RHINO RELEASING ‘WOODSTOCK-40 YEARS ON: YASGUR’S FARM’ 6 CD SET

Rhino Marks The Festival’s 40th Anniversary With A 6-CD Set featuring the most comprehensive collection ever available Of artists that performed at the festival including 38 Previously Unreleased tracks

To assemble the most comprehensive document of the myth-steeped weekend, the boxed set’s co-producer Andy Zax pored over every inch of multitrack tape in search of the strongest parts of each of the 33 sets. “The way we approached all of the material was as if it was a cinema verite documentary — the raw record of the event,” Zax says. In addition to the music, the set offers considerable amount of ancillary material sprinkled throughout the discs — stage announcements, lysergic babble, the sounds of rain, a cameo appearance by Abbie Hoffman, and the graciousness of Max Yasgur’s address to the crowd, heard for the first time in its entirety.

Another significant byproduct of the WOODSTOCK — 40 YEARS ON: BACK TO YASGUR’S FARM boxed set is that, by virtue of its size and rigorously chronological sequence, it gets closer to a sense of the performances as they occurred in real time than any previous compilation. For the first time, the complete and accurate set lists will be available in the boxed set’s booklet. Some Woodstock aficionados will be taken aback by the actual order of the performances; it differs from both various written accounts and from Michael Wadleigh’s film Woodstock, which takes certain liberties with chronology in order to maintain its narrative flow.

Disc 1
1. “Handsome Johnny” ‹ Richie Havens
2. “Freedom (Motherless Child)” ‹ Richie Havens
3. “Choppity Choppity”‹ John Morris
4. “Look Out” ‹ Sweetwater
5. “Two Worlds”‹Sweetwater *
6. “Jennifer” ‹ Bert Sommer *
7. “And When It’s Over”‹ Bert Sommer *
8. “Smile” ‹ Bert Sommer *
9. “There Goes Marilyn!”‹ John Morris
10. “Hang On To A Dream” ‹ Tim Hardin *
11. “Simple Song Of Freedom” ‹ Tim Hardin *
12. “Flat Blue Acid”‹ John Morris
13. “Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat In Sawarital” ‹ Ravi Shankar *
14. “Momma Momma” ‹ Melanie *
15. “Beautiful People” ‹ Melanie
16. “Birthday Of The Sun” ‹ Melanie
17. “Coming Into Los Angeles” ‹ Arlo Guthrie ***
18. “Wheel Of Fortune” ‹ Arlo Guthrie *
19. “Every Hand In The Land” ‹ Arlo Guthrie *
20. “All You Funny People”‹ John Morris

Disc 2
1. “Joe Hill”‹ Joan Baez
2. “Sweet Sir Galahad”‹ Joan Baez
3. “Hickory Wind” ‹ Joan Baez *
4. “Drug Store Truck Drivin’ Man” ‹ Joan Baez w/Jeffrey Shurtleff
5. “Bring Scully His Asthma Pills”‹ John Morris
6. “Insulin” & Quill Intro‹ John Morris
7. “They Live The Life” ‹ Quill *
8. “That’s How I Eat”‹ Quill *
9. “I Understand Your Wife Is Having A Baby”‹ Chip Monck
10. “Donovan’s Reef” ‹ Country Joe McDonald *
11. “The ‘Fish’ Cheer”/”I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” ‹ Country Joe
McDonald
12. “Persuasion” ‹ Santana
13. “Soul Sacrifice” ‹ Santana
14. “How Have You Been”‹ John B. Sebastian
15. “Rainbows All Over Your Blues” ‹ John B. Sebastian
16. “I Had A Dream” ‹ John B. Sebastian
17. “The Letter” ‹ Incredible String Band *
18. “When You Find Out Who You Are” ‹ Incredible String Band *
19. “She Is Lost”‹ Chip Monck

