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Woodstock Box Set Packed With Unreleased Dead, Who Tracks

6/5/09, 2:17 pm EST

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty

While festivities celebrating Woodstock’s 40th anniversary are still being hammered out, there’s no shortage of special releases coming out to recognize the event. In addition to the reissued doc Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Rock Daily reported on earlier today, Rhino will release the six-CD Woodstock – 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur’s Farm box set, stocked with previously unreleased performances from the famed 1969 festival, on August 18th. The 77-song package reconstructs the festival’s 33 sets chronologically, starting with Richie Havens’ opening performance through Jimi Hendrix’s legendary Woodstock set, with selections from the Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, CSN&Y, Jefferson Airplane and many more filling out the six discs.

The set also includes some of the famous non-music moments from the festival, including the infamous “Brown Acid” warning and Abbie Hoffman’s onstage encounter with the Who’s Pete Townshend. In compiling the box set, producer Andy Zax went through tapes of each performance, selecting the best material from each of the 33 sets at Woodstock. “The way we approached all of the material was as if it was a cinéma verité documentary — the raw record of the event,” Zax said in a press release. Among the unreleased goodies finally unearthed is the Who’s full performance of “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” the Grateful Dead’s entire “Dark Star” and classic cuts from Mountain and Jefferson Airplane’s sets. Get the full track list here:

WOODSTOCK – 40 YEARS ON: BACK TO YASGUR’S FARM
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 Cocker
2. “Let’s Go Get Stoned” – Joe Cocker
3. “With A Little Help From My Friends” – Joe Cocker
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


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Arlington, VA | 6/5/2009, 2:42 pm EST

Any what of the new video being released that has not been released? And was was added to the directors cut that was not in the original film?

lee cadaver | 6/5/2009, 8:54 pm EST

this reeks of commercial exploitation

Jay | 6/5/2009, 10:17 pm EST

No Alvin Lee and Ten Years After?

What’s up with that?

omg i was thinking that too... | 6/5/2009, 10:53 pm EST

i was thinking just the same, what an embarrassing box set if theres no TEN YEARS AFTER. have they heard the song “I’m Going Home” from the woodstock doc? its a freakin’ classic!

kcv | 6/6/2009, 4:48 am EST

ten years after wouldn’t give clearance for the boxset, which seems stupid…i read that on billboard.com.

10 Years After | 6/6/2009, 6:15 am EST

Have to be on the recording !!!
No Alvin Lee, no buy……

10 Years After | 6/6/2009, 6:15 am EST

Have to be on the recording !!!
No Alvin Lee, no buy……

deano | 6/6/2009, 9:13 am EST

Look at that unadorned stage in the photo. A glimpse of a raw, unadorned rock show before Live Nation took over and starting hanging banners from corporate sponsors all over the place and charging $10 for a bottle of water. I honestly can’t wait to hear some of this new stuff.

Jim | 6/6/2009, 10:20 am EST

Oh wow, I didn’t notice the absence of Ten Years After. How pathetic. It was one of the true highlights of the entire show. Sad, and a serious deterrent for me while considering the purchase

rh | 6/6/2009, 4:37 pm EST

only hendrix could upstage alvin lee

Volfie | 6/6/2009, 6:57 pm EST

Cheers to the Mountain and CCR tracks, JEERS to no Ten Years After!

Andrew | 6/6/2009, 7:00 pm EST

What about the set from “The Band” I read that their then manager(Albert Grossman) tried to play hardball for some extra cash when the documentary, and album was to come out. The producers were so unhappy that the performance has never seen the light of day. Pity, after all this time…

ognir | 6/7/2009, 9:49 am EST

dont really care to here sha nananana again

Neal | 6/8/2009, 12:41 am EST

SELL SELL SELL.

haaaaaa. hell with that.

Alvin Lee’s performance at Woodstock has such an infulence on me it’s ridiculous. SICK!!!

F these commercial D bags.

Guy | 6/8/2009, 8:28 am EST

It’s unfortunately true that Ten Years After and The Band would not permit their recordings to be on the set.

