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Досмотрела я док.фильм про Вудсток-69.... 3,5 часа растянула на несколько дней. Но в нем уместилась лишь малая часть всех выступлений фестиваля. Шутка ли - 3 дня музыки. Ну и мира, конечно же)
Остановлюсь на лишь на отдельных моментах. Не в хронологическом порядке.

Santana - это было НЕЧТО №1.



Country Joe McDonald- очень правильная песня.



Хе-хе, A Little Help From My Friends =) Специально посмотрела, как он исполняет эту битловскую песню в 2002 году - дергается. Не так, конечно, как в молодости, но дергается)) А то я даже испугалась поначалу......



Jefferson Airplane ! ! ! Грейс Слик! ! ! А вообще она - идеал женской красоты в моем представлении)



Sha Na Na - я не знаю, кто это, но ребята весёлые.



John Sebastian- понравилось мне это выступление.....



И на закуску - НЕЧТО №2 - Jimi Hendrix



*ушла досматривать на ютуб то, что не попало в фильм*

Fri 15 Feb – Richie Havens

Richie Havens is yet another artist I hadn't heard of until I saw the Woodstock film, but I was sufficiently impressed by that to go and see him at the Jazz Café in Camden on Friday night. (He's also the bloke with the amazing beard who sings 'Tombstone Blues' in I'm Not There.)

What a lovely man. He came on in his silk robe like everyone's wise, kindly, funny and slightly naughty grandfather, apparently delighted to see us all, and launched into 'All Along the Watchtower'. He's big on Bob Dylan covers and it was mostly these I recognised, but there was nothing I couldn't nod my head and chill out to.

Although the sound he produces is laid-back and mellow, he works hard at it, breaking strings and picks (he had six spares lined up on his mike stand). He performed from 9:30 till gone 11, ended by leaping into the air and twirling his guitar, then came back out in a clean suit to sign autographs. Not bad for someone who's nearly 70.

Particularly pleasing is that last year I saw Country Joe McDonald, which means that I've seen the first and second musicians to perform at Woodstock. I wonder who else I can collect - are Sha Na Na still together?

初めて知ったのですが、1972年にサイケ系バンドを集めた野外フェスティバル「Bickershaw Festival」というのが英国で開催されていたんですね。
3日間にわたって開催され、大雨と泥まみれの辺りはウッドストックみたいだったようですが。
大トリはGrateful Dead。その他の出演者はN.R.P.S., The Kinks, Incredible String Band, Country Joe McDonald, Donovan, Brinsley Schwarz, The Flamin' Groovies, Dr.John そして Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band。

1972年のマジック・バンドって黄金のラインナップじゃん!!
Rockette MortonにRoy Estrada, それとElliot IngberにArt Trippたち。

実際に観てきた人の話によると演奏は最高だったようですし、客先にいたロンドンの学生ジョン・メラー君も生涯観た中でも最高のコンサートだったと絶賛していたそうです。
（ちなみにジョン・メラーは後にThe Clashを結成しジョー・ストラマーと名乗る・・・）

まずはこの時のCDがリリースされました。とりあえず注文中ですが待ち切れず・・
一足先にリリースされた英国では、演奏最高音質最低という評価がされているようです。でもこの黄金期のMagic Bandの音源なんだからあまり贅沢を言ってはいられないと思いますけどね。

Bickershaw FestivalのDVDも今月末に（本国で）リリース予定。
これまた賛否両論みたいでして（笑、映画のWoodstockやワイト等のドキュメンタリーを想定して買うと酷い目に遭うぞという評価から、あの時の雰囲気が伝わってくる最高じゃぁという評価まで様々。
とりあえずお値段次第で買ってみようかなぁです。今のところ日本のAmazonでは買えないみたいだし。

Country Joe & The Fish, live op Woodstock. Met hun nummer "I feel like I'm fixing to die".

