The Tale of the Dog, 2020 - ★★★★

thunt’s review published on Letterboxd: I absolutely loved tales of the dog. The family dog, a documentary about a psychedelic rock club called the family dog dog from Denver, Colorado, 1967 to 1968 they didn't have very many shows at the dog. I think it went about 14 weeks before they were shut down by a combination of police, attorneys, money and a bad business owner who was more of a hippie concert promoter than a business owner. But what a story and what incredible poster art that left behind. Unfortunately, they have no recordings and hardly any photographs of the dog, which pretty much means the documentary is going to be rough, but it doesn't turn out to be that way. The engaging stories of the people who worked at the dog and who went there, often telling and retelling about the light show put on by the incredible light show and the Music featuring the doors, canned heat and others, make up for the lack of actual documentation, although they could have used some more photos, it's so different world now to have access to iPhones and endless photographic equipment, whereas then someone would have to actually have a film camera, keep the film develop. It would have to survive to this day. Maybe more things exist out there, probably not but either way, a very fascinating documentary that also includes the horrifyingly sad story of canned heat spoiler alerts who lost their publishing rights that because they had to buy attorneys to defend themselves from drug busts, from playing at the family dog, all things connected. The publishing rights of canned heat, originally worthless, later became incredibly valuable after they wrote hit songs like on the road again, I think, or something like that. And anyway, they went wild with that. The members of canned heat, included their manager are still salty about this, 50 years later, bad business deal. They were taken advantage of, although, I guess again, no one knew publishing rights were going to be worth so much, but certainly no one gave them back the publishing rights. Interesting. The video that I'm watching is listing its images now showing actual HTTP references to where some of them came from, commons.wikimedia.org, far out. Anyway, I definitely recommend family dog, tale of the dog, which I bought for about five bucks on Apple. ITunes seemed like a good idea. I've been buying more documentaries lately on the iTunes, it's kind of like renting movies, but you get to keep them. I usually watch them once, but paying $5 is enough incentive to make you want to actually watch it, or for a movie you've seen, or want to see again. It's a reason to see it again because you have invested the funds. Also you get the 4k high quality or whatever they have from Apple, iTunes. Definitely recommend family dog. Tail it a dog, and look forward to the other documentary I've brought about Garbage Pail Kids. Thanks for listening, thanks for reading, until next time bye, bye. You? Transcribed by otter.ai