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Maaaaaaaaan, you're are killing me! How am I going to choose between these two? ARGH! (so I decided to listen to the videos) Okay, that was easy, Santana.
I gotta go with my man Michael Shrieve and his amazing drum solo. Dude was only 19 at the time. Youngest performer in the whole festival.
I'm gonna have to say a 4-way tie between the Korn, Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, and Creed performances at Woodstock '99, with Jackyl's performance at Woodstock '94 a close second.
If you are into Shrieve, then you need to seek out these 2 interesting projects in which he was in: "Eye of the Storm" by Roger Hodgson - Hodgson was one of the 2 lead singers in Supertramp (Rick Davies was the other) and he sang lead on many of their most memorable songs (Logical Song, It's Raining Again, Dreamer, etc.). This album was his first after leaving Supertramp and he plays all instruments except drums which are handled by Shrieve. Stomu Yamashta's Go - supergroup formed in the mid '70s and consisted of Japanese percussionist Yamashta as well as Shrieve, Steve Winwood (!), Al DiMeola, and German keyboard whiz, Klaus Schulze. They released 2 studio albums in Go and Go Too and these albums along with a live one they did are extremely hard to find. The few copies that are out there will cost you an arm and a leg. Yet from what I have read, this group sounds like Pink Floyd if they had continued to do music in the form of "Dark Side of the Moon". So if you love progressive, space rock music, then you would like Go.
was reading an article in Stereophile about Rhino's new boxed set, 40 years on: Back to Yasgur's Farm. they went back to the original tapes, put the performances in the correct order (the film jumps all over the place). a lot of stuff had never been released before, including some revelatory performances. theys pecifically called out Bert Sommer- I posted about him here, and the video is definitely worth watching- completely different from the performances above, but he catches the mood of that weekend perfectly.
as much as i like sly, it's impossible for me not to go with santana's performance... it gives me goosebumps
In this one, I like Sly. But this is the best Woodstock moment: (NSFW) Spoiler <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q8BYgzIEHIY&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q8BYgzIEHIY&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
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Country Joe and the Fish One, two, three "who are we fighting for. Don't ask me I don't give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam. Also Grace Slick: " Somebody to Love"
Cleverly disguised "You missed the era, dude. Bummer!" thread. The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after Woodstock. The site for the event was the newly-opened Dallas International Motor Speedway, located on the east side of Interstate 35e, across from the intersection with Round Grove Rd. The festival was the brainchild of Angus G. Wynne III, son of the founder of the Six Flags Amusement Park. Wynne was a concert promoter who had attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival on the July Fourth weekend. He decided to put a festival on near Dallas, and joined with the Atlanta festival's main organizer, Alex Cooley, forming the company Interpop Superfest. Artists performing at the festival were: Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Canned Heat, Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Nazz, Ramon and Ramon and the Four Daddios, Rotary Connection, Sam and Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly and The Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After, and Tony Joe White. North of the festival site was the campground on Lake Lewisville, where hippie attendees skinny-dipped and passed bars of Ivory soap (Ivory floats). Also on the campground was the free stage, where some bands played after their main stage gig and several bands not playing on the main stage performed. It was on this stage that Wavy Gravy, head of the Hog Farm commune, acquired his name. (At Woodstock, he was Hugh Romney.) The Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey's group, was in charge of the free stage and camping area. While Kesey was neither at the Texas event nor at Woodstock, his right hand man, Ken Babbs, and his psychedelic bus, Further (Ferther) were. The Hog Farm provided security, a trip tent and free food. Attendance at the festival remains unknown, but is estimated at around 150,000. As with Woodstock, there were no violent crimes reported. There was one death, due to heat, and one birth. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=377049488&blogId=390154622 I missed a chance to go to Woodstock, to my sorrow, but I had a great time two weeks later, on the outskirts of Dallas. Most of the bands at Woodstock were there, and many of the people involved. The groups and musicians not at Dallas I'd seen before, often several times, so it was the Woodstock experience I missed more than anything. This was at least a pretty good taste of it, without the rain.