Disc 3
1. “We’re In Pretty Good Shape”‹ Chip Monck
2. “Going Up The Country” ‹ Canned Heat
3. “Woodstock Boogie” ‹ Canned Heat **
4. “The Brown Acid Is Not Specifically Too Good”‹ Chip Monck
5. “Blood Of The Sun” ‹ Mountain ***
6. “Theme For An Imaginary Western” ‹ Mountain ***
7. “For Yasgur’s Farm” ‹ Mountain *
8. “For Those Of You Who Have Partaken Of The Green Acid”‹ Chip Monck
9. “Green Acid Advice”‹ Jerry Garcia & Country Joe McDonald
10. “Dark Star” ‹ Grateful Dead *
11. “Green River”‹ Creedence Clearwater Revival
12. “Bad Moon Rising”‹ Creedence Clearwater Revival *
13. “I Put A Spell On You” ‹ Creedence Clearwater Revival

Disc 4
1. “Work Me, Lord” ‹ Janis Joplin
2. “Ball And Chain” ‹ Janis Joplin
3. Medley: “Dance To The Music”/”Music Lover”/”I Want To Take You
Higher”‹Sly & The Family Stone
4. “The Politics Of The Situation”‹ Abbie Hoffman
5. “Amazing Journey” ‹ The Who *
6. “Pinball Wizard” ‹ The Who *
7. Abbie Hoffman vs. Pete Townshend
8. “We’re Not Gonna Take It” ‹ The Who **
9. “The Other Side Of This Life” ‹ Jefferson Airplane *
10. “Somebody To Love”‹ Jefferson Airplane
11. “Won’t You Try”/ “Saturday Afternoon”‹ Jefferson Airplane
12. “We Got A Whole Lot Of Orange”‹ Grace Slick
13. “Volunteers” ‹ Jefferson Airplane
14. “Breakfast In Bed For 400,000″‹ Wavy Gravy
15. “It Just Keeps Goin’”‹ John Morris
16. Max Yasgur Speaks

Disc 5
1. “Feelin’ Alright”‹ Joe ****er *
2. “Let’s Go Get Stoned”‹ Joe ****er
3. “With A Little Help From My Friends” ‹ Joe ****er
4. The Rainstorm
5. “Rock & Soul Music”‹ Country Joe & The Fish
6. “Love” ‹ Country Joe & The Fish *
7. “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine”‹ Country Joe & The Fish *
8. “Summer Dresses”‹ Country Joe & The Fish *
9. “Silver and Gold”‹ Country Joe & The Fish *
10. “Rock & Soul Music” (Reprise)‹ Country Joe & The Fish *
11. “Leland Mississippi Blues” ‹ Johnny Winter *
12. “Mean Town Blues” ‹ Johnny Winter
13. “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”‹ Blood Sweat & Tears *

Disc 6
1. “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” ‹ Crosby Stills & Nash
2. “Guinnevere”‹ Crosby Stills & Nash
3. “Marrakesh Express” ‹ Crosby Stills & Nash
4. “4 + 20″ ‹ Crosby Stills & Nash
5. “Sea Of Madness” ‹ Crosby Stills Nash & Young
6. “Wooden Ships” ‹ Crosby Stills Nash & Young
7. “No Amount Of Loving”‹ The Butterfield Blues Band *
8. “Love March” ‹ The Butterfield Blues Band
9. “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” ‹ The Butterfield Blues Band
10. “Get A Job” ‹ Sha Na Na *
11. “At The Hop” ‹ Sha Na Na
12. “Get A Job” (Reprise) ‹ Sha Na Na *
13. “The Star Spangled Banner”‹ Jimi Hendrix
“Purple Haze”‹ Jimi Hendrix
“Woodstock Improvisation”‹ Jimi Hendrix
14. “Woodstock Farewell”‹ Chip Monck

