Woodstock: Forty Years On-- Part 3

Bob Stroud didn't just play just music from Woodstock, unfortunately. However, most of the show was Woodstock related.


AT THE HOP-- SHA NA NA-- If you were there, you just didn't know who was going to show up on stage. Quite a diverse talent pool. This is the summer of '69 and the height of hippiedom, long hairs are everywhere except on the stage. Who are those greasers anyway. Back to the 50s. (Where's Bowser?)
PIECE OF MY HEART-- JANIS JOPLIN-- with her new band. She was out of Big brother and the Holding Company by this point in time and had her Kosmic Blues Band now. (I always felt she should have made the cut to be in the film or at least on the soundtrack. She certainly epitomized the era.)


BEATLE BREAK, BUT LIVE

I SAW HER STANDING THERE-- BEATLES-- Not Woodstock, but it is live. So many things jump out at you when you hear Beatles live recordings. What an absolute machine Ringo Starr was there playing live. What a great rock and roll band this is. And McCartney's vocals are just ? (not sure what he said). What a great singer. (Wouldn't it have been something if the Beatles and Stones would have also been at Woodstock?)
LONG TALL SALLY-- BEATLES

WOODSTOCK-- JONI MITCHELL-- going down to Yasgur's farm again with an artist who captured the setting's surreal, dreamlike beauty. Her composition that sums the whole thing up. (She wasn't there either. This was released after the festival.)
THEME FROM AN IMAGINARY WESTERN-- MOUNTAIN-- One masterful guitar solo from one masterful guitar player, Leslie West.

It Definitely Wasn't in Woodstock, Illinois, As One Recent Dumb High School Graduate Thought. --RoadDog