Woodstock 1969 honoured with expansive 50th anniversary box set

Meltdown99

Woodstock 1969 honoured with expansive 50th anniversary box set

https://trib.al/PGESDsv?fbclid=IwAR1BusKL9pHmJj0mUlpasOMbQcEyBQbHwEF3ZVmok9lE2paY110pax62xu8

tempo_n_groove

That is cool.  When I first read I thought "how the hell can they expand it anymore?!?" then I read that almost 300 tracks were never released!  Cool.

I wonder who was left off though?  Sha Na Na better be on it!

brianlux

I'm one of those people from that era who never got into that whole Woodstock thing.  There were a few good to great performances- certainly some of the Who stuff and, of course, Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner"- but mostly it was a waste.  I'd long kept that opinion mostly to myself, avoiding the inevitable "What, are you kidding?" type comments.  But then I read what Pete Towshend said in his book about how he hated Woodstock and I thought, "OK, I'm not so far off after all".

As to the box set:  38 CD recordings of mostly overly stoned musicians having had to endure all kinds of craziness to get in a short set for the biggest stoned crowd in history?  I would find that tedious at best.

But who knows, it might be fun if they include authentic samples of Woodstock mud, photos of Abbie Hoffman getting bonked by Pete Townshend, and a special commemorative hit of purple haze on blotter paper. And what the heck, it's only $800 bucks U.S.!

tempo_n_groove

@brianlux
https://youtu.be/AHzF8gkknEg

brianlux

tempo_n_groove said:

@brianlux
https://youtu.be/AHzF8gkknEg

"The next fucking person who walks across this stage is going to get fucking killed". 

PJ_Soul

brianlux said:

I'm one of those people from that era who never got into that whole Woodstock thing.  There were a few good to great performances- certainly some of the Who stuff and, of course, Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner"- but mostly it was a waste.  I'd long kept that opinion mostly to myself, avoiding the inevitable "What, are you kidding?" type comments.  But then I read what Pete Towshend said in his book about how he hated Woodstock and I thought, "OK, I'm not so far off after all".

As to the box set:  38 CD recordings of mostly overly stoned musicians having had to endure all kinds of craziness to get in a short set for the biggest stoned crowd in history?  I would find that tedious at best.

But who knows, it might be fun if they include authentic samples of Woodstock mud, photos of Abbie Hoffman getting bonked by Pete Townshend, and a special commemorative hit of purple haze on blotter paper. And what the heck, it's only $800 bucks U.S.!

I imagine this most appeals to those who were actually there.

Me... well, I appreciate the history of Woodstock, and of course like some of the artists who played there... But my god, actually being there pretty much looks like hell on Earth to me. I would have had to load myself so full of drugs not to hate the entire experience that I would have OD'd and hated it anyway, lol. I gather a lot of people look at it, and watch the documentary and everything, and wish they'd been able to go... I look at it and just count myself lucky that I wasn't around and the right age for it, because knowing me, I probably would have gone, and it would have gone down as one of the worst weekends of my life. Despite some amazing music of course, not that I would have been able to appreciate it very much from that hell pit they call the crowd.

PJ_Soul

Woodstock 50 Co-Founder Files Restraining Order Against Investors He Says Tried To ‘Suffocate And Kill’ Music Festival

https://etcanada.com/news/449792/woodstock-50-co-founder-says-investors-trying-to-suffocate-and-kill-music-festival/?fbclid=IwAR2l7UU7Q7lkrPrtzeaafpeFn1POYpiy-6Qrlyo-lGYrCHqPZTTir8hGEKU

brianlux

PJ_Soul said:

brianlux said:

I'm one of those people from that era who never got into that whole Woodstock thing.  There were a few good to great performances- certainly some of the Who stuff and, of course, Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner"- but mostly it was a waste.  I'd long kept that opinion mostly to myself, avoiding the inevitable "What, are you kidding?" type comments.  But then I read what Pete Towshend said in his book about how he hated Woodstock and I thought, "OK, I'm not so far off after all".

As to the box set:  38 CD recordings of mostly overly stoned musicians having had to endure all kinds of craziness to get in a short set for the biggest stoned crowd in history?  I would find that tedious at best.

