Woodstock: The Director's Cut

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Woodstock, 1970.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Woodstock: The Director’s Cut, 1970.

Ben Mankiewicz Intro — Woodstock: The Director’s Cut (1970)

Guest host Alec Baldwin introduces Woodstock, 1970.

From Woodstock, 1970, more preliminaries, the first appearance by Janis Joplin and the second by Jerry Garcia, and the beginning of Richie Havens’ Handsome Johnny, part of his galvanizing three-hour performance often cited for rescuing the festival while other musicians arrived.

Nearly dawn on the second night of the festival in August, 1969, The Who (Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Keith Moon) with their concert standard, Eddie Cochran’s Summertime Blues, from the documentary Woodstock, 1970.

Most people had left the festival (about 20,000 of 500,000 remained) when Jimi Hendrix and his band finally took the stage, on Monday morning, for what became one of the best-known performances, his improvised Star Spangled Banner, from Woodstock, 1970.

Early events, setting up outside Bethel, NY, in August, 1969, lead producer Michael Lang, age 28, interviewed by a news crew, with a recording of Canned Heat’s performance of Going Up The Country, derived from a Henry Thomas recording, from the documentary Woodstock, 1970.