NEW JIMI HENDRIX CD COMING

Experience Hendrix LLC and Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings will launch their monumental 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project on Tuesday, March 9, with the release of Valleys of Neptune, a newly curated album of 12 fully realized studio recordings, more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available on a Jimi Hendrix album, from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called the greatest guitarist of all time.

Centered around tracks recorded during a pivotal and turbulent four-month period in 1969, Valleys of Neptune unveils the original Jimi Hendrix Experience’s final studio recordings, as the group lays down the foundation for its follow-up to Electric Ladyland, alongside the guitar superhero’s first sessions with bassist Billy Cox, an old army buddy he’d recruited into his new ensemble.

Valleys of Neptune provides an essential, compelling, and up-til-now largely unseen view of what Jimi Hendrix was up to musically in the critical period between the release of Electric Ladyland in October 1968 and the 1970 opening of his own Electric Lady Studios, the state of the art facility in Greenwich Village where he would begin his final project, the ambitious double album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.

Janie Hendrix, CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, the Hendrix family-owned company entrusted with preserving and protecting the legacy of Jimi Hendrix, noted, “My brother Jimi was at home in the studio. Valleys of Neptune offers deep insight into his mastery of the recording process and demonstrates the fact that he was as unparalleled a recording innovator as he was a guitarist. His brilliance shines through on every one of these precious tracks.”

Valleys of Neptune is originality electrified, offering more than 60 minutes of previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix music, originally recorded, and newly mixed for this historic release, by Hendrix’s longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, who first worked with the guitarist on Are You Experienced? in 1967. Valleys of Neptune is produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott (who contributes detailed liner notes to the album) and Eddie Kramer.
“Valleys of Neptune” has long been one of the most sought after of any commercially unavailable Jimi Hendrix recording. The song will be released as a single globally on February 2, 2010, nearly forty years after Jimi finished recording the track at New York’s Record Plant in May of 1970.
Other highlights on Valleys of Neptune include blazing studio covers of Elmore James’ classic “Bleeding Heart” and Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love” as well as premier performances of original Hendrix compositions like “Ships Passing Through The Night,” “Lullaby For The Summer” and the original un-dubbed Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of “Hear My Train A Comin’.” Also included in Valleys of Neptune is “Mr. Bad Luck,” a Jimi Hendrix Experience track, produced by Chas Chandler during the 1967 Axis: Bold as Love sessions.

As part of the opening wave of releases for the Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, Legacy Recordings will also be releasing new deluxe CD/DVD editions of Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland, and First Rays of the New Rising Sun, also available on vinyl, on March 9.
Each of the essential titles in the Jimi Hendrix catalog to be newly reissued on Legacy will feature a bonus DVD featuring newly created documentaries directed by the Grammy award winning Bob Smeaton [Beatles Anthology, Festival Express, Beatles: The Studio Recordings] and featuring interviews with Experience members Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, original producer Chas Chandler and engineer Eddie Kramer. In addition, Smash Hits, Jimi’s original compilation, will be reintroduced. The critically acclaimed Live At Woodstock will be available as a standard DVD as well as a Blu-ray Disc.

“No artist has ever transformed the pop music landscape as profoundly or as permanently as Jimi Hendrix,” said Adam Block, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Legacy Recordings. “We are proud to be partnering with Experience Hendrix in releasing Valleys of Neptune, a treasure for Hendrix fans both new and experienced. It’s an auspicious start in fulfilling a shared vision for the Jimi Hendrix catalog going forward.”

Valleys of Neptune
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Stone Free
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 9, 14, May 17,1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Billy Cox
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Backing Vocals: Roger Chapman, Andy Fairweather Low

Valleys Of Neptune
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, September 23, 1969, May 15, 1970
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Bass: Billy Cox
Percussion: Juma Sultan

Bleeding Heart
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 24, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Billy Cox
Drums: Rocky Isaac
Tambourine: Chris Grimes
Maracas: Al Marks

Hear My Train A Comin’
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Mr. Bad Luck
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, May 5, 1967
Producer: Chas Chandler
Additional bass and drum recording, Air Studios, London, June 5, 1987
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Sunshine Of Your Love
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell
Percussion: Rocki Dzidzornu

