sndtrackng
"The Big TNT Show" will be screened Saturday, 9/19 at 7:30 pm in the Packard Theater at the Library of Congress Packard Campus Audiovisual Conservation Center in Culpeper, VA. The screening is free, but reservations are advised. Call (540) 827-1079, x79994, or (202) 707-9994. This is the third film in a Rock and Roll series that also includes "Ferry Cross the Mersey" on Friday, 9/18/09 at 7:30 pm, and "Let the Good Times Roll" on Saturday, 9/19 at 2:00 pm. Also showing with "Ferry Cross the Mersey" will be the short "Rhythm 'n' Greens" featuring the Shadows. The theater is located at 19053 Mount Pony Road, Culpeper, VA. More details:http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-161.html
poptekus
Why are these great concert flicks of yesteryear so obscure on VHS and DVD? I finally got to see The Big TNT Show ---on American Movie Classics--- after hearing so many rave reviews about it for over ten years. We get quite a diverse platter of performers, with Tina Turner absolutely stealing the show. Whoever pieced this film together wisely saved her for last; placing her anywhere else in the flick would have stolen any thunder from those who had to follow up! Only complaint is a bit too big a dose of Donavan and The Byrds. Not that I dislike either, but would rather have seen a tad more Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, or Joan Baez. That, however, is my only complaint. BIG TNT is now one of my top 5 fave concert films!
largeGROUCH
Here, we see a multi-faceted view of the movement: FROM >an immature 'rock and roll' era TO the far more developed >ROCK era... Remembering that we are witnessing the infancy of what we would ultimatly call 'classic rock' we >can almost feel the labor-pains of a transitiion in progress... The performers were as diverse as the fans >that would come to worship them and each had a notion of >the world as it existed in that time... All-in-all, a snap >shot of the U. S. A. in the mid 60's.
jcarey
Great performances to remind us that even Donovan, and Petula Clark, could send teenagers into hysterical screaming frenzies with their music. Nice sharp black-and-white photography by Larry Peerce. (And check out the knee-high white socks worn by Tina Turner's backup singers!)
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