I was in a record store the other day and got to talking with someone about the Jefferson Airplane. He mentioned he’d seen them at Tanglewood in 1969, and I blurted out, “YOU SAW THE WHO!” because they, along with B.B. King, were the openers. This was a few days before the Who and the Airplane played Woodstock, and the guy seemed regretful that he missed Woodstock, but I dunno, experiencing those bands in a decent venue, where you could actually see and hear them, was likely preferable to the conditions at Woodstock.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 3 July 2022 11:35 (one year ago) link
Yes
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 July 2022 11:37 (one year ago) link
otm!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 July 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Even the acid was bad at Woodstock (it's in the movie!)
― birdistheword, Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Looking back a bit:
And there are articles scattered throughout 1969-70 issues of Rolling Stone about failed festivals — either because permits didn’t clear, or because hippie scam artists announced an amazing lineup that never showed (and probably wasn’t supposed to show).
Related to which, I happily kicked down for this (successfully funded) effort:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gormanbechard/powder-ridge-music-festival-sex-drugs-no-rock-and-roll/description
I've read about this legendary botch before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_Ridge_Rock_Festival
And look forward to a film on same -- the guy behind this did the really wonderful Grant Hart documentary among other things so I'm looking forward to see what he and his team create.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Seems like there may have been some early revisionism---for inst, in Buried Alive, her Joplin bio, Myra Friedman said that a lot of people coming back to NYC, like one of her neighbors, reported that conditions were dire, and the Times ran a piece titled "Nightmare in the Catskills"---but then, somehow, there was a turn-around: Times had much nicer follow-ups, maybe with some exclusive interviews? And son enough, Friedman's neighbor was "dancing all over the building," talking about what a groovy historical event it was.
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
🚨🚨exciting update:I have acquired the full 38 disc set (or mr veg acquired it for me because he lives to serve) i am go for launch :D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 July 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
sweetwater here you come...
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 4 July 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
i’m going to go find a hot dog, can u watch my blanket? i should be back in (muffled sounds)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
sweetwater but no fever dog :/ (jk)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 00:32 (one year ago) link
Not waitin 4 Wstock:
Hey kids - that’s the Byrds playing at Jane Fonda’s Fourth of July party 1965 - photo by Dennis Hopper. pic.twitter.com/M5l4E26YTl— Pat Thomas (@PatThomas1964) July 4, 2022
― dow, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
Glad you got the set there, VG, through whatever means. :-D (My big ol' actual box sets right near my desk.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
liveblog plz
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 01:46 (one year ago) link
i am almost through to end of sweetwater, “come down from the tower” plea from nanci & the band real talk: i think it might be something to do with 15 years or so going to Bridge School, and a life of attending looser sundry outdoor festivals of all kinds -listening to the full show really hits me in a much different way than i expected. sense of history for the vibe, the stage announcements & all the attendant ephemera that goes with this … and the acts that don’t really exist anymore except in the context of Woodstocki’m just really locked into this groove man ✌🏻
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
(apparently there was a VH1 biopic about Sweetwater featuring Michelle Williams !)Bert Sommer now - he sounds like a dream from the first bar, really just entranced by this dude, what a voice my god. Kind of a Donovan vibe if its ok to say (voice quality i mean) fun fact: he was in West Coast production of Hair & it is his irl hair on the original show poster so how about that
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 02:14 (one year ago) link
BILL MCGEE PLEASE BRING THE MEDICINE TO THE INFORMATION BOOTH
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link
already annnouncer’s tone is IF YOU FREAKS DONT GET OFF THAT GODDAMN TOWER RIGHT NOW SO HELP ME I WILL TURN THIS CONCERT AROUND I AM NOT KIDDING
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 03:26 (one year ago) link
[few hours delay for dinner & life stuff]back to the show & Tim Hardin up nextlove his voice so much, seems incredibly talented reading backstory about him & between the addiction/talent he sounds a bit reminiscent of Gram Parsons, he didn’t exactly endear himself to the ppl around him
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 05:00 (one year ago) link
i will def seek out his albums though, just gorgeous stuff here
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 05:01 (one year ago) link
again with “get off the #^%*! scaffolding”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 05:54 (one year ago) link
update: everyone is now off the scaffolding
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
FLAT BLUE ACID IS POISONBE COOL
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 06:06 (one year ago) link
and now Ravi Shankar <3looking forward to hearing this full set!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 06:11 (one year ago) link
goddamn ravi’s tutorial is cool as hell & so charming. a great way to ensure a captive audience
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 06:33 (one year ago) link
Melanie is a nice surprise for meI only previously knew a couple of her songs from her later heyday around “Brand New Key” but she really has a very strong natural singing voice, and as far as i have heard she could absolutely hold her own w the folkies of the day. v enjoyable set imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 07:05 (one year ago) link
i feel bad saying this but I do not dig Arlo Guthrie a whole lot he is Not For Me™️tells the worlds longest story about Moses which is about as much fun as listening to an acid-head talk, ymmv with that but ugh no thanks . dude could talk the leg off a table just sitting around drawing breath and here i pause to sleep
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 08:09 (one year ago) link