Lengthy article: Woodstock--the recordings

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Here's another BIG article from my unfinished book. Again it needs updating and contains a few errors, but this should give you an idea where I'm going here.

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Scott

one day at a time


a list of available woodstock performances


The following is a list of all known available recordings from the 1969 Woodstock Festival. These recordings can be found on various legitimate releases, or circulating on the underground collector’s market.

This list does not (for the most part) account for the many inter-performer stage announcements made at the festival, which obviously would be too numerous--and their positioning too speculative--to comment on here, barring a few obvious exceptions.

The songs are given in what is considered to be the order of their performance, which is confirmed in several cases and purely speculative in others.

Here's a look at the terms used:

Festival (with a capitol F): The Woodstock Music And Art Fair held at White Lake, NY between August 15 and August 18, 1969.

Woodstock movie, Woodstock film and Film (with a capitol F): refers to the original 1970 edit of the Woodstock movie, directed by Michael Wadleigh.

Soundtrack LP: Although supplanted by several releases since (especially the 4 and 6-CD box sets) this is still a great document of the Festival and gives you a real "you are there" sense. I have a soft spot for this as it's the first Woodstock music I ever heard. My Brother-in-Law Rick brought a pirate Korean pressing home from his tour of duty in Vietnam in the mid-1970s. This was given a nice mini-LP styled CD reissue by Rhino Records in 2009.

25th Anniversary CD Box Set: The four-CD box set issued by Atlantic in 1994. Concentrates on the music, and though currently out of print is still a must-have source for some legitimately-released Woodstock performances.

Director's Cut: The 1994 expanded version of Michael Wadleigh's 1970 classic documentary film. This version is OK, but let down a bit by a soupy remix of the onstage performances that drowns them in artificial echo.

40th Anniversary DVD: The 2009 expanded DVD version of the original 1970 Woodstock movie, including the 2004 Director’s Cut (with the 1994 sound mix sadly) plus a bonus DVD of (mostly) previously unreleased performances from the Festival. Both Amazon.com and Target stores issued versions of this set that include a second bonus disc, with more new material added.

Portapak #1: A true find of recent years is the distribution of two hours of B&W video tape shot on a Sony Portapak video system (one of the very first video recording devices) by a two-person crew (who reportedly worked for the Jefferson Airplane) who had tremendous access to all areas of the Festival. Truly amazing to watch!!

Portapak #2: A video shot (on a second Sony Portapak machine) by audience member Albert Goodman, capturing most of Jimi Hendrix’s set.

Woodstock Diaries is a 3-hour compilation of (largely) outtake festival footage, recently made available on DVD. Still nice, even though it was put together by the controversial ex-producer of posthumous Jimi Hendrix albums Alan Douglas.

Wadleigh Outtakes, Wadleigh cache etc.: Over four hours of outtakes edited and converted to video in 1989, around the time of the editing of the Warner official Lost Performances video. I've never seen them in great quality, but essential nonetheless.

Audience Tape (1): Just exactly that, an uber-rare compilation of performances made by two audience members, Derek Redmond & Paul Campbell. The source of a number of great performances, and invaluable due to its containing a performance by the Woodstock "Lost Artist", the Keef Hartley Band.

Audience Tape (2): One of the great miracles of the last couple of years is the surfacing of a fantastic audience tape (perhaps recorded onstage) of the Canned Heat set. This is without question one of the highlights of this new version!

Cycles CD: A CD compilation of the best of Sweetwater, and a great CD to have in your collection of this underrated Woodstock act. Contains "What's Wrong" from the Festival.

bertsommer.com MP3: One of those "Wow, gee whiz!" moments occured when Victor Kahn, a friend of Bert Sommers', put Bert's performance of Simon & Garfunkel's classic "America" on a Bert tribute website. This was a huge find as we had heard about "America" but had never actually heard it. Victor notes that this is actually taken from a film outtake, but this is not in general collecting circles to the best of my knowledge. Maybe someday!

At Woodstock Festival CD: Contains the entire Ravi Shankar perfomace from Friday night. Apparently hard to find, but great!!!

Woodstock Two LP: The sequel to the Film Soundtrack. Available on CD in an excellent 2009 reissue.

Lost Performances Video: An official Warner compilation of outtakes. Good for the time it came out (1991).

Blessed Are Remastered CD: A remastered version of Joan Baez's classic album Blessed Are was released in 2005. One of the bonus tracks was the hithero unreleased (and, in fact, unknown) "Warm And Tender Love". Proof enough that there's more Woodstock out there for the Yasgur's Farm junkies!

Viva Santana CD: A Santana best-of, containing "Persuasion" from Woodstock.

Santana Remastered CD: Remastered CD of the first Santana album. Contains "Savor", "Fried Neckbones" and the longest version of "Soul Sacrifice" from the Festival.

Santana Deluxe Edition CD: The 2-CD version of the first Santana album from Sony Legacy. Contains most of the group’s Woodstock set.

Faithful Virtue Box: Great John Sebastian compilation from Rhino Handmade, containing his entire Woodstock set, complete and unedited. Wow!!

Blackstead Tapes MP3: From a website containing MP3 samples of Multitrack Tapes being sold by the estate of the Late Woodstock Soundtrack LP Producer Eric Blackstead. Just a few bits, but it helps to fill a few gaps!! The website no longer exists, and the tapes are believed to have been sold. Wonder who has them?

Jefferson Airplane Loves You Box: CD box-set "Best of" of the Airplane. Contains "Plastic Fantastic Lover" from Woodstock.

Woodstock Diary CD: "Soundtrack" to the Diary video. Contains Joe Cocker's "I Shall Be Released".

The Life And Times Of CD: Country Joe and the Fish Best-of, containing a couple of rare Woodstocks cuts.

Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock: Experience Hendrix' attempt to present the complete Hendrix set. As good as it gets officially, but edited.

Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock: Alan Douglas' 1-hour compilation of Jimi's set. Rare but worth it as it contains the first issue of Chip Monck's final Woodstock stage announcements.

Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock DVD: This superb release features not only the best representation we'll probably ever get (on video) of Hendrix's set, but also a few odd stage announcements thrown in that we didn't have before.

Woddstock—40 Years On: Back To Yasgur’s Farm Box: This 2009 6-CD box set release is probably THE comprehensive official release of material from the Woodstock Festival with nearly every artist covered and loads of previously unreleased (and otherwise) unavailable material included.

The Woodstock Experience CDs: A series of five double-CD sets issued by Sony Music in 2009. These sets—one each by Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Sly & The Family Stone, Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter—contained one CD containing the artist’s album that was their latest at the time of the Festival (Santana, Volunteers, Stand!, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! and Johnny Winter respectively) and a second CD containing the artist’s complete Woodstock performance. A terrific idea, and really nice to have too.



DAY ONE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1969


RICHIE HAVENS

1. From The Prison/Get Together/From The Prison
2. I’m A Stranger Here
3. High Flyin' Bird
4. I Can't Make It Anymore
5. With A Little Help From My Friends
6. Handsome Johnny
7. Strawberry Fields Forever/Hey Jude
8. Freedom (incl. Motherless Child)

According to nearly any first-hand account Richie Havens was asked (or forced if you prefer) to open the Woodstock Music And Art Fair after the too-late arrival of scheduled opening act Sweetwater and the refusal of a seriously inebriated Tim Hardin (both of whom would play later on Friday night). As legend would have it Richie played for over two hours, playing every song he could think of before closing with "Freedom", a song he made up on the spot (sort of).

Unfortunately, the only fishy thing in this story is the length of Richie's set. We have approximately 40 minutes of his performance available to us through a combination of official and bootleg sources. Richie himself has often claimed that he simply "ran out" of songs to perform after a while and simply played any unrehearsed song that came into his mind. This is certainly borne out by his rendition of The Beatles' classic "With A Little Help From My Friends", during which Richie asks the assembled throng to sing the words as he has not learned them yet(!).In 2009, an examination of the extant multitrack recordings from the Festival by Rhino Records’ Woodstock box set producer Andy Zak revealed that, contrary to legend and myth, approximately 40 minutes is all Richie played. All of the songs have surfaced in the collector's community.

Much of Richie's set can be reconstructed on video as well as audio. There are two sources, both of them Wadleigh outtakes, of the opening song "High Flyin' Bird" (which can be seen performed by the Jefferson Airplane in the classic D.A. Pennebaker film Monterey Pop). The first of these is filmed close to the stage and features the full song. This also includes John Morris' introduction of Richie to the crowd. A separate short clip of the same performance, filmed from a lighting tower farther back in the crowd, also circulates among collectors. This has been erroneously listed in various Woodstock setlists as a different song entitled "I Had A Woman". It is, in fact, just a small part of "High Flyin' Bird".

Portapak #1 caught brief glimpses of Richie's set, including a scant few seconds of a song which has so far eluded proper identification (this now appears to be “I’m A Stranger Here” from Richie’s Electric Havens album). Both "I Can't Make It Anymore" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" were filmed by the Wadleigh crew, the former included in the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary while the latter was issued on the 1991 Lost Performances video. Unfortunately in both cases the tracks have been edited, though longer versions do circulate among collectors (and "Strawberry Fields" contains it's "Hey Jude" coda in the bootleg version as well). “I Can’t Make It Anymore” would also see issue in 1994 on the Woodstock Diary compilation CD.

Wadleigh also also filmed Richie's improperly-rehearsed attempt at "With A Little Help From My Friends" which, although not lacking in charm, is no patch on the August 17th Joe Cocker classic rendition. This also circulates on video among collectors in two forms, a full edit from a Wadleigh outtake and a single-camera version, again filmed from the stage left lighting tower.

Finally two Richie tunes (including his legendary final encore) are included in the Woodstock film. This preserves most of "Handsome Johnny" and all of "Freedom" and provides some of the more memorable/iconic images from that classic film. Slightly longer audio version of these tracks can be heard on the 25th Anniversary CD box set. An alternate film edit of "Freedom" can be seen in the Woodstock Diaries DVD. Both “Handsome Johnny” and “Freedom” appear in slightly new edits and mixes on the 40 Years On CD box set.

Audience members Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell recorded (and thank goodness too) several Woodstock acts over the first two-plus days of the festival. They also captured Richie's performance of "With A Little Help From My Friends", no doubt an interesting choice considering all!

In 2009 another amazing and even more extensive audience tape surfaced from The Festival, recorded by audience member Ken Bielen. The Bielen tape captured much of Richie’s set, including “From The Prison/Get Together/From The Prison”, “High Flyin’ Bird”, “I Can’t Make It Anymore” and “With A Little Help From My Friends”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 5 and 7 were featured in the Woodstock film. They are currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. 7 was released on the Soundtrack album from the film.
1991: An Edit of 6 was released on The Lost Performances video.
1994: 5 and 7 were released on the 25th Anniversary CD box set. 3 was released on both the Woodstock Diary documentary video and it’s companion CD.
2009: 5 and 7 were released on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.




SWEETWATER

1. Motherless Child
2. Look Out
3. For Pete's Sake
4. Day Song
5. What's Wrong
6. My Crystal Spider
7. Two Worlds
8. Band Introductions
9. Why Oh Why/Let The Sunshine In/Oh Happy Day

Sweetwater finally made it onstage late on Friday afternoon, humorously claiming that their arrival was delayed by a police bust(!). For years they were one of the great missing links of the Woodstock Festival, their performance seemingly lost to the ages. Finally in 1999 an edited version of "What's Wrong" appeared on the Rhino Handmade Sweetwater compilation Cycles. The quality of the recording was good but the "on-the-fly" mix by Eddie Kramer was quite rough as apparently they were using the Sweetwater set as a "set-up operation" for the multitrack equipment. For years this was the lone official release of material from Sweetwater’s Woodstock set.

