Boomer DU'ers: Sha Na Na : Why

Just....why?????

I assume somebody figured Woodstock needed a nostalgia act.

This was back when the Fairness Doctrine was enforced. After Hendrix, Sha Na Na was a responsible spokesman for an opposing point of view. Or something.

culture.

1979. Ohio State Fair.

When you're 10, you think that's the coolest shit on earth.

Then someone gives you The Wall. The end.

Personally, I wish someone would start a post-rock sludgecore band with everyone dressed as Bowser.

I think of it as this way - some of Generation Y's biggest scenesters love Michael Jackson's Bad, despite it's arguably watered-down music and his frightening appearance. Why? It's what they grew up with as kids. Just like I have a weird affair with 70s AM pop because it reminds me of a better place in my life even though everyone around me stereotypically considers it the worst music mankind has ever made; Boomers probably grew up with Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Fabian, Elvis, Dion and the Belmonts, etc. Sha-Na-Na, ever the ersatz tribute, did it well enough to remind those caught up in the politics and turmoil of Vietnam/Nixon 60s/70s to go back to that better Leave It To Beaver place in their lives if only for a moment.

Day Four lineup:

Paul Butterfield Blues Band
-Everything's Gonna Be Alright
-Driftin'
-Born Under A Bad Sign
-All My Love Comin' Through To You
-Love March

Sha-Na-Na
-Sha Na Na Theme
-Yakety Jak
-Teen Angel
-Jailhouse Rock
-Wipe Out
-Who Wrote The Book Of Love
-Duke Of Earl
-At The Hop
-Na Na Theme

Jimi Hendrix
-Message To Love
-Getting My Heart Back Together Again
-Spanish Castle Magic
-Red House
-Master Mind
-Here Comes Your Lover Man
-Foxy Lady
-Beginning
-Izabella
-Gypsy Woman
-Fire
-Voodoo Child (slight return)/Stepping Stone
-Star Spangled Banner
-Purple Haze
-Woodstock Improvisation
-Villanova Junction
-Hey Joe

http://www.geocities.com/~music-festival/wsonglist.htm

All. The. Time.

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for those of us to young to remember the real thing, and also because most rock really sucked at that time.

I met him at a few meet-ups in 2004. Very nice guy.

His nephew, Eric Bauman, is a big wig in the Los Angeles Democratic party.

now it's just kind of lame.