2 1/2 hours set = a lot of work especially in the middle of the night. The rest of the groups at Woodstock were largely sh*t.
“The rest of the groups at Woodstock were largely sh*t.”
Well, three days is an awful lot of time to fill. So naturally, you wind up with a lot of filler. Looking at the list of performers at Woodstock, it seems for every legendary act like the Who, there are two acts nobody remembers or cares about anymore.
The Who also got dosed on acid (someone put it in their drinks without telling them).
Pete Townsend has said it was the worst show they ever had to play.
And it was the Monterey Pop Festival (1967) that put them on the map in America.
Incomplete list of performing artists/songs and sequence of events
Friday, August 15
The first day officially began at 5:07 p.m. with Richie Havens and featured folk artists.
Richie Havens
Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival
Sweetwater
The Incredible String Band
Bert Sommer
Tim Hardin, an hour-long set
Ravi Shankar, with a 5-song set, played through the rain
Melanie
Arlo Guthrie—order of set list unknown
Joan Baez- she was six months pregnant at the time
Saturday, August 16
The day opened at 12:15 pm, and featured some of the event’s biggest psychedelic and guitar rock headliners.
Quill, forty minute set of four songs
Keef Hartley Band
Country Joe McDonald
John Sebastian
Santana
Canned Heat
Mountain, hour-long set including Jack Bruce’s “Theme For An Imaginary Western.”
Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band
Grateful Dead
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sly & the Family Stone
The Who began at 4 AM, kicking off a 25-song set including
Tommy
Jefferson Airplane
Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18
Joe Cocker was the first act on the last officially booked day (Sunday); he opened up the day’s events at 2 PM. His set was preceded by at least two instrumentals by The Grease Band.
Joe Cocker
Country Joe and the Fish resumed the concert around 6 p.m.
The Band - Set list confirmed in Levon Helm’s book “This Wheel’s On Fire”
Blood, Sweat & Tears ushered in the midnight hour with five songs.
Johnny Winter featuring his brother, Edgar Winter, on two songs.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young began around 3 a.m. with separate acoustic and electric sets.
Neil Young skipped most of the acoustic set (the exceptions being his compositions “Mr. Soul” and “Wonderin’”) and joined Crosby, Stills & Nash, but refused to be filmed during the electric set; by his own report, Young felt the filming was distracting both performers and audience from the music. Young’s “Sea of Madness,” heard on the album, never occurred at the festival, it was recorded a month after the festival at Fillmore East.
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Sha-Na-Na
Jimi Hendrix
Message to Love
Hear My Train A Comin’
Spanish Castle Magic
Red House (Hendrix’s high E-string broke while playing, but played the rest of the song with five strings.)
Mastermind (written and sung by Larry Lee)
Lover Man
Foxy Lady
Jam Back At The House
Izabella
Gypsy Woman/Aware Of Love (These two songs written by Curtis Mayfield were sung by Larry Lee as a medley)
Fire
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/Stepping Stone
The Star-Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
Woodstock Improvisation/Villanova Junction
Hey Joe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festival
>>The rest of the groups at Woodstock were largely sh*t.<<
I agree. although that drummer for Santana was AMAZING!
I’ve been looking for Woodstock on DVD for years. My wife just informed me that Costco has it for $19.99.
That movie is a documentary that epitomizes everything that was WRONG with liberal hippydom.