Hi Bob - Yes, the video was shot at the Santa Barbara County Bowl. However, sometimes I wish it had been shot at one of the indoor venues. I saw that tour a couple of days earlier at the Civic Auditorium in SF, and the lighting was incredible. Very tasteful and imaginative use of lights... pulsing, alternating red and white during the part of "Edith" when she sings "The band sounds like typewriters", and then back to normal after that section... and the end of "Woodstock", as Joni walked off and continued strumming long after she left the stage, a pattern of red roses (shone from directly overhead, from a gobo) slowly came up on the spot she had been standing, and then faded when she finally stopped playing. Very sublime. Ah, if it had been shot with modern equipment! Still, it is a nice document of that time. I finally got a chance to go to a show at the Bowl a couple of years ago. Neil Young with his Friends & Relatives band. Great show, and a great venue. Relatively small for an outdoor amphitheatre (3,000), and very rustic. Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges were sitting right in frony of us, and at the conclusion of an amazing version of "All Along The Watchtower", Spacey turned around and high-fived me! Caught up in the exhiliration of the moment like the rest of us. Anyway, if you ever get a chance to see a show there, by all means, go!
Russ > >Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:06:56 EDT >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: shadows and light > >I had tried unsuccessfully to order the S&L video a couple of years ago, >perhaps from Amazon (motivated by a gift certificate ;-)). Then, I got a GC >from a different source circa this past September, and tried again in >October. It was pretty pricey on VHS (cheaper on "DVD), and I was surprised >when it arrived just before Christmas - Japanese version, with Japanese >lettering as well as English on the cover. > >It was a complete version, I believe, and the quality was fine. As compared >to the record, there is a solo by Jaco (none by Don) and she does Raised on >Robbery, but the last two "album" cuts (Woodstock and GMBABM) as well as >Dreamland are not shown. I do not know the Santa Barbara County Bowl from a >hole in the ground, so I cannot confirm the venue (the audience was >noticeably young to my old eyes). It does have the opening video scenes from >Rebel W/O, as well as the Frankie Lymon shots, the Coyote video, and the >Hejira video with Toller Cranston, the Amelia shots, Las Vegas on DCFDM, and >the appearance by Art Nouveau, etc.) > >She looked gorgeous (I would underscore this by noting that, given the >critical hits she had been taking at that time, her countenance seemed >unfettered throughout the performances - here was a person doing exactly what >she wanted and was meant to be doing, with no apparent regrets). > >Are there other versions of the video out there ? > >Bob S.
