Atlanta 1970, the forgotten festival that was measured with Woodstock

Looking for a good concert you can find a good documentary.

The film

(in Filmin) collects what they say was the greatest mass bath of the most innovative guitarist rock gave: his performance at the Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4, a national holiday, 1970, two months and a half before he died at the age of 27.

The music lover will enjoy Hendrix's skills with the six strings, including that mythical psychedelic version of the US anthem,

, which in those troubled years had a strong political message: this is also our country.

The film also served, when it came out in 2015, to shed light on what happened in Atlanta that summer, the one after Woodstock but without its myth.

It is said that in Atlanta there was more public than in Woodstock: it is unprovable, because a lot of people sneaked into both without tickets;

the aerial shots show a similar crowd that is lost on the horizon of the respective esplanades.

The poster resisted comparison (in addition to Hendrix, who was the sensation of the moment, there were BB King, The Allman Brothers Band, Richie Havens or Ten Years After), although it was not so overwhelming.

There were big differences.

The main one, that in Atlanta there was not filmed a movie like the one by Michael Wadleigh that engraved the legend of Woodstock in stone.

And another not minor one: Georgia was and is a much more conservative state than New York, and then it barely came out of racial segregation.

There the invasion of the

, a good number of them nudists, caused more commotion.

Half a film tells us how those days were lived in Byron, a town of 5,000 residents.

We meet the

, who from the outset let the festival flow with no more vigilance than his own.

Then he recruited some bikers to watch the perimeter: the compound itself was a lawless place.

We meet other neighbors perplexed by what was happening, some scandalized and others who helped feed that crowd.

It was the last great

festival , it is said over and over again in the film.

It would be in the USA, because it was followed in August by the one on the Isle of Wight, England, where Hendrix also played and triumphed only 18 days before he died.

Nothing serious happened in Atlanta, although it could have happened as it had in Altamont months before.

Chaos could not be the norm and the concert business became more professional.

That time will not return, but we cannot stop revisiting it.

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