![]() ![]() Demented snake-charmer vocals weave maniacally around the room, before everything turns quiet. Ahh, it was just the entrance to the next it seems, as this reciting leads us on our way into the Indian infused section with all sorts of percussive splish splashes, bells, and chiming. ![]() Are we in the same trolley - you question yourself. A gathering of disturbed folks starts citing Timothy Leary poetry along the way, just to make things all the more confusing. This is clearly the open walkway to the next trolley, where you are greeted by an eerie soundingĪtmosphere and some soldier boy marching. ![]() Jungle has vanished and swoosh! there´s some tangy organs writhing and crawling around the rawkous foundation of the fuel fired drumming. It´s funky in its own way - a distinct monkey saucy beat dance hoedown. Outside - the bellowing tribal rock n´ roll beats form a firm and meaty start to our train journey. Starting deep within the jungle, the first trolley is clearly not what it looks like from the On some level it truly feels like taking a strollĭown through the trolleys of a great big musical party train, whilst its inhabitants are deeplyįocused on exploring the multitude of aspects to this highly wondrous form of expression. On any given night, there´d be a folk jam in one trolley, a rock n´ roll one in the next, then a singersong writer´s convention - or maybe some jazzy get-togethers - meaning that whatever brand of music one would like to dive into - it was there complete with immensely talented musicians to work with.ĭrum Circus sole album Magic Theatre is like that. Booze, food, drugs, instruments and everything in between was loaded onto this train, and between the gigs, there was a non-stop party going down, where each musician had the chance to widen his/her scope on music, and the never ending possibilities of this infatuating mistress. The Grateful Dead, The Band, Big Brother and Buddy Guy were some of these artists, and I believe it was Janis Joplin who said, that Festival Express was to the musicians what Woodstock had been to the crowds. ![]() Privately hired train only stopping to give concerts and share whatever music they´d been working on on their way. The year after Woodstock, a group of different bands joined forces to roll across Canada in a ![]()
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