The Dick Cavett Show - Rock Icons
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Actor: Bobby Rosengarden, Dick Cavett, Rex Reed, Richard Harris, Truman CapoteBrand: Uni
Producer: Tony Converse
Writer: Raymond Siller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
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- While its ratings never matched those of Johnny Carson's THE TONIGHT SHOW, Dick Cavett's 1960s and '70s late-night talk show retains an esteemed spot in the annals of television history for its host's intelligent interview style and historic guest appearances by some of the greatest rock musicians of the era. ROCK ICONS presents a collection of 10 episodes featuring THE DICK CAVETT
DVD Reviews of The Dick Cavett Show - Rock Icons
DVD Review: Janis Joplin - Simply Beyond Words!
Summary: 5 Stars
We had to wait a 1/3 of a century to get it, but the "The Dick Cavett Show - Rock Icons" 3 DVD set was worth the wait and is incredible. If you are a Jefferson Airplane and/or Janis Joplin fan, or would like to learn about these two revolutionary bands/artists, along with other artists of the period, buy this 3 DVD set immediately without hesitation. The quality of the three DVD's is A+, particularly considering the original tapes of the show are over 1/3 of a century old.
The undisputed crown jewel of this DVD set, or should I say the "Crown Pearl", is the entire second DVD effectively dedicated to legendary Janis Joplin's appearances on three, of four, Dick Cavett shows, including August 1970 two months before her untimely death on October 4, 1970. Janis Joplin's performances on the second DVD are:
Janis Joplin - Kozmic Blues Band:
..July 18, 1969 - "To Love Somebody"/"Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)"
Janis Joplin - Full Tilt Boogie Band:
..June 25, 1970 - "Move Over"/"Get It While You Can"
..August 3, 1970 - "Half Moon"/"My Baby"
Not only does Janis perform all these great songs, Cavett interviews her on all three shows and Janis is on the set for the rest of the shows interacting with the other guests throughout the program. Cavett always had Janis perform at the top of his program after his monologue, and she was the first guest to be interviewed. Janis is funny, engaging, sincere, and of course, pure Janis. I saw Janis in concert in 1969 & 1970 (Jefferson Airplane '69/'70) and wouldn't trade the experience for the anything in the world. I also saw Jimi Hendrix in concert in 1970, and Janis actually put on a better show.
All Janis's Dick Cavett performances and interviews are fantastic, but the second Dick Cavett show Janis appeared on, June 25, 1970, is nothing short of incredible. Janis and her awesome Full Tilt Boogie Band blow the roof off the place with her opening number Move Over. Then Janis has the crowd hanging on her every word, and dying laughing at times, in her interview with Dick after she performs Move Over. Of the three shows, this was Janis's best interview. As always, Janis had her "heart on her sleeve" and speaks without pretense. Janis always blew me away because she was so real as a person, intelligent, and never tried to pretend to be someone she was not. With Janis she put it all on the table - take it or leave it.
Dick's next guest was the very hot and sexy Raquel Welch. Cavett had the ultimate guy's dream - a decked out "Rock Goddess" sitting on his left and a decked out "Sex Goddess" sitting on his right. I would have sold my soul to the Devil in a heartbeat to be sitting in Cavett's chair that night. Throughout the rest of the show there is some great interchange between Welch and Joplin, and Janis had some great "one liners". You could tell the two had much admiration for each other despite their lives being very different. I developed a whole new respect for Raquel Welch after watching this interview. She was very good to Janis and very articulate throughout her interview.
In addition to DVD-2 of Janis, in the Bonus Material on DVD-1, entitled "The Dick Cavett Interview", Dick talks extensively about Janis in the interview. Cavett acts somewhat like he has Alzheimer's Disease in the interview, but the interview is still very good. Cavett is quite personal about he and Janis with a great "out on the town together" story. Unfortunately, there is much that went on between Dick and Janis that he cannot say in public, since he is married to the same women since 1964. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to read between the lines, if you have not previously read or heard the stories.
The Dick Cavett Janis Joplin "tribute" DVD-2 is very special for a number of reasons. First, despite Joplin being one of the greatest, if not the greatest, rock/blues-rock females in history, there is very little "official" live videos available of her since she walk on to her next life 35 years ago. This new Joplin-Cavett DVD has been greatly needed for many years. Janis wasn't a prolific song writer like Jimi Hendrix, but she was an incredible stage performer like Jimi. Like Hendrix, Joplin took her music a whole different direction and became a very rare legend. The next white blues/blues rock genius that took this rarely traveled road was the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Second, Dick Cavett has said publicly, several times, that he really liked Janis because she was so unique and real. There was much speculation while Janis was alive that Cavett even loved her, despite being married. The way Janis always wore her heart on her sleeve, along with her beautiful smile and infectious laugh, it would not surprise me if this speculation was true. Clearly Cavett was infatuated with both Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin. But it was Janis that Cavett heavily showcased on his show. Janis was on the program four times. The tape of Janis's 1968 appearance unfortunately got reused and recorded over.
Cavett greatly helped get Janis the exposure she needed to showcase her incredible talent and personality, both on and off the stage. I was always impression that Cavett knew that most of the public totally misunderstood Janis, and Dick went out of his way during his interviews with her, to show the world how real and enlightening she was. It's no accident that this Joplin-Cavett DVD was released on the 35th anniversary of Janis's tragic passing. Cavett spoke publicly on television about Janis on the 30th anniversary of her passing in 2000.
