You could not get anywhere near that kind of list today. A ticket to a top notch concert was between $5 and $15 bucks on average and you could go see anyone. Places like the Fillmore East and West could not exist today.
The lineup I printed for the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1969 and 1970 blows your mind, The very best and all affordable to see. They should have filmed both of those. What days that will never be seen again.
Yeah...we could afford to go to those concerts.
I saw Hendrix at Boston Garden. It was ...exhilarating.
My son (loves “our” music) hastens to remind me...Ma, they tore Boston Garden down and Jimi Hendrix is dead.
Pppfffttt...kids.
Woodstock was $24 entrance fee before they were overrun. That was 15 hours of labor at my teen job. Work almost two full days to get in? No thanks.
I was on the Mizzou Concert Committee ‘69-’72 and got to see Allman Brothers, Beach Boys and Three Dog Night (among others) for “free.” We brought in amazing bands.
A number of name artists (Booker T., Otis Redding, etc.) went to Monterey Pop Festival with the agreement that they would not be paid for their appearance.
If they document it with a film and release an album, there is opportunity to make money on the back end. Plus the “exposure”.
But no, in this fragmented day and age, and a wide separation between the top earning entertainers and everyone else, it won’t have the same cultural impact.
Take away the film and soundtrack album from Woodstock and it’d be a footnote like so many of the other concerts of that era.
I saw Hendrix in Minneapolis in 1968.
The ticket set me back three bucks, but I got to record the concert on my new portable cassette/player recorder.
Nobody seemed to mind that I was doing that.
Naturally, the tape tangled and broke within a few months, so I tossed it.