Woodstock 1969 Lineup
Day One: Friday, August 15
Richie Havens
1. Minstrel From Gault
2. High Flyin' Bird
3. I Can't Make It Anymore
4. With A Little Help
5. Strawberry Fields For Ever
6. Hey Jude
7. I Had A Woman
8. Handsome Johnny
9. Freedom
Sweetwater
1. Motherless Child
2. Look Out
3. For Pete's Sake
4. Day Song
5. What's Wrong
6. Crystal Spider
7. Two Worlds
8. Why Oh Why
Bert Sommer
1. Jennifer
2. The Road To Travel
3. I wondered where you'd be
4. She's Gone
5. Things Are Going My Way
6. And When It's Over
7. Jeanette
8. America (first standing ovation at
Woodstock)
9. A Note That Read
10. Smile
Tim Hardin
1. Misty Roses
2. If I Were A Carpenter
Ravi Shankar
1. Raga Puriya-Dhanashri / Gat In
Sawarital
2. Tabla Solo In Jhaptal
3. Raga Manj Kmahaj / Alap Jor / Dhun
In Kaharwa Tal / Medium & Fast Gat In
Teental
Melanie
1. Beautiful People
2. Birthday Of The Sun
Arlo Guthrie
1. Coming Into Los Angeles
2. Walking Down The Line
3. Amazing Grace
Joan Baez
1. Joe Hill
2. Sweet Sir Galahad
3. Drug Store Truck Driving Man
4. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
5. We Shall Overcome
Day Two: Sat, August 16
Quill
1. Waitin' For You
Country Joe McDonald
1. I Find Myself Missing You
2. Rockin' All Around The World
3. Flyin' High All Over The World
4. Seen A Rocket
5. Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-
Die-Rag
John B. Sebastian
1. How Have You Been
2. Rainbows All Over Your Blues
3. I Had A Dream
4. Darlin' Be Home Soon
5. Younger Generation
Keef Hartley Band
1. Believe In You
2. Rock Me Baby
3. Leavin' Trunk/Halfbreed/Just To
Cry/And Sinnin' For You
Santana
1. Persuasion
2. Savor
3. Soul Sacrifice
4. Fried Neckbones
Incredible String Band
1. Catty Come
2. This Moment Is Different
3. When You Find Out Who You Are
Canned Heat
1. I'm Her Man
2. Going Up the Country
3. A Change Is Gonna Come
4. Leaving This Town
5. The Bear Talks
6. Let's Work Together
7. Too Many Drivers at the Wheel
8. I Know My Baby
9. Woodstock Boogie
10. On the Road Again
Grateful Dead
1. St. Stephen
2. Mama Tried
3. Dark Star / High Time
4. Turn On Your Lovelight
Leslie West & Mountain
1. Blood Of The Sun
2. Stormy Monday
3. Theme From An Imaginary Western
4. Long Red
5. For Yasgur's Farm
6. You And Me
7. Waiting To Take You Away
8. Dreams Of Milk And Honey
9. Blind Man
10. Blue Suede Shoes
11. Southbound Train
Creedence Clearwater Revival
1. Born On The Bayou
2. Green River
3. Ninety-Nine And A Half
4. Commotion
5. Bootleg
6. Bad Moon Rising
7. Proud Mary
8. I Put A Spell On You
9. Night Time Is The Right Time
10. Keep On Choogin'
11. Suzy Q
Janis Joplin
1. Raise Your Hand
2. As Good As You've Been To This
World
3. To Love Somebody
4. Summertime
5. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
6. Kosmic Blues
7. Can't Turn You Loose
8. Work Me Lord
9. Piece Of My Heart
10. Ball and Chain
Sly & The Family Stone
1. M'Lady
2. Sing A Simple Song
3. You Can Make It If You Try
4. Stand!
5. Love City
6. Dance To The Music
7. Music Lover
8. I Want To Take You Higher
The Who
1. Heaven And Hell
2. I Can't Explain
3. It's A Boy
4. 1921
5. Amazing Journey
6. Sparks
7. Eyesight To The Blind
8. Cristmas
9. Tommie Can You Hear Me
10. Acid Queen
11. Pinball Wizard
12. Abbie Hoffmann Incident
13. Fiddle About
14. There's A Doctor I've Found
15. Go To The Mirror Boy
16. Smash The Mirror
17. I'm Free
18. Tommy's Holiday Camp
19. We're Not Gonna Take It
20. See Me Feel Me
21. Summertime Blues
22. Shakin' All Over
23. My Generation
24. Naked Eye
