The Woodstock tapes, revealed
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- A new CD box set, "Woodstock 50: Back to the Garden," captures virtually every minute of audio from the 1969 music festival, from the performers to P.A. announcements and audience interactions. In an exclusive visit to the Warner Music Vault in Los Angeles, "Sunday Morning" producer Sara Kugel talked with music producer Andy Zax and audio engineer Brian Kehew about canvassing the archive's rare holdings to create a 36-hour magnum opus chronicling an unparalleled event in music history: "Woodstock 50: Back to the Garden."
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I hope Warner takes better care of their tape vault than Universal did! 😡😡😡 Sooo many masters lost forever!
fw1421
Pff. Warner Bros. is as bad as Universal. MGM couldn’t take care of their content. Wanna know what happened? A fire.
@@King_Colombia_Inc If a fire hadn't destroyed what it did, neglect would have done so just a few years later.
The problem is that the business is run by accountants. There is no 'money' in making a mirror digital copy of your archive to be stored at another site. The management has no imagination and can't conceive of the idea of posterity. Once the music is out of copyright then it's not very valuable to them any longer.
Was a cover up to get rid of their blue tapes i bet
That's where people were taking acid now their taking antacid. Lol
Good one
and yelling at those millennials to get off their lawn
They NEED to release ALL of the video, ESPECIALLY Janis Joplin's performance.I've seen a bootleg and it's mindblowing & haunting. RIP Janis, Oct.9th,1970 :-(
Vampirebear13, Rest in Peace...Janis( Pearl) I loved her,Earth is sending Love up.
Yes the audio is good at the video would be way better. I think the camera guys missed some of it because they were baked and they couldn't hear the end of the film flopping
Vampirebear13 well haunting yeah
@Duke Sweden I doubt they were at their best filming capacity they probably ate the brown acid
Janis performance at Woodstock was the most incredible performance ever and they need to release every peep that that woman made.. !
God, this is Fort Knox of Music Jewelry..!
And not one bloody word about about the man who recorded every second of it, every track on every reel... EDDIE KRAMER. Seriously messed up.
Yeah I still say the same thing 4 years later, lol...
This is wonderful. I was at Woodstock. A 15 year old at the time; life changing summer. Thank you.
In 50 more years it will be 100 years since Woodstock. People will want to know all about it.
More importantly. Where can i buy this compilation/collection?
Anywhere that sells music, like Amazon.
It'll probably wind up here on YT.
Yeah a 36 hour YT video
@@itaintmebabe714 I'm sure it would be divided up into several parts.
We thought you’d never axe!
But wait, there’s more!!
Order before midnight tonight and we’ll include a bottle of patchouli!!!
FOREVER WOODSTOCK ...these times will never come again!!! No fights no drama .. just Music Peace and Love ! I wanna cry my eyes out to think that it's been 50 years !
Pia Salvato threading together the pacifists of the earth. 3 days of purity. Let it all guide you further✌️❤️
Amen
hippies trashing that poor guys farm what an epic mess left for someone else to clean up
@@oldstuffnow1 kinda like lib's today..somebody else will take responsibility
@@youcancallmeZimmy Why is it always the Liberals to you guys? Wow! Didn't take that long for some Joe schmoe ignorant to come up with a Liberal Democrat bashing.
Just send me all the Jefferson Airplane tapes. I will take very good care of them.
I'm sorry but this material belongs in a museum, I hate private collections and this belongs to everyone
@@criticalhard Was kidding
Thank God Universal Music Group wasn’t taking care of the masters or they would have been burned up.
My immediate reaction as well. I hope UMG are sued back to the stone age for that.
@@del7538 Sadly they won't. The label usually owns the tape.
Possibly not, though I gather Steely Dan's representatives were straight on the phone the day after....and the Dan are famously litigious....
The Most well known Festival in Musical History . Yet it couldn't secure Financing for its 50th Anniversary . A real shame .
Maybe that's a good thing. Why attempt something like that during a time where mass shootings are commonplace?
Probably a good thing because in our sad and violent times, there probably would be a mass shooting at the 50th anniv. festival!
I know it's really sickening how they just blew it all. I would have loved a concert of JUST the original Woodstock artists that are still alive. They could have called it Oldstock, but beautiful still...
They did secure financing for Woodstock 50. It was issues with possible venues in NY state that sunk the concert----no one really wanted the show in their town and there were internal disagreements over how many people could be accommodated.
This looks like a great Woodstock box set.
