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Post subject: WOODSTOCK week
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:57 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:06 pm
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i wnet to woodstock in '69 on youtube !!!! lol. the only day i wanna be there is the day hendrix performed... he totally stole the show. when you think of woodstock you think "the star spangled banner" or the who :)i think he belonged last on the performance list... it wouldn't make sense to have anyone go after hendrix and his 2 hour performance. At least, nbody wanted to.


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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:07 pm
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not me .but how are the turks and caicos ,i was there on the agressor two yrs ago ,beautiful place .dove with 2 atlantic bottlenoses off french cay at a site called g spot.amazing reefs you are very lucky .bet you its hard to get a fender over their though.


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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:26 pm
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From what I have heard and read, Jimi was the last day and last performer. He insisted on it. Best for last right :wink: A lot of the people were already gone. There loss. There was like 20K still there, but no where near the 250K at it's peak.
I am not sure how you feel, but when I watch Jimi play, especially at Woodstock, I can not even find the words......I appreciate and love almost every guitarist for what they are, but Jimi is god.

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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:00 pm
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I can tell you that the Woodstock experience was probably most enjoyed by people who weren't actually there. I was a tad too young for the original in 1969, but I managed to attend Woodstock '94 so I could get a taste of "the experience". Well after the first day my main thought (and that of many others) was "how the hell do I get out of here?". You can't imagine what the sweltering heat, mud, and virtually no possibilty of getting to a reasonably clean bathroom facility will do to your spirit. (The fact that I attended with a broken leg didn't help matters any.)

I also managed to a attend a one-day concert on the same site as the original Woodstock. It was pretty cool just being there I must admit. That was the best part of the whole event. The musicians themselves were kind of dissappointing, playing everthing except what people wanted to hear.

I don't remember ever hearing anyone who attended the original 1969 event speak highly of it. Take it from me, Woodstock is best enjoyed by popping in a tape or DVD of the movie and sitting on your couch.


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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:27 pm
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I was there....



....but several years after the Woodstock Festival. :?


Levon Helm (The Band) has a place near there and although his health is failing, he still has weekly jams at his Midnight Ramble Sessions in Woodstock and it's a good take if you're ever in the area.

http://www.levonhelm.com/midnight_ramble.htm

As for the festival DVD, I liked Alvin Lee & Ten Years After, The Who, Santana (with Michael Shrieve's awesome drum solo) and Hendrix the best.

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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:49 am
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I caught some of the festival on VH1-C and Crosby, Stills and Nash sounded great with their harmonies and playing of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes".

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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:04 pm
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My wife and her family lived very close to the Woodstock concert site. In fact, Jefferson Airplane's tour bus was stuck in traffic right in front of my wife's grandmother's house, and they put on an improptu concert right in the driveway while they were waiting for the helicopter to pick them up.

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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:51 pm
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It was on VH1 last night. I have seen it many many times, and really enjoy the behind the scenes stuff, and audience footage but the camera work on the artists themselves is terrible. The footage of Jimi looking like it was filmed by a little kid. I have to do a little homework, there has to be some better footage out there. I checked out youtube for Jimi footage, which was a lot better.

I was at Live Aid, and that, was no woodstock, but the Led Zep and Clapton sets stole the show. MTV filmed as bad as the Woodstock crew.

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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:58 pm
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Awe Woodstock week. No storys but my friend just went up!


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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:41 am
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When the camera pans around the crowd and catches some of the audience and interviews, it makes me wonder what *those* people might be doing today, thirty years later. :?

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I am much too young to have attended Woodstock myself, but being a fan of a lot of the music of the era I have done some research and enjoyed listening to and watching the recordings of the event.

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From what I have heard and read, Jimi was the last day and last performer. He insisted on it. Best for last right :wink: A lot of the people were already gone. There loss. There was like 20K still there, but no where near the 250K at it's peak.
I am not sure how you feel, but when I watch Jimi play, especially at Woodstock, I can not even find the words......I appreciate and love almost every guitarist for what they are, but Jimi is god.


Being a huge Hendrix fan myself, I have to say that if you do not have the Hendrix Woodstock DVD, pick it up!

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It contains some of the best footage of Jimi's guitar playing that I have ever seen! As a learning guitar player, I am particularly mezmorized by his fret-work on Red House...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjOQ9r35uiU

Also, Jimi was suppsed to be the last full act - the organizers had always planned this - but get this - they originally wanted to bring in Roy Rogers at the very end to close out the festival with "Happy Trails to You".... Ha! However, Jimi and the Gypsy Sun and Rainbow band were supposed to play late Sunday night. Due to all of the delays which took place throughout the festival, Hendrix did not go on until early Monday morning - after a good deal of festival-goes had already left...

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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:23 am
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I have a woodstock DVD......doesn't that count?

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I was 9 and living on Long Island. Couldn't make it. I had frogs to catch.

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