Product Details

• Actors: Pink Floyd, Al Stewart Santana, Family Dr. John & Night Tripper, Canned Heat Marcbolan & Trex, Flock Jefferson Airplane
• Format: NTSC, Import, Subtitled
• Subtitles: English, Portuguese
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Conheca a Amazonia
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00069ZJKQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,411 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The festival Stamping Ground was also called the "Dutch Woodstock". An event that had place in Roterdan in 1970, with the presence of 350 thousand persons. The alternative culture movement of Europe demonstrated to be strong and growing. In this documental-concert, some of the major names of rock of the 70's performs in the best way. An excelent mixture of progressive rock, folk, blues and psicodelia. CONTENT: Al Stewart: Zero she Flies/ Dr. John & Night Tripper: Mardi Gras Day/ Family: Drowned in wine/ Marc Bolan & T Rex: Pavillions of Sun/ Canned Heat: Human Condition - Sa sad/ Jefferson Airplane: White rabbit - Saturday afternoon - Ballad of you and me & Pooneil/ Flock: Big bird/ It's a beautiful day: Open up your hearts - Wasted union Blues/ Country Joe: Freedom is a constant - Struggle/ Byrds: Old blue/ Santana: Savor - Jingo - Gumbo/ Pink Floyd: Set the controls for the heart of the Sun - A saucerful of secrets

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What a shame!!, September 5, 2005

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Ivan Brantes Salinas "Ivan Brantes" (Santiago, Santiago Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stamping Ground - A Show with the Major Names of Rock (DVD)

If you are a hard core 70's rock concert fan this MAY be for you.

First, let's say that sound quality and image are less than poor, so if you are looking for top digital transfer: FORGET IT.

Hard Core Fan? If you are so, then you can enjoy (with some effort), what for me are the the highlights of the whole show: Family, Pink Floyd (just a portion of their long performance at the concert), Santana (at his best) and It's a Beautiful Day (simply amazing. Did they play just 2 songs?). Soft Machine's Esther's Nose Job performance is long lost since the days of the first issues on VHS (also, where is the rest of their performance?).

Just half star thinking as a human being and two stars being extremely nostalgic and deeply hard core. There's an audio CD somewhere (bootleg?) that it's worth to be listened to.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Baby boomers, YOU ROCK!!!, April 18, 2007

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Ziv Livni (Kibbutz Yehiam, Western Galilee, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stamping Ground - A Show with the Major Names of Rock (DVD)

Stoned sights and sounds from far and distanced, almost forgotten past. A real party and a powerful showcase of the flower power in one of its most beautiful days. When you see this several times, and try (Just a little bit harder :) to overcome the terrible picture and sound, you can really start enjoying this. Amazing performences by Al Stewart ("Zero She Flies"), Great stoner stuff from Tyranosaurous Rex ("By The Light Of The magical Moon" not "Pavillions Of Sun" as wrongly described on cover), Canned Heat (Alan Wilson here on a rare footage), The Family (Roger Chapman is just too much..:), The Flock - featuring Jerry Goodman, The magical violinist (what a treat), Dr' John - The Night Tripper on another one of his hazy, surreal tribe-like shows, Pink Floyd, dark and intense as always, and, one of the best performences I've ever set my eyes on by "It's A Beautiful Day" ("Wasted union blues") - introducing violinist David LaFlamme on a trippy, speedy stoner violin, accompanied by a massive thunder storm (Great camera work) during their frenzy show. Man They Rock!!! And of course the beautiful hippies out there - Rolling and Tumblin' :) I find it kind of nice though, strangly enough, that the sound & pic aren't the best you can put your hands on: It gives the whole event more charm and authentic raw feeling. On it's own right! Baby boomers, you rock!!!

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Would've been great to see, July 4, 2006

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Blabberless (In the world somewhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stamping Ground - A Show with the Major Names of Rock (DVD)

I saw this at the late night theatre when it had it's tiny theatre run in the early 70s, and my memory matched what I saw today when playing the DVD, that being a concert that was basically filmed pathetically. Not just poorly. Pathetically. And several of the performances were sub par as well. It's A Beautiful Day's guitarist could not have hit more clinker notes if he dropped his guitar down a flight of stairs. Dr. John's backup singers were singing off key (hey, your only job at this gig is to sing - correctly), Roger Chapman (Family) is a pathetic singer. I have always thought that, especially on this film. Santana was not bad, but where's Greg Rolie? I hear him, but I never see him, even during his solos. The Flock is good, but the horn section is too front and center... rather see Jerry Goodman more. Byrds were boring, and "Old Blue" is a bad choice of songs to put here as their only song played. Country Joe, Al Stewart, and Marc Bolan/T Rex all did good basic performances, but the audio on T Rex (as it is alot in the film) was weak. Canned Heat were great, showing some of the only footage of Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, and of course Pink Floyd were great. The camera crew should've been kept away from the weed, and instructed better. It seems like back then alot of music acts weren't filmed well at all. Staying with the lead singer when there's a lead guitar solo playing is just plain stupid, but then that mindless direction in filming live music happened alot then. If you're a die hard music head from the early 70s you may enjoy this one, if not stay away. Isle Of Wight was filmed better, although you will see more naked people in this one if that's you're thing (pardon the pun).