*Previously Unissued = never before released

**Previously Unissued Full-Length Version = previously released on a
Woodstock title in edited form.

***Previously Unissued Woodstock Recording = presenting the actual
Woodstock performances here for the first time.

Source: Rhino

LEGACY WOODSTOCK 40th ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE CDS BY JOHNNY WINTER, SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE, JANIS JOPLIN, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, SANTANA

Legacy Launches the Woodstock Experience: 40th Anniversary Commemorations Begin

Five Classic 1969 Albums by Woodstock Headliners Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Santana, Sly & The Family Stone, And Johnny Winter Original Albums Coupled For First Time with Complete Festival Performances, Providing Perfect Snapshot of the Artist in the Pivotal Year 1969

Newly-designed eco-friendly 2-CD packages contain mini-LP sleeves with inner paper sleeves, inside slipcase jacket, plus two-sided 16×20-inch fold-out poster

Sony Music Entertainment teams with Woodstock Ventures to launch Woodstock.com, broad-based interactive social networking website

THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE titles available at both physical and digital retail outlets starting June 30, 2009

The spirit of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair of 1969 resonates 40 summers later, as if it were just yesterday.

In 1969, five acts recorded albums for the Columbia, Epic, and RCA labels (divisions of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT) and brought their music to Max Yasgur’s farm that summer. For the first time, THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE couples those albums with music from the festival, providing a pocket portrait of what each artist and band was experiencing during 1969. Available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting June 30th – in newly-designed eco-friendly 2CD packages (see details below) – will be the following five titles:

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE (RCA/Legacy)

Includes Volunteers, their sixth and final album with the original lineup before all the changes came in 1970, with “We Can Be Together,” “Good Shepherd,” “Wooden Ships,” “Eskimo Blue Day,” and the title tune; coupled with 13 songs from their Sunday wee-hours set at the festival, including six previously unissued live tracks.

JANIS JOPLIN – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE (Columbia/Legacy)

Includes I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama! , her first and only solo album released during her lifetime, with “Try (Just A Little Bit Harder),” the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody,” and Rodgers & Hart’s “Little Girl Blue”; coupled with her entire 10-song festival set, including three previously unissued live tracks.

SANTANA – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE (Columbia/Legacy) Includes the debut Santana LP, with “Evil Ways,” “Savor,” “Persuasion,” “Soul Sacrifice,” and Olatunji’s “Jingo”; coupled with their entire 8-song set, including one previously unissued live track;

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE (Epic/Legacy)

Includes their breakthrough fourth album, Stand!, with “Everyday People,” “Sing A Simple Song,” “Stand!” and “I Want To Take You Higher”; coupled with their entire 8-song set, including seven previously unissued live tracks.

JOHNNY WINTER – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE (Columbia/Legacy)

Includes the debut Johnny Winter solo LP, with homages to Robert Johnson (“When You Got A Good Friend”), Sonny Boy Williamson (“Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”), Lightnin’ Hopkins (“Back Door Friend”) and B.B. King (“Be Careful With A Fool”); coupled with eight songs from his Sunday evening set at the festival, including seven previously unissued live tracks.

Each THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE disc will be packaged inside a mini-LP cover with inner paper sleeves: CD-one replicating the front and back covers of the original LP, and CD-two featuring iconic photography of the artist performing at the festival. These mini-LPs will be housed in a paper-board slipcase sharing continuity of design recognition across all five packages. The slipcase will also contain a two-sided 16×20-inch fold-out poster, with one side displaying iconic photography of the artist performing at the festival, and the other side displaying a classic crowd shot of the audience.

The upcoming 40th anniversary celebration includes such highly-anticipated projects as Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock (which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, starring Demetri Martin, Liev Schreiber and Emile Hirsch, via Focus Features); and Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang’s The Road To Woodstock, written with Holly George-Warren (on HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint).

