VARIOUS ARTISTS. “Go Ride the Music & West Pole.” Eagle Rock Entertainment

Washed-out colors mixed with a swirl of faces and bodies, bad-sound production and off-key warblings. Maybe this is how many veterans of Summer of Love-era music remember the good old days in San Francisco.

But it’s no way to present it for modern viewing. That is what prevents the double-DVD release “Go Ride the Music & West Pole” from being relevant.

Eagle Rock Entertainment was only playing the hand they were dealt: a two-part made-for-TV miniseries recorded in 1969 and hosted by Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph J. Gleason, a fellow who should have stuck to the printed page.

The best songs come quick and early on the first disc. Grace Slick roars through “We Can Be Together,” though Marty Balin painfully tries to upstage her vocals here and there. An interview with Jerry Garcia sitting near a tire swing hanging from a tree is out of focus and shot too far from the charismatic Grateful Dead frontman.

Disc two isn’t much better. It includes the all-girl rock outfit Ace of Cups doing an understated a cappella number titled, ironically, “Music.” Frankly, there’s isn’t much music from them and the number is ill-placed in this essay on the adult San Francisco rock scene. There are few highlights here, and Gleason’s resurrected rock essay gets a failing grade.