At long last, the 2009 Rhino 40 Years On CD box set accorded Sweetwater some deserved respect by issuing the previously uncirculated tracks “Look Out” and “Two Worlds” from Woodstock, oddly enough both featuring far superior mixes to the previously available “What’s Wrong”. A limited edition bonus CD companion to the Rhino box set, issued by the American QVC television shopping network, included another Sweetwater track, “Why Oh Why”.

In the early 2000s however more pieces of the puzzle began to emerge, their order in the setlist initially confirmed by an email from an unknown band member. The Redmond/Campbell audience tape included "Motherless Child" from the Sweetwater set, and Portapak #1 captured parts of "For Pete's Sake", "Day Song" and "What's Wrong". Finally in 2005 an excellent set of Wadleigh outtakes surfaced, including "My Crystal Spider", the band introductions from vocalists Nancy Nevins and Albert Moore, and "Why Oh Why".

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1999: An edit of 5 was released on the Sweetwater Cycles CD.
2009: 2 and 7 were released on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set. 9 was released on the exclusive QVC edition of the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.




BERT SOMMER

1. Jennifer
2. She’s Gone
3. Things Are Going My Way
4. And When It’s Over
5. America
6. Smile

Folk songwriter and musician Bert Sommer was a protege of Woodstock braintrust member Artie Kornfeld. His set for years was one of the “lost” Woodstock sets though recent years have helped give us a reasonable idea of what his performance was like. Bert certainly looks and sounds tentative in the pieces of his set that have emerged to date (and one can hardly blame him). Sommer had previously starred in the Broadway cast version of the classic musical Hair. He died of respiratory failure on July 23, 1990.

It was not until 1994 that the first recording for Sommer's set became available. A version of the pretty ballad "Jennifer" was issued on the 1994 Woodstock Diaries retrospective documentary, later issued on DVD. A raw version of this, sourced from Wadleigh outtake footage, circulates among collectors and does not feature the audience sweetening applied to the track on the official release.

In 2004 Sommer's cover of the Simon And Garfunkel classic "America" was made available on the official Bert Sommer website at www.bertsommer.com. 2009 saw Woodstock collectors gladly receive two more Sommer tracks, “And When It’s Over” and “Smile” on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.

More Sommer surfaced in 2009, this time from the Bielen audience tape. This featured “She’s Gone” and “Things Are Going My Way” alongside “And When It’s Over”, “America” and “Smile”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1994: 1 was released on the Woodstock Diaries documentary, also available on DVD.
2004: 3 was made available as a streaming MP3 file on the official Bert Sommer website at www.bertsommer.com.
2009: 2 and 4 were released on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.




TIM HARDIN

1. Hang Onto A Dream
2. If I Were A Carpenter
3. Blue On My Ceiling
4. Simple Song Of Freedom
5. Misty Roses

Poor, poor Tim Hardin. The (sometimes overtly) sensitive folk guitarist and (excellent) songwriter had been under pressure earlier on Friday to open the show when Sweetwater failed to appear on time. Instead Hardin got ripped, stumbling around and mumbling incoherently backstage (a bit of this can be seen in the Director's Cut DVD) before getting it together long enough to actually play on Friday evening. Unfortunately his performance, from the available evidence at least, turned out to be unsteady at best. But at least he got through it. This story is simply another sad chapter in Hardin's long struggle with drug and alcohol abuse. He died of a heroin overdose on December 29, 1980.

It took a long time to come out, but Hardin's solo version of "If I Were A Carpenter" from the Festival finally emerged on the 1991 Warner Lost Performances VHS. This version is notable for being edited to delete some of the looser (if not more embarrassing) moments of the performance (and also includes what is probably John Morris' outro at the start). A longer edit of the song was issued on the 1994 25th Anniversary CD box set. A complete version of the performance circulates among collectors on video, from a Wadleigh film outtake.

More Hardin material surfaced in 2009 when “Hang Onto A Dream” and “Simple Song Of Freedom” were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On box set. In addition to this, a bonus disc issued with Rhino’s 2009 CD reissue of the original Woodstock Soundtrack album, available exclusively at Target department stores, included the otherwise unavailable (and gorgeous) “Misty Roses” from Hardin’s set. Why this did not make Rhino’s box set is a mystery for the ages (the remainder of the material on the bonus CD is taken from either the box set or Rhino’s 2009 Woodstock Two CD reissue).

Ken Bielen recorded several selections from Hardin’s set, and these surfaced in 2009 as part of his Woodstock audience tape collection. This adds “Blue On My Ceiling” to the available Festival canon, and he also captured “If I Were A Carpenter”, “Simple Song Of Freedom” and “Misty Roses”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1991: An edit of 2 was released on The Lost Performances video.
1994: An alternate edit of 2 was released on 25th Anniversary CD box set. It can also be found on the Woodstock Diary CD.
2009: 1 and 3 were released on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set. 4 was issued on the bonus disc included with Rhino’s CD reissue of the 1970 Woodstock Soundtrack album.




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

The undisputed master of the Indian sitar was initially given a pass by John Morris due to the rain and other unfavorable climactic conditions (The Incredible String Band took their pass, appearing the following day). Much to his credit Shankar played through the rain, even though humidity issues forced the frequent retuning of his and his accompanists (Alla Rakha on tabla and Maya Kulkarni on tamboura) instruments.