Drew | 6/8/2009, 8:36 am EST

How nice. The people releasing this are marketing it on the basis of it including a selection from what the members of the Dead all thought was one of the worst performances they ever gave. The exclusion of Ten Years After, as everyone else has said, is inexcusable. No thanks.

No deal | 6/8/2009, 6:14 pm EST

No limp bisquit? They rocked until that little fire. They shouldn’t be left off just because of all that, they were onstage and it was not their fault!

kayo | 6/8/2009, 7:41 pm EST

I was there and TYAfter stole the show

kayo | 6/8/2009, 7:41 pm EST

I was there and TYAfter stole the show

Snake | 6/8/2009, 7:43 pm EST

Can’t believe it’s been 40 years. Can’t wait to buy it.

Ken O | 6/8/2009, 7:44 pm EST

Photo had to be taken Friday afternoon before Havens and Freedom

Ken O | 6/8/2009, 7:44 pm EST

Photo had to be taken Friday afternoon before Havens and Freedom

Ken O | 6/8/2009, 7:45 pm EST

Photo had to be taken Friday afternoon before Havens and Freedom

Ken O | 6/8/2009, 7:45 pm EST

Photo had to be taken Friday afternoon before Havens and Freedom

Snake | 6/8/2009, 7:46 pm EST

Photo taken Friday before havens sang

Snake | 6/8/2009, 7:46 pm EST

Photo taken Friday before havens sang

Connecticut group | 6/8/2009, 7:47 pm EST

We’re all going back to Woodstock in August

Connecticut group | 6/8/2009, 7:47 pm EST

We’re all going back to Woodstock in August

Everybody USA | 6/8/2009, 7:51 pm EST

Make the trip in August cuz you might not be alive in Sept

Everybody USA | 6/8/2009, 7:51 pm EST

Make the trip in August cuz you might not be alive in Sept

Seeing double | 6/8/2009, 9:31 pm EST

I am not going

basser | 6/9/2009, 12:27 am EST

That’s strange about The Band not permitting their set to be used. I saw video footage on a documentary about 15 years ago on TV and thought the camera work and their sound was pretty good. Ironically, The Who’s Roger Daltrey said Woodstock was the “worst gig” they ever did.

MB | 6/9/2009, 11:06 am EST

I heard that Daltry said that too but in my opinion I think the Who were the greatest act at Woodstock

coldbeer-coldbeer | 6/9/2009, 11:40 am EST

Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson hate each other’s guts so it’s not a surprise they couldn’t agree on anything.

No Alvin Lee and TYA? What, wasn’t the deal good enough?

I hope this isn’t just one more ploy to make some quick cash by playing on baby boomer nostalgia for their youth.

hal 2000 | 6/9/2009, 2:49 pm EST

at least 50% of the fascination with the beatles was they were not accessible. we would get a glimpse now an then. they were and are a living legend – like tiger woods. by 1967 rolling stone began to offer a different glimpse. i bought a lot of rolling stone back then. not now. but i believe this is product . historical. lame is still historical. i’ll sell the farm for this stuff.

matt mckay | 7/1/2009, 12:02 am EST

Well I’m guessing this thing is going to be SO massive when you’re listening to it that you might be able to enjoy it without The Band, but I’m not sure about no TYA though. I was really looking forward to hearing a remastered 11 minute “I’m Going Home” complete and unedited like on the 25th Anniversary set. You know what’s also going to reek? If they decide to cut “I Want To Take You Higher” again like the 25th set did!

janice | 7/10/2009, 8:02 am EST

the isle of wight Moody blues dvd is great! i look forward to getting this woodstock one soon!

Flower Power | 8/7/2009, 5:18 pm EST

There’s nothing new in the 40th Anniversary Directors Cut from the original Directors Cut except that the intermission is at the end of the first DVD after TYA plays. In the original, CSN’s set just stopped and that was the end of the first DVD. You put in the second DVD, TYA played, and up popped the intermission. Other than this, I can’t say if the 40th Anniversary has better picture or sound. Haven’t seen the Blu-Ray…

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