Woodstock Day 3 – Sly and the Family Stone – Take You Higher
by Sly and the Family Stone Take You Higher
and then some! Sunday August 17, 1969
Category: Artists
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Woodstock Day 3 – Country Joe and the Fish, Rock n Soul Music
Country Joe and the Fish
Rock n Soul Music
Lighting up the crowd on Soggy Sunday, August 17, 1969
Woodstock Day 3, act i – The Jefferson Airplane – August 17, 1969
Sunday started at dawn with what Grace Slick called the Jefferson Airplane’s “Morning maniac music.”
Here’s Saturday Afternoon on Sunday morning.
“Acid, incense and perfume…” at Woodstock, August 17, 1969.
Woodstock Day 3 – August 17, 1969
Sunday’s lineup was pretty okay.
I guess. If you like that sort of thing.
Joe Cocker and the Grease Band went on at 2:00 PM.
Country Joe and Fish went on at 6:30 PM (after the thunderstorm)
Ten Years After went on at 8:00 PM
The Band went on at 10:00 PM
Johnny Winter went on at midnight
Blood Sweat and Tears at 1:30 AM
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and 3:00 AM
Woodstock Day 2 – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Excellent Performance by John Forgerty’s Creedence ends the evening
I Got a Spell On You with some seriously great guitar solos!
Front man extraordinaire, John Fogerty refused to allow any of their performance to be used as part of Oscar-winning documentary or resulting soundtrack album. It may have been about money, but it certainly wasn’t about the performance, which is so good and fortunately became available many years later.
Here is a killer version of Herb Slotkin’s soulful I Put a Spell On You, which shows off Fogerty’s powerful lead guitar skills.
And here is their entire set, put together with archival footage.
Woodstock Day 2 – Santana – August 16, 1969
Saturday Was Rainy at Woodstock
A mix of folky acoustic and searing electric lasted til the next morning
Rain delays required unscheduled acoustic guitar performances by Country Joe McDonald and John Sebastian, the latter there as an audience member but recruited to help out.
But then a band known only in San Francisco took the stage at 12:30 pm. Named for leader Carlos Santana and reputedly tripping on LSD and in front half a million people, they ended their set with one of the pinnacle performances in rock history, instantly vaulting Santana and 20 year old drummer Michael Shrieve into rock immortality.
Woodstock Day 1 – Joan Baez, August 15, 1969
Young and Very Pregnant Joan Baez Wows at Woodstock
Sweet Sir Galahad was her first really good composition
Miss Baez referred to Woodstock as the eye of the hurricane of that turbulent time, with good reason. She was among the half-millions people who marched on Washington on August 28, 1963, to demand Civil Rights African Americans and other peoples of color, and led them in singing “We Shall Over Come” at the Lincoln Memorial, and she supported peace initiatives throughout the course of the Viet Nam War.
Alfred Hayes’ poem “Joe Hill” set to music by Earl Robinson in 1936, and dedicated to the immigrant labor activist who was framed and executed for murder in 1915.
Here she performs with Jeffrey Shurtleff on vocals and guitar, and Richard Festinger on lead guitar
Tim Hardin at Woodstock, August 15, 1969
If I Were a Carpenter, by Tim Hardin
Woodstock Day 1, act i – Richie Havens
August 15, 1969, Woodstock Day 1 started with Richie Havens
A lasting legacy of advocacy through music
There is along standing legend that Richie Havens was asked to entertain the crowd for three hours, due to the transportation difficulties of other acts. This was perpetuated by Richie Havens, who was exaggerating when making such a claim. But he did play longer than expected.
Rich Haven Woodstock Setlist:
- From the Prison
- Get Together
- From the Prison (reprise)
- I’m a Stranger Here
- High Flying Bird
- I Can’t Make It Anymore
- With a Little Help from My Friends
- Handsome Johnny
- Strawberry Fields Forever > Hey Jude
- Freedom (Motherless Child)
And Richie Haven’s immortal Woodstock encore
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Woodstock August 15, 16, 17
Woodstock’s three days of peace, love, and music
… along with myth, legend, and for some an undying idealism regarding all three
The original poster, by David Edward Byrd
And the second poster listing the expected performers list.
This website is perhaps the best single source regarding which artist went on when and what happened when they did. But it does have some myths woven in, e.g. Richie Havens did not perform for three hours, but he did play longer than intended.