While Ravi's set was passed on for the initial Warner Brothers releases of Festival material, Shankar's own record label was able to issue the entire performance, complete and unedited, on the 1970 At The Woodstock Festival LP. Or so it seemed at the time. As Rhino box set compiler Andy Zax discovered in 2009, Ravi, apparently unhappy with his performance, recreated the entire set in the studio, adding Woodstock ambience between songs for authenticity. A real shame. As a result the original multitrack tapes of the Shankar’s set are now lost, along with Melanie’s set which was recorded on the same reel.

The actual Woodstock performance of the first number performed in Ravi’s set, “Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat In Sawarital “, was finally issued on the 2009 Rhino 40 Years On box set, taken from the Wadleigh crew’s mono Nagra recording of the set.

The only extant video of Ravi's set is the tail end of "Raga Manj Khamaj" (with actual Woodstock audio) which found issue on the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary. This also contains some John Morris outro material which is unique to this release.

The Bielen audience tape also captured a part of Ravi’s set, this being a segment of “Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat In Sawarital”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1969: 1-3 were released on the Ravi Shankar At The Woodstock Festival LP, the music itself having been recreated in the studio unfortunately though the inter-song announcements are from the Festival. This has been reissued on CD.
1994: An edit of 3 was released on the Woodstock Diaries documentary, also available on DVD.
2009: 1 was released on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.





MELANIE

1. Momma Momma
2. Beautiful People
3. Birthday Of The Sun

Folk singer Melanie Safka was at the time still an up-and coming folkster, though her success at Woodstock would rocket her to fame over the next two years with the hit singles "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)" and "Brand New Key". As both audio and film segments will testify she played through the pouring rain but managed to get the crowd going anyway.

Two songs from Melanie's set, “Beautiful People” and “Birthday Of The Sun”, were issued in 1971 on the Woodstock Two album. “Birthday Of The Sun” was released on the 1991 Warner Lost Performances VHS video. Its appearance there is as complete as the circulating Wadleigh outtake clip of the song. Unfortunately, as stated earlier, the original multitrack tapes of Melanie’s set are now lost.

In 2009 Rhino combined “Beautiful People” and “Birthday Of The Sun” with the previously uncirculated “Momma Momma”, issuing all three on the 40 Years On CD box set. These were taken from the Wadleigh film crew’s mono Nagra recording of Melanie’s performance.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1971: 1 and 2 were released on the Woodstock Two LP, also available on CD.
1991: 2 was released on the The Lost Performances video.
2009: 1-3 were released on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.



ARLO GUTHRIE

1. Coming Into Los Angeles
2. Wheel Of Fortune
3. Walking Down The Line
4. Arlo Speech: Exodus
5. Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep
6. Every Hand In The Land
7. Amazing Grace

Arlo Guthrie was (and is) a highly successful folk singer from a royal heritage: he is the son of folk legend Woody Guthrie. By the time the Woodstock Festival rolled around he was alwready well-known for his epic "Alice's Restaurant" and thus he was an obvious choice for the "folk/hootenanny night" of the Festival.

A version of his drug smuggling hit "Coming Into Los Angeles" was released on both the original 1970 Woodstock film and Soundtrack LP. Even a cursory inspection of these performances reveals them to be strikingly different however, and on balance it's pretty easy to see why. Guthrie, as his infamous "Lotta Freaks!" rap will attest, was pretty out of it during his performance. While the actual Festival performance of "Coming Into Los Angeles" might have played well as a backdrop to the film montage of drug-taking happening at Woodstock, it functions less well as a piece of music on an album owing to Arlo's quite inebriated delivery. Arlo apparently asked for the track to be replaced for the Soundtrack album with another live version from the same period but from a different, unknown venue. This same non-Woodstock version was reissued in 1994 on the 25th Anniversary box set (it has been speculated that this is in fact a live-in-the-studio performance of the song).

The actual Woodstock performance of the song remains available only on the original and Director's Cut variations of the 1970 Woodstock film. The "Lotta Freaks!" rap can be heard on the Soundtrack album as well as both variations of the 1970 film, in different edits.

A second song from Arlo's set, a cover of Bob Dylan's "Walking Down The Line", surfaced on the 1991 The Lost Performances VHS. A more complete version of this found issue on the 1994 25th Anniversary box set. In addition, raw Wadleigh outtake footage circulates of both "Walking Down The Line" and the closing number "Amazing Grace".

Rhino’s 2009 40 Years On CD box set gave us two new songs from Arlo’s set, “Wheels Of Fortune” and “Every Hand In The Land” as well as, for the first time, the actual Woodstock performance of “Coming Into Los Angeles”. The QVC-exclusive bonus disc for the Rhino set gave us even more Arlo in the form of “Amazing Grace”.

Showing where his musical interests lie, Ken Bielen recorded Arlo’s entire set from the audience. The resulting tape fills in the missing pieces of Arlo’s set beautifully.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 1 was featured in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film.
1991: 3 was released on the The Lost Performances video.
1994: An alternate edit of 3 was released on the 25th Anniversary CD box set. An alternate edit of 3 was released on the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary, also available on DVD.
2009: 1-2 and 4 were released on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set. 7 was released on the exclusive QVC edition of the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.




JOAN BAEZ

1. The Last Thing On My Mind
2. I Shall Be Released
3. Joe Hill
4. Sweet Sir Galahad
5. Hickory Wind
6. Drug Store Truck Driving Man
7. One Day At A Time
8. Warm And Tender Love
9. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
10. We Shall Overcome

Who better than to close out Friday evening (actually Saturday morning)'s folky fun than Folk Legend Joan Baez? A heavily pregnant Joan was quite relaxed during her set, chatting up the crowd in her usual manner and putting an elegant close to a nice evening of peaceful music (and rain). Assembling the various bits and pieces of Joan's set is no easy task, so we'll dive straight in.

