<p>Not all of them were/became household names.</p>
<p>[Woodstock</a> 1969 Lineup and Songlist](<a href=“http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html]Woodstock”>http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html)</p>
<p>The only one I don’t have on vinyl is “Quill”.
I need to go to Amoeba today and fix that.</p>
<p>I’m impressed.</p>
<p>Very cool. Just sent the link to my H who is teaching a course on the 60’s this semester.</p>
<p>A stroll down memory lane. No, I wasn’t there . . . my cousin and his girlfriend asked me to go but I was a counselor at a summer camp in Canada and my mother refused to let me leave early (responsibilities and all!) Turned out I didn’t miss too much because my cousin got stuck in all the traffic on the NYS Thruway and never made it! </p>
<p>But I love the music and reading the list reminded me of songs I haven’t heard in years. And the playlist was interesting . . . who got only a few songs and who (The Who!) got lots. And who declined the invite.</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>“I’m impressed.”</p>
<p>don’t be------it’s a compulsion</p>
<p>Now I’ve heard that the first day mostly soloists got to play because the traffic kept the groups from getting there with all their equipment. A guy/gal with a guitar could just stroll in. Anyone else heard this?</p>
<p>DH had a ticket and never was able to get close. His sister, the forever hippie, did not have a ticket, and of course made it there.</p>
<p>I stood in a very long line and finally made it into the Porto Potty while Joan Baez was singing “Joe Hill.”</p>
<p>This is great!<br>
Re the list of cancelled acts–had Lighthouse done anything by 1969–didn’t “One Fine Morning” come out later?
Interesting that Joni Mitchell missed the whole thing.</p>
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<p>They were very popular in Canada by then, and, if I’m not mistaken, had performed several times at festivals in the U.S. Richie Havens is the one who invited them to come to Woodstock. He was a big fan and also a financial backer. </p>
<p>I saw them perform several times in the early 70’s and always loved their music. Had a huge crush on Ralph Cole. 
Years later, I met Bob McBride, whose beautiful voice was by that time, sadly, gone. He and I had a mutual friend who had known him for years and had, along with many others, tried to help him with his substance abuse problem. It’s been over ten years, I believe, since he died. Paul Hoffert has had a tremendously successful life and is a college professor here in Toronto. Many excellent musicians played with Lighthouse through the years. I’m pretty sure that a few of them still perform together.</p>
<p>It was fun looking at that list. I had to chuckle when I saw Sha Na Na. I had forgotten that they were there.</p>
<p>The amazing thing is that the show was originally conceived as sort of small folk music bash largely for record execs and recording business agents in order to promote a new recording studio that they were planning to build in bucolic upstate New York. But the concert itself soon took over all the planning and the studio was never built.</p>
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<p>Yes, she has said in interviews that it is one of the big disappointments of her life that she missed it. She had originally planned to both play at the concert and appear on the Dick Cavett Show shortly after. But her agent worried that the traffic was so bad that they wouldn’t be able to get back to Manahtten in time to make the TV show. So they cancelled the concert appearance. I watched that Dick Cavett episode and Joni and the other guests spent most of the time talking about Woodstock, because by then it had exploded all over the news.</p>
<p>Another footnote: Tim Hardin’s set was so short because he was almost incoherent from the dope he had ingested. He had originally been planned as one of the big headliners.</p>
<p>Thanks for that link - huge fan of Woodstock. Always thought it was funny that in the movie you really only see CSN, but it was CSNY that performed. Love everything about the whole three day event.</p>
<p>Like a complete unknown</p>
<p>Bob Dylan arrested while walking before a concert in NJ by a 20 something cop who did not recognize his name.</p>
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<p>Read more: [url=<a href=“Like a complete unknown: Bob Dylan frogmarched to collect ID after rookie policewoman fails to recognise scruffy music legend | Daily Mail Online”>Like a complete unknown: Bob Dylan frogmarched to collect ID after rookie policewoman fails to recognise scruffy music legend | Daily Mail Online;
<p>I wonder why Country Joe got to play twice. </p>
<p>Sha Na Na is pretty funny - watched the video of them doing At The Hop. The lead singer/bass is now provost at the Jewish Theological Seminary. (He says the guys in Ten Years After shared food and camper with them, while The Who were extremely snooty.)</p>
<p>LOL about Dylan.</p>
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<p>He was pressed into service on the first day before his band had arrived. Note that his first performance is solo but the second one is with the Fish who had arrived by then. </p>
<p>The first day was running horribly behind schedule. Acts couldn’t get there on time through all the traffic. So Country Joe was asked to perform way before he was ready. Same with John Sebastian. He wasn’t supposed to perform until the second or third day, but they shoved him out there to fill in on the first day - before he had completed his rehearsals and ended up forgetting the words to some of his songs.</p>
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<p>The organizers were trashing The Who because they refused to play for free. The whole ticket/admission system had collapsed, and it was thought that the organizers were taking financial bath. So in the hippie spirit of the times performers were asked to forgo their promised fees. The Who refused, saying that they had flown over all the way from London just to play in that show and they wanted their money. So others were down on The Who for being such mercenary downers.</p>
<p>Iron Butterfly were scheduled to play to play too, but they were stuck at the airport due to traffic. Their agent demanded they be flown out by private helicopter and other expensive perks, and so the organizers said forget it.</p>
<p>The Who were always snotty. Nothing new there. I love the incident when Pete Townshend bonked Abbie Hoffman over the head with his guitar and kicked him off the stage when Abbie tried to make a political speech during their set.</p>
<p>There was no way Dylan would have played Woodstock. He lived there for a while and complained that hippies were always crawling around his house and bugging him and his family. He left the area in disgust.</p>
<p>Sirius XM is playing a Woodstock special all weekend.</p>
<p>^^^ What channel??</p>
<p>Saw Richie Havens on Good Morning America this morning. He said he was first up because he was there and everyone else was stuck in traffic. He sang every song he knew and the producers were desperate to keep him singing so he improvised Freedom. Great story!!</p>
<p>Thanks for the link barrons. Those seem like some fairly short sets in the first couple days. We got a little more music at the Seattle Pop Festival which occured abount a month before Woodstock. It was as they say all good, but best what the f&&&&k moment was when an expected folk singer Alice Cooper went on…</p>
<p>Dudedad–too funny!</p>