I am amazed how well they recorded that concert considering it was hastily done in a field on a farm.
It took over a year to organise the whole event.
@@stefangray5795 the venue changed 4 times and when they finally got cleared for one , they only had less than 30 days to get ready.
If you haven't heard Bert Sommer's performance, look it up on TH-cam. It is fascinating.
Just finished the book walking in babylon. No mention of it. Checked him up the last few days. Amazing.
Just found out about him very recently, too. His set is my favorite by far. Beautiful voice. A shame he was cut out of the film.
Good thing they weren't in Universal's vault that recently burnt to the ground~
It burned like 11 years ago, but we're JUST NOW finding that Universal basically covered it up and didn't tell the public that the loss to history is catastrophic.
Can you get Cal Jam 1 and 2?
Cal Jam 1, to my knowledge, was never professionally recorded on tapes for an official record release of the event, instead, it was broadcasted by ABC Television and on some radio stations!
Guess we FINALLY get the whole Abbey Hoffman incident on the set!
I want to see video of it.
@rob yohn ; He came out when The Who took the stage to make a political comment. Pete Townsend didn't like him coming out, so, he either hit Hoffman with his guitar or speared him with the head of it. I heard it both ways, that's why I'd like to see video of it.
@@billbeliakoff5589 lol. Me too. I laughed when I'd read about that.
wow, i made my bones on a 3m m79, and two scully's. quad eight console. eddie kramer was a god too...
I loved me a big ol’ Scully. Wonderful piece of equipment and easy to operate. Never lost a fingertip while editing tape, either
Sounds great! Nothing like that Analog quality ;)
White noise is awesome
@@coolhandchris5960 quack lol!
@@Bricklinsv1970 Oh you got me haha
Today I listened to the Melanie, Santana and Richie Havens from the HD versions...imitial impressions was that the original tapes may have not aged that well. Quite bandwidth limited and low DR. These are grainy old snapshots of history but their legacy is more important than their fidelity.
Beer Hound's Beer Reviews! Yeah because analog is always better than digital right as long as you are doing the buying and biasing sure
I wonder how many of those attending and performing.....are no longer on this earth....Long time passing
I recently thought about this exact question. Figure most of the attendees were in their early 20s at the time so they are now in their early 70s. Average life expectancy is mid 70s or later, so I'm guessing maybe 30-35% of the attendees are now deceased?
Robert Turak maybe they lived longer having not gone to Vietnam 😢
how many died of old age instead of drugs or suicide?
LOL they got the tapes from woodstock but lost the Telemetry data for the NASA Moon landing, those tapes they lost lol.
Nasa nowadays is ridiculous, shameful and pathetic, imagine ot taking proper care of something so historically important
Hi random person scrolling through the comments I just want to let you know that you are beautiful and hope you have a great day/night❤️
Aloha
Life is beautiful and bittersweet and short. I choose love whenever I can. ❤
Brian Q good for you 😊
@@susanjon8119 i was at island come on i wannna lay you before
@@lukefenderrhodes listen just because I'm from the islands doesn't mean I live in a grass hut dancing hula by the sea all day and night 😘 hugs and kisses to you and your family Aloha PS Wish you were here
I think all those songs could make a few CDs as is n it will sell. If you could some how make it into a movie day 1,2, n 3. So much the better it does not matter about quality just the way it is
for years I have dreamed of putting out a 'call' to get as much personal 8MM film together and attempt to re-create Woodstock. This is a beautiful work. Wish I could afford it.
I'm one of 1,969 who purchased the definitive deluxe boxset. I posted a unboxing video last month. It's amazing to listen to the whole thing. It's like going back in time. I was 4 when Woodstock '69 took place in Bethel NY. We almost went.
Got my 38 Disk complete Woodstock recordings today, thanks to you :)
I heard that this storage burned down.
Thank god he got these recordings !!!!!!! 🙏🙏🙏
😎🎸🎶✌️
It didn't burn. That was the Universal Music Group's (UMG) collection.
First of all, he did it so get it if you can afford it. Price unknown right now. I want to point out that great film maker D.A Pennebaker passed away last week at 94. He was a documentary film maker whose masterpiece was Monterey Pop. Since its last official release, there have been some newer issues of never before heard material, but never a complete issue of the whole shebang the way it is being done here. If they were able to clear release of all the Woodstock material, they could certainly find the energy to do this. Monterey deserves respect! I have been banging this drum for decades. Someone please get it done. PEACE
I just want the Grateful Dead and The Who's sets.
