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Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

11 by alex maiolo_Archive
Fitting performance since it was literally and figuratively the end of the 60's. The principles were long out the door and everyone just started caring about themsleves and having a good time, opening the door to the 70's. It was a great opportunity wasted.

I never cared much for Hendrix's music, but he was supposedly a nice, sweet guy early on. He, like everyone else, got up his own ass when the hard drugs started.

Woodstock was a joke. When someone tells me they "were therrrrre mannnn" I just say, "better you than me."
Three Days of Peace and Music?
More like three days of effluvia and desperation.
These people who were "getting back to the garden" turned Max Yasgur's farm into a brownfield.

A few performances were good, but they were by non-hippie bands, like the Who, who said plainly that they didn't fit in with the movement.

How Michael Lang ever worked again is beyond me. This is what happens when hippies think they can run a business on dreams alone.

-A
Itchy McGoo wrote:I would like to be a "shoop-shoop" girl in whatever band Alex Maiolo is in.

Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

12 by Big John_Archive
I think Band of Gypsys had been arround for at least half a year at this point.

The stories I have heard is that they were helecoptered in from New York early sat afternoon, and they were suppost to headline the secound nite like 9 pm or sundown. Things were pushed pack and they came on on dawn the third day (I think the Who came on at dawn the secound day). I think that billy Cox - the bass player - who was not a drug user had gotten dosed severial times backstage with LSD in drinks and such (the band was up all night). So battleing exhaustion and other problems they got on the stage and did a good show considering.

Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

13 by Ishmael
scott wrote:The surprisingest thing though was watching Hendrix's glares, really cold and angry glares, that he kept shooting this bassist every time the guy fucked up. It was far from "peace love happiness etc" or whatever one would expect from Hendrix during Woodstock.

It looks like you learned some extremely obvious truths (or rather, you didn't):

-Woodstock was a bunch of bullshit

-Hendrix was a serious, professional musician who actually cared about how people in his band played. Do you think the Experience and Band of Gypsies records and (non-Woodstock) concerts sound good because everybody had good vibes or something?

Are you real happy when the people in your Polvo cover band fuck up a bunch at your shows? If so, it's no wonder you aren't getting anywhere.

Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

14 by scott_Archive
well actually, I can be a huge prick about everybod hitting the changes right and all such. at the same time, i've been playing in bands long enough and know enough about interpersonal yadda yadda to know that shooting angry glares at a bandmate on stage gets you very nowhere. people don't like to be made to feel like they're failing, especially in the spotlight. and especially a straight doude who's been dosed. hendrix was pretty young though, and a hell of a quitar player, so I can dig it.

as far as my band getting nowhere, after like a year of playing shows and one self-recorded demo, I think we're "making it" as much as we deserve.
"The bastards have landed"

www.myspace.com/thechromerobes - now has a couple songs from the new album

Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

15 by Your Capn Speakin_Archive
Steve V. wrote:From what I've read, all of Woodstock was a bit weird and more than a bit shitty.

I remember reading accounts saying that everything that went wrong did go wrong, and it is only the nostalgic pot-smoking surburban hippie teenagers who view that whole time period as being the golden age of freedom and music. Get fucking bent.


Your statements are accurate, and pretty much true for much of the original rock festival era. Hendrix did play the Atlanta Pop Fest in '70 and reports are Atlanta Pop was an exception to the era. He supposedly played the Star Spangled Banner to a fireworks accompaniment. That must've really fucked with the punters on orange sunshine.

Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

16 by Steve V_Archive
Your Cap'n Speakin' wrote:
Steve V. wrote:From what I've read, all of Woodstock was a bit weird and more than a bit shitty.

I remember reading accounts saying that everything that went wrong did go wrong, and it is only the nostalgic pot-smoking surburban hippie teenagers who view that whole time period as being the golden age of freedom and music. Get fucking bent.


Your statements are accurate, and pretty much true for much of the original rock festival era. Hendrix did play the Atlanta Pop Fest in '70 and reports are Atlanta Pop was an exception to the era. He supposedly played the Star Spangled Banner to a fireworks accompaniment. That must've really fucked with the punters on orange sunshine.


Know what I've always found amusing?

From what I've read, a lot of hippies at that time were very critical and somewhat very disturbed by the actions of the American government. Tumultous times all around, and a very difficult time to be a black man in particular.

Then this flamboyantly dressed, tall, afro-wavin' black fucking guru gets up and plays "the Star Spangled Banner" in the middle of these pussy fucking white surburban puds' three-day pot barbecue. That shit is fucking cool. Like the intro to "Wake Up America" by the Dayglo Abortions or something. Predominantly critical, self-hating, liberal fanbase, forced to listen to an epic rendition of an otherwise shitty and boring song.

Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

18 by wiggins_Archive
the dead milkmen wrote:Sha Na Na..killed Kennedy
Sha Na Na..stabbed that guy at Altamont
Sha Na Na..started the Peace Corps
Sha Na Na..were the first astronauts
Sha Na Na..grew organic food
Sha Na Na..led student sit-ins
Sha Na Na..joined the Black Panthers
Sha Na Na..never seemed to fit in

You can move to Montana and listen to Santana
But you still won't be as cool as Sha Na Na
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Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

19 by Little Atlas Heavyweight_Archive
wiggins wrote:
the dead milkmen wrote:Sha Na Na..killed Kennedy
Sha Na Na..stabbed that guy at Altamont
Sha Na Na..started the Peace Corps
Sha Na Na..were the first astronauts
Sha Na Na..grew organic food
Sha Na Na..led student sit-ins
Sha Na Na..joined the Black Panthers
Sha Na Na..never seemed to fit in

You can move to Montana and listen to Santana
But you still won't be as cool as Sha Na Na


point: wiggins.
somebody help me. i can't help myself.

Funny thing about Hendrix at Woodstock

20 by cal_Archive
The group that played with Hendrix at Woodstock was a pickup band called Gypsy Sun & Rainbows. During the set he says they're just up there jamming, so it's understandably really loose and off the cuff.

Hendrix was supposedly tripping his balls off during the set. The facial expressions he gives are probably a combination of this, trying to give cues to the band, and just the exertion of rockin' out.

No doubt he plays some amazing guitar there, though.
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