downtime672 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 As I sit here and listen to Texas pop festival and get bitter as that set list could and should have been captured at Woodstock .The icing on the cake is that they were in asbury park New Jersey playing a show with joe cocker just hours before the festival started !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingzoso Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 As I sit here and listen to Texas pop festival and get bitter as that set list could and should have been captured at Woodstock .The icing on the cake is that they were in asbury park New Jersey playing a show with joe cocker just hours before the festival started !! I understand your thinking. From what I know, Led Zeppelin was approached to appear at the 1969 Woodstock festival. However, it was Peter Grant that decided or dissuaded the band from appearing and playing there. Peter's logic (at that time) was that Led Zeppelin would have been just another "Band on the Bill". Peter also felt that Led Zeppelin would not "make" their "fee" if they played Woodstock. (Again) at that time, Peter Grant, as the Band's manager, thought it would be more lucrative if Led Zeppelin shunned Woodstock and concentrated on playing smaller gigs on Their own around the East Coast. I think that if Led Zeppelin did play at the 1969 Woodstock festival and had Their entire 1+ hour set filmed by Martin Scorsese, it would and could "rival" or even beat out the famous footage of Jimi Hendrix and His version of the "Star Spangled Banner". Just My Opinion... Edited to add: Martin Scorsese was an actual Cameraman that shot a lot of the footage of the bands that played at Woodstock 1969. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross62 Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Howard Smith was the only journalist phoning in live reports from Woodstock 1969.Broadcast nationally throughout the weekend,here are a handful that allow us a glimpse into that magical and somewhat hallucinogenic era. https://soundcloud.com/the-smith-tapes/live-from-woodstock-pt-1 https://soundcloud.com/the-smith-tapes/live-from-woodstock-t-2 https://soundcloud.com/the-smith-tapes/live-from-woodstock-pt-3 https://soundcloud.com/the-smith-tapes/live-from-woodstock-pt-4 https://soundcloud.com/the-smith-tapes/live-from-woodstock-pt-5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesunday Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Nothing could beat Hendrix's guitar performance at Woodstock. Rival? Questionable. Jimi's performance at Woodstock is unique in the annals of electric guitar playing. That's not to say Zep wouldn't have put on a terrific show at Woodstock. They would have. But Page is/was not Hendrix. Hendrix was not Page. There's no point in comparing the two. There's a reason why Hendrix always ranks #1 for inspiring electric guitarists the world over. I think that if Led Zeppelin did play at the 1969 Woodstock festival and had Their entire 1+ hour set filmed by Martin Scorsese, it would and could "rival" or even beat out the famous footage of Jimi Hendrix and His version of the "Star Spangled Banner". Just My Opinion... Edited to add: Martin Scorsese was an actual Cameraman that shot a lot of the footage of the bands that played at Woodstock 1969. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melcórë Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Edited to add: Martin Scorsese was an actual Cameraman that shot a lot of the footage of the bands that played at Woodstock 1969. ...Source? I've always seen that he was an editor on the original film, but never that he handled any of the camerawork. And to your whole Hendrix v. Zeppelin idea...I don't think they would have been a good fit at all. Money came into the question -- they made more money playing those other July-August festivals than they would have at Woodstock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjin-san Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000217/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melcórë Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Credited as editor and assistant director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Martin Scorsese didn't handle a camera at Woodstock, so no, he was not an actual cameraman. As editor, however, he did help direct where the cameramen should film and later helped edit the hours of footage into a movie. He expounds at length about his Woodstock experience here: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/05-1 Personally, I've always felt not being at Woodstock was a blessing in disguise for Led Zeppelin. It freed them from being saddled with that "Woodstock hippie" tag that dated a lot of those bands almost immediately after the Festival was over. Woodstock was a summing up of the '60s...Led Zeppelin was looking forward into the '70s and beyond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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