Echo in the Canyon

[humprof]

Anybody seen this? Documentary on the Laurel Canyon scene and the emergence of the "California Sound"--with Tom Petty, Brian Wilson, Jakob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, Roger McGuinn, Michelle Phillips, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, Beck, Norah Jones, Regina Spektor, Cat Power, Jade Castrinos, John Sebastian, Lou Adler.

It's playing at a local miniplex here, and I'm wondering if the soundtrack is in surround. (In the presskit available from the film website, the "final sound mix" is credited to Chris Jenkins, but nothing about 5.1 or Atmos or anything.)

https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/echo-in-the-canyon/
https://www.echointhecanyon.com/

 

[4-earredwonder]

Anybody seen this? Documentary on the Laurel Canyon scene and the emergence of the "California Sound"--with Tom Petty, Brian Wilson, Jakob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, Roger McGuinn, Michelle Phillips, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, Beck, Norah Jones, Regina Spektor, Cat Power, Jade Castrinos, John Sebastian, Lou Adler.

It's playing at a local miniplex here, and I'm wondering if the soundtrack is in surround. (In the presskit available from the film website, the "final sound mix" is credited to Chris Jenkins, but nothing about 5.1 or Atmos or....)

https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/echo-in-the-canyon/
https://www.echointhecanyon.com/

We'll anxiously await your review.....that's IF you plan to attend. Hopefully, maybe NETFLIX will pick it up.

 

[4-earredwonder]

BTW, BMG has released an accompanying soundtrack to Echo In The Canyon:

Echo In The Canyon Soundtrack

 

[~dave~~wave~]

Jakob Dylan, years ago, got obsessed with the 1969 movie Model Shop, made by a French director, which featured footage of Gary Lockwood and Anouk Aimee driving convertibles around 1968 LA.
It had a couple of songs and a cameo by the band Spirit playing in a house in Laurel Canyon.

This inspired him to do a tribute concert playing iconic LA material from 1965-67.
It was filmed, with additional scenes of the guest musicians talking about how the music inspired them.

As he put the film together, he found a bunch of old timers willing to tell stories about those times.
Those interviews are intercut with footage of old performances, vintage photos from the Laurel Canyon colony, and 1968 street scenes from Model Shop.

The interviews are priceless.
The original musicians open up to low-key young Dylan, a few jam with him and each other.
Clapton and Stills recounting how they met and got busted at the Buffalo Springfield house alone is worth the price of admission.
Then you get to see them do a long distance jam, trading licks in the studio over Jakob's backing tracks.

Highest recommendation for anybody that this sounds remotely appealing to.
Harshly criticized by the know-it-alls on shf.tv for various real and imagined shortcomings, but well worth watching.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

I think most of my generation who were lucky enough to hear those songs on the radio will prefer to listen to the original music, rather than Jakob and his pals doing cover versions.

So I didn't buy the soundtrack, but I would certainly watch it again on video.

The synchronicity of it appearing simultaneously with the new Quentin Tarantino movie made it a prequel foreshadowing darker times over the horizon.
The music cuts off at 1968 with the CSN album.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

Anybody seen this? ...I'm wondering if the soundtrack is in surround.

If it was, it made no impression on me sitting in a cinema equipped for it.

 

[4-earredwonder]

Echo in the Canyon will be available on September 10th on BD~V and here's a review from blu~ray.com

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Echo-in-the-Canyon-Blu-ray/247146/#Review