A few different edits combining Joan's opening monologue and a story she told later in the set about her then-husband Davis Harris being taken into custody for draft evasion have been issued on various releases (got that?). The 1970 Woodstock film and Soundtrack album contained alternate edits of the speech. Both contained the performance of "Joe Hill" that followed. Alternate, longer edits of the speech appear alongside "Joe Hill" on both the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary and the 25th Anniversary CD box set. The latter contains remixes of "Drug Store Truck Driving Man" and "Sweet Sir Galahad".

The 1970 Woodstock film added an additional song, the haunting "Swing Low Sweet Chariot". Wadleigh and company went to great lengths to give this stunning performance some ambience for its initial theatrical release, re-recording the audio from a distantly-placed microphone during an audio playback at a Warner Brothers' soundstage in Hollywood. Unfortunately this (like most of audio on the DVD release) is nearly ruined by the artificial-sounding digital echo applied to audio on the 1994 Director's Cut of the film, added to give the tracks a "wider" sound field but losing some detail in the process.

The 1970 Soundtrack album added Joan's duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff on a cover of The Byrds' "Drug Store Truck Driving Man". In 1971, another track from Joan's set, the self-composed ballad "Sweet Sir Galahad", was issued on the Woodstock Two album. Film footage of both of these songs can be seen in the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary. Another song surfaced on the 1991 Lost Performances VHS, this time the closing number "We Shall Overcome".

Another piece of the puzzle surfaced when the 2006 CD reissue of Joan's Blessed Are album included yet another Woodstock performance, "Warm And Tender Love". Finally, the 2009 40th Anniversary DVD set of the original Woodstock film included Joan’s “One Day At A Time” as bonus material. And even more Joan saw issue on the 2009 Rhino 40 Years On CD box set which included her previously uncirculated rendition of Gram Parsons’ “Hickory Wind” alongside “Joe Hill”, “Sweet Sir Galahad” and “Drug Store Truck Driving Man”.

Once again the 2009 surfacing of Ken Bielen’s audience recordings from the Festival filled in much of the gaps left by omissions from the official releases, adding “The Last Thing On My Mind” and “I Shall Be Released” (the latter captured on tape as Ken and his Festival companions were leaving the main stage area to return to their camp for the remainder of the night). This leaves only “Oh Happy Day” and “Sweet Sunny South” as yet unavailable to collectors.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 1 and 7 were featured in the Woodstock film. They are currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. 1 and 4 were released on the Soundtrack album from the film.
1971: 2 was released on the Woodstock Two LP, also available on CD.
1991: 8 was released on the The Lost Performances video.
1994: An alternate edit of 1 was released on the 25th Anniversary CD box set, along with remixes of 2 and 4. The Woodstock Diaries documentary contained an alternate edit of 1 plus the first video releases of 2 and 4. This has been issued on DVD.
2006: 6 was issued on the remastered CD version of Joan's Blessed Are album.
2009: 5 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 1-4 were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.












DAY TWO: SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1969


QUILL

1. They Live The Life
2. That’s How I Eat
3. Waitin’ For You

The eclectic Boston, Massachusetts-based band Quill became a sort of “house band” for the Woodstock Festival after being approached by Artie Kornfeld, who attended a New York City performance by the group at Steve Paul’s Scene club in late June of 1969. They went on to perform at a number of pre-Festival events, at venues as diverse as local upstate New York prisons and sanitariums, as a goodwill offering in the hopes of allaying any fears about the upcoming Festivities from the local residents. In the week leading up to the Festival, Quill performed several shows at a local motel which housed various Festival personnel.

Quill was given the nod to open Woodstock’s second day (loosely themed “American Rock” by the promoters), delivering a forty-minute set to a mud-caked but happy throng. A brief excerpt of one of these songs, “Waitin’ For You”, was the first to surface officially on the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary, alongside John Morris’ intro. Complete versions of three songs, “They Live The Life”, “That’s How I Eat” and “Waitin’ For You”, also circulate among collectors courtesy of the Redmond/Campbell audience recording. Full recognition of Quill’s Woodstock contribution finally came in 2009 when “They Live The Life” and “That’s How I Eat” were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set. Additionally, the American QVC network bonus CD issued with their pressings ofg the Rhino box included another Quill track, this time “Waitin’ For You”.

It has been claimed that most of Quill’s set was not captured on film, though it has also been said that technical issues rendered the available film footage impossible to sync to the correct audio.

Quill was able to parley their Woodstock experience into a record label deal, being signed later in the year by the legendary Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun to Atlantic’s subsidiary label Cotillion (which would also issue the Woodstock Soundtrack LP in 1970). Unfortunately the resulting album met with little success, and the band drifted apart soon after.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1994: An excerpt of 3 was released on the Woodstock Diaries documentary. This has been issued on DVD.
2009: 1-2 were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set. 3 was released on the exclusive QVC edition of the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.



COUNTRY JOE McDONALD

1. Janis
2. Donovan’s Reef
3. Rockin’ Round The World
4. Flying High
5. I Seen A Rocket
6. The “Fish” Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag
7. I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag (Reprise)

Beset by technical issues in keeping Saturday’s performances flowing smoothly, John Morris decided to improvise, adapt and overcome. Spotting Country Joe McDonald, lead singer of Bay Area band Country Joe And The Fish, backstage during a rather long break in the proceedings Morris prevailed upon Country Joe’s friend and business associate Bill Belmont to coerce Country Joe into performing a solo set. Armed only with a borrowed acoustic guitar, Country Joe dutifully headed up onstage to entertain the vast crowd, turning in something of a non-committal performance of folksy numbers. Realizing that he was losing the attention of the crowd, Country Joe turned up the energy a huge number of notches with his closing song, a rendition of his band’s already famed anti-war anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag”, preceded by the infamous “’Fish’ Cheer”. Needless to say this closed the set with a bang, and forever set Country Joe McDonald’s place in Woodstock lore (and one may say in musical history as well).

