Music Scene - Best of 1969-1970 (Vol. 2)
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Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Starring: Music Scene-Best of 1969-70
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788603129
Format: Color
ISBN: 0788603124
Label: Mpi Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mpi Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-05-22
Running Time: 240
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1969-09-22
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Summary: An amusing blast into the past
Comment: If the DVD was in stereo, I would have given a higher score.
Although this program might be laughable by todays standards, Music Scene provides a glimpse into what we used to enjoy watching on TV on Monday evenings (if we stayed home). Some of the biggest hitmakers (along with some of the biggest names names in show business) were featured.
(The styles worn were pretty wild too!)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nostaliga 1969
Comment: Not quite what I thought it was going to be, my dvd never played right.
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Summary: A reminder
Comment: This disc of videos and performances from the late 60s is an embarrassing reminder of how silly some of that music actually was. Hearing it on the radio is okay, but watching some of the performers live caused me to question my affinity for sixties rock and roll. Obviously, there are some gems on this disc, but overall, it is simplistic, silly, and dreadful. Most of the truly good artists from the era don't appear, but several of the very popular ones do. Don't look for the Beatles or the Stones. One highlight is a great performance by Janis Joplin. Other than that it is simply silly fun.
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Summary: THIS WAS A GOOD MUSICAL VARIETY SHOW,THAT BEGGED TO BE DIFFERENT.
Comment: THIS IS PART TWO OF MUSIC SCENE.!!!SEE MY PART ONE REVIEW.THE SHOW FEATURED MANY ROCK GROUPS,COMEDY ,FOLK AND MUCH MORE.THE SHOW TRIED TO APPEAL TO A YOUNGER AUDIENCE.THIS WAS UNUSUAL FOR ABC IN 1969.THE SHOW BOMBED,IN SHORT ORDER.1/1/2 YEARS TOTAL,AS I REMEMBER BACK THEN.THEY TRIED TO HAVE THE SUCCESS OF HUABLOO, BUT THIS NEVER HAPPENED REGRETFULLY...THERE ARE SOME VERY RARE MOMENTS MAKING THIS SHOW,PART ONE AND TWO,A MUST FOR YOUR DVD COLLECTION. RECOMMENDED. I OWN THIS DISC.
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Summary: Top 40 nightmare, not flower power heaven
Comment: These comments apply to both Music Scene dvds equally (this dvd and the other dvd).
Disappointing collection of rock and pop performances. Mostly pop, unfortunately, and some of the worst (the Archies, Tom Jones, too many times Bobby Sherman). The program was run by BillBoard, the hit rating service still around today. Most of the musicians are second, nay third-rate.
True, once in a while you get Crosby Stills Nash and Young, or Ten Years After, or Janis Joplin. But those acceptable performances are few, far between and a pitiful minority of the program. Plus often they aren't playing tunes you'd most like to hear, and they are playing them on stages that are wrong for them, that fail to showcase them. And what do you do with for instance, one measly song from CSNY? You need 3 or 4 to have the opportunity to enjoy it. The program forces Sly and the Family Stone to mush together its songs into a medley so rushed through you don't get a chance to savor it (heck, you question whether you even heard it).
The people who put on the program selected their musicians disastrously, and apparently were rightly cancelled due to deservedly poor ratings.
The show is somewhat interesting sociologically for those who experienced those times first hand. You are revisiting the TV culture of 1969, after all, for better or for worse. But that's about it. Save your money for a better purchase than this.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: An amusing blast into the past
Comment: If the DVD was in stereo, I would have given a higher score.
Although this program might be laughable by todays standards, Music Scene provides a glimpse into what we used to enjoy watching on TV on Monday evenings (if we stayed home). Some of the biggest hitmakers (along with some of the biggest names names in show business) were featured.
(The styles worn were pretty wild too!)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nostaliga 1969
Comment: Not quite what I thought it was going to be, my dvd never played right.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A reminder
Comment: This disc of videos and performances from the late 60s is an embarrassing reminder of how silly some of that music actually was. Hearing it on the radio is okay, but watching some of the performers live caused me to question my affinity for sixties rock and roll. Obviously, there are some gems on this disc, but overall, it is simplistic, silly, and dreadful. Most of the truly good artists from the era don't appear, but several of the very popular ones do. Don't look for the Beatles or the Stones. One highlight is a great performance by Janis Joplin. Other than that it is simply silly fun.