But who knows, it might be fun if they include authentic samples of Woodstock mud, photos of Abbie Hoffman getting bonked by Pete Townshend, and a special commemorative hit of purple haze on blotter paper. And what the heck, it's only $800 bucks U.S.!

I imagine this most appeals to those who were actually there.

Me... well, I appreciate the history of Woodstock, and of course like some of the artists who played there... But my god, actually being there pretty much looks like hell on Earth to me. I would have had to load myself so full of drugs not to hate the entire experience that I would have OD'd and hated it anyway, lol. I gather a lot of people look at it, and watch the documentary and everything, and wish they'd been able to go... I look at it and just count myself lucky that I wasn't around and the right age for it, because knowing me, I probably would have gone, and it would have gone down as one of the worst weekends of my life. Despite some amazing music of course, not that I would have been able to appreciate it very much from that hell pit they call the crowd.

I totally agree. 

The only U.S. festival I can imagine that would have been worse would be the Altamont Speedway fiasco & disaster.  I almost DID go to that one.  Thank god I didn't!

willbarclay

I dunno ... would have been pretty swell to see Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young at Woodstock.

oh, and the Band too

tempo_n_groove

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

@brianlux
https://youtu.be/AHzF8gkknEg

"The next fucking person who walks across this stage is going to get fucking killed". 

Glad you enjoyed that!

cp3iverson

I want a Woodstock 94 mega boxset like this

Who Princess

$800 is ridiculous but I wouldn't mind hearing complete sets of some of the artists.  A few were released separately years ago and I love Johnny Winter's performance. 

As for whether I'd have wanted to be there, I'm not interested in camping in the best of situations.  But I'm sure if you're young and hanging out with a bunch of like-minded people, maybe it's easier to put up with stuff for a few days.  This old woman sat through a day of rain and mud at ACL fest several years ago to see PJ as headliners; in fact, my prince and I stuck it out to the closing even though our friends had already headed out to the car. 

Meltdown99

brianlux said:

PJ_Soul said:

brianlux said:

I'm one of those people from that era who never got into that whole Woodstock thing.  There were a few good to great performances- certainly some of the Who stuff and, of course, Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner"- but mostly it was a waste.  I'd long kept that opinion mostly to myself, avoiding the inevitable "What, are you kidding?" type comments.  But then I read what Pete Towshend said in his book about how he hated Woodstock and I thought, "OK, I'm not so far off after all".

As to the box set:  38 CD recordings of mostly overly stoned musicians having had to endure all kinds of craziness to get in a short set for the biggest stoned crowd in history?  I would find that tedious at best.

But who knows, it might be fun if they include authentic samples of Woodstock mud, photos of Abbie Hoffman getting bonked by Pete Townshend, and a special commemorative hit of purple haze on blotter paper. And what the heck, it's only $800 bucks U.S.!

I imagine this most appeals to those who were actually there.

Me... well, I appreciate the history of Woodstock, and of course like some of the artists who played there... But my god, actually being there pretty much looks like hell on Earth to me. I would have had to load myself so full of drugs not to hate the entire experience that I would have OD'd and hated it anyway, lol. I gather a lot of people look at it, and watch the documentary and everything, and wish they'd been able to go... I look at it and just count myself lucky that I wasn't around and the right age for it, because knowing me, I probably would have gone, and it would have gone down as one of the worst weekends of my life. Despite some amazing music of course, not that I would have been able to appreciate it very much from that hell pit they call the crowd.

I totally agree. 

The only U.S. festival I can imagine that would have been worse would be the Altamont Speedway fiasco & disaster.  I almost DID go to that one.  Thank god I didn't!

Is that the festival where the Stones had the Hell's Angels for security?

Meltdown99

I have a cousin who attended Woodstock.  It was not the greatest experience...after Woodstock, he left his hippie and partying ways behind...lol.  He was much older than me, he said it was a nice memory...but for the most part, it was kind of miserable.

Meltdown99

Who Princess said:

$800 is ridiculous but I wouldn't mind hearing complete sets of some of the artists.  A few were released separately years ago and I love Johnny Winter's performance. 

As for whether I'd have wanted to be there, I'm not interested in camping in the best of situations.  But I'm sure if you're young and hanging out with a bunch of like-minded people, maybe it's easier to put up with stuff for a few days.  This old woman sat through a day of rain and mud at ACL fest several years ago to see PJ as headliners; in fact, my prince and I stuck it out to the closing even though our friends had already headed out to the car. 

