Several years ago, I was excited to hear the full Santana performance of this song from Woodstock without the rain chant. It's great! And especially so because I (and we) got to hear Michale Shrieve's full drum solo. I guess most people know by now that he was only 19 at the time and he and the whole band were tripping on acid. Super-human! Or so it seems to me. But I'm an old guy now and grow increasingly nostalgic and sentimental. And now, I really appreciate how the folks who put this album together blended the Crown rain chant with the heart of Santana's performance of this powerful song. I remember my mother sitting down to listen to the album with me when I bought it in May of 1970 and not approving of the profanity, but not freaking out and taking the record away from me either. The Woodstock Festival was a big deal back then and she was curious. News programs all over the country covered it all weekend in "69, and Life Magazine devoted several pages to photos from the event in an edition that came out just 11 days later! I stayed up late the Saturday of the Festival to watch the Dick Cavett show with Joni Mitchell, Jefferson Airplane, David Crosby and Stephen Stills as the night's guests. I was 15 and pretty naive and curious as they dispensed with the usual desk and chairs and sat cross-legged on the floor and "rapped" about things like war, social injustice and how music could help transform society. I do not regret missing the actual event. I'm sure that the rain, mud, heat, humidity, crowd size, exhaustion and all the other inconveniences would have made it too uncomfortable for me to enjoy. But I have enjoyed it the way most of us have for these nearly 54 years. Yep, another anniversary is coming up this summer. Maybe I'll watch the movie again. It's been a long time. And remember, "Don't take the brown acid. It's a bummer, man."
I'm sure whichever audience members began that chant were big fans of sing a simple song by participants Sly and the Family Stone, released on the b-side of "everyday people" and their album of four months previous, since the crowd tune is identical to it's chorus, with "whoa-oh"-s in place of "Na na"s" ❤ A great moment captured on film and tape
Woodstock 69 forever.
An era that will never happen again I remember when this event happened
the kazoo tho!
Several years ago, I was excited to hear the full Santana performance of this song from Woodstock without the rain chant. It's great! And especially so because I (and we) got to hear Michale Shrieve's full drum solo. I guess most people know by now that he was only 19 at the time and he and the whole band were tripping on acid. Super-human! Or so it seems to me. But I'm an old guy now and grow increasingly nostalgic and sentimental. And now, I really appreciate how the folks who put this album together blended the Crown rain chant with the heart of Santana's performance of this powerful song.
I remember my mother sitting down to listen to the album with me when I bought it in May of 1970 and not approving of the profanity, but not freaking out and taking the record away from me either. The Woodstock Festival was a big deal back then and she was curious. News programs all over the country covered it all weekend in "69, and Life Magazine devoted several pages to photos from the event in an edition that came out just 11 days later!
I stayed up late the Saturday of the Festival to watch the Dick Cavett show with Joni Mitchell, Jefferson Airplane, David Crosby and Stephen Stills as the night's guests. I was 15 and pretty naive and curious as they dispensed with the usual desk and chairs and sat cross-legged on the floor and "rapped" about things like war, social injustice and how music could help transform society.
I do not regret missing the actual event. I'm sure that the rain, mud, heat, humidity, crowd size, exhaustion and all the other inconveniences would have made it too uncomfortable for me to enjoy. But I have enjoyed it the way most of us have for these nearly 54 years. Yep, another anniversary is coming up this summer. Maybe I'll watch the movie again. It's been a long time.
And remember, "Don't take the brown acid. It's a bummer, man."
The greatest beginning of one of greatest rock songs ever created,,,,
I'm sure whichever audience members began that chant were big fans of sing a simple song by participants Sly and the Family Stone, released on the b-side of "everyday people" and their album of four months previous, since the crowd tune is identical to it's chorus, with "whoa-oh"-s in place of "Na na"s" ❤ A great moment captured on film and tape
1969 The year the Moon landed on Planet Earth🍄🍄🌝🌑
Exelentes emocionantes recuerdos hoo ooo ooo✌🌺✌🌼✌🍀✌💐✌💮✌🌹✌
... Ten Years After...
Kazoo players (just at the meld) Jeffrey Zipstein and Elliot Schwartz .
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Inno liberatorio spontaneo tribalpellerossa.