Virtually everyone who would read a book like this would already know that “The ‘Fish’ Cheer”/”I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag” medley is one of the highlights of the 1970 Woodstock film. It also appears on the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary, utilizing the same edit as the Wadleigh film. The medley also appears on both the 1970 Soundtrack album and the 1994 25th Anniversary CD box set.

In addition to this, the remainder of Country Joe’s set circulates among collectors, most taken from completed Wadleigh outtakes. It is interesting to hear the unsweetened audio on these outtakes, especially at the end of “I Seen A Rocket” where the overhead helicopters sound louder than the audience. In 1991, the Warner Brothers Lost Performances VHS included “Rockin’ Round The World”.

In 2009, “Flying High” saw official release on the 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Wadleigh film. In that same year another missing piece of the Country Joe setlist puzzle, “Donovan’s Reef”, was issued on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set. “The ‘Fish’ Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” includes a previous unreleased reprise of the final chorus, performed by Country Joe as an encore.

Both the Redmond/Campbell and Bielen audience tapes caught most of “The ‘Fish’ Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag”. This just goes to show you how aware the Woodstock throng was of the historic nature of that performance.


OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 6 was featured in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. 6 was released on the Soundtrack album from the film. .
1991: 3 was released on the The Lost Performances video.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included an alternate edit of 6. This has been issued on DVD.
2009: 4 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 2 and 7 were released on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.




SANTANA

1. Waiting
2. Evil Ways
3. You Just Don’t Care
4. Savor
5. Jingo
6. Persuasion
7. Soul Sacrifice
8. Fried Neck Bones And Some Home Fries

Another Bay Area treat came in the form of Santana, whose Latino-influenced rhythms and hard rock edge turned out to be one of the major hits of the Festival. They turned in an inspired performance, their hot music making what was by then a seriously heated (by the August sun) Woodstock Nation even more so. This was the spark that lit the band’s lengthy and legendary career, still going strong after over forty years in action.

The group’s Woodstock success was assured after the climatic final number of their main set, an amazing version of “Soul Sacrifice” from their debut album, was included in the Woodstock film in 1970. An edited version of this was also issued on the film’s Soundtrack album.

We would have to wait until 1988 however before another track from Santana’s set could be heard, when “Persuasion” was released on the Viva Santana! compilation album. In 1999, the Columbia CD reissue of the band’s first album Santana added “Savor” and “Fried Neck Bones And Some Home Fries” to the list of officially released material. The 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary included an alternate edit of “Soul Sacrifice”.

Finally, in 2004 the “complete” (it was claimed) Santana Woodstock set was released on the Sony Legacy 2-CD reissue of the band’s first album. And that should have been the final word in our efforts to guess Santana’s Woodstock setlist, but the 2009 40th Anniversary DVD edition of the original Woodstock movie gives us yet another song not previously available anywhere, “Evil Ways”. This was the first bit of “new” film footage of Santana at Woodstock we’ve had since 1970. This does however contain percussion overdubs (recorded in 2008) by original Santana percussionist Mike Carabello and Adrian Jose Areas, son of former Santana percussionist Jose “Chepito” Areas. In addition to this Carlos Santana also stepped in to overdub on the original track, this time to replace his out-of-tune guitar at the start of the song.

Also in 2009, the entire Santana set (including “Evil Ways” this time) was issued on the Santana: The Woodstock Experience CD. Rhino also got in on the act that year, including “Persuasion” and “Soul Sacrifice” on their 40 Years On CD box set.

The Redmond/Campbell team also had their electronic ear trained on Santana. Their audience tape captured “Waiting”, “You Just Don’t Care”, “Savor” and “Soul Sacrifice”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: An edited version of 7 was featured in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. An alternate edit of 7 was released on the Soundtrack album from the film.
1988: 6 and 7 were released on the Viva Santana! CD. 7 is still edited on that release.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included another alternate edit of 7. This has been issued on DVD.
1999: The single-CD reissue of Santana included 4, 7 (finally complete) and 8.
2004: The 2-CD reissue of Santana (Deluxe Edition) included 1 and 3-8.
2009: 2 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 1-8 were issued on the Santana: The Woodstock Experience CD. 6-7 were issued on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.




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

John Sebastian, best known as the lead vocalist and main songwriter of the American folk-rock group The Lovin’ Spoonful, was not scheduled to appear at Woodstock. He was actually at the Festival as part of the Incredible String Band’s entourage (he is said to have been “very close to” ISB vocalist Christina “Licorice” McKechnie at the time, though Sebastian claims that he just happened to be in their helicopter when they arrived at the site on Friday). Chip Monck, a friend of Sebastian’s who was handling MC duties on Saturday afternoon, convinced the well-known singer to perform an impromptu set while yet more technical issues were being addressed. Sebastian, in full tie-dyed regalia and carrying a guitar borrowed from Tim Hardin, hopped up onstage and performed an excellent set that drew on elements from both his work with the Lovin’ Spoonful with material from his then-unreleased eponymous (or homonymous if you want to get technical) debut solo album.

His set was such a hit that three of the five songs were issued in 1970. The Woodstock film included his beautiful “Younger Generation”, and the Soundtrack album included “Rainbows All Over Your Blues” and “I Had A Dream”, the latter chosen to open that classic album.

In 1991 “Darlin’ Be Home Soon” was issued on the Warner Brothers Lost Performances video (in slightly edited form), and in 1994 the Woodstock Diaries documentary added film footage of “Rainbows All Over Your Blues”. Raw Wadleigh outtake film footage circulates among collectors, including “How Have You Been”, “Darlin’ Be Home Soon” (unedited), “I Had A Dream” and an alternate edit of “Younger Generation” that focuses on the performance itself as opposed to the “Children of Woodstock” montage that appears in the released Wadleigh film. A few moments of Sebastian’s set was also captured on videotape by Portapak #1, concentrating on shots of the crowd listening (as opposed to watching seemingly) to the performance.