I agree $800 is way too steep...

cutz

Meltdown99 said:

brianlux said:

PJ_Soul said:

brianlux said:

I'm one of those people from that era who never got into that whole Woodstock thing.  There were a few good to great performances- certainly some of the Who stuff and, of course, Jimi's "Star Spangled Banner"- but mostly it was a waste.  I'd long kept that opinion mostly to myself, avoiding the inevitable "What, are you kidding?" type comments.  But then I read what Pete Towshend said in his book about how he hated Woodstock and I thought, "OK, I'm not so far off after all".

As to the box set:  38 CD recordings of mostly overly stoned musicians having had to endure all kinds of craziness to get in a short set for the biggest stoned crowd in history?  I would find that tedious at best.

But who knows, it might be fun if they include authentic samples of Woodstock mud, photos of Abbie Hoffman getting bonked by Pete Townshend, and a special commemorative hit of purple haze on blotter paper. And what the heck, it's only $800 bucks U.S.!

I imagine this most appeals to those who were actually there.

Me... well, I appreciate the history of Woodstock, and of course like some of the artists who played there... But my god, actually being there pretty much looks like hell on Earth to me. I would have had to load myself so full of drugs not to hate the entire experience that I would have OD'd and hated it anyway, lol. I gather a lot of people look at it, and watch the documentary and everything, and wish they'd been able to go... I look at it and just count myself lucky that I wasn't around and the right age for it, because knowing me, I probably would have gone, and it would have gone down as one of the worst weekends of my life. Despite some amazing music of course, not that I would have been able to appreciate it very much from that hell pit they call the crowd.

I totally agree. 

The only U.S. festival I can imagine that would have been worse would be the Altamont Speedway fiasco & disaster.  I almost DID go to that one.  Thank god I didn't!

Is that the festival where the Stones had the Hell's Angels for security?

Yes.

brianlux

Meltdown99 said:

I have a cousin who attended Woodstock.  It was not the greatest experience...after Woodstock, he left his hippie and partying ways behind...lol.  He was much older than me, he said it was a nice memory...but for the most part, it was kind of miserable.

A lot of things about the hippie era were miserable.  History has been kind to the hippie years.  A lot of younger people see pictures of smiling stoned hippies with flowers in their hair dancing and having a great time and everything is colorful and beautiful and groovy.  But there was a dark side to those days.  I lived right in the middle of the San Francisco scene in the latter few years of that era.   I lived on the edge of the Haight Ashbury from 1970 to 1973 and that neighborhood was filthy, there were a lot of people walking around with (as Dylan put it) "tombstones in their eyes", it was often dangerous and you almost could never walk through the center of that neighborhood without being harassed by freeloaders, junkies, and acid burn-outs.  And throughout that whole period, while some were tripping and grooving and bumming, many others were being blown to bits, poisoned with agent orange and traumatized for life by a brutal was going on halfway around the world.  

I don't mean to totally trash that period of time.  There were great movements being born at that time like the Peace Movement, Women's Liberation, Black Power and the Civil Rights Movement, the Chicano Movement, and the American Indian Movement, and there was great literature being written, and some of the best music on earth was being created.  But it was certainly not all a bed of roses- not by any stretch of the imagination.

PJ_Soul

willbarclay said:

I dunno ... would have been pretty swell to see Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young at Woodstock.

oh, and the Band too

But both could be seen elsewhere, without all the inconvenience, lack of food, traffic jams, stink, and dirt.

willbarclay

PJ_Soul said:

willbarclay said:

I dunno ... would have been pretty swell to see Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young at Woodstock.

oh, and the Band too

But both could be seen elsewhere, without all the inconvenience, lack of food, traffic jams, stink, and dirt.

Whats wrong with a little stink and dirt? 

rummy

cp3iverson said:

I want a Woodstock 94 mega boxset like this

I'm hoping they do something similar one day for those Lollapalooza shows in the early/mid-nineties. 

To to be honest, I think they are milking this thing to death. I think the lore of the festival has most certainly overtaken the quality of the actual event. I suppose that can be said for pretty much anything, however.

cp3iverson

The funniest (Maybe saddest?)thing to me is that Hendrix played at like 8am on Monday morning and 75% of the crowd was already long gone.