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THE
DUTCH WOODSTOCK: HOLLAND POP FESTIVAL 1970 CD/DVD
The Dutch Woodstock: Holland Pop Festival 1970 CD/DVD
Classic Rock
4.0/5.0
Even
by its obvious comparisons, The
Dutch Woodstock is not the correct name for this famous outdoor concert in
Rotterdam, Holland, in 1970. More properly it was billed as The Kralingen Music
Festival, with posters working the better title as the Holland Pop Festival. It
seems in both past and present, both promoter and label are working a marketing
angle.
Holland
Pop Festival 1970: from the ground.
The
Dutch Woodstock comes as a single DVD and two CD set, the latter having
more music than the former. It's a record of the three day festival in both an
audio and visual format, and certainly a piece of genuine early rock history.
The roster for the concert is rather impressive: The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane,
Santana, T-Rex, Canned Heat, Country Joe, Pink Floyd and many more. Here's how
you get your first comparison to 1969's The Woodstock Music & Art Fair (the
proper title).
Speaking
primarily to the DVD, the sound quality is nearly substandard and the video is
simply 8mm footage transferred to digital format as best as possible. What's
more important is the images that are captured, notably of the bands and the
concert goers.
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