Dead came on next and played the best songs from their two best albums, Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, plus some of their favourite covers, Turn on your Lovelight, and Me and My Uncle, and most memorably an extended version of their own bluesy Easy Wind, with Pig Pen leading the way and a superb extended jam, which you can watch on the extras of the Festival Express Blu-Ray. Those excellent sets by the Dead and The Band had the crowd rocking and reeling and Janis Joplin followed at about 1 a.m., backed by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, mostly Canadian musicians. This was at a time banks closed strictly at 5: pm, but he had “connections”. Sylvia Tyson, CM (born Sylvia Fricker, 19 September 1940, Chatham, Ontario, Canada), is a musician, performer, singer-songwriter and broadcaster. The electric set featured some classic Dead, including an excellent version of Hard to Handle, with a stunning lead guitar run by Garcia. 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