Woodstock Question

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by icenine

The performances were really not that great except for Hendrix and the Who...

Originally Posted by sheltiedave

There weren't too many black kids at Woodstock, for a variety of reasons. Even tho the concert both opened(Richie Havens) and closed(Jimi Hendrix) with black music acts, there wasn't much in between that would draw tons of folks from New York.

I thought I might attempt to address both these comments at the same time.

The crowd, according to best estimates, was 1.5% black.

As far as the quality of the performances...One of the best recorded live performances I've ever seen was Sly and the Family Stone. And yes...I still listen to it on the iPod and I still drag out my DVD copy to watch it on the TeeVee. It still gives me the shivers. Every time.

Hendrix and the Who certainly were great. But so was Sly, so was Joe Cocker, so was Ten Years After...and Janis was spectacular.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I thought I might attempt to address both these comments at the same time.

The crowd, according to best estimates, was 1.5% black.

As far as the quality of the performances...One of the best recorded live performances I've ever seen was Sly and the Family Stone. And yes...I still listen to it on the iPod and I still drag out my DVD copy to watch it on the TeeVee. It still gives me the shivers. Every time.

Hendrix and the Who certainly were great. But so was Sly, so was Joe Cocker, so was Ten Years After...and Janis was spectacular.

As were CSN&Y and Santana.

[bobabode]

Anyone who thinks that Santana's performance of 'Soul Sacrifice' was second rate, either hasn't seen or heard it or they are being disingenuous.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Anyone who thinks that Santana's performance of 'Soul Sacrifice' was second rate, either hasn't seen or heard it or they are being disingenuous.

Have you ever heard Carlos Santana talk about what was going on with him during their Woodstock set? According to Carlos they were moved up in the set order and sent out on stage just as he was "peaking" on the acid he had dropped. He talked about his SG feeling like it was made out of rubber and that the best he could do was try to stay on track with the rest of the band.

I'm not so sure I believe it...it's a great story, maybe too great a story. And in my experience, I have a little trouble believing he could have played so remarkably and been as wasted as he has tried to suggest.

Anyway...that performance was, and still is, an amazing thing to watch and it's another one that gives me the shivers every time I see it, all these years later.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Mebbe Ice wished that Men At Work was there?

I bet they would have been better than CSN lol

It's A Mistake would have fit right in, as well as Down Under with the nod to the den in Bombay

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by icenine

I bet they would have been better than CSN lol

It's A Mistake would have fit right in, as well as Down Under with the nod to the den in Bombay

Sounds like you've been dipping into the pharmaceuticals at work, bro.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by icenine

I think the 60s ended with Watergate.

I don't think Watergate ended until a Saigon rooftop and the pardon.

Serious: without putting good/bad on it, what an incredible time period to have been in your twenties, 1965-1975.

I wasn't (born in very late 1971) and cannot even imagine what it must have been like.

[icenine]

I remember Watergate ...did not understand it but EVERYONE on tv was talking about it and the comedians where having a field day. I sort of remember the Agnew resignation because our principle announced it on the pa in the elementary school I was in. I think school was out when Nixon left.

I do remember when my brother left for Vietnam at Cleveland Hopkins airport in the early 70s

Vietnam was way worse than Iraq as far as American deaths.....I do not think 65-75 was easy for many people