A photo of me at the Woodstock Festival (August, 1969)
Posted on 06/30/2009 10:53:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
Of all, I thought Sly and the Family Stone was by far the best. Damn shame Sly had to waste it all on drugs.
And I didn’t know CCR played Woodstock.
If it wasn’t for Hendrix, the whole thing could have been considered a bunch of opening acts for Sha-Na-Na
Neil ranks. The rest of the hippies can drop dead (great photo)
Used to be, they’d find some band that had regional or small label success and sign them and reissue the back catalog. Now the labels want to own it all, lock stock and barrell (and have the band in debt to the label for production and promotion costs).
The 1990s “indies to mainstream” experiment was a fluke (although in the end, grunge saved MTV by making it relevant). Ultimately the labels got scared, shut the door to new talent, and harvested boy bands and poster pop star divas. And 15 years of that has gotten old.
Now all radio rock is called “alternative”. Alternative to what? Oldies? Synth-disco? Rap?
I read that they got the gig because someone knew them from Glee Club at some school (Columbia?).
Ultimately they served as the band that cleared the fields at the “end” of the show. Woke up the crowd and got them “on the road”.
Jimi Hendrix followed but out of an estimated 400,000 people in attendence, Jimi played to something around 20,000-40,000.
The who are the most tantalizing story I think in Rock. At one point Townsend goes stark raving mad while trying to do In search of the lost chord. Later he’s caught with child porn doing “research” on this and that. He clocks Abbie Hoffman in the head with his guitar.
On the other hand he just exudes normality on another level. I read an article about how he can ride the Tube in London in virtual anonymity. When I was in college he played our town and someone caught them at a local hotel talking like English Country Gentlemen, how they couldn’t wait to get back to England and resume their roles of Country Squires.
Townsend has always been a mix of “really out there” and “super normal” in curious and surprising ways.
Jimi Hendrix followed but out of an estimated 400,000 people in attendence, Jimi played to something around 20,000-40,000.
Please NO MORE WOODSTOCK festivals!!
Not after the grotesque imagery of gen X’ers confusing hedonistic immoral debauchery with the original ‘peace-n-love’ festival
A photo of me at the Woodstock Festival (August, 1969)
The biggest joke of the 1999 festival was that the promoter (I’m going to suspect Michael Lang here) booked James Brown to play. As the OPENER. On the SECONDARY stage.
WTF?
Daylight? No warmup act? Minor audience staging?
I can almost see the Washington Monument in the background.
It looks like that picture was flipped. Carlos is actually right-handed.
Apparently not that day.
I am going blind reading psychdelica but it looks like Led Zeppelin was the only tolerable band. Blood Seat & Tear was fair.
Yeah Monterey was the show. Wasn’t that also the really big one for Hendrix?
The Kinks had been banned from the USA because they did not put up with the sh*t from the stage hand union thugs in the USA. The Who had been a smaller group and the Kinks getting banned really was a big opening for The Who.
The Kinks ended up doing more English albums which were actually among their best work. The ban actually helped their work in my opinion.
Chuck Berry
Booker T & The MGs
Led Zepplin (not sure, but I think there is an alternate poster with Yardbirds or The New Yardbirds)
Dave Brubeck
and these were listed who also played Woodstock
CCR
Janis Joplin
Canned Heat
Johnny Winter
Joe Cocker
Paul Butterfield
Sweetwater
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But then that is a “pop festival”, which also had acts like Johnny Rivers. A more diverse lineup (not necessarily just “pop 40 acts”).
The Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. It takes place on the last weekend of June. More than 170 thousand people attended the festival with more than 300 live performances.
2009 .. all you needed were Wellies!
The Beach Boys were also supposed to play Monterey Pop but Brian Wilson was too busy working on SMiLE to give it much attention, I think that the Who were their replacement.
I’ve been rediscovering TYA (was into them in high school then they faded from my personal rotation). Damn good band, don’t get the credit they deserve.
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