A five day roving rock concert travels across the country via train and performs live wherever they stop. This fantastic documentary covers the festival's Canadian leg of the tour, with the train making stops at Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgery. You can't beat the stellar line-up of first-rate musicians: the one and only Janis Joplin (her fiery performances of both "Cry Baby" and "Tell Mama" are absolutely electrifying show-stoppers),The Band (they hit it out of the ballpark with the rousing "Slippin' & Slidin'" and a potent rendition of "The Weight"),The Grateful Dead (in fine bluesy form with "Don't Ease Me In" and "New Speedway Boogie"),Sha Na Na (they do a spirited performance of "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay"),The Flying Burrito Brothers (their smooth-rolling rendition of "Lazy Day" really hits the soulful spot),and the Buddy Guy Blues Band (who burn it up with an incendiary cover of "Money"). Director Bob Smeaton keeps the pace hurtling along at the same constant speedy clip as the train and astutely nails a certain infectiously lowdown cool, breezy and mellow groovy vibe. All the musicians on the train put their individual egos aside, completely pour their hearts and souls into the giving the audiences their money's worth (the on-stage performances all seriously smoke, with Joplin in particular displaying a positively magnetic stage presence),and jam like crazy to the point where hardly anybody got any sleep and all the booze was drunk (the train had to make a special pit stop in Saskatoon to get more hooch). The cinematography by Peter Biziou, Bob Fiore and Clacke Mackey gives the film an appropriately rough'n'grainy look and makes neat frequent use of split screen. Best of all, there's a wonderfully warm and open communal spirit evident throughout which in turn makes this picture a true joy to watch. This spirit shines brightest when various musicians from different groups get together on stage to perform a marvelously sexy rendition of "C.C. Rider." While the concert itself had its fair share of problems (for example, people protested about having to buy tickets and demanded that they see the concert for free),the movie itself rates highly as one of the greatest rock documentaries to ever grace celluloid.

In 1970, various musicians, their support and a film crew travel after a festival in Toronto to festivals in Winnipeg and Calgary on a chartered train. Some of the musicians include The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy and Sha Na Na. It's five days of music, drinking, drugs and hard partying. There are also protesters demanding free concerts and ticket sales suffered. This is both a concert movie and shows the action on the train. "Woodstock was a treat for the audience, and the train was a treat for the performers." The music on the train is a bit different than the concerts with various groups jamming. The money talk is a bit of a bummer. For me, the highlight is Janis Joplin's concert performance which is electric as always. She also does jam out like so many others. The train looks like insanely fun and is truly behind the scenes. The greatness comes from these artists spending extended time together.

Documentary of a tour in 1970 across Canada by a bunch of performers-The Band, Joplin, The Dead, Buddy Guy to name a few. This wonderful document of the trip of a life time is amazing to watch. I can only imagine what we didn't see as we get to see not only the performers on stage (Joplin is godlike) and on the train jamming. The jamming was- wow.I wish we could have seen more of that. At times the performances are ragged and raw but they are so much more alive then the carefully balanced and perfectly structured shows of today. If you like any of the people who perform this is a must see. (Seeing it again recently on on one of the VOOM stations in HD and it was like seeing it for the first time.)