My god this man here is preserving history for future generations THANK YOU this is unbelievable
Over the past few years I've thought that for the 50th anniversary, they should release every single minute of video that they have in one grand final Woodstock release. This audio release is close to that at least.
Alive and well
The surrealism of it all...
....waiting for the late night infomercial.
Just FYI... the radio station..WXPN 88.5 in PHILLY is airing the whole recording of Woodstock from today 8/8 till 8/ 11 ... enjoy the memories people ! ✌️
Nick Bruni next week
they need to play it hole 36 hour concert on August 15th at the exact time to the minute. it would feel like we went back into a time machine and listen to the whole concert on the radio live as it happened
@@joeracer81 That would be fine at the beginning but you would need to pause it and resume it at the proper times (doable since those data points are known)
The world was a better social network music brings people together music like this brings All people together
Okay, I just wanted to let everyone know that he failed to mention Bert Sommer. If this guy wants to “shape” what actually occurred at Woodstock in 1969 especially the forgotten footages than Bert Sommer would be the one ☝️ who should be on this segment video not Janis Joplin, Hendrix; they are well known Legends. So, while this guy has a good idea but totally missed the whole point! Again, Bert Sommer is forgotten!! 🤦♀️ How much longer is this gonna take for Bert’s recognition that he solely deserves?!!!
There are actually a lot of videos of this guy talking about Bert Sommer at Woodstock
Dude is Lars’ love child w Timothy B. Schmidt
Horrible lack of shout out to Engineering Icon Eddie Kramer who did all this. Hmmmm.
AND Hanley, Bill Hanley, for setting up the system and recording truck and designing the splits to it . After all it was his baby from the get go.
I'm curious to know if Keef Heartly band's set is on this.
Of course it is - full set. Just heard it last weekend ! :)
Yes, Woodstock was so much more than the "cherrypicked" moments. Arlo Guthrie and others say there were people EVERYWHERE even outside the concert venue for miles and miles. And of the four to five hundred thousand people there, there were 1.5 million people trying to get there that never made it....
I need to hear this.
Such a weird time !
The Music Geek!!!
Wow🙏💕✌🏼
danke - das ist eine gute Zusammenfassung für die Nachwelt - libe grüße vom federl (austria) 🤘😎💚🍺🖖
Wow, a worts and all recording. Nice!
The who needs to put all the set list for the Woodstock performance idk why they have not done it yet it's 50 years there is still time
Yay! I was "like" number 500! I was 1 when Woodstock occurred.
Yeah, and I’ll help you! What a magical band they were then. Not for a whole lot longer though unfortunately. Jorma and Jack were born to work together. Wow.
just checked it . DOESNT HAVE Hendrix whole set with the songs Larry Lee sang
There's already a DVD of the complete Hendrix performance. I have a copy.
@@dogbarbill that's not even complete it's missing two songs as well as a horrible mix
@@danielradakovic938 were those tracks even recorded on tape?
@@georgeprice7922 one of them was uploaded to TH-cam the other was as well just the audio of Larry Lee singing mastermind
I can't believe I was there with three of my Best friends, from
Beginning to End. Rain, mud, and SUNSHINE........This Man put ALL
of that together, He's BEAUTIFUL MAN........THANK YOU! 🎸💚
Boring old stuff.
[Question] Is the "Warner Music Vault" in LA a part of the UMG storage facility that was lost to a fire some years ago? I hope not.
No!
Mike Smith whew🤭
That was Universal's vault, something like 500k master recordings, all vaporized. Thanks UMG, you suck.
...Woodstock...
A gathering in a time of (illegal) war for a moment of peace.
Ron Bohlouli Yeah because the massacres of today are perfectly illegal/undeclared but nobody protests that. Maybe we need to reinstitute the draft so people will.
People do protest but because our media is produced and procured we dont hear about it.
Apollyon Yeah because in the 60’s the media was free and not controlled by the same synarchy as today now you say but less so
Thank you Andy!
Should be in the Public Archive: Of course these chaps should get paid for the monumental effort. Great Job.
800$ a copy for 38 CD s kinda BS
@@danielradakovic938 Ouch, I don't live in that World.
It is time to release all video materials.
not everything was filmed.
If only music festivals were total corporate garbage today.
I've done it! I have the WHOLE concert! The only thing missing, because it was never recorded, was the first half of Sha Na Na doing, one song. From what I have, it sounds like SOME of the announcements were either cut off or faded out.