Een beetje informatie van de site CountryJoe.com:

How I Wrote the Rag
_____________________

I wrote "Fixin’ To Die Rag" in summer of 1965 after I had been discharged from the US Navy for several years. It just popped into my head one day and I finished it in about 30 minutes. I did not have a conscious purpose in mind although I had been working on another song about the Vietnam War called "Who Am I?" for several days so I had the war on my mind. The "Who Am I?" song was part of a play I was writing songs for titled Change Over, written by Fred Hayden and directed by Nina Serrano. It was performed twice, once on the University of California Berkeley campus and once on the San Francisco State College campus. 1965 was the year that the Vietnam War became big news and a big protest issue with students.

I was raised in a family of American Communists and so I knew a lot about Capitalism and Communism. The song attempts to put blame for the war upon the politicians and leaders of the US military and upon the industry that makes its money from war but not upon those who had to fight the war ... the soldiers. It expresses the thoughts of a person trapped in the military system and forced to go to war by something called "conscription". Conscription or the "draft" as it was called then was a system which picked young people and forced them into the military and into the war with the only other choice being jail or an attempt to "dodge the draft" for religious reasons or physical or mental reasons. It was very hard to get out of the draft because so many people were being killed in the war that they would take just about any one. The song attempts to address the horror of going to war with a dark sarcastic form of humor called "GI humor". GI humor is a way people have of complaining about their situation so it will not get them in trouble and keep them from going insane in an insane environment: war.

Today we have a volunteer military but during the Vietnam War many people joined because they thought it was the right thing to do. It was patriotic. Lots of people were drafted. Also lots of people were given the choice of volunteering for the military or going to jail on charges of getting into trouble with the police for one thing or the other. It was a kind of government black mail. During the war people were even forced into the US Marines which was always considered to be a volunteer group because so many Marines were killed in the Vietnam War. The casualty rate for Marines was higher in the Vietnam War than in World War II.

Een nummer mét inhoud dus!

Country Joe McDonald

Singer-songwriters, een muzikantenras apart. Hier mijn favoriete artiesten:

- Ben Harper
- Jesse Malin
- Ryan Adams
- Bob Marley
- Neil Young
- Country Joe McDonald

Iemand nog tips? ;-)

Roll up a nice fat joint. Inhale. Take a trip back to Woodstock in 1969……

click here for a streamable tag radio station of all the tracks listed below

Woodstock Music and Art Fair was a historic event held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel (Sullivan County) is 43 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, which is in adjoining Ulster County.

To many, the festival exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era." Thirty-two of the best-known musicians of this time period appeared during the sometimes rainy weekend. Though attempts have been made over the years to recreate the festival, the original event has proven to be unique and legendary. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest concerts in music history and was listed on Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.

The event was captured in a successful 1970 movie, Woodstock, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which memorialized the event, became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The concert signaled the end of the so-called "Flower Generation."

Performing artists and sequence of events

Friday, August 15, 1969


The first day, which officially began at 5:08 p.m. with Richie Havens, featured folk artists.

* Richie Havens (opened the festival - performed 7 encores)
Richie Havens - High Flyin' Bird
Richie Havens - I Can't Make It Anymore
Richie Havens - With a Little Help From My Friends
Richie Havens - Strawberry Fields Forever
Richie Havens - Hey Jude
Richie Havens - Handsome Johnny
Richie Havens - Freedom
Richie Havens - Motherless Child

* Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival

* Country Joe McDonald, played separate set from his band, The Fish
Country Joe McDonald - Rockin' All Around the World
Country Joe McDonald - Seen a Rocket
Country Joe McDonald - The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag

* John Sebastian
John Sebastian - How Have You Been
John Sebastian - Rainbows All Over Your Blues
John Sebastian - I Had A Dream (Album Version)
John Sebastian - Darling Be Home Soon
John Sebastian - Younger Generation

* Sweetwater
Sweetwater - What's Wrong (Live at Woodstock 1969 Version)
Sweetwater - Motherless Child (Remastered Album Version)
Sweetwater - Look Out (Remastered Album Version)
Sweetwater - For Pete's Sake (Album Version)
Sweetwater - Day Song (Remastered Album Version)
Sweetwater - My Crystal Spider (Remastered Album Version)
Sweetwater - Two Worlds (Remastered Album Version)
Sweetwater - Why Oh Why (Remastered Album Version)

