Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut (Deluxe Ulimate Collector's Edition with Exclusive Never-Before-Seen Bonus Performance Footage by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and Canned Heat, Plus 4 Additional Featurettes) [Blu-ray]

I mean it's Woodstock !!It's a must have for any music enthusiasm !! So glad somebody had enough thought to document this once in a lifetime event. So many good artist and has a good amount of random footage also..Things you'd normally only hear about, but you get to see it !!Very nostalgic vibe ✌️

This was purchased as a gift for my husband. He was totally thrilled with the gift

The WOODSTOCK: 3 DAYS OF PEACE & MUSIC DIRECTOR'S CUT (40TH ANNIVERSARY) DVD SET is worth buying even if you already have the older DVD Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut).I think the transfer looks sharper and less grainy than the previous DVD release and this time the concert is split onto two DVDs instead of the double-sided one like before. The film looks really good and the only thing that gives away the fact that it wasn't filmed yesterday is the color palette.The DVD set comes in a collector's box with faux leather-suede fringe and an iron on "Woodstock" patch that you peel off the box. The DVDs are housed in 3 cardboard sleeves that are laminated on the sides that come in contact with the DVDs. I read that one reviewer found all of the DVDs were scratched on the playable sides, but luckily mine were fine.WOODSTOCK was a three-day concert featuring some of the hottest rock bands of that era (some that would become legendary from that concert) that took place in 1969 on a farm in Bethel, NY. It drew an estimated crowd of over 400,000 people of all races, ages, and classes. Even though so many things went wrong like not having enough food or water, or even proper bathroom or lodgings for the crowd, it was a peaceful event. Woodstock showed the world that music and people (mostly young) could come together and be with each other in peace, harmony and love, and really look out for one another.The film not only documents this happening beautifully, but it puts the viewer right in the middle of the action not only on stage but in the crowd, too. Truly worth seeing to know what the hype was all about.*** DVDs 1 & 2 *** This is the movie ***These two DVDs contain the director's cut of the documentary and a special featurette taking viewers on a tour of the Woodstock museum at Bethel Woods dedicated to preserving the Woodstock experience.*** DVD 3 *** This is the EXTRAS DVD ***==== 02:27:00 (hour:minute:second) with "play all" or "scene selection"Additional performances not seen in the film. The Grateful Dead must have been blitzed 'cause they jam for like 40-minutes on one song! I read about their legendary performances--where they go on for hours--but this time I got to witness it! There's also great additional footage of people arriving for the concert, the closing end of the festival, and a commercial for the art and music fair during this segment.==== 01:16:52 (h:m:s) again with "p/a" or "s/s" [22-featurettes in all]This segment chronicles the making of the festival from concert to movie with interviews done in the present with people like director Michael Wadleigh and associate producer Dale Bell. Also included are some musicians, behind the scenes people, Martin Scorsese who was an assistant director/editor at the time, and the executive producer Michael Lang who was featured in the movie riding his motor bike to and fro, trying to get things off the ground.I really enjoyed these featurettes because they give you an inside view on all of the obstacles that went on behind the scenes of this fabled concert and how it all came together in the eleventh hour. The last segment is an excerpt from Playboy's show "After Dark" where Hugh Hefner interviews Wadleigh on that show. Hefner introduces the segment.*** DVD 3 *** This is the AMAZON BONUS DVD ***==== 00:10:17 (h:m:s)More never before seen performances though it only runs a paltry 10-minutes.==== 00:10:58Three more featurettes dealing with behind the scenes stuff, but again just shy of 11-minutes. I want more!*** MISC *** STUFF (stuff that I thought deserve a mention)ENVELOPE== stuffed with replica "3-Day Ticket" and fact sheet; plus replicas of handwritten signs left by concert goers who got separated from their parties (remember no cell phones back then!).LIFE MAGAZINE== miniature reproduction of the special edition of Life magazine of Woodstock. Cool mini-mag with pictures in color and b&w and article about the concert, etc.I'm glad I bought this set even though I had the DVD from 1994. I'll just sell that one. It's totally worth it for 60s fans, those who were there or who have parents or relatives who were there, or for any classic rock fan or fan of counter-culture.BTW, those who are looking for the footage that showed Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman getting booted off the stage during the Who's set, it isn't on here, but there is additional performances by the Who (We're Not Gonna Take It and My Generation).

