Woodstock 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition

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On Blu-ray and DVD June 9 from Warner Home Video.

Three hours of enhanced content includes two hours of
bonus performances, some unearthed after four decades,
with five groups who performed but never appeared in the film

Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music the four-hour directors 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 Collectors 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 Ive received, many from young people, its 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; thats 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 concerts 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 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, WHVs 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 weve 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.

Category:

Music

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• Woodstock
• 1969
• 40th
• Anniversary
• Ultimate
• Collector's
• blue
• ray
• movie
• dvd
• warners
• michael
• wadleigh

[ISB]

More footage of Canned Heat? Way cool.

[FenderTwinLover]

this collection is worth the wait! Still no sweetwater footage! but hey the creedence footage and canned heat are great! It just gets better and better happy 40th! Giving you a little of what we call rock and soul music!............

[sotabhasjkdbhb]

You can get the audio-mp3 of this clip at getyourmp3s doht cohm.

[epimetero]

no she didn't

[epimetero]

just got it...just LOVE IT, an EXPERIENCE!

[laxrulez7]

shes in it though

[bamdude3]

there was 3 whole days of music. i wonder how many artists werent even filmed

[PhilipSkovgaard]

Oh! I'm gonna enjoy this! Thank for the info. I just watched your Canned Heat Montreux-concert! Great stuff! Thank you for the upload!

[ISB]

Hi Philip - I wrote that 2 months ago; in the meantime - got it!!! CH material is priceless; complete performances of "I'm her man" and "On the road again" (this version is over 10 minutes long!), and in bonus section we get "Woodstock boogie", sadly edited, without bass or drums solos, so it's about 8 minutes long, instead of 28 minutes - you can hear the complete version on the bewly released audio box set.

[PhilipSkovgaard]

About time it showed up! Been waiting for that footage for years!

[BustaLip]

Where is Barbara Streisand? I thought she duetted with Country Joe at one point?

[14marshl]

shes there they menchened her name