Woodstock - Who Was There? Who Wishes They Had Been There?

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I just read an article on Woodstock and, after reading the list of what bands/groups played there, makes me wish I could have been there. I remember reading about Woodstock just after the concert and the movie about this event. It had to have been the greatest rock concert ever!
What's also surprising is what some of the groups were paid to perform - especially considering the legend status that some of the groups that were just starting out now have.
Check out this list:
* Jimi Hendrix - $30,000 for two sets plus $2,000 for expenses
* Blood, Sweat and Tears - $15,000
* Joan Baez - $10,000
* The Band - $7,500
* Janis Joplin - $7,500 (and a year later she was dead)
* Jefferson Airplane - $7,500
* Sly and the Family Stone - $7,000
* Canned Heat - $6,500
* The Who - $6,250
* Richie Havens - $6,000
* Arlo Guthrie - $5,000
* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - $5,000
* Ravi Shankar - $4,500
* Johnny Winter - $3,750
* Ten Years After - $3,250
* Country Joe and the Fish - $2,500
* Grateful Dead - $2,500
* The Incredible String Band - $2,250
* Mountain - $2,000
* Tim Hardin - $2,000
* Joe Cocker - $1,375
* Sweetwater - $1,250
* John Sebastian - $1,000
* Melanie - $750
* Santana - $750 (Really?!)
* Sha Na Na - $700

And the bands that were supposed to be there but weren't for whatever reason:
* Bob Dylan
* Jeff Beck
* The Doors
* Led Zeppelin
* The Byrds
* Chicago
* Moody Blues
* Frank Zappa
* Jethro Tull
* Joni Mitchell

Can you imagine trying to put on something of this magnitude today?
Amazing!
 
I was way too young to go but do know someone who went.
Funny he wasn't really into music or rock at all, just went to it as an event.
I haven't talked to him about in years but he said it was a mess, just trash everywhere.
 
Wish I could have been there but was stationed in Spain in the Air Force at the time.
 
I was only 9, and had I been older, not into crowds or drugs or people on drugs, would not like that scene. Interesting Arlo Guthrie got paid $5000, he was only 22 at the time. I enjoy hearing music from most of the artists who were there.
 
I wasn't there, but remember listening to an am radio station in Greensboro, NC telling people about for a week before until it was over. They were trying to get people to go
 
I was on the East coast......... of Veit Nam that is. Military band music from it. I did the next best thing and bought the album when it came out.
 
Thank you Dartman for your service too. Sorry I missed your comment
 
I was just a little to young and didn't like crowds anyway.
At that time I was in the 7th grade and lived in the northern mountains of the west coast.
I do have a lot of the music from it though, and a lot of it live from Woodstock when they played it.
 
I went to boot camp that weekend. I flew from Boston to Great Lakes Naval Training center right over the whole thing. Missed one helluva concert and a lot of my favorite artists. Guess that makes me 65!
 
Yeserdays hippies after the free movement
Turned into yuppies in the 80'$ and took over wall street. Anti establishment became
Establishment.
 
I hope you don't mind but this is related to the Woodstock event. I went to lunch with another member,clhyer, and afterwords he took me by the closed down Mid Georgia Speedway. On this location there is a historic monument about the Second annual Atlanta Pop Festival . This is where Jimmy Hendrix played to his largest crowd on July 4th 1970 around midnight. I was estimated that the crowd was between 200,000 and 600,000 people attended. It was also such a nightmare to local politicians that new laws were passed to prevent these sort of concerts from being held in the future. Here are a list of performers
Over thirty acts performed on the main stage during the course of the event:

 
SGBARRACUDA said:
I hope you don't mind but this is related to the Woodstock event. I went to lunch with another member,clhyer, and afterwords he took me by the closed down Mid Georgia Speedway. On this location there is a historic monument about the Second annual Atlanta Pop Festival . This is where Jimmy Hendrix played to his largest crowd on July 4th 1970 around midnight. I was estimated that the crowd was between 200,000 and 600,000 people attended. It was also such a nightmare to local politicians that new laws were passed to prevent these sort of concerts from being held in the future. Here are a list of performers
Over thirty acts performed on the main stage during the course of the event:

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I'm not sure if this was the same show, but I think it could be. I recently heard that footage from this event just got pulled out of someone's attic after all these years, and this concert is to become available for either download or possibly on DVD. I think the source was a Seattle rock FM station and probably somewhat of a reliable bit of info. I wish I could have been at either. I was a kid in So Cal at the time, and my dad was into Hi-fi, we had these huge Electro-voice speakers that would knock clocks off of the wall (and did). Lots of Iron Butterfly, Easy Rider, Ten Years After, Santana in those years.
 
Like Dartman I was setting off the Nam coast on the gunline lobbing shells from a WWII era destroyer? That makes me 66.
 
I was too young but would habe loved to go! Attended a lotta scaled down redneck versions later on in life lol
 
Check out the history of Summer Jam at Watkins Glen.

Three bands played, that's all.

But the crowd exceeded 600,000. Many of them parked in Horseheads (20 miles away) and walked, simply because they couldn't drive to get to Watkins. The roads were littered with abandoned cars.

The farmer down the road from where I grew up had people camping in his fields. That was five miles from the track.

Summer Jam is considered to be the largest rock concert - by attendance - of all time, but it's the one that's most forgotten.
 
71340Duster said:
I'm not sure if this was the same show, but I think it could be. I recew
ntly heard that footage from this event just got pulled out of someone's attic after all these years, and this concert is to become available for either download or possibly on DVD.
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