Sebastian’s entire set was issued officially on the 2001 Rhino Handmade box set anthology of his solo work, Faithful Virtue. Rhino also issued the first three songs from this set on the 2009 40 Years On CD box set.

The audience tapers also got a piece of Sebastian’s action. While the Redmond/Campbell audience tape contains a small segment of one of John’s famed inter-song speeches, Ken Bielen managed to catch the majority of the set including all of the songs Sebastian performed.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 5 was featured in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. 2 and 3 were released on the Soundtrack album from the film.
1991: 4 was released on the The Lost Performances video.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included 2. This has been issued on DVD.
2001: 1-5 were issued on the Faithful Virtue box set.
2009: 1-3 were issued on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.





KEEF HARTLEY BAND

1. Spanish Fly

Keef Hartley began his career as Ringo Starr’s replacement in his pre-Beatles group Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He achieved some success as the drummer for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers before founding the Keef Hartley Band, which combined hard rock and blues elements with a jazz-influenced horn section (similar to Blood, Sweat and Tears or maybe a bluesier Chicago Transit Authority). Despite an exciting sound and approach to their music (captured notably on the 1969 album Halfbreed—a lost classic of the era) Keef and co. found little success commercially, though they did continue on and in fact Keef himself is still going strong, playing music when the mood takes him. He published his autobiography, Halfbreed, in 2007.

For years The Keef Hartley Band was thought of as the ultimate “lost” Woodstock act. There is almost no known film footage of the band in existence, but for a tint snippet of 8mm film taken from on and around the stage by an unknown cameraman.

For many years there was thought to be no extant audio either. This situation changed in 2002 when the Redmond/Campbell audience tape revealed a true miracle: the opening number of Keef’s Woodstock set, a steaming “Spanish Fly”. Unfortunately, no professional audio of Keef’s set has ever been issued, and Keef himself recalls that his manager refused permission for the Keef Hartley Band to be filmed, apparently as not enough money was offered up front. A real shame as a potential golden opportunity was thus missed, confining Keef and co. to the list of Woodstock “what ifs”.




THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND

1. Invocation
2. The Letter
3. This Moment
4. When You Find Out Who You Are

The folk-inspired English group The Incredible String Band were originally scheduled to play on Friday night, but backed out for fear that the evening’s heavy rains would possibly electrocute the band members who were using electric instruments. They were rescheduled for Saturday afternoon, though their placement in the middle of a variety of better-known acts and hard rockin’ music ensured that the ISB would not go down particularly well at Woodstock. As a result it took years until an official release of any part of their set would be issued, when a one-minute excerpt of “When You Find Out Who You Are” was included for no particularly good reason on the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary.

A much more respectful look at ISB’s Woodstock performance surfaced in 2009 when “The Letter” and “When You Find Out Who You Are” was released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.

Having said that, the rest of the group’s set was fairly well documented. Color outtakes from the Wadleigh crew circulate among collectors, including “The Letter”, “This Moment” and a complete version of “When You Find Out Who You Are”. In addition, Portapak #1 captured a few moments of pre-set preparations as well as most of the group’s opening number “Invocation” and a few scattered moments from later in the set.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included a short excerpt of 4.
2009: 2 and 4 were issued on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set


CANNED HEAT

1. I’m Her Man
2. A Change Is Gonna Come/Leaving This Town
3. I Know My Baby
4. Going Up The Country
5. Woodstock Boogie
6. On The Road Again

Hailing from Los Angeles, Canned Heat had been cultivating a reputation as rock’s premier Boogiemeisters since the release of their 1967 self-titled debut album. At Woodstock they turned out to be the ideal group to set the stage for the good times yet to come on Saturday night, mixing their trademark boogie with some smokin’ hot blues as the sun sank lower in the sky.

Oddly enough, Canned Heat provided one of the more memorable musical sequences of the 1969 Woodstock movie without actually appearing in the film at all. Their hit single “Going Up The Country” was used as a backdrop to illustrate the hordes of travelers descending upon Yasgur’s Farm. For some reason, Michael Wadleigh and his team combined vocalist Bob Hite’s actual intro to the song with the original studio version of the track. The actual live version of “Going Up The Country” appeared on the 1970 film Soundtrack album. The following year another song from Canned Heat’s set, an edited version of the semi-improvised “Woodstock Boogie” (based on another song of theirs, “Fried Hockey Boogie”), was issued on the Woodstock Two album.

The 1994 Atlantic 25th Anniversary CD box set included both “Going Up The Country” and a new song, a medley of “A Change Is Gonna Come” and ”Leaving This Town”. The 2009 Rhino CD box set 40 Years On included “Going Up The Country” and the full, half-hour blowout version of “Woodstock Boogie”.

An audience tape (apparently not from the Redmond/Campbell collection) surfaced in 2005 containing several songs from the Canned Heat set, including “I’m Her Man”, “A Change Is Gonna Come”/”Leaving This Town”, “I Know My Baby”, “Woodstock Boogie” and “On The Road Again”.

In terms of video, we would have to wait until 1991 for our first taste of live Heat. A somewhat dark rough copy of “Going Up The Country” was issued that year on the Warner Brothers Lost Performances video. Three years later in 1994 more pieces of the puzzle emerged when “A Change Is Gonna Come”/”Leaving This Town” was added to the 25th Anniversary Director’s Cut of the original 1970 film. That same year, a heavily edited “Woodstock Boogie” was included in the Woodstock Diaries documentary.

The 2009 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the 1970 Wadleigh film gave us yet more Heat, adding video footage of “I’m Her Man” and “On The Road Again”. The bonus disc issued with the DVD at Target department stores included a longer edit of “Woodstock Boogie”, using up basically all of the available footage of that number.