One thing I don't understand about Andy's version is, at the start of one Santana song, Greg (or was it Carlos?) said something like, "Okay, let's do some Latin." and Andy cut that out. Why? It was only 2 seconds! I COULDN'T have been to make their performance fit on the CD! They were only on about 50:00. Why wouldn't that 2 seconds fit? I'm pretty sure there's a couple other announcement bits that he cut but I included.
Isn't everyone gagging at the mere mention of Woodstock at this point? Anyway, nearly all the acts later admitted they were awful at the festival.
Not really the point, IMO, heck I wasn't alive for another 11 years, but it wasn't necessarily that the music was spectacular, but that something like that could be put on and it was just peaceful. I've read so many stories on how people heard about it and got in their VW Bus in someplace like LA, and it broke down halfway there, and they hitchhiked the rest of the way. I doubt ANYTHING would make a half a million people just drop everything and converge on one spot, and this is pre-internet, they had no idea what was going on or if anything was going to even happen. It's just remarkable that it went the way it did.
@@sgtpepper1138 You're right.
We need this on vinyl....
Rhino has reissued the first two Woodstock albums on vinyl and has issued another two volumes, all on color vinyl.
and 8 track
This report is a partial lie. A friend of mine and a few dozen of his fellow professional audio-archivists put together a 15 disc set that covered nearly all of the Woodstock performances. They were missing 3 or 4 songs. I was at his house the morning the finished product arrived. They had chosen to keep it to themselves. Now, the subject in this report clearly did it too, and has a better sounding product (which includes non-performance audio which my friend’s co-project did not) but he was not the first to do the music. The first was done in the late 1990s. I actually held it in my hands.
And just to think...somewhere out there in Woodstock was Q. Lol
I’ve gotta have that
Vocal fry is the bane of TV reportage. So tired...
James Steeber bane
Right
You are an excellent player yourself. Cool guy, good life.
@@alsacrime4806 I thank you!
James Steeber Do you use Logic?
I think its a shame to post anything regarding the recordings at Woodstock and not mention Bill Hanley and Hanley Sound who handled the onsite recording. You do history a disservice.
Played back on an old Scully 8 tack.
This is absolutely beautiful.
Love the passion, well done sir
Very cool!
Sir or maam if it was me i would give those tapes to the smithsonien museum. the friends you make in process is worth more than records., Please just think about what i have said, we know they would have a way to introduce public into what happened more properly then us commonweatlh, or at least me
For years they thought that nobody would want the whole entire audio of Woodstock 69.
Who would want to sit through 36+ hours of music with all the announcements and thunderstorms.
50 years later they realize that all of us modern but same hippie freaks today who wasn't even thought of at the time.
We really want the original audio and we want the whole dam thing. It's the closest we can ever get to this festival that we so wish to have been apart of.
All of it every thunder strike, every announcement, every amplifier squeal and every bad acid warning.
Dont forget Wavy Gravy ether that guy was amazing, breakfast in bed for 400 thousand!
My favorite is the Arlo Guthrie message "I was rappin to the fuzz ya dig it, suppose to be a million and a half people here by tonight.
The New York State thruway is closed man! Buncha freaks.
I'm gunna play a Bob Dylan tune man, maybe you'll sing along, maybe you won't, that's groovy.
Imma walkin down the line......wait, wait hold on.
You know there's alot of people here man and obviously you ain't walkin down a line. He probably wasn't walking down a line when he wrote it ether you know. But maybe if your in California and an earthquake hits.....".
That is one of the best moments of Woodstock for me. Young 22 year old Arlo baked out of his mind rambling on to half a million people about an earthquake in California and how it would relate to the Bob Dylan song. Or maybe how it wouldn't, that's groovy.
America was at its pinnacle that weekend with all the things happening in the so called "civil culture" with racism, assassinations and the war.
Yeeeeaaaa, and the hippies was the feared counterculture back then. 🤔
Society got that one backwards in hindsight, wouldn't ya say? ✌🌻
Not so sure about the hippies getting it right... But in the late 1960s there was an earthquake paranoia in California. As if it would happen any time then. A big one did occur - the San Fernando 6.6 quake on Feb 9, 1971.
On the 50th anniversary,100.1 wdst Woodstock radio played the whole show in real time.