* Incredible String Band
The Incredible String Band - Invocation
The Incredible String Band - The Letter
The Incredible String Band - When You Find Out Who You Are (LP Version)

* Bert Sommer
Bert Sommer - The Road To Travel
Bert Sommer - I wondered where you be
Bert Sommer - She's Gone
Bert Sommer - Things Are Goin' My Way
Bert Sommer - And When It's Over
Bert Sommer - Jennifer
Bert Sommer - America
Bert Sommer - A Note That Read
Bert Sommer - Smile

* Tim Hardin, an hour-long set
Tim Hardin - If I Were A Carpenter
Tim Hardin - Misty Roses

* Ravi Shankar, with a 5-song set, played through the rain
Ravi Shankar - Raga Puriya-Dhanashri Gat in Sawarital
Ravi Shankar - Tabla Solo In Ektal
Ravi Shankar - Raga Manj Khamaj
Ravi Shankar - Dhun (Dadra And Fast Teental)

* Melanie
Melanie - Tuning My Guitar
Melanie - Beautiful People

* Arlo Guthrie--order of set list unknown
Arlo Guthrie - Coming In To Los Angeles
Arlo Guthrie - Walking Down the Line
Arlo Guthrie - Amazing Grace

* Joan Baez
1. Story about how the Federal Marshalls came to take David Harris into custody.
Joan Baez - Joe Hill
Joan Baez - Sweet Sir Galahad
Joan Baez - Drugstore Truck Driving Man
Joan Baez - Take Me Back to the Sweet Sunny South
Joan Baez - Warm And Tender Love
Joan Baez - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Joan Baez - We Shall Overcome

Baez Source: Arthur Levy, annotator of the expanded editions of the 12 Joan Baez CDs on Vanguard

Saturday, August 16, 1969


The day opened at 12:15 pm, and featured some of the event's biggest psychedelic and guitar rock headliners.

* Quill, forty minute set of four songs
The Quill - They Live the Life
The Quill - BBY
The Quill - Waitin' for You
The Quill - Jam

* Keef Hartley Band
Keef Hartley Band - Spanish Fly (Live Woodstock 69)
Keef Hartley Band - Believe In You
Keef Hartley Band - Leavin' Trunk
Keef Hartley Band - Sinnin' For You

* Santana
Santana - Waiting
Santana - You Just Don't Care
Santana - Savor
Santana - Jingo
Santana - Persuasion
Santana - Soul Sacrifice
Santana - Fried Neckbones and Home Fries

* Canned Heat
Canned Heat - Leaving This Town
Canned Heat - Going Up The Country
Canned Heat - Let's Work Together
Canned Heat - Woodstock Boogie

* Mountain, hour-long set including Jack Bruce's "Theme For An Imaginary Western"
Mountain - Blood of the Sun
Mountain - Stormy Monday (live) (Live)
Mountain - Long Red
Mountain - For Yasgur's Farm
Mountain - Theme for an Imaginary Western
Mountain - Waiting To Take You Away (Live) (Single Version)
Mountain - Dreams of Milk and Honey
Mountain - Blind Man
Mountain - Southbound Train 13. Southbound Train


* Janis Joplin (Performed 2 encores; Piece of My Heart and Ball & Chain)
Janis Joplin - Raise Your Hand
Janis Joplin - As Good As You've Been To This World
Janis Joplin - To Love Somebody
Janis Joplin - Summertime
Janis Joplin - Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
Janis Joplin - Kozmic Blues
Janis Joplin - Can't Turn You Loose
Janis Joplin - Work Me, Lord
Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart
Janis Joplin - Ball and Chain

* Sly & the Family Stone started at 1:30 am (3 encores. Actually played just before The Who)
Sly & The Family Stone - M'Lady
Sly & The Family Stone - Sing A Simple Song
Sly & The Family Stone - You Can Make It If You Try
Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music
Sly & The Family Stone - I Want To Take You Higher
Sly & The Family Stone - Love City
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!

* Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead - St. Stephen
Grateful Dead - Mama Tried
Grateful Dead - Dark Star
Grateful Dead - High Time
Grateful Dead - Turn On Your Love Light
Grateful Dead's performance was plagued by technical problems, including a faulty electrical ground (which their roadie insisted on being fixed prior to the band's performance) and members Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir reported getting shocked every time they touched their guitars. While bootleg footage and audio of this performance exists, the Dead called it their worst performance ever and they were left out of the movie. At one point, Jerry Garcia appears in the film holding a joint, saying, "Marijuana. Exhibit A."



* Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ninety-Nine And A Half
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Commotion
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bootleg
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You
Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Night Time Is The Right ..
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Keep On Chooglin'
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Susie Q

* The Who began at 3 AM, kicking off a 24-song set including Tommy
The Who - Heaven and Hell
The Who - I Can't Explain
The Who - It's a Boy
The Who - 1921
The Who - Amazing Journey
The Who - Sparks
The Who - Eyesight to the Blind (The Haw
The Who - Christmas
The Who - Tommy Can You Hear Me?
The Who - The Acid Queen
The Who - Pinball Wizard
The Who - Fiddle About
The Who - There's a Doctor
The Who - Go to the Mirror!
The Who - Smash the Mirror
The Who - I'm Free
The Who - Tommy's Holiday Camp
The Who - We're Not Gonna Take It
The Who - See Me, Feel Me
The Who - Summertime Blues (live)
The Who - Shakin' All Over
The Who - My Generation
The Who - Naked Eye (Live)

* Jefferson Airplane began at 8 a.m. with an eight-song set, capping off the overnight marathon.
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
Jefferson Airplane - The Other Side of This Life
Jefferson Airplane - Plastic Fantastic Lover
Jefferson Airplane - Won't You Try
Jefferson Airplane - Saturday Afternoon
Jefferson Airplane - Eskimo Blue Day
Jefferson Airplane - Uncle Sam Blues
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18, 1969


Joe Cocker was the first act on the last officially booked day (Sunday); he opened up the day's events at 2 PM.

* Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker - Delta Lady
Joe Cocker - Let's Go Get Stoned
Joe Cocker - I Shall Be Released
Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends

* After Joe Cocker's set, a storm disrupted the events for several hours.


* Country Joe and the Fish resumed the concert around 6 p.m.
Country Joe & the Fish - Rock & Soul Music
Country Joe & the Fish - Thing Called Love
Country Joe & the Fish - The Love Machine
Country Joe & the Fish - The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag

* Ten Years After
Ten Years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Ten Years After - I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes
Ten Years After - I May Be Wrong, but I Won't Be Wrong Always
Ten Years After - Hear Me Calling
Ten Years After - I'm Going Home

* The Band - Set list confirmed via Levon Helm's book "This Wheel's On Fire"
The Band - Chest Fever
The Band - Tears Of Rage
The Band - We Can Talk
The Band - Don't Do It
Bob Dylan and The Band - Ain't No More Cane
The Band - Long Black Veil
The Band - This Wheel's on Fire
The Band - I Shall Be Released
The Band - The Weight
The Band - Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever

* Blood, Sweat & Tears ushered in the midnight hour with five songs.
Blood, Sweat & Tears - More and More
Blood, Sweat & Tears - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Something's Coming On

* Johnny Winter featuring Edgar Winter, his brother, on two songs.
Johnny Winter - Mama Talk to Your Daughter
Johnny Winter - Tell The Truth (Live)
Johnny Winter - Johnny B. Goode
Johnny Winter - Leland Mississippi Blues
Johnny Winter - Rock Me Baby
Johnny Winter - Mean Mistreater
Edgar Winter - Tobacco Road
Johnny Winter - Mean Town Blues (Live)

* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young began around 3 a.m. with separate acoustic and electric sets.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Blackbird
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Helplessly Hoping
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Guinnevere
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Marrakesh Express
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 + 20
Neil Young - Mr. Soul
Neil Young - Wonderin'
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - You Don't Have to Cry
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Pre-Road Downs [Remastered LP Version]
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Long Time Gone
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Bluebird
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Sea of Madness
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Wooden Ships
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Find the Cost of Freedom
Crosby, Stills & Nash - 49 Bye-Byes (LP Version)

* Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Driftin' and Driftin'
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Born Under a Bad Sign
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Morning Sunshine (LP Version )
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Love March

* Sha-Na-Na
Sha Na Na - Yakety Yak
Sha Na Na - Teen Angel
Sha Na Na - Wipe Out
Sha Na Na - Who Wrote the Book of Love
Sha Na Na - Duke of Earl
Sha Na Na - At The Hop / Na Na Theme

* Jimi Hendrix. The full list of Hendrix's Woodstock performance:
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Jimi Hendrix - Message To Love
Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin'
Jimi Hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic
Jimi Hendrix - Red House
Jimi Hendrix - Mastermind
Jimi Hendrix - Lover Man
Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady
Jimi Hendrix - Jam Back at the House (Beginnings)
Jimi Hendrix - Izabella
Jimi Hendrix - Gypsy Woman
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Jimi Hendrix - Stepping Stone
Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Jimi Hendrix - Villanova Junction
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe


more info at wikipedia

Hey, I saw on Arte another concert on TV, and wich one : Woodstock !

Well, two sort of artist did get some sort of echo today :

The indiscutable ones :
I Noted :
* Santana;
* The Who ;
* Country Joe McDonald, especially his song about Vietnam ;
* Janis Joplin doing a little bit too much, but what a voice ;
* and of course Jimmy Hendrix, a king on stage

The other sort of artist are the good ones, some forgotten, some still there :
* Canned Heat, good blues on stage !
* Joe Cocker, truly a very good interpret this time ;
* Ten Years After, a very, very good jibe on stage. What a guitar !
* Jefferson Airplane, innovative, good and she's so beautiful :-)

On the other hand I'm ok with my TV journal : the only star is the public, and the art of Martin Scorsese is visible in the film.

Well, the film was worth it !

"This Land Is Your Land" (questa terra e' la tua terra ) è una delle più famose canzoni del folk americano, scritta da Woody Guthrie nel 1940. Fu scritta in risposta a "God Bless America" (Dio ferisce l'america) di Irving Berlin.
Guthrie considerò la canzone irrealistica e compiacente e, stufo di sentire Kate Smith cantarla alla radio, decise di scrivere una canzone diversa, inizialmente titolata "God Blessed America for Me" (Dio ha ferito l'America per me). Guthrie cambiò il testo molte volte, inserendo spesso versi esplicitamente politici antagonisti al Maccartismo che non figurano nelle versioni ufficiali dei testi pubblicati e tracce registrate.

In particolare queste strofe sono state soggette alle modifiche piu' frequenti:

1. In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
   By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
   As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
   Is this land made for you and me?
   
   As I went walking, I saw a sign there,
   And on the sign there, It said "Private Property."
   But on the other side, it didn't say nothing!
   That side was made for you and me.

Il testo ufficiale:

This land is your land, this land is my land
From the Redwood Forest to the New York Island
The Canadian mountain to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is made for you and me.

As I go walking this ribbon of highway
I see above me this endless skyway
And all around me the wind keeps saying:
This land is made for you and me.

I roam and I ramble and I follow my footsteps
Till I come to the sands of her mineral desert
The mist is lifting and the voice is saying:
This land is made for you and me.

Where the wind is blowing I go a strolling
The wheat field waving and the dust a rolling
The fog is lifting and the wind is saying:
This land is made for you and me.

Nobody living can ever stop me
As I go walking my freedom highway
Nobody living can make me turn back
This land is made for you and me.

Correlati :

Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
Joan Baez
Pete Seeger
Cisco Houston
The Kingston Trio
The Weavers
Peter, Paul and Mary
Tom Paxton
Country Joe McDonald
Judy Collins
Harry Belafonte
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
U2
John Mellencamp
Odetta
Richie Havens
Ani DiFranco
Billy Bragg
James Talley
Arlo Guthrie

1. In Italia:

Stormy Six
Edoardo Bennato
Luca Barbarossa
Moni Ovadia
Modena City Ramblers
Gang