Lover Man
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Ships Passing Through The Night
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 14, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Guitar, Vocals: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Fire
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 17, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass, Backing Vocal: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Red House
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 17, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Lullaby For The Summer
Recorded: Record Plant, New York, April 7, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Mixed By Eddie Kramer
Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell

Crying Blue Rain
Recorded: Olympic Studios, London, February 16, 1969
Producer: Jimi Hendrix
Additional bass and drum recording, Air Studios, London, June 5, 1987
Vocal, Guitar: Jimi Hendrix
Percussion: Rocki Dzidzornu
Bass: Noel Redding
Drums: Mitch Mitchell

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JIMI HENDRIX ‘LIVE AT WOBURN’ CD

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At Woburn is the eleventh release in the Dagger Records authorized ‘bootleg’ recording series. Live At Woburn presents a previously unreleased concert recording capturing The Jimi Hendrix Experience in concert at the Woburn Music Festival on July 6, 1968.

The Woburn Music Festival was one of Britain’s first large scale, open-air rock music events. Staged by brothers Richard “Rik” and John Gunnell, who were well respected individuals in the burgeoning London music scene where they were heavily involved in many aspects including band managed, show promoters and club owners. Rik in particular, who owned three fashionable 1960′s London nightspots-the Ram Jam Club, Flamingo, and Bag O’ Nails-presented authentic, first generation American icons like John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding and some of the brightest examples of a swelling wave of emerging British talent such as The Rolling Stones, Jack Bruce and Georgie Fame.

Jimi’s co-managers Chas Chandler and Michael Jeffery-a fellow nightclub entrepreneur-enjoyed a friendship with Gunnell. Gunnell had been an early supporter of The Animals, and extended the same courtesy to Hendrix and The Experience, presenting some of the group’s earliest London engagements.

Jimi’s popularity had grown exponentially since those early days in 1966 and he arrived at the Woburn Festival as its eagerly anticipated headline act. This anticipation was fueled in part by Jimi’s absence from Britain. The Experience had spent much of 1968 touring and recording in America and had not performed live in Britain since December 1967.

Woburn Music Festival featured separate afternoon and evening sets for both Saturday and Sunday. While rhythm & blues was the primary focus with Gunnell drawing heavily from his own talent pool, casting John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Alexis Korner, and Geno Washington together with the more folk influenced Pentangle, Roy Harper, and Tim Rose. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were scheduled to close the Saturday evening show where an enthusiastic crowd some 14,000 strong turned out for the performance.

Axis: Bold As Love was still a top selling album in July 1968 but Jimi had long since moved on to new challenges. To Hendrix, performances such as Woburn were unique, shared experiences and not simply personal appearances intended to help shift units of albums or singles. At Woburn, Jimi skipped songs from Axis: Bold As Love altogether, electing instead to ‘jam’ as he called it-kicking off his set with a spirited “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” [regrettably missed in part by the late start of the recording machine].

The trio followed “Sgt. Pepper” with “Fire,” and despite beset with buzzing, crackles and otherwise unwanted noises throughout their set, The Experience continued to persevere doing their best to surmount the technical problems that hampered an otherwise animated set.

Jimi may have bypassed Axis: Bold As Love, but he did foreshadow his next album at Woburn, stretching out a marvelous “Tax Free,” a contender for Electric Ladyland and a favorite Experience vehicle for improvisation. Hendrix followed up with an extended improvisational rendition of “Red House” before diving into “Foxey Lady.” He also offered his Woburn audience what he called, ‘Ša song that we recorded for our new LP. It’s nothing but a hard rock-it’s called “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”.

Equipment problems were always an irritant for Jimi and Woburn was no exception. He prefaced “Purple Haze,” the group’s final song, with an apology. “We’re very sorry that we have to play through broken amplifiers,” he explained. “Like I said before, it’s really a hang up. It’s very hard to get our own sound across so we would like to end it and say thank you very much for showing up. We would like to do this last song “Purple Haze.” Jimi kicked off a boisterous feedback opening, buttressed by Mitchell and Redding and complete with tremolo bar swoops, wah-wah pedal shadings and soaring dive bomb styled bursts that transitioned seamlessly into the song’s unmistakable opening notes. At its conclusion, the audience roared with approval. While no microphones were positioned to fully capture the intensity of their reaction, their enthusiasm and calls for more can be easily heard through Jimi and Noel’s stage microphones.

