pwal³ Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 anyone hereabouts went to woodstock? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfssongs Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 The closest I came to Woodstock was the traffic from people on their way home. I was a bit too young. Great Clip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 My brother-in-law went there. Says he doesn't really remember much (too much weed and acid). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 22 minutes ago, Bapu said: My brother-in-law went there. Says he doesn't really remember much (too much weed and acid). Ah, good times! Good times! 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Ironically, I was as close to New York as I would ever be during that time. I was visiting relatives in Michigan (and also got to see the Niagara Falls from the Canadian side). First plane trip all by myself! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackson white Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 @craigb Michigan? you could have gone to this... https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/t-bone-walker-and-luther-allison-in-performance-at-the-1969-ann-arbor-blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 12 minutes ago, jackson white said: @craigb Michigan? you could have gone to this... https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/t-bone-walker-and-luther-allison-in-performance-at-the-1969-ann-arbor-blues Heh, I almost saw the Beatles in 1969 as well, but my parents (who really didn't care about the Beatles) used my age as an excuse to not go. Probably a good decision! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Screed Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 I mean we ball Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Screed Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 12 hours ago, pwalpwal said: anyone hereabouts went to woodstock? I had a friend that smoked beech nut he smoked a fly too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 (edited) I was minus 3. I watched some of it on TV 20 years later - the anniversary came at a time when I was broadening my musical horizons. Young people didn't really like old people's music back then, and the 60's and 70's were not yet "vintage" either, just old and outdated. I remember other kids pointing their finger and looking at me kind of funny when I walked around with a copy of Black Sabbath's Sabotage and stuff like that under my arm in hight school... Can't imagine what it would have been if it had been Iron Butterfly or The Doors. The 30 year cycle had not yet ellapsed. But by 89, things were starting to shift. I liked bits of Santana, oddly enough, because of his band I guess. John Sebastian, Country Joe... Richie Havens really spoke to me. But a lot of it just semed a way too out there, long, confused and self-indulgent. The real reason I watched it was Hendrix. Back then, I had heard like 2 or 3 studio songs at most, so I didn't quite get all of what he was doing and a lot of it seemed whacky and sloppy and out of tune, but it still made quite an impression on me - especially Voodoo Chile. Edited November 28, 2022 by Rain 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Screed Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 6 hours ago, Rain said: John Sebastian Rain liked John Sebastian? Very interesting, do you believe in magic? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwal³ Posted November 28, 2022 Author Share Posted November 28, 2022 2 minutes ago, Jesse Screed said: Rain liked John Sebastian? Very interesting, do you believe in magic? depends on your rain of mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 When I was younger (fewer grey hairs, no beard, you know the deal), I was convinced Woodstock was actually held at the "other" Woodstock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock%2C_Oxfordshire - and was very happy to have visited such a famous site of musical history. I still feel somewhat foolish. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 10 hours ago, Rain said: I liked bits of Santana, oddly enough, because of his band I guess. John Sebastian My parents knew John Sebastian. Said he was a nice young man. They worked in the restaurant at the private school he went to in NJ back in the 60s and got to know him there. I don't think he was famous or 'known' back then but maybe I'm wrong. My dad said he used to tell him stories of musicians who would come to their house. I remember him mentioning Burl Ives and others that I can't recall anymore. Ives stuck with me because it seemed so odd to me that he would be there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 10 hours ago, Shane_B. said: Ives stuck with me because it seemed so odd to me that he would be there. I get that, I remember him for his acting career in the '60's and '70's, and thought of him as an actor who sometimes sang ("Holly jolly Christmas, it's the best time of the year...."). Then I looked him up and found out that decades before, he was a household name as a singer and songwriter. He was a singer who took up acting. Ives was a pioneer in the "folkie" scene. Had a folk radio show in the early 40's, a top-40 hit with a folk song ("Blue Tailed Fly" aka "Jimmy Crack Corn") in 1947. One of the people who ushered in the early-60's folk boom, which John Sebastian was initially a part of. For a folkie of Sebastian's age and stature, it would have been like having Woody Guthrie over to the house. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 I still remember the Burl Ives record I had as a kid! For me, the song that stood out was Puff the Magic Dragon. 🙂 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackson white Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 so what is it with burl ives? is there some anniversary date or movie soundtrack reincarnation going on somewhere? in spite of being rather clueless about it all, was hit up this weekend to rearrange and track a song of his. the original being a bit "creaky", suggested a "beatlesque update" to make it a decade or two more interesting, but what do i know... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Burl is in the air I guess. He's probably influenced all of us indirectly, now that I think about it, due to his influences on the people who influenced us. If he paved the way for Bob Dylan, he paved the way for Joni Mitchell, Rubber Soul....you name it. As for movie soundtracks, anyone who's ever watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (which is everyone, innit?), remembers the narrator, Sam The Snowman, voiced by Burl Ives. He, as Sam, sings the song "Holly Jolly Christmas" which went to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 as recently as 2020. It's been in the top 10 multiple times since it was first released. I'm getting these stats from Wikipedia. Amazing. He also sang Yukon Cornelius' "Silver and Gold." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfssongs Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 OK - John Sebastián was with the Loving Spoonfull & that was 65. But I don't think Burl Ives would have been at Woodstock. It's funny about John Sebastian because my first exposure to him (other than the Woodstock album) was through Joe Cocker's cover of Darling Be Home Soon. Then I bought a kind of bootleg record of Sebastian playing a solo gig with an electric guitar, not a real high quality recording but I was surprised that Cocker & Sebastian were covering the same song. The thing is I didn't even know about the Living Spoonfull till years later. It's kind of like the kids in the "Record" store saying hey look Pau McCartney was in another band before Wings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 (edited) Nevermind Edited November 30, 2022 by Rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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