I have never seen Woodstock?

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that idiot with the paper bag over his head and watermelon in arm, racing and sliding through the mud toward some figmentary end zone he probably hallucinate!

hahahaha!

Amon (eman), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Only the wretched John Sebastian was more insufferable than Joan Baez.

haha, I kept thinking "what a square" while he was singing. And did he really forget that one lyric, or was he fishing for audience participation?

Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

you fugkncukles are forgetting when all the hippies trip out when they see abunch of freddie-mercury wanna-bes before freddie mercury come out and sing Duke of Earl.

queen gimme sommathatbrownacidnow!, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

The image burned into my .. CRAW, I guess ... is that woman in the audience with the sunglasses who mouths "Wow. Wow, that's great" .. I think during the Hendix part. I'm not sure, because it's been spliced into so many documentaries over the years that I forget who she's actually grooving about.

diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll throw my support of the port-o-san guy behind the pack. It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't there also a scene of some locals talking about how it's just a bunch of kids having fun and it's great that there can be a peaceful gathering that large? I seem to remember that being a great contrast to the grumbly types who bitched about hippies.

mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

from the imdb trivia page:

The film makers and distributor were sued by the man who was interviewed while cleaning the Port-O-San portable latrines, on the grounds of mental anguish, embarrassment, public ridicule, and invasion of privacy. An appellate court opinion in this lawsuit may be read at Taggart v. Wadleigh-Maurice, Ltd., 489 F.2d 434 (3d Cir. 1973).

a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

had to sit through it again tuesday night for class. its a great film, however i alternate between loving and hating scorsese's editing.

btw, here's some background info on the whole event:

http://www.woodstock69.com/wsrprnt1.htm

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

i reeally liked joan baez here

anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I would probably enjoy the Ten Years After part a lot better had it been about 8 times shorter. But for about a minute, it's pretty effing cool watching Alvin Lee's pre-"Heartbreaker" blues shredding.

I also think that Arlo Guthrie song is great, but it's just upsetting that they couldn't show the actual performance of it for whatever reason. (And on the soundtrack, that version wasn't even recorded at Woodstock.)

The worst performance in the whole movie is definitely Country Joe & The Fish performing whatever the hell they're trying to do.. It's labelled as "Rock And Soul Music" on the soundtrack.

billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 3 June 2005 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I would rather watch MTV's Woodstock '94 footage

I've got the entire weekend's PPV broadcast on VHS if you'd like...

Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Friday, 3 June 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

mental anguish, embarrassment, public ridicule, and invasion of privacy.

people actually harrassed this guy for being in that film? ;-(

Amon (eman), Friday, 3 June 2005 04:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Sha Na Na!!!

Not that they're a classic band or anything - far from it - but their gold-lame schtick is almost a relief, placed in the middle of all this peace 'n' love.

Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 3 June 2005 06:15 (eighteen years ago) link

WAVY GRAVY PWNED

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 June 2005 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

the woodstock dvd screws up the split screens (when only one section is on it makes it fill the screen)

So, on the off chance that someone has bought the latest version. Does it still do this?

Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link

when Sha Na Na come on its like punks somehow happened years too early; it's a total disconnect from everything else there. love them. it's a great movie, despite the baez.

Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

I watched the American Experience Woodstock episode last night (which I didn't realize was American Experience-connected until it started). Worth seeing, even if you've seen the film more than once. The musical clips are comparatively minimal; it's about the four guys who engineered the show, the logistics, etc. The two highlights for me were both courtesy old people: when, after the food ran out, the local citizens of Bethel started gathering and hauling food over to the site (that's in the film, I think, but only briefly), and when Max Yasgur--whose farm has just been pretty much destroyed--addresses the crowd warmly and supportively.

clemenza, Saturday, 11 January 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link


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