Jefferson Airplane
1. The Other Side Of This Life
2. Plastic Fantastic Lover
3. Volunteers
4. Saturday Afternoon / Won't You Try
5. Eskimo Blue Day
6. Uncle Sam's Blues
7. Somebody To Love
8. White Rabbit
Day Three: Sun, August 17
Joe Cocker
1. Delta Lady
2. Some Things Goin' On
3. Let's Go Get Stoned
4. I Shall Be Released
5. With A Little Help From My Friends
Country Joe & The Fish
1. Barry's Caviar Dream
2. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
3. Rock And Soul Music
4. Thing Called Love
5. Love Machine
6. Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-
Die-Rag
Ten Years After
1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
2. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
3. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be
Wrong Always
4. I'm Going Home
The Band
1. Chest Fever
2. Don't Do It
3. Tears Of Rage
4. We Can Talk About It Now
5. Long Black Veil
6. Don't Ya Tell Henry
7. Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos
8. Wheels On Fire
9. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
10. The Weight
Johnny Winter
1. More And More
2. I Love You Baby More Than You Ever
Know
3. Spinning Wheel
4. I Stand Accused
5. Something Coming On
Blood Sweat And Tears
1. Mean Town Blues
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
1. Suite Judy Blue Eyes
2. Blackbird
3. Helplessly Hoping
4. Guinnevere
5. Marrakesh Express
6. 4 + 20
7. Mr Soul
8. Wonderin'
9. You Don't Have To Cry
10. Pre-Road Downs
11. Long Time Gone
12. Bluebird Revisited
13. Sea Of Madness
14. Wooden Ships
15. Find The Cost Of Freedom
16. 49 Bye-Byes
Day Four: Mon, August 18
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
1. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
2. Driftin'
3. Born Under A Bad Sign
4. All My Love Comin' Through To You
5. Love March
Sha Na Na
1. Na Na Theme
2. Jakety Jak
3. Teen Angel
4. Jailhouse Rock
5. Wipe Out
6. Who Wrote The Book Of Love
7. Duke Of Earl
8. At The Hop
9. Na Na Theme
Jimi Hendrix
1. Message To Love
2. Getting My Heart Back Together
Again
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Red House
5. Master Mind
6. Here Comes Your Lover Man
7. Foxy Lady
8. Beginning
9. Izabella
10. Gypsy Woman
11. Fire
12. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) /
Stepping Stone
13. Star Spangled Banner
14. Purple Haze
15. Woodstock Improvisation /
Villanova Junction
16. Hey Joe
Jefferson Airplane
• The group consisted of Marty Balin
(vocals), Jack Casady (bass),
Spencer Dryden (drums), Paul
Kantner (vocals, guitar), Jorma
Kaukonen (guitar, vocals), Grace
Slick (vocals, keyboards, flute,
recorder).
• Marty Balin founded Jefferson
Airplane in 1965
• They supported boldly
antigovernment political views and
served as a force for social change,
challenging the prevailing
conservative mind set in “White
Rabbit” and issuing a call to arms in
“Volunteers.”
• Surrealistic Pillow (1967) yielded the Top Ten hits “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit,”
making the Airplane the most commercially successful band on the underground-oriented San
Francisco scene. The album stayed on the charts for over a year and peaked at #3.
• Surrealistic Pillow included surreal psychedelic raves with titles like “3/5 Mile in Ten Seconds,”
and “She Has Funny Cars” It closed with a stark, lengthy, unrehearsed and chorus-free ballad,
“Comin’ Back to Me,” which featured “spiritual advisor” Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead) on
guitar.
