Very Good Woodstock Trip Édition Spéciale

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Included in this special edition is the DVD JIMI HENDRIX - featuring live performances from Woodstock, the Isle of Wight, and Monterey; as well as testimonials from Lou Reed, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, and his close friends. From August 15 to 17, 1969, in a vast pasture lost in the southwest of New York State, the largest music festival ever organized in the world took place. During these three days, a true city of 500,000 people suddenly emerged, entirely populated by very young people. Attracted by the announcement of a festival of folk, blues, and psychedelic rock, young people from the East Coast of the United States, from all backgrounds and origins, converged on this site in unprecedented numbers to listen to, among others, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix. Those who attended Woodstock experienced a full sense of community: collective, of course, and even unanimous, but also existential, mystical, and even religious. The Woodstock experience was filled with chaos, fervor, joy, and even delirium, far beyond those famous "three days of love, music, and peace," which are too often reduced to a fashion statement and a superficial message. Thirty years later, on July 23, 24, and 25, 1999, another Woodstock, of the same magnitude, brought together a new generation around the bands Korn, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unfortunately, this Woodstock '99 was a "very bad trip," unleashing a storm of bestiality and destructive rage. Far from the utopian dreams of a society of universal support, Woodstock '99 was, in a way, an anti-Woodstock, revealing the grim and cracked face of the American empire. Michka Assayas recounts this astonishing apocalyptic event in 2024.