Some Woodstock LOVE - What was your favorite performance?

cbdo2007

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Mon Aug-17-09 01:54 PM
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Some Woodstock LOVE - What was your favorite performance?

I have three:

Richie Havens - Freedom
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends
Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner

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flamin lib

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:05 PM
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1. I didn't get to go. I was in Fort Bliss, Texas in basic

training after being drafted Aug 8.

It sucked.

I did get to attend the Vietnam Moritorium tho. Google it and look at images, you might see me. I'm the one wearing olive drab green . . .

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damntexdem

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:09 PM
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2. Roy Rogers singing "Happy Trails to You." Oh, right, didn't happen.

;-)

Well, then Jimi closing it out.

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Solomon

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:16 PM
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3. Sly and the Family Stone. They tore it up.

They had the perfect timing too. As I remember it, there was a kind of fight about who would go on last. Who was the biggest star.

Hendrix won the right but the show took so long that he didn't get to play until early in the morning when almost everybody had left.

Kind of a hard lesson in insisting on celebrity.

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cbdo2007

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:24 PM
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8. Yeah, you can see in the video there were only maybe 20,000 people left when Jimi played.

Seems like a lot still but not when you consider the 300,000 people that were there for the rest of the shows.

I loved Sly and the Family Stone also. That was one of my consolation favorites that I forgot to mention. Great performance!!

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SidDithers

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:44 PM
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13. Music Lover was sheer genius...

followed by Higher.

"Throw the peace sign up in the air, it'll do you no harm"

That's my favourite piece of live music.

Sid

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edhopper

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:20 PM
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4. The Who

and CSN.

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Kalyke

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:29 PM
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10. Tommy as the sun came up.

(I wasn't there, but I wish I had been)

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onenote

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:45 PM
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14. +1

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SteppingRazor

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:22 PM
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5. Santana. And I'm not even that big of a Santana fan.

I think, of all the people who played, he's one of the few who you can point to and say, "His show at Woodstock was one of his best shows."

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RT Atlanta

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:23 PM
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7. Agreed

my post was 1 min behind yours! :)

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SteppingRazor

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:24 PM
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Ha! Beat ya!

;)

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edhopper

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:32 PM
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11. The mescalin

was just peaking when he hit the stage.

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SteppingRazor

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:42 PM
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12. I've never understood how people can play instruments on serious hallucinogens.

there is no way I could play guitar competently while on acid, peyote or what have you. Ahem ... not that I've ever actually done those things. O8)

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edhopper

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:50 PM
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16. I hear you

but still;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnamP4-M9ko

I guess you can.

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RT Atlanta

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:23 PM
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6. Soul Sacrafice - Santana

I am the biggest Hendrix fan in the world, but Gypsy Sun & Rainbows was a little off that day (however much I do love the performance and experimentation).

It's hard to argue with this one right here (truly, they let it all hang out on this performance):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnamP4-M9ko

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Cetacea

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Mon Aug-17-09 03:44 PM
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21. And nobody knew who they were. Great introduction to the public.

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pipi_k

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Mon Aug-17-09 05:44 PM
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27. I've watched the "Soul Sacrifice" segment on DVD so many times I can almost

Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 05:46 PM by pipi_k

play the instruments myself.

Or maybe not...

but that's my very favorite part.

Followed closely by Ten Years After doing "I'm Going Home"

:hippie:

Edited to add link to Ten Years After

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFpfureaCVs

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Forkboy

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:24 PM
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9. It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

He killed me in that one...

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me b zola

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:47 PM
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15. This thread is useless without links

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G_j

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:51 PM
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17. Here is a complete song list, to jog the memory

Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 02:52 PM by G_j

http://www.woodstock69.com/Woodstock_songs.htm

my favorites,

The Who
Janis Joplin
Ravi Shankar
Jimi Hendrix
The Band
CCR
Sly...

shit.. it was all good

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SidDithers

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Mon Aug-17-09 02:51 PM
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18. Music Lover / Higher by Sly & The Family Stone...

Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 02:52 PM by SidDithers

with Suite: Judy Blue Eyes a close second.

Sid

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tomg

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Mon Aug-17-09 03:12 PM
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19. I would go with Santana,

but CSN, Canned Heat, Havens on Freedom, Sly were all amazing. Most moving was Baez singing "I Shall Be Released" and dedicating it to her then husband David Harris who was in jail as a resister. Funniest - Arlo Guthrie doing "Walking Down the Line."

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aint_no_life_nowhere

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Mon Aug-17-09 03:29 PM
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20. The instrumental piece Jimi Hendrix played after the Star Spangled Banner

Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 03:30 PM by aint_no_life_nowhere

and after Purple Haze. I'm not sure it has a name but it was the thing with octaves and that had a mournful sound. I believe he played just after the rain stopped and it created an interesting mood.

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jmondine

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Mon Aug-17-09 04:21 PM
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22. Definitely Jimi Hendrix doing the Star Spangled Banner

Up here in Seattle, we've got the guitar on which he played that timeless performance at a downtown museum.

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Autonomy

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Mon Aug-17-09 05:13 PM
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23. The Who

Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 05:15 PM by Autonomy

The historical wisdom is that the Who played the best performance at Woodstock, and I agree. Unfortunately for Jimi, he played after everyone left. And the Grateful Dead had a sucky set in the rain. CSN was good, Richie Havens, the Jefferson Airplane, all honorable mentions.

edit to include honorable mention: Santana

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DCBob

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Mon Aug-17-09 05:15 PM
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24. The Hendrix "improvised" Star Spangled Banner

Pure musical genius..

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RagAss

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Mon Aug-17-09 05:16 PM
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25. Havens performing Lou Gossett 's anti-war ballad "Handsome Johnny"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2st2E3KPJM

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taterguy

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Mon Aug-17-09 05:35 PM
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26. Green Day, When I Come Around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPPeG6RiqvQ

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