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Thread ID: 102343	2009-08-16 02:52:00	It Was Forty Years Ago Today.......	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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801585	2009-08-16 02:52:00	Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County. Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.[2]. However, the three top acts of the 1960s, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, all declined to appear at the festival. The event was captured in a successful 1970 documentary movie, Woodstock; an accompanying soundtrack album; and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Friday, August 15 * Richie Havens * Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival * Sweetwater * The Incredible String Band * Bert Sommer * Tim Hardin * Ravi Shankar * Melanie * Arlo Guthrie * Joan Baez Saturday, August 16 * Quill, forty minute set of four songs * Keef Hartley Band * Country Joe McDonald * John Sebastian * Santana * Canned Heat * Mountain * Grateful Dead * Creedence Clearwater Revival * Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band [22] * 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 * The Grease Band * Joe Cocker * Country Joe and the Fish * Ten Years After * The Band * Blood, Sweat & Tears * Johnny Winter featuring his brother, Edgar Winter * Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young * Neil Young * Paul Butterfield Blues Band * Sha-Na-Na * Jimi Hendrix	SurferJoe46 (51)
801586	2009-08-16 03:36:00	Woulda been awesome. Were you there Joe? Quite interesting that two of the world's most popular British band didn't contribute. I guess it was too much of an American event.	Greg (193)
801587	2009-08-16 03:41:00	I can see two bands in that list I would have watched......	Metla (12)
801588	2009-08-16 03:55:00	I was surfing in Redondo Beach California and missed it. I later went to Haight & Asbury ("Hashbury") for some of the hippie things that seem to have really gotten started with Woodstock. I was seriously married by then and took my new wife Leah with me to San Fran and we had a great time in our tie-dyes and bells with Grannies. I had a 1959 Hillman Husky with a 1953 Chevrolet radiator and it would drive all the way there and back again on about 5 gallons of gas! We slept in the back (ouch!) and camped all along the way on the coast route from San Fran to Mailbu and then inland to where we lived in Balboa. We went to all the shows there and later even a few love-ins with here (who else?). She was only 20 years old and we still got into the bars and "adult" places like nightclubs and such. We went to "The Hungry i" and saw the Kingston Trio there one night. We saw The Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape in a park. Phluff and some other obscure groups were there as were Eddie & The Fluorescent Leech - more known as Flo & Eddie or The Turtles. Leah was a great partner. She died in 1992. Here's some info on the bands that decided to NOT GO to Woodstock: Declined invitations * The Doors were considered as a potential performing band, but canceled at the last moment; the cancellation was most likely due to Jim Morrison's known and vocal distaste for performing in large outdoor venues.[23] Doors drummer John Densmore attended, however, and in the film, he can be seen on the side of the stage during Joe Cocker's set. * Led Zeppelin was asked to perform, their manager Peter Grant stating: "We were asked to do Woodstock and Atlantic were very keen, and so was our US promoter, Frank Barsalona. I said no because at Woodstock we'd have just been another band on the bill". Instead the group went on with their hugely successful summer tour, playing that weekend south of the festival at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey. Their only time out taken was to attend Elvis Presley's show at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, on August 12.[24] * Jethro Tull declined to perform. Ian Anderson is reported to have later said he "didn't want to spend [his] weekend in a field of unwashed hippies".[25] Another theory proposes that the band felt the event would be "too big a deal" and might kill their career before it started.[25]. However, other artists from the time have expressed the view that, before the festival, there was little indication of the importance the event would eventually come to assume. Although Jethro Tull did not perform, their music was played over the public address system. In the film, during the interview with the promoters (where they are discussing how much money they will be losing on the venture), the songs "Beggar's Farm" and "Serenade to a Cuckoo", from the album This Was, can be heard in the background. Jethro Tull did perform at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. * The Byrds were invited, but chose not to participate, not figuring Woodstock to be any different from all the other music festivals that summer. In addition, there were concerns about money. As bassist John York remembers: "We were flying to a gig and Roger [McGuinn] came up to us and said that a guy was putting on a festival in upstate New York. But at that point they weren't paying all of the bands. He asked us if we wanted to do it and we said, 'No'. We had no idea what it was going to be. We were burned out and tired of the festival scene. [...] So all of us said, 'No, we want a rest' and missed the best festival of all.'"[26] * Tommy James and the Shondells declined an invitation. Lead singer Tommy James stated later: "We could have just kicked ourselves. We were in Hawaii, and my secretary called and said, 'Yeah, listen, there's this pig farmer in upstate New York that wants you to play in his field.' That's how it was put to me. So we passed, and we realized what we'd missed a couple of days later."[27] * Bob Dylan was in negotiations to play, but pulled out when his son became ill. He also was unhappy about the number of hippies piling up outside his house near the originally planned site.[28] He would go on to perform at the Isle of Wight Festival two weeks later. * Mind Garage declined because they thought it would not be a big deal and had a higher paying gig elsewhere.[29] * The Moody Blues were included on the original Wallkill poster as performers, but decided to back out after being booked in Paris the same weekend.[30] * Spirit also declined an invitation to play, as they already had shows planned and wanted to play those instead, not knowing how big Woodstock would be. [31] * Joni Mitchell was originally slated to perform, but canceled at the urging of her manager to avoid missing a scheduled appearance on The Dick Cavett Show.[32] * It's A Beautiful Day cancelled at the last minute.	SurferJoe46 (51)
801589	2009-08-16 04:44:00	One group I'll never forget was The Ike & Tina Turner Revue who performed at a small bar in Santa Ana (The Mattress Factory) where the whole Revue performed with them . It was a small club - dark and flat - bad lights and no stage at all and the band performed at the same level as the (very few) patrons . The costs to enter were a 2-drink minimum and the show was so fast and hot and sexy that my bro-in-law and I just sat mesmerized at the action . Ike stood off to the stage right side, watching Tina and the other girls for any faults - and I bet he either beat them or witheld their "activity boosters" if you follow my drift here . He looked all the part of a pimp watching his ho's . Ike was a fake guitar player . If he didn't know the chord - he just hit one nearest to it that he DID know and let it slide . His voice however, was a very powerful addition to the vocals and it really filled where it should - when it should . He was a con artist . But the memory of the show and the electricity I felt that radiated from Tina and The Revue is still watchable in my memories .	SurferJoe46 (51)
801590	2009-08-16 04:48:00	Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Wooden Ships, Sea of Madness CSN&Y FTW.	zqwerty (97)
801591	2009-08-16 15:47:00	Joe, I saw Ike & Tina Turner's show at the famous Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1974. The whole show was great, but she just sizzled... I wasn't a bit surprised when she started pumping out hit songs later as a soloist.	Laura (43)
801592	2009-08-16 21:21:00	Most people don't know how good an artist can be live as mostly they see vids and see snippets on YouTube if they're even interested in some great yet older performances . Unfortunately that was then and this is now and I don't think we can ever resuscitate the feeling of the era nor the quality of the performers . They had talent the old-fashioned way: They worked for it .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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