Announced in April, Sony Music Entertainment has teamed with Woodstock Ventures to launch Woodstock.com, a cutting edge live music social network for all concerts, including complete artist and event information, access to ticketing, concert reviews, music, blogs, and a forum to connect with other fan events throughout the world. There will be platforms for environmental initiatives, social issues, and other current topics. Visitors to the site can meet on a virtual village green, a platform for developing initiatives about global warming, carbon emissions, and responsible energy use.

The spirit of the Woodstock Generation continues to be a thriving and dynamic force in society because the communal ideas expressed in the music of those artists still resounds loud and clear. The social and political and cultural concerns that informed their lives and music in 1969 are still with us today. And there has never been any better way of experiencing the tumultuous events of 1969 than through the music.

Details of the five THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE titles are as follows:

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE (Volunteers, RCA/Legacy 88697 48240 2, originally issued April 1969, as RCA Victor 4238)
Disc One – Selections:

1. We Can Be Together
2. Good Shepherd
3. The Farm
4. Hey Frederick
5. Turn My Life Down
6. Wooden Ships
7. Eskimo Blue Day
8. A Song For All Seasons
9. Meadowlands
10. Volunteers
(Recorded Live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Sunday, August 17, 1969: PART ONE) 11. Introduction (previously unissued)
12. The Other Side of This Life (previously unissued)
13. Somebody To Love
14. 3/15 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds (previously unissued)
15. Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon
16. Eskimo Blue Day.
Disc Two (Recorded live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Sunday, August 17, 1969: PART TWO) – Selections:

1. Plastic Fantastic Lover
2. Wooden Ships (previously unissued)
3. Uncle Sam Blues
4. Volunteers
5. The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil (previously unissued)
6. Come Back Baby (previously unissued)
7. White Rabbit
8. The House At Pooneil Corners (previously unissued).

JANIS JOPLIN – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE
(I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, Columbia/Legacy 88697 48243 2, originally issued October 1969, as Columbia 9913)
Disc One – Selections:

1. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
2. Maybe
3. One Good Man
4. As Good As You’ve Been To This World
5. To Love Somebody
6. Kozmic Blues
7. Little Girl Blue
8. Work Me, Lord.
Disc Two (Recorded live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Saturday, August 16, 1969) – Selections:

1. Raise Your Hand (previously unissued)
2. As Good As You’ve Been To This World (previously unissued)
3. To Love Somebody
4. Summertime
5. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
6. Kozmic Blues
7. Can’t Turn You Loose (previously unissued)
8. Work Me, Lord
9. Piece Of My Heart
10. Ball & Chain.

SANTANA – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE
(Santana, Columbia/Legacy 88697 48242 2, originally issued August 1969, as Columbia 9781)
Disc One – Selections:

1. Waiting
2. Evil Ways
3. Shades Of Time
4. Savor
5. Jingo
6. Persuasion
7. Treat
8. You Just Don’t Care
9. Soul Sacrifice.
Disc Two (Recorded live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Saturday, August 16, 1969) – Selections:

1. Waiting
2. Evil Ways (previously unissued)
3. You Just Don’t Care
4. Savor
5. Jingo
6. Persuasion
7. Soul Sacrifice
8. Fried Neckbones.

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE
(Stand!, Epic/Legacy 88697 48241 2, originally issued April 1969, as Epic 26456) Disc One – Selections:

1. Stand!
2. Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey
3. I Want To Take You Higher
4. Somebody’s Watching You
5. Sing A Simple Song
6. Everyday People
7. Sex Machine
8. You Can Make It If You Try.
Disc Two (Recorded live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Sunday, August 17, 1969) – Selections:

1. M’Lady (previously unissued)
2. Sing A Simple Song (previously unissued)
3. You Can Make It If You Try (previously unissued)
4. Everyday People (previously unissued)
5. Dance To The Music
6. MEDLEY: Music Lover / Higher
7. I Want To Take You Higher (previously unreleased)
8. Love City
9. Stand! (previously unissued)

