Synopsis:

In the States there was Bill Graham’s Fillmore Auditorium, in England the re was the UFO and the Marquee Club, and in Greece there was the Rodeo and the Kyttaro. That was where, in the heyday of the military dictatorship, Greek youth first heard the music of Frank Zappa, the Rolling Stones, Captain Beefheart, et al. The film focuses on the first period, the birth we might say, of the Greek rock ’n’ roll stage, which it illustrates through rare audiovisual material and interviews with all the major representatives of that musical movement. Dionysis Savvopoulos talks about recording “Mavri Thalassa” and about the importance of Bob Dylan as a songwriter. The film includes footage of Socrates in concert in 1972, Dimitris Poulikakos and Exadaktylos on stage, as well as an interview with Dimitris Psarianos describing how he met Manos Hadjidakis at the Kyttaro. Archival footage is intercut with new takes on 35mm black and white film, and flower power in Greece comes alive once again.