Rockcast Monday.08.17.09a; Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Al Kooper, Blood Sweat & Tears, Grateful Dead
I had planned to do a set of my favorite cuts
from Woodstock for a few years now. I was a
bit put off by the lame documentary I watched
and all the marketing. My Mom told me today
she felt at the time in 1969 it was just a bunch
of dirty Hippies doing drugs. A bunch is right.
Actually I was a kid who sat in his cousins basement
and listened on Ham radio to reports from the
site. What we heard from the conversations going on
was a great time was being had by mostly all. I was
sitting there imagining what I was hearing and it was
a cool experience which included us all talking about
everything we were hearing and why it did not match
what was being shown on TV. Obviously My Mom
was watching the TV. Explains why she remembers it
the way she does. Of course I had to include some
rare parts of the Festival. Enjoy.
rockcast.us
1. Johnny Winter - Mama Talk To Your Daughter [Live Woodstock 8.18.69]
2. Jefferson Airplane - The Other Side Of This Life [Live Woodstock 8.16.69]
3. Santana - Waiting [Live Woodstock 8.16.69]
4. Janis Joplin - As Good As You've Been [Live Woodstock 8.16.69]
5. Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin' [Live Woodstock 8.18.69]
6. Al Kooper & Child Is The Father To The Man [Original Blood Sweat & Tears]
I Can't Quit Her [Live Bottom Line NYC '94]
7. The Grateful Dead - Fade To Grey [Live Big AL Fest '89]
posted by Big AL @ 8/17/2009
5 Comments
5 Comments:
When it comes to Woodstock lots of great artist, I was 6 and my favorite tune then and still today was by " Country Joe Mcdonald " rebel mo-fo
Grace Slick with a Jew Fro? Yeah I remember that "Do".
Al,
The documentary I saw covered what you said about differing storys. At first the general media wanted it to appear to be a failure and the headlines were "Hippies In Sloppy Mess" kinds of stories. One of the reporters they interviewed, I think he was the New York Times reporter, was getting pressured to report it like that. He told them it's not like that, I'm not doing that story, they eventually relented. One of the guys running the thing said, it was the bank of phones they had. They were constantly being used 24 hours, and the kids were telling their parents the real story. The parents would call their local rag and tell them their stories were off base, evantually the truth got out.
Something I don't understand is the artists that refused to be in the movie, Creedence is a good example. The reason: they didn't think their performance was good enough. I have seen clips of their performance, I think it was pretty good actually, better than I expected.
Dear Big AL,
one of my all-time favourites is the intro to Country Joe McDonald - Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die
Even today and with young people this one produces the right chorus. I tried it. Result was the same as in the seventies. Everybody went "Gimme an F" for weeks.
Now everything is different, no oppression, no feeding the young to the machine, no poverty vs wallstreet shuffle... Wait. The times have changed, yet the song remains the same.
Anyway, there are still things worth fighting for. See Steppenwolf Live Monster for details.
The background, Mathews Southern Comfort, was on the very first tape with the very first Cassette Recorder I owned. I took me a little to override the automatic recording level control. Next stop was BTO, Aerosmith and Led Zep.
Dino
P.S. Many happy returns to Miss Nasal. Hearing her say Your Listening to Big AL's Rockcast puts a smile on my face every time. And This is the Rock, who's calling, please? By the way, you didn't play Is AL there? AL who? AL Coholic for quite some time. That's as good as Bart calling Moe's Tavern and asking Moe to announce Amanda Kissenhug. Ah, the simple pleasures of life...
The Fish Cheer is by far the one thing beside Jimi's S.S.Banner that most remember. Feel like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag is the song after. Woodstock is the best version of the song in my opinion.
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