Further, Dick Cavett did more for Janis's career than any other entertainer/media person. However, he also greatly worried about her alcohol/drug addiction spirally out of control again in 1970, which he talked about publicly in 2000, and briefly addressed in DVD-1, "The Dick Cavett Interview. What Cavett stated spoke volumes about both he and Janis as real and caring people. It also once again showed Janis's deep insecurities and how she felt like no one really cared about her. Unfortunately, this situation is amazingly common in many of the greatest entertainers the world has known.
Third, Janis's last public media appearance was on the August 3, 1970 Dick Cavett Show. Finally, the Janis Joplin-Cavett DVD is very important, because it's an incredible showcase of Janis and who she really was as a person. The only other video that you can learn about who Janis was as both an entertainer and as a person is the 96 minute VHS "Janis, The Way She Was" (1974). This also is an incredible video, but unfortunately, this video is out of print and expensive to purchase a good quality copy from collectors. (1 - See Below)
There has been so much misrepresentation and total garbage as to who Janis was as a person over the last 1/3 of a century, by people that didn't know her or understand Janis's incredible contributions to this world. In this Dick Cavett Shows - Rock Icons DVD you can see Janis perform six incredible songs and listen to her speak in candid and open conversation during her 3 hours on Dick's shows. Yes, you will also see some of Janis's significant insecurities pop out and, at times, the effects of her unfortunate alcohol and drug abuse.
For example, when Janis performed her second song "Get It While You Can" on Cavett's June 25, 1970 show, she appears to get painful peripheral shakes during the song and acted like she was "crashing/coming down". Like many people, Janis insecurities and huge heart drove the majority of her alcohol and drug abuse problems. The legendary Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane, and a good friend, stated Janis best. "Janis knew more than I did about "how it was", but she lacked enough armor for the inevitable hassles. She was open and spontaneous enough to get her heart trampled with a regularity that took me thirty years to experience or understand."
It was no accident that Janis Joplin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the same year as two of the greatest legends in the music industry, Led Zeppelin and the music genius Frank Zappa (RIP). Janis also was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award the same year as Led Zeppelin. These special awards are presented to artists that have made creative contributions of outstanding significance to the field of recording. There are a number of great bands/rock artists in the world, that have sold well over 100 times the number of albums as Janis, that have not achieved her level of peer noted distinction.
~~Footnotes~~
(1) "Janis, The Way She Was" (1974) - This incredible 96 minutes video is being shown on the Sundance Channel cable network in the month of September 2005 as part of the 35th anniversary of Janis's untimely passing. It has been converted from the original "pan and scan" format to widescreen format. Check the Sundance Channel's website for listed viewing dates and times.
If you are a Janis Joplin fan you need to purchase the incredible DVD "Fly Jefferson Airplane", that was released September 2004, if you have not seen it. The Jefferson Airplane's founder Marty Balin and Janis were very close, along with Airplane's infamous front-person Grace Slick. In fact, in 1966 the Jefferson Airplane looked at trying to hire Janis Joplin to front the band. They decided on Grace Slick instead because Janis was already doing well with her band, and they thought Grace would fit JA's direction better. Grace and Janis emerged as the two ruling Queens of the infamous San Francisco Haight-Asbury rock movement. The Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, put both the JAirplane and Janis-Big Brother on the National rock scene map. The two bands also played together frequently at San Francisco's infamous "The Fillmore" and "Avalon Ballroom". Over the next 3 years Grace and Janis ruled their concert stages and nobody messed with them or their fans, which included the police and the FBI, with their secret files on both bands/artists.
Janis Joplin Quotes:
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Description of The Dick Cavett Show - Rock Icons
When Dick Cavett joined the late-night talk show parade in 1969, his intelligent wit pumped a much-needed breath of fresh air into the format. The show offered guests a forum for controversial opinions and didn?t shy away from an occasional debate about women?s liberation or the war in Vietnam. The Dick Cavett Show also became the late-night home of rock ?n? roll, with a guest list that reads like a who?s who of the era?s top performers.The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons features 9 episodes from 1969 to 1974 featuring Janis Joplin, David Bowie, George Harrison, Sly And The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder and many more. Highlights include 3 episodes with Janis Joplin and "The Woodstock Show," taped the day after the festival with Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and Stephen Stills. The shows also feature Cavett's interviews with many of the fascinating personalities of the day from Gloria Swanson to Debbie Reynolds to Raquel Welch.
Also included is the featurette Cavett Meets The Rolling Stones, featuring live performance footage from the Stones and a revealing backstage interview with Mick Jagger. Adding insight and perspective to the set are episode introductions and a brand new interview with Dick Cavett.
Over 25 Historic Performances on 3 DVDs including:
Chelsea Morning ? Joni Mitchell
Somebody To Love ? Jefferson Airplane with David Crosby
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) ? Sly And The Family Stone
Young Americans ? David Bowie
To Love Somebody ? Janis Joplin
Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) ? Janis Joplin
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I?m Yours ? Stevie Wonder
Bangla Desh ? George Harrison
Still Crazy After All These Years ? Paul Simon
Bridge Over Troubled Water ? Paul Simon with The Jessy Dixon Singers
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