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Journey Through the Past (1974)


Hello movie fans
does anybody know how to find a used or new copy of Neil Youngs "Journey Through the Past" (1974) I believe it's probably out of print. I don't want to get bounced off this message board but I'm looking for a legitimate copy of thecanthe VHS movie. Or a copy of it because I don't know any other way to get hold of it. I tried at Rust of and some other message boards as well asked Neil Youngs own site but I have yet to receive an answer. I don't know if people were afraid to answer my letter. Or if it's totally inappropriate to ask about such a thing. This is the Bush era of course. "Journey through the past" is one of the most elusive movies I have ever encountered. I looked for it several times on eBay but I haven't seen it so far. So if anybody out there has a copy of this video please contact me at drttoldman*@*yahoo.com asterisks) and let me know if you can help me. and
Thank you Norman W_____

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Simply put, there are no "Legitimate" copies of JTTP. When it was released in 1973 (at the US Film Festival), the response by the public was so negative that Shakey had a slight problem finding a full time distributor (ie no one would touch the film with a ten foot pole). The only copies floating around that I know of are taped from USA network and are copies of copies of copies.

True story: I paid $25cdn for one of these bootlegs off of eBay. The visual quality was below average and the sound quality ranks slightly beyond wretched, but I was so obsessed with learning exactly what the hell was going on on the soundtrack (ever hear the album? it's pretty weird...Make's Queen's Flash Gordon soundtrack sound like The Beatles at their peak), that I was prepared to shell out a bit of cash to find out. If you're a diehard Shakey fan, then you might consider this an investment. There's some really cool behind the scenes work on Harvest, plus a sequence of CSNY at the filmore east on 5 June 1970 (Stills and Young's guitar duel on Southern Man is a wow!), but mostly it's just weird stuff like Neil roaming through a garbage dump, Crosby criticizing Richard Nixon's policies while smoking a joint, and four black-clad Klansman riding around on a beach. There's also a sequence where a guy is talking to his truck (The vechicle in question actually answers back, but the sound quality on the tape is so bad that the replies can't be made out), a clip of Buffalo Springfield on the Hollywood Palace tv show (most recently seen in an infomercial for a classic rock boxset), and Neil and Graham sitting around passing a joint around with the roadies, rhythm section, and Carrie Snodgress.

All in all, pretty odd, but interesting if you know a lot about Shakey from that period.


BTW if you already saw the movie and knew all of this already, I apologize, but the film is admittedly a conversation piece in itself.

rael.imperial.aerosol.kid

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thanks for the summation it was insightful as the movie is not likely something i'll ever see but i love listening to the soundtrack.

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Archives are a definite go, release date june 2, 2009. I've already got my order in for my copy.

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