• In 1969 the Airplane performed at both the Woodstock and Altamont rock festivals and released
their most overtly political album, Volunteers. Afterward, the group gradually frayed under the
weight of differing viewpoints.
• Jefferson Airplane formally evolved into Jefferson Starship in 1974, achieving considerably more
commercial success in the Seventies than the Airplane had known in the previous decade.
Hendrix
• Jimi Hendrix was arguably the
greatest instrumentalist in the
history of rock music.
• Hendrix was born Johnny Allen
Hendrix on November 27th,
1942, in Seattle.
• Hendrix, a left-hander, played a
right-handed guitar without
restringing it, a unique stylistic
quirk.
• He expanded the range and vocabulary of the electric guitar into areas no musician had ever
ventured before. His boundless drive, technical ability and creative application of such effects as
wah-wah and distortion forever transformed the sound of rock and roll.
• In 1966, he relocated to London. There he formed a trio with two British musicians, bassist Noel
Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The Jimi Hendrix Experience held its first rehearsal on
October 6, 1966 – coincidentally, the very day that possession of LSD became illegal in the U.S.
• Hendrix helped usher in the age of psychedelia with his 1967 debut, Are You Experienced?
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded three landmark albums - Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold
As Love and Electric Ladyland - in a two-year period.
• A long-simmering disagreement between Redding and Hendrix fueled by Hendrix’s desire to
explore other musical areas, led to the disbanding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience in June 1969.
• Hendrix debuted a short-lived experimental band called Gypsy Sun & Rainbows at the
Woodstock music festival. He took the stage on 7:30 a.m. on August 18th, 1969.
• Hendrix’s feedback-drenched version of “The Star Spangled Banner” was a highlight of the two-
hour Woodstock film documentary, as Hendrix evoked the pyrotechnic sounds of war in the
jungles of Vietnam as he interpreted the National Anthem for a young and increasingly war-
weary generation.
• He performed his last concert in Germany on September 6, 1970. On September 18, 1970 he
died from suffocation, having inhaled vomit due to barbiturate intoxication. He was 27 years
old.
Janis Joplin - (vocals; born Jan 19, 1943, died Oct 4, 1970)
• She has been called “the greatest white urban blues and soul singer of her generation.”
• She performed folk blues on the coffeehouse circuit in Texas and San Francisco before hooking
up with Big Brother - guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin and drummer
David Getz
• Joplin’s tenure with Big Brother may have been brief, lasting only from 1966 to 1968, but it
yielded a pair of albums that included the milestone Cheap Thrills.
• Joplin left Big Brother in December 1968, taking guitarist Sam Andrew with her.
• Her first solo album, I’ve Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, appeared in 1969, and she
toured extensively with her Kozmic Blues Band.
• By mid-1970, however, she’d dissolved that group and formed a superb new one, Full-Tilt
Boogie.
• Joplin had often sought refuge in drugs and alcohol, and she was found dead of a heroin
overdose in a Hollywood hotel room on October 4, 1970.
• The posthumously released Pearl – the title was her nickname – comprised nine finished tracks
and one instrumental to which she was supposed to have added vocals on the day she died. It
was titled “Buried Alive in the Blues.”
• Pearl became Joplin’s biggest seller, holding down the #1 position for nine weeks in 1971.
• Janis Joplin has passed into the realm of legend: an outwardly brash yet inwardly vulnerable and
troubled personality who possessed one of the
most passionate voices in rock history. It could be
argued that her legacy has as much to do with her
persona as her singing
Santana
• Carlos Santana (guitar, vocals), Jose Chepito Areas (timbales), David Brown (bass), Mike Carabello
(congas;), Gregg Rolie (keyboards, lead vocals), Michael Shrieve (drums)
• Santana’s guitar solos and the piercing, sustained tone have made him one of rock’s standout
instrumentalists.
• Santana’s belief is that music should “create a bridge so people can have more trust and hope in
humanity.”