JOHNNY WINTER – THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE

(Johnny Winter, Columbia/Legacy 88697 48244 2, originally issued May 1969, as Columbia 9826)
Disc One – Selections:
1. I’m Yours And I’m Hers
2. Be Careful With A Fool
3. Dallas
4. Mean Mistreater
5. Leland Mississippi Blues
6. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
7. When You Got A Good Friend
8. I’ll Drown In My Own Tears
9. Back Door Friend.
Disc Two (Recorded live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Sunday, August 17-Monday, August 18, 1969) – Selections:

1. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter (previously unissued)
2. Leland Mississippi Blues
3. Mean Town Blues
4. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now (previously unissued)
5. I Can’t Stand It (with Edgar Winter) (previously unissued)
6. Tobacco Road (with Edgar Winter) (previously unissued)
7. Tell The Truth (with Edgar Winter) (previously unissued)
8. Johnny B. Goode (previously unissued).

Source Legacy

WOODSTOCK 40th ANNIVERSARY DVD BOX SET

1969 was a year unlike any other. Man first set foot on the moon. The New York Mets won the World Series against all odds. And for three days in the rural town of Bethel, New York, half a million people experienced the single most defining moment of their generation; a concert unprecedented in scope and influence, a coming together of people from all walks of life with a single common goal: Peace and music. They called it Woodstock. One year later, a landmark Oscar?-winning documentary captured the essence of the music, the electricity of the performances, and the experience of those who lived it. Newly remastered, the film features legendary performances by 17 best selling artists.

Celebrating the Greatest Rock Concert in History! On Blu-ray and DVD June 9 from Warner Home Video…

Remastered 4-hour Director’s Cut and over 3 hours of extras (includes newly discovered performances), and these collectibles:
• LUCITE display with images from the festival
• 60-Page Commemorative LIFE MAGAZINE Reprint
• Iron-on WOODSTOCK PATCH
• Festival Memorabilia including Reproductions of HANDWRITTEN NOTES and a Three-Day Ticket
Numbered, Limited-Edition Sets for Enhanced Collectibility

“Few documentaries have captured a time and place more completely, poignantly, and … entertainingly.”
–Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“Not just a great slice-of-time documentary but the ultimate rock concert movie.”
–Chris Willman, Los Angeles Times

Burbank, CA – the four-hour Director’s Cut of the 1970 Oscar®-winning documentary about the landmark music event that featured some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll performers in history – will be released June 9 in a spectacular new limited, numbered Blu-ray and DVD Ultimate Collector’s Edition (UCE). With two extra hours of rare performance footage – some of it newly-discovered, some only seen in part and some never seen at all – the UCE is destined to make its own history. Details of the new releases will be featured at the South by Southwest Music + Film Festival where Warner Home Video will offer festival goers a first look at the new high definition picture and sound on March 21.

Today, four decades later, Woodstock still resonates deeply with those that attended and those that wished they had. Director Michael Wadleigh notes, “Based on the vast e-mails and calls I’ve received, many from young people, it’s very evident that people still relate so much to the film and view the ’60s as an age when anything and everything was possible, mostly good. Many hope for a new Woodstock generation since what people loved back then was spontaneity, originality, innocence and honesty – even in superstars; that’s why Woodstock, with its open and natural philosophy, has become timeless.”

The two extra hours of rare performance footage features 18 new performances as never before seen from 13 groups, including Joan Baez, Country Joe McDonald, Santana, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker and five (Paul Butterfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, Johnny Winter and Mountain) who played at Woodstock but never appeared in any film version. 

A third hour of bonus material also on the UCE includes a featurette gallery showcasing interviews with Martin Scorsese, producer Michael Lang, director Michael Wadleigh, Hugh Hefner, Eddie Kramer (the concert’s original chief on-site engineer and producer-engineer for Jimi Hendrix) and others who chronicle the making of the festival and the film. Included are such segments as 3 Days in a Truck, No Rain! No Rain! and Living Up To Idealism. Additionally, exclusive to Blu-ray a Customize Your Own Woodstock Playlist from the 18 bonus performances and other special features like Media Center, My WB Commentary and Live Community Screening.