Customer Rating:
Summary: THIS WAS A GOOD MUSICAL VARIETY SHOW,THAT BEGGED TO BE DIFFERENT.
Comment: THIS IS PART TWO OF MUSIC SCENE.!!!SEE MY PART ONE REVIEW.THE SHOW FEATURED MANY ROCK GROUPS,COMEDY ,FOLK AND MUCH MORE.THE SHOW TRIED TO APPEAL TO A YOUNGER AUDIENCE.THIS WAS UNUSUAL FOR ABC IN 1969.THE SHOW BOMBED,IN SHORT ORDER.1/1/2 YEARS TOTAL,AS I REMEMBER BACK THEN.THEY TRIED TO HAVE THE SUCCESS OF HUABLOO, BUT THIS NEVER HAPPENED REGRETFULLY...THERE ARE SOME VERY RARE MOMENTS MAKING THIS SHOW,PART ONE AND TWO,A MUST FOR YOUR DVD COLLECTION. RECOMMENDED. I OWN THIS DISC.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Top 40 nightmare, not flower power heaven
Comment: These comments apply to both Music Scene dvds equally (this dvd and the other dvd).
Disappointing collection of rock and pop performances. Mostly pop, unfortunately, and some of the worst (the Archies, Tom Jones, too many times Bobby Sherman). The program was run by BillBoard, the hit rating service still around today. Most of the musicians are second, nay third-rate.
True, once in a while you get Crosby Stills Nash and Young, or Ten Years After, or Janis Joplin. But those acceptable performances are few, far between and a pitiful minority of the program. Plus often they aren't playing tunes you'd most like to hear, and they are playing them on stages that are wrong for them, that fail to showcase them. And what do you do with for instance, one measly song from CSNY? You need 3 or 4 to have the opportunity to enjoy it. The program forces Sly and the Family Stone to mush together its songs into a medley so rushed through you don't get a chance to savor it (heck, you question whether you even heard it).
The people who put on the program selected their musicians disastrously, and apparently were rightly cancelled due to deservedly poor ratings.
The show is somewhat interesting sociologically for those who experienced those times first hand. You are revisiting the TV culture of 1969, after all, for better or for worse. But that's about it. Save your money for a better purchase than this.
Whereas Music Scene, Vol. 1 preserved a daring TV show's moment in the low-rated limelight, Vol. 2 shows the series in a fascinating tailspin, in the ratings cellar before cancellation in January of 1970. A bold attempt to combine liberal political comedy, harmless pop, and Woodstock-era rock & roll, Music Scene drew its guests from current Billboard pop charts, supplementing those acts with host David Steinberg's intellectual sarcasm and shrewd assaults on the Nixon administration. In these four complete episodes, however, the show is clearly dying, and while the collected performances still qualify as outstanding relics from the volatile Woodstock/Altamont time frame, it's amazing to watch Steinberg--now stripped of his merry band of cohosts--exchanging genial wisecracks for a darker, more cynical acceptance that Music Scene was doomed from the start. The music is an eclectic, full-course buffet, from lip-synced performances by Creedence Clearwater Revival to the chart-topping ballads of Neil Diamond and Gordon Lightfoot to the defiantly leftist folk of Pete Seeger and Buffy Sainte- Marie. Unexpected highlights include Joe Cocker's sublime rendition of the Beatles' "Something" and Frankie Laine's emotional delivery of "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain." Throughout, Steinberg is like a protestor with a lost cause, and by the time he's joined by cohost Groucho Marx for the mesmerizing final show, he's lost all pretense of mainstream propriety, and it's TV history like nothing before or since. A full menu of 21 bonus songs is icing on a bittersweet cake, from one-hit-wonders Zager & Evans ("In the Year 2525") to an impassioned "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" by Janis Joplin, whose own fate would soon echo that of this remarkable, short-lived TV show. --Jeff Shannon
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