• Santana was born in Autlan de Navarro, Mexico, in 1947.As a young violin prodigy, he performed with his
father’s band on the streets of Tijuana and then switched to guitar after hearing blues and rock and roll.
• Carlos formed the first version of Santana in 1966. As the Santana Blues Band, they played the clubs in
San Francisco.
• Santana’s performance at Woodstock in August 1969 was one of the festival’s surprise hits.
• Debut album Santana was released in October 1969. It shot to #1 and yielded two hit singles: “Jingo” and
“Evil Ways.”
• The group reached its popular peak later that year with Abraxas and its hit singles, “Black Magic
Woman/Gypsy Queen” and “Oye Como Va.”
• The year 1972 found Santana moving in a more
experimental direction with Caravanserai.
Personnel changes followed as Carlos Santana
began functioning as both bandleader and solo
artist
• Santana cut Supernatural (1999). Supernatural has
sold 21 million copies and launched #1 hits in
“Smooth” and “Maria, Maria.”
• Santana’s resurgence culminated with a sweep of
the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards on February 23,
2000. That night, Santana and Supernatural won
Grammys in nine categories
Sly and the Family Stone
• Sly and the Family Stone took the Sixties ideal of a generation coming together and turned it into deeply
groove-driven music.
• Rock’s first integrated, multi-gender band
• They synthesized rock, soul, R&B, funk and psychedelia into danceable, message-laden, high-energy
music. In promoting their gospel of tolerance and celebration of differences
• Sly and the Family Stone came together late in 1966, with keyboardist/vocalist Stone recruiting family
members: his sister Rose (keyboards, vocals), brother Freddie Stone (guitar) and cousin Larry Graham
(bass). The group was rounded out by Cynthia Robinson (trumpet), Greg Errico (drums) and Jerry Martini
(sax). Their first single appeared on a local label in 1967, while their debut album, A Whole New Thing,
was released nationally on Epic in 1968.
• The group connected with the rising counterculture by means of songs that addressed issues of personal
pride and liberation
• Sly and the Family Stone dominated the late Sixties charts with such essential singles as “Dance to the
Music” (#8 pop, #9 R&B), “Everyday People” (#1, pop and R&B), “Hot Fun in the Summertime” (#2 pop, #3
R&B) and “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin” (#1, pop and R&B).
• “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” (1971), which captured the souring mood of the country no less than the sound
of his own ship going down. During this period, Sly and the Family Stone became notorious for missing
concert dates, success with singles such as “Family Affair” (#1, pop and R&B).
• A realignment in group members occurred in 1972, and Stone led the band through a couple more albums
- Fresh (1973) and Small Talk (1974)
• After 1974, the releases became increasingly sporadic and Stone himself appeared to drop from sight
Grateful Dead
• Tom Contanten (keyboards),
Jerry Garcia (guitar, vocals),
Donna Godchaux (vocals), Keith
Godchaux (keyboards), Mickey
Hart (drums, percussion), Robert Hunter (lyricist), Bill Kreutzmann (drums), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), Ron
“Pigpen” McKernan (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Brent Mydland (keyboards, vocals), Bob Weir (guitar,
vocals), Vince Welnick (keyboards).
• The Grateful Dead shaped a psychedelic atmosphere of the Sixties. They also kept the spirit of the Sixties
alive in the decades that followed
• Their fans were known as “Deadheads.”
• Their albums supplemented singles and concerts became improvisational marathons.
• Their signature song was “Dark Star,” an extended piece that never got performed the same way twice.
• Highlights of the group’s recorded legacy include
o Anthem of the Sun (1968)
o Live/Dead (1969)
o Workingman’s Dead (1970)
o American Beauty (1970)
• Deadheads and critics alike insisted that the best way to experience the group was in concert, where the
mystical band-fan bonding ritual drove the music to improvisational peaks.
• His health improved in the wake of those crises, revitalizing the Dead through a period of heightened
activity that included the 1987 hit album In the Dark and Top Forty single ("Touch of Grey").