The WOODSTOCK UCE will be packaged in a unique giftbox, numbered as part of a limited run with an array of collectibles that include a 60+ page reprint of a Life magazine commemorative issue, a lucite lenticular display of vintage festival photos, festival memorabilia and an iron-on patch with the classic dove and guitar Woodstock emblem.

Jeff Baker, WHV’s Executive VP and General Manager, Theatrical Catalog, stated, “As I reviewed Woodstock interviews and some of the newly discovered concert footage, it struck me how historically relevant this project has become to all of us who have been privileged to be a part of it. The new ‘content’ we have created, almost 40 years later, and the live performances we’ve restored in high definition, some in extended cuts, will live on as studio assets forever, and as a testimony to a time and a set of circumstances which will never again repeat themselves.”

Woodstock 3 Days of Peace & Music was newly remastered from original elements and scanned at 2K with an audio 5.1 mix. Eddie Kramer, Woodstock sound engineer, assisted with the 5.1 audio mix of recently found additional footage. The Ultimate Collector’s Edition will be available in Blu-ray™ Hi-Def as well as DVD. Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music will also be available on DVD as a Two-Disc Special Edition.

WOODSTOCK ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION
BAND ROSTER – 22 Bands Total
(Alphabetical List)
· Arlo Guthrie
· Canned Heat
· Country Joe & the Fish
· Country Joe McDonald
· Creedence Clearwater Revival
· Crosby, Stills, Nash
· Grateful Dead
· Janis Joplin
· Jefferson Airplane
· Jimi Hendrix
· Joan Baez
· Joe Cocker
· John Sebastian
· Johnny Winter
· Mountain
· Paul Butterfield Blues Band
· Richie Havens
· Santana
· Sha-Na-Na
· Sly & The Family Stone
· Ten Years After
· The Who

FULL DESCRIPTION of 18 Bonus Performances:
· Joan Baez: “One Day at a Time”
· Country Joe McDonald: “Flying High”
· Santana: “Evil Ways”
· Canned Heat: “I’m Her Man” and “On the Road Again”
· Mountain: “Beside the Sea” and “Southbound Train”
· Grateful Dead: “Turn On Your Love Light”
· Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Born on the Bayou”, “I’ve Put a Spell on You” and “Keep on Chooglin”
· The Who: “We’re Not Going To Take It” and “My Generation”
· Jefferson Airplane: “3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds”
· Joe Cocker: “Something’s Coming On”
· Johnny Winter: “Mean Town Blues”
· Paul Butterfield: “Morning Sunrise”
· Sha Na Na: “Teen Angel”

WOODSTOCK Ultimate Collector’s Edition
DVD Contents – Disc One:
• Film (Director’s Cut), Part 1
• The Museum at Bethel Woods: The Story of the Sixties & Woodstock

DVD Contents – Disc Two:
• Film (Director’s Cut), Part 2

DVD Contents – Disc Three:
• Woodstock: Untold Stories – 18 Performances as never before seen (see list further above)
• Woodstock: From Festival to Feature – Interviews of the sights and sounds of the 3-day event, from concert goers, promoters, crew and musicians (see below)

Blu-ray Hi-Def Exclusive:
• Customize Your Own Woodstock Playlist (from the 18 bonus performances) – This feature allows you to customize your own personal jukebox playlist from more than a dozen live Woodstock performances as never before seen.
• BD-Live features include Media Center, My WB Commentary, & Live Community Screening

–Media Center is a hub for trailers, features and content
–You can get sneak peeks of upcoming Warner Bros. films, and rate trailers
–You can access to Exclusive Content such as interviews, featurettes, and more only seen through WB BD-Live
–You can access Photo Galleries and other special features
–Live Community Screenings allow you to send invitations to fans and friends across the country for virtual screenings at a specified time and chat online with each other as the movie plays on each person’s Blu-ray player. You can host your own Live Community Screening with your buddy list or participate in a WB hosted BD-Live community event.

