Disc #1 -- Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music - The Director's Cut 1. Spontaneous Combustion [:37] 2. Too Big for the World [:54] 3. Crosby, Stills & Nash: Long Time Gone [4:17] 4. If It Works.... [:52] 5. Canned Heat: Going up the Country [3:18] 6. Crosby, Still & Nash: Wooden Ships [3:23] 7. The Invasion of Sullivan County [5:46] 8. Out of the Skies [2:41] 9. Acid Alert and Other Announcements [1:46] 10. Ritchie Havens: Handsome Johnny [5:30] 11. Richie Havens: Freedom [6:01] 12. Free From Now On [5:02] 13. Canned Heat: A Change Is Gonna Come [7:48] 14. Joan Baez: Joe Hill [4:37] 15. Joan Baez: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot [2:33] 16. The Who: We're Not Gonna Take It (From Tommy) [6:00] 17. The Who: Summertimes Blues [5:46] 18. In Search Of [5:24] 19. In the Spirit [1:00] 20. Sha Na Na: At the Hop [2:13] 21. Getting High on Yoga [2:51] 22. Joe Cocker & The Grease Band: With a Little Help From My Friends [8:29] 23. Downpour [6:55] 24. Rain Chant [3:46] 25. What It's All About [3:33] 26. Country Joe & The Fish: Rock and Soul Music [2:05] 27. Arlo Guthrie: Coming Into Los Angeles [3:54] 28. Crosby, Stills & Nash: Suite - Judy Blue Eyes [9:02] 29. Ten Years After: I'm Going Home [11:11] 30. Inter...Mission [:59]
Disc #2 -- Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music - The Director's Cut 31. Jefferson Airplane: Won't You Try [5:55] 32. Scenes From a Disaster Area [5:42] 33. Emotional Colors [1:52] 34. Jefferson Airplane: Uncle Sam's Blues [4:37] 35. John Sebastian: Younger Generation [5:48] 36. Country Joe McDonald: I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag [3:18] 37. Coping With the Mess [4:15] 38. The Bodies Beautiful [3:28] 39. Santana: Soul Sacrifice [9:36] 40. Sly and the Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher [10:21] 41. Janis Joplin: Work Me, Lord [6:48] 42. Mess Call [3:18] 43. The Port-o-San Man [3:06] 44. Max Yasgur's Benediction [2:06] 45. Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child [4:08] 46. Jimi Hendrix: The Star-Spangled Banner [4:34] 47. Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze [1:11] 48. Picking up and Going Homr [9:46] 49. End Credits (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Woodstock) [4:43] 50. Coda (Crosby, Stills & Nash: Cost of Freedom) [:53]
This musical documentary covers the three-day 1969 music festival on the property of Max Yasger's farm that symbolized the late 1960s in terms of musical, social and political ideology of the era. American audiences are introduced to Ten Years After, featuring guitar great Alvin Lee. Jimi Hendix, The Who and Joe Cocker give riveting performances. As naked flower children romp, the New York freeway is closed because of traffic congestion. Music lovers leave their cars and travel on foot only survive torrential downpours of rain, food shortages and non-stop music. Jefferson Airplane gives the wake up call with their song "Volunteers Of America." Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young give an uneven live performance, their second ever. John Sebastian gives an impromptu set with a borrowed guitar from Tim Hardin. Santana, Sly and The Family Stone, Sha-Na-Na, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens and Joan Baez also appear. The movie did big box office business and a successful three record set sold millions of copies. The Grateful Dead, Credence Clearwater Revival and Janis Joplin performed but were not shown in the film. The Dead's Jerry Garcia recalled that it was the worse live show the band ever did, ironic for a band known for their spirited live performances. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Editorial Reviews: Woodstock set the standard for all rockumentaries to come. Sensing that the now-legendary 1969 Woodstock concert would be something more than a mere "happening", director Michael Wadleigh brought along a battalion of cinematographers and assistants. As a result, what could have been an aloof, detached record of the landmark concert is as "up close and personal" as it was possible to get without actually being there. Utilizing widescreen, splitscreen, and stereo-sound technology to the utmost, Wadleigh puts us right in the middle of the 400,000 screaming, mud-caked spectators, then zooms in to loving closeups of the stars. Edited by Martin Scorsese (among many others), the finished product won the 1970 Oscar for Best Documentary -- and was also stamped with an "R" rating due to some innocuous (by modern standards) nudity and profanity. The talent lineup includes Canned Heat, Richie Havens, Country Joe and the Fish, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, David Crosby and Stephen Stills, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, John Sebastian, Sly and the Family Stone, Ten Years After and Sha Na Na. The original 184 minute running time was expanded to 224 minutes for the 1994 video version, featuring previously excised footage of Janis Joplin. One of the best shots in Woodstock has no music at all: the final image, as a group of dour policemen survey the garbage and debris left behind by the Woodstock Naton. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide