gibsonfan159 Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 I'm not a big Santana fan, but I think his band had the tightest set of the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tainted cheese Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Sly and the Family Stone might be up there too, just saw a really good documentary (relatively new) on Woodstock on PBS. They had that farm land quakin'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 10 Years After Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeaceFrogYum Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Sly, Santana, & Hendrix were the top 3 IMO. Richie Havens gets honorable mention as he had to hold down the whole damn show for quite some time as the other performers had not yet arrived. He even made up that song Freedom on the spot as a means to fill time. Now to be fair, Freedom is not exactly lyrically or melodically complex my any means (two chords and one repeated word), but it did the trick and prevented the whole festival from descending into complete pandemonium before it even got off the ground. Most do not realize how close Woodstock came to devolving into an Altamont. If the promoters would have tried to stop the gate crashers' and not opened it up as a free concert, Woodstock would have been akin to the Vigorelli Velodrome riot in 71' but times 1000x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillumpuffer Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Port - o - Sans man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickey g Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 The Who, Santana...and Joe Cocker gets an Honorable Mention, just for "A Little Help From My Friends" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Santana The Woodstock special on 'American Experience' had some very cool footage I had never seen before. Also the complete setlists from everybody, which I had never bothered to look at previously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedZeppfan1977 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 I was just too young by a few years to have been there. Then Watkins Glenn had a huge show in the early 70's. I think the Allman Bros and the Band were there? Wasn't Janis Joplin at Woodstock? I AM a Santana fan. But not huge. Who doesnt remember Abraxas? Woodstock was such a rare and historic event. The locals hated it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kipper Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 Canned Heat rocked the house. The Paul Butterfield Blues band was way up there too, and who can deny the performace by The Band wasn't also top notch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeaceFrogYum Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Thought Rick Danko looked like Dermott Mulroney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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