• Drugs haunted the Grateful Dead, who lost keyboardist Brent Mydland to a fatal overdose in 1990. Garcia
himself died on August 9, 1995, at a treatment facility in California, where he’d gone to seek help for his
heroin addiction.
• They played their last concert the previous month at Soldier Field in Chicago in July of 1995.
Crosby Stills and Nash
• David Crosby (vocals, guitar), Graham Nash (vocals,
guitar), Stephen Stills (vocals, guitar, keyboards,
bass)
• The trio brought harmony to the forefront of
popular music with their unique three-part vocal
blend.
• A low-key supergroup, they emphasized singing and
songwriting above all
• They met in 1968, with Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas making the introductions.
• Their debut album-simply titled Crosby, Stills & Nash-arrived early in the summer of 1969
• Woodstock marked their second public appearance.
• Still’s instrumental virtuosity and the trio’s inspired songwriting-which spoke the language of the
counterculture both in personal and political terms
• Deja Vu, a more eclectic and electric endeavor in which the group expanded with the addition of Neil
Young
• Shortly after its release, CSNY recorded “Ohio,” a song written by Young in response to the killing of four
students at Kent State University by National Guardsmen during an antiwar protest.
• Performing acoustic and electric sets highlighted by guitar duels between Stills and Young and the
foursome’s affecting harmonies, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young became a major concert attraction.
• CSNY disbanded in 1971.
• The quartet regrouped in 1974 to undertake rock’s first stadium tour.
• CSN, a 1977 album by the trio, yielded a Top Ten hit in Nash’s “Just a Song Before I Go.” Daylight Again
(1982) and, “Wasted On the Way.” Its subject was the band’s combative chemistry. “We have wasted an
enormous amount of time on petty issues that should never have kept us from making music,”
• CSNY made its second studio album, American Dream, in 1988, and reunited again in the late Nineties to
cut Looking Forward.
• “They used to say we were speaking for our generation, and I think that it’s still true,” Crosby noted. “You
hear a lot of music these days about rage and frustration and anger, but not much about hope and love
and forward motion. That’s what we want to continue to stand up for.”Or, as Stills once succinctly put it,
“Changes, that’s what our stuff is about: emotional, intellectual, musical.”
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• Originally called The Golliwogs
• often abbreviated CCR or Creedence
• The group had suffered a setback in 1966 when the draft board called up John Fogerty and Doug Clifford
for military service.
• Woodstock. Their set was not included in the Woodstock film or its original soundtrack because John
Fogerty felt the band's performance was subpar. (Several CCR tracks from the event were eventually
included in the 1994 commemorative box set.)
• Songs
o "Suzie Q"
o "Proud Mary”
o remake of the rock & roll classic "Good Golly Miss Molly"
o "Keep On Chooglin'", the entire song has only one chord: E7.
o "Bad Moon Rising”
o Travelin Band
o "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?."
o
• The speedy "Travelin' Band", however, bore enough similarities to "Good
Golly, Miss Molly" to warrant a lawsuit by the song's publisher; it was
eventually settled out of court.
• "Creedence Clearwater Revival, which disbanded in 1972
Years Line-up Releases
1968–
1971
• John Fogerty – lead vocals, lead guitar, harmonica,
keyboards, saxophone
• Tom Fogerty – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, piano
• Stu Cook – bass guitar, backing vocals, keyboards
• Doug Clifford – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
(1968)
• Bayou Country (1969)
• Green River (1969)
• Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)
• Cosmo's Factory (1970)
• Pendulum (1970)
• Mardi Gras (1972)
1971–
1972
• John Fogerty – lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards,
harmonica
• Stu Cook – bass guitar, lead and backing vocals,
keyboards, guitar
• Doug Clifford – drums, percussion, lead and backing
vocals
Unit 7 Assignments
Create a poster advertising Woodstock. Include dates, bands and other important information.
Write a press release for a newspaper about Woodstock. You can tell it in first person or third. You may choose to
write a summary of the event, or do a live news report.
Pretend you are at Woodstock. Write a blog describing your experiences. Include sights, sounds, etc. Make sure
to use the Woodstock line-up for specific bands and times.