Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1966 Snow Excuse, {co-starring Speedy Gonzales) directed by Robert McKimson.
When Speedy attempts to break into Daffy's cabin and fails, he is holding the head of the Tasmanian Devil.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw another new Puddle's Pity Party video:
We always find it a perfect day when Puddle drops another video
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1970 documentary, Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music , directed by Michael Wadleigh, (the editors on the film included Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, and Wadleigh himself,) and the performers were just about every major act form the late 1960's. In August 1969 — against the backdrop of a nation divided over sexual politics, civil rights, and the Vietnam War — half a million people converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York to hear Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Janis Joplin, and other music icons in a concert billed as “3 Days of Peace and Music.” The documentary of the event was an overwhelming commercial success and received critical acclaim from just about every critic upon release. The film is said to be a perfect window in the period. The version we are watching today is the 1994 director's cut, which added 18 addition performances not originally seen in the released version. So please, get yourself comfortable, roll yourself a fat one and join us in watching Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music.
When the promoters were negotiating to get Grateful Dead to perform at the festival, Bill Graham, who was managing the band at the time, insisted that the promoters include one of two other acts he managed on the bill. Michael Lang, one of the concert promoters, listened to recordings of both bands and liked them so much that he couldn't decide which one to put on the bill and wound up flipping a coin; the winner would be booked. The losing band was It's a Beautiful Day. The band that won the flip was Santana, which would achieve superstardom on the basis of their appearances at both the festival and in the movie.
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