Barring the emergence of some unknown auteur who was able to organize the filming of every moment of the experience from a hundred different angles, then brilliantly organize the result into a never boring thirty hour film, this is probably the best we are going to get by way of a visualization of the event which has reached mythic dimensions, The Woodstock Myth. With brevity, it is the story of how young people from all over the country came together for three days, peaceably assembled , existing as a self-sufficient commune, practicing the ways of the new counter-culture, together with like-minded and supportive musicians, to show the world that The Good, The True and The Beautiful could be made actual even in the brutal, repressive, exploitative world to which the counterculture was a challenge. Much supportive evidence is manifest in the photographed behavior and interviews with participants, as well residents, of nearby Woodstock and environs.I would venture another interpretation that would, I believe, provide a more solid cognitive foundation for understanding what went on in these three days (in addition to much fine music, not including the efforts of a Woodstock resident who fled his home in the area to avoid the event (Bob Dylan). What I see in this film, suggested not clearly and forcefully exposed, is a large group of mostly middle class young people coming together to do their thing while wrapped in a cocoon of army, law-enforcement agencies, local and area "civilians" and a whole panoply of efforts by the "older folk", despite not understanding that "the times they are a-changing". What do I mean....briefly:All normal laws applicable to their drug possession and use were suspended, all local ordinances regarding public behavior and dress and health facilities were suspended, major life saving medical assistance was provided by the military and other branches of government, public officials and charitable local citizens provided most of the food which they ate, property laws later enforced rigorously at Rock Festivals (a price for admission, respect for the property of the surrounding area and of the promoters) were suspended, including, at an anticipated heavy financial loss to promoters, allowing non-paying individuals to tear down the peripheral fences so as to attend free of charge, when others had purchased tickets. Traffic direction on a very expensive scale and many other routines of life were carried on at no financial cost or burden to participants. Finally, but sufficient unto this report, there are the pictures and interviews suggesting (though inadequate to do more than create a hypothesis for further testing) that Daddy and Mommy stood ready, whatever the circumstances in which their "kids" found themselves, once more to embrace them and support them financially and, perhaps emotionally, to whatever extent needed.Further research, if possible, would show the later cost to life and limb, and human happiness, of the kind of behavior to which they were allowed full rein at Woodstock. Of those performing, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix are shocking examples of the cost of the road once taken, performers paid an enormous personal price of which we are probably not fully aware. For the audience, anecdotal evidence exists in what one knows personally about some participants; the full cost in physical, mental and social terms, will probably never be known.On the other hand, the social interaction, the sex, the drugs, the contagion of crowd impulses, and the music with often charismatic performers, certainly provided many with some relief from the desperate fear of the men, generated by the risk they faced of having to engage in the dreadful experience of military conflict, relief also was provided both male and female, to the angst of youth and the knowledge they possessed that, despite the enormous wealth with which they were surrounded, social inequities and dehumanization occurring throughout the world.Certainly, this documentary can be recommended highly despite the brief sampling from each of the musician's sets.Just how one may interpret the myth so eagerly propagated by participants as manifest in the film, is a matter for each viewer to judge. There will be many, of course, who seek only to hear the music; there is plenty of that although not as much as one would like.

Excellent sound and video quality, but it left out some scenes that I remember from the Original film and added a few new ones. Well worth the money though.

Très bien merci

Llego un día antes de la fecha indicada y todo en orden!

Parfait!

期待したとうりの内容で、満足しています。音質的にも、臨場感あふれるものですばらしいです。自分のライブラリーに貴重な一枚を加えることが出来ました。今までのものは全てLPレコードで持っていましたので、これからはCDでも十分フィーリングが楽しめることがわかりました。

I was impressed when I saw this film so many years ago in a small venue, 16 mm projection and well, the music still remains, just sit back, see it, feel it, listen to the music....Cuando he visto la pelicula por primera vez (en 16mm en una sala muy pequeña del centro para la juventud :D) hace muchos años me ha impresionado mucho, y todavia queda muy bien, y sin duda ha dejado una huella muy importante sobre la musica despuès... ¡relajate, mirala y disfruta !