forget easy rider head be the film about the 1960s . almost laugh represent a the monkees reduce their entire career to a one minute tv commercial about dandruff . see represent the 50 foot victor mature try to figure out what the heck he do in this film . hear represent frank zappa ( with his pet cow on leash ) tell davey jones your music be awfully white . experience represent the monkees only live performance a a real rock band play the honest to gosh first ever real punk rock song ( circle sky ) . listen represent a davey jones sing a harry nielsen song about have a transsexual father . be confuse represent be very confused and as confused a terri garr be when mickey dolenz make sexual innuendo about her in her film debut . witness represent futile protest against the vietnam war leap out of nowhere and just a quickly disappear . watch represent mike nesmith spit on christmas while wear a velvet victorian smoking jacket in a cobwebbed gothic horror movie sound stage . let yourself drift represent into the karmic bliss inspire by a comic book version of indian mysticism deliver by a hammy white character actor in black face and while peter tork pretend that he know how to play a guitar . discover represent academy award win director bob rafelson first feature length film and a write by academy award win actor jack nicholson . pretend it not happen represent when the monkees commit group suicide by jump off the golden gate bridge . take drug take a lot of drug represent take a many drug a the cast and crew evidently do while make this film . with head and the monkees reveal themselves a the angriest and snotty entertainer in hollywood history and bar none . it be bewilder to discover that they blame the failure of this film on bad promo . to be sure and the promotion be virtually non existent while but do they not recognize how angry and how down right depress and how self destructive this film actually be . i mean and this film be a trip on bad acid to the suicide ward of a mental hospital . the only film i know to be this depressing be terry gilliam brazil while and like brazil and this film reveal why life in the late 20th century be almost unbearable if you be lucky . it not simply that western culture be suffer from serious information overload and but the information itself be just bad and bad and more bad and and dismal . in fact and it be the overload effect itself that keep people go and since this allowed people to keep distract themselves with one crisis or another if news from vietnam become too much to bear and they could turn the channel and watch a documentary on the rise unemployment rate . the positive response to the reality reveal in head be woodstock three day of peace and love and nudity and mud and bug and bad food and dirty drink and poop and pee and bad acid and peter townsend almost kill abbie hoffman . all take place behind a steel fence and under the lovingly watchful eye of a veritable army of ny state trooper mean that the freedom of woodstock nation be as illusory a the song john sebastion think he be sing while so strung out he could barely speak . 500 and 000 asshole too stupid to come in out of the rain and be one critic judgment on woodstock ( i think it be andy warhol ) . the one good thing occur there be jimi hendrix star spangle banner . two year previously and the jimi hendrix experience have go on their first national tour of america and a the warm up band opening for the monkees . see and it all connect somehow . you owe it to yourself nay and you owe it to your unborn child to see the real 1960s and only to be find on film in this bizarre and miraculous and and utterly absurd tribute to one of the more interesting capitalist scam of the late 20th century .