–My WB Commentary lets you record and post a Picture-in-Picture commentary right over the film, then share it and rate it. Using a web-camera, you can record your own comments and play them back as a Picture-in-Picture feature over the film scene you have chosen and share it with your friends or the entire Warner Brothers BD-Live Community.

For more information visit the OFFICIAL SITE »www.woodstockondvd.com and be sure to check back in April as many new features will be added, including exciting performance clips, an image gallery, wallpapers, screensaver and much more.

Woodstock 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Editionwill be supported with promotional partnerships and a national media and publicity campaign spanning TV, print, online/viral, events and grassroots efforts targeting music fans of all ages.

WOODSTOCK (From Festival to Feature highlights) –
• The Camera: The Éclair NPR was the best camera around in 1969; Michael Wadleigh talks about why the Éclair was the right camera for this film. 

• 365,000 Feet of Film: The stories of how Dale Bell and his crew begged, borrowed and stole just enough film to document the festival.

• Shooting Stage: Those up-close shots of performers didn’t just happen by magic; see how Wadleigh and his cameramen got those up close and personal shots of the performers.

• The Line Up: The Who, Sha Na Na, Santana, Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane and many more; how did all these bands get on the roster for the festival of a life time?

• Holding the Negative Hostage: What does a filmmaker do when Technicolor is sending a copy of your negative to the studio without your permission? Well, you lock up the film and hire a lawyer.

• Announcements: “Don’t take the brown acid” or maybe it was green. We’ll hear about all the strange and informative announcements heard during those three days of peace, love and enlightenment.

• Suits VS. Longhairs: The clash between the hippie filmmakers and the Warner executives who didn’t understand what this film meant.

• Documenting History: Find out from Michael Wadleigh and Dale Bell, along with filmmakers, where the idea of capturing this event on film came from.

• Woodstock: The Journey: Some came by car, others by truck, a few came by helicopter but most walked to the most famous festival in history. 

• Pre-Production: We’ll find out how this production got off the ground and meet the members of the crew that made it happen. 

• Production: How many cameras were used? How much film did they go through? Did anyone sleep? All these questions and more will be answered here as we explore how Woodstock was captured on film.

• Synchronization: How do you sync all this material with out any slates? No slate, no problem. With the help of an upright Moviola, Dale Bell, Michael Wadleigh, Eddie Kramer and the editors were able to make magic from miles of tape and film.

• The Crowd: Half a million people of all colors, shapes, sizes, ages and sexes attended this historical event. We’ll hear stories about the number of people and how they all coexisted for three days with only minor incidents.

• No Rain! No Rain!: Everyone talks about the rain at this event as if it were a character. It was. It set the tone, provided moments of danger, fun and disgust. 

• 3 Days in a Truck: Eddie Kramer heard some of the most amazing performances as he recorded this historic event. But during those three days of peace, love and music, he didn’t get to see any performances because he was stuck in a truck.

• Woodstock Effect: The film, the event and the album catapulted many musicians into the limelight, changing their lives forever. 

• Living up to Idealism

• World’s Longest Optical

• Critical Acclaim

• Courtesy of The Museum at Bethel Woods: The Hog Farm Commune

• Hugh Hefner and Michael Wadleigh: The Woodstock Connection

AMAZON USA EXCLUSIVE:

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The limited and numbered Amazon Exclusive 4-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition features more than three hours of extras – two hours of rare performance footage plus a third hour of featurettes showcasing interviews from Martin Scorsese, Director Michael Wadleigh, and Producer Michael Lang. Included in the set is an Amazon exclusive bonus disc with additional never-before-seen performance footage from Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish plus three additional featurettes!