The Experience’s performance at Woburn Music Festival would mark the trio’s last performance in England until the two celebrated concerts in February 1969 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Technical Note:
Like many of the live releases issued as part of the Dagger Records series, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At Woburn was not professionally recorded using multi-track technology. It was instead drawn from a recording made from the stage soundboard.

As a result, the recording is not without its share of flaws and technical limitations. The recording is raw and occasionally overdriven but it effectively presents all of the voices and instruments onstage. In addition to the aforementioned late start on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the ending of “Tax Free” was lost when the tape ran out. Fortunately, the tape spool was rethreaded and recording resumed for the start of “Red House”. It is entirely possible that another song was performed and not recorded but there is no firm evidence to definitively confirm this either way.

As noted, the buzzing, crackling and static not otherwise emanating from Jimi and Noel’s battered amplifiers are part of this historical document. Its flaws notwithstanding, this recording represents the only known documentation of this significant performance. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At Woburn, despite its technical imperfections, supplies yet another fascinating piece to the Hendrix puzzle. Enjoy!

TRACK LISTINGS:

1. Introduction (1:07)
2. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1:11)
3. Fire (4:19)
4. Tax Free (10:11)
5. Red House (11:30)
6. Foxey Lady (4:55)
7. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (6:38)
8. Purple Haze (8:10)

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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

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!

NEW JIMI HENDRIX SESSIONS BOOK: The Ultimate Hendrix: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Live Concerts and Sessions

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix packed so much into so few years, leaping forward musically with each innovation. Hendrix expert, John McDermott, chronicles each of Jimi’s revolutionary recording sessions, enlisting the help of Hendrix’s friend and bandmate Billy Cox and sound engineer and photographer, Eddie Kramer. This beautifully designed, illustrated volume will also include vivid new descriptions of every single live Hendrix concert from 1963 to 1970.

John McDermott is the author of three books on Jimi Hendrix, including Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight, now in its 15th printing. Together with Janie Hendrix and Eddie Hendrix, McDermott has coproduced every Jimi Hendrix CD and DVD release. Bassist Billy Cox met Jimi Hendrix in the army in 1961. Leaving the military around the same time, they formed the R and B group, the King Kasuals, which toured all over the south. They were reunited in 1969 after the break-up of the Jimi Hendrix Experience; Cox played with hendrix at Woodstock and at the live appearances and recordings up until Jimi’s death in 1970, including the classic Band of Gypsys. Legendary producer and engineer Eddie Kramer engineered every Jimi Hendrix album from Are You Experienced to Cry of Love. Hendrix hired Kramer to build his private studio, Electric Lady Studios. In recent years, Kramer has coauthored Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight with John McDermott and filmed the BBC documentary The Making of Electric Ladyland.

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JIMI HENDRIX ELECTRIC LADYLAND [DELUXE CD + DVD COLLECTOR'S EDITION]

Special 40th Anniversary, limited edition CD + DVD Collector’s Edition

At Last … The Beginning: The Making Of Electric Ladyland documents the creation of Hendrixís groundbreaking 1968 double album and presents some of Jimiís closest associatesí remembrances of the album, its development and lasting influence.

Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding, drummer Mitch Mitchell, and co-manager Chas Chandler detailed their contributions while engineer Eddie Kramer reexamined the many multi-track tapes created during the sessions for Electric Ladyland. Help from Jimiís ëfriends and passengersí came by way of new interviews with Experience Tour Manager Gerry Stickells, musicians Buddy Miles, Jack Casady, Dave Mason, Steve Winwood, Mike Finnigan, Velvert Turner, arranger Larry Fallon, Scene Club Manager Jim Marron, Miami Pop Festival [and later Woodstock] promoter Michael Lang, Experience roadie Neville Chesters, Track Records Co-Founder Chris Stamp. Record Plant Co-Owner Chris Stone, photographer David Montgomery and Trixie Sullivan, a key member of Michael Jeffreyís management staff.

At Last … The Beginning: The Making Of Electric Ladyland also provides a wealth of archival footage and photographs. Noel Redding contributed some of his fascinating 8mm film footage of The Experience to the production, providing some unique insights to the fast and furious life of The Experience as they balanced extensive recording and touring schedules throughout this period.

This newly edited and expanded documentary features almost 40 minutes of additional content not seen in the original feature.

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