Awesome ☮️ 😁✌️
I need Amanda Huginkiz. I need Amanda Huginkiz to meet me back stage as soon as possible.
lol
did some performers refuse to have their image allowed to be recorded or replayed ? i thought i heard of 1 but dont want to mention in case i am wrong
Everything was recorded but some bands refused to sign releases for the film.
I heard a rumor once that several people at Woodstock were caught smoking weed! Can you imagine? :P
Too bad these guys weren't working at nasa
Ok I would have it. I was born in the wrong years.
Debbie Cooper Me too
Maybe I was born too late. In the time when love so quickly turns to hate. (C)
I want this
You folks ought to talk with Alex Winter and the crew who painstakingly went through Zappa's vault and saved the tapes. Many of them a good few years older than these 50 year old Woodstock tapes. It's a shame the promoters couldn't come to terms for the 50th Anniversary Woodstock reunion concert this month. I don't expect there to be a Woodstock 100 either.
Eyebrows
Since The $800 box set sold out in a matter of minutes I know of a website where you can download the entire 38 disc set for free
Omg!!! I was 11 and have been trying to piece this whole thing together including weather delays, everything. This is the holy grail. Help. I would like to have this for my 3.5 day camping trip.
Thank you for sharing this. I just love seeing or hearing stuff like this. ✌☮
What does he get pay by acid trip 36 hours music into 14 years listening what a wow strange trip
Oh, I would love to get to see those tapes. I love 💕 Woodstock!!!! It rocks.
Does he have the footage of Pete Townsend knocking Abbie Hoffman off the stage?? Nobody has seen that yet....
Lol.
No film exists only audio.
*Brilliant (imo) to keep everything, “warts & all”. I’ll bet you could close your eyes while listening & feel like you’re there; especially so for the ones who were actually there.*
Everyone of those tapes in that vault need to be baked before trying to play them or the oxide will come off causing dropouts. They are just deteriorating as they sit on those shelves. It all should be transferred to digital as well. Hopefully that is or has been done.
I'm sure they dealt with the sticky shed, and obviously everything's been digitized.
It's bizarre how people pf my generation revere the 'golden days' of the 1960's, especially Woodstock and Monterey. The best and most popular artists weren't even AT Woodstock! Where were the Doors.Beach Boys, Beatles, Rolling Stones etc etc? What you get is a glimpse of a few days where a large number of people believed the world was going to change because they got wet listening to music played by highly paid stars of the day who were helicoptered in and out, staying in some cases, just long enough to take their money and run. What was actually more redolent of America in 1969 were Altamont and Charles Manson.
Interesting perspective - as someone born in 1971, I've always surmised that the drug counterculture wasn't as prevalent as people always make it out to be. You hardly hear about Country music of the 60s and 70s but that was popular too. And, if everyone was a peace-loving war Dove, how did Nixon win re-election in '72 in a landslide? I think the silent majority had a lot more people than the hippie movement.
@@robertturak7547 draft dodgers voted for NIxon
Woodstock was actually an Arts Fair and not a music festival. The bands you mention aside from the Doors would have been impossibly expensive to book given the number of acts required to fill the duration of the event. The Beatles stopped playing live in 1966.
Dude has a scully tape machine. I see those preamps
So where do i get this and how for how much?
I would listen to them all really high
Oh man, that would be fun to have!
Have you ever gotten nostalgic for something you never even experienced? I have, many times, and Woodstock is one of them. I was only 14 then, but had I been 18, I would have told my parents, "Hey, Mom, Dad, I'm going camping. See you in a week.....maybe!" Hahahaha.....
I wasn't even born, but I've always said I was born in the wrong generation.
This is an outstanding work ....
Wow, now that's a way for Warners to really burn Universal Music Group after that fire that destroyed a lot of Master tapes....
And then covering it up for 11 years, someone needs to go to jail.
Let me get this straight... They kept the silly Woodstock tapes but we destroyed all of the moon landing tapes?
Matthew McPeek Best comment of the day!
Thank you!!
This helps us who cant remember Cruz we were there lol
We are so very lucky that someone had foresight to capture all that audio AND someone documented the event on film.
Remember, the promoters never expected it to be any where near as big as it got.
It wasn't a free event and the tickets cost about $125 in today's money with a higher gate price planned. Recording and filming was all part of a commercial venture. Two of the organisers had Wall Street backgrounds. I think they had an idea of how many tickets they had sold before the event. The original documentary and money lying around in ticket outlets later on is what saved a busted business venture.
Incredible! A time before the Wall Street Criminals and Banksters took over everything!
they were still hippies then