Ken Bielen’s audience tape provides us with an alternative audio for some of the Heat’s set. It includes “Going Up The Country”, “Woodstock Boogie” and “On The Road Again”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 2 was released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album.
1971: An edited version of 5 was released on the Woodstock Two album.
1991: 2 was released on the The Lost Performances video.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included an edit of 5. This has been issued on DVD. Both the Director’s Cut DVD of the Woodstock film and the 25th Anniversary CD box set included 3. This was later reissued on the 2009 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film.
2009: 1 and 6 were issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 5 was issued on the exclusive Target department store bonus disc that came with the reissue DVD. 4 and 5 were issued on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.



MOUNTAIN

1. Blood Of The Sun
2. Stormy Monday
3. Theme For An Imaginary Western
4. Long Red
5. Who Am I But You And The Sun (For Yasgur’s Farm)
6. Beside The Sea
7. Waiting To Take You Away
8. Dreams Of Milk And Honey
9. Guitar Solo
10. Southbound Train

Led by legendary guitarist Leslie West and former Cream producer Felix Pappalardi, Mountain were still a relatively new group by the time they got to Woodstock, but that didn’t stop the New York-based proto-metalheads from making a big impression with their heavy, blues-oriented rock.

As you may likely already know, Mountain have two songs on the 1971 Woodstock Two album – “Blood Of The Sun” and “Theme For An Imaginary Western”. Unfortunately it turns out that neither of these two songs were actually recorded at the Festival! Quite why Mountain and/or producer Eric Blackstead would choose for the group to be represented on a Woodstock album by two non-Woodstock live performances is unclear. The best guess is that Mountain were not entirely happy with their performance, and a strong argument for this assumption is the fact that the band changed drummers shortly thereafter (Corky Laing replaced Norman D. Smart II before the end of the year). These two tracks would later be reissued on the 1994 25th Anniversary box set.

The first actual piece of the recording of Mountain’s Woodstock set surfaced in 1972 when “Long Red” and “Waiting To Take You Away” were issued on Mountain’s Live (The Road Goes Ever On) album. And that would be it until 1994 when Southbound Train” was issued on the Woodstock Diary CD. Unfortunately this featured a re-recorded Leslie West vocal, presumably from 1970. The first lines of vocal were also truncated from this release.

A running soundboard tape circulates among collectors, containing the full set minus the set opening “Blood Of The Sun”, “Dreams Of Milk And Honey” and “Southbound Train” and about two minutes of “Stormy Monday”. In 2005 this was issued officially on an album entitled Official Mountain Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: Woodstock/New Caanan H.S. 1969. Unfortunately the quality of the tape is only fair – even on the official release. It is interesting to note that in addition to this tape, Voiceprint also had at hand a relatively poor, unedited copy of the Wadleigh outtake version of “Southbound Train” that was left off the CD in order to avoid potential legal conflict with Warner Brothers.

At long last, the final pieces of Mountain’s Woodstock set surfaced in 2009 on Rhino’s 40 Years On box set. These included actual Woodstock recordings of “Blood Of The Sun” and “Theme For An Imaginary Western” alongside “For Yasgur’s Farm” (known at that time as “Who Am I But You And The Sun”).

“Blood Of The Sun”, while still powerful in its original Woodstock guise, is taken at a noticeable faster tempo than the Woodstock Two version while eliminates some of the slow menace of the originally-released version. “Theme For An Imaginary Western”, on the other hand, contains a noticeable vocal mistake by Felix Pappalardi (which is possibly simply a PA problem or something similar) that required a restart of the vocal. The 40 Years On mix leaves this mistake intact, though it would have been easily edited out back in 1971.

Portapak #1 captured part of “Dreams Of Milk And Honey”, and part of the subsequent “Guitar Solo”. “Southbound Train” (with the original Leslie West vocal) was first seen in the Woodstock Diary documentary (edited down to around two minutes) after it had been circulating among collectors for a while as part of the Wadleigh outtake cache. The 40th Anniversary DVD set gave us our first video footage of “Beside The Sea” from the Festival alongside “Southbound Train”, the latter being untouched and – for the first time on an official release -- unedited.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1972: 4 and 7 were released on the Live (The Road Goes Ever On) album.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included 10. This has been issued on DVD.
2005: 2-7 were issued on the Official Mountain Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: Woodstock/New Caanan H.S. 1969 CD.
2009: 6 and 10 were issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 1, 3 and 5 were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.



GRATEFUL DEAD

1. Saint Stephen
2. Mama Tried
3. High Time (aborted)
4. Dark Star
5. High Time
6. Turn On Your Lovelight

If you know Woodstock, you no doubt know the Grateful Dead. But you wouldn’t likely have gotten your first exposure to the Dead from Woodstock as for years the band have refused to allow any part of their performance to be released. It’s easy to see why—the band were plagued with major technical issues including ungrounded equipment that threatened the band with electrocution, a stage in danger of being toppled over by the wind, the failure of the PA system that caused an unplanned ten minute break in their set and an assortment of crazed acidheads commandeering the band’s microphones, notably during “Turn On Your Lovelight”.

So for many years if one wished to experience the Dead at Woodstock one had to check out the collector’s circuit. A decent-quality soundboard tape, taken from the Nagra recording equipment used by the Wadleigh film crew, has circulated among collectors for years (and was used on the first version of the bootleg CD set Woodstock Complete). This features short gaps in “Saint Stephen”. In 2004 a beautiful alternate soundboard source, taken from a multitrack mixdown allegedly from the collection of Woodstock soundtrack producer Eric Blackstead, began circulating among collectors. This included some nice pre- and post-show ambience, and included an uncut “Saint Stephen”.

Video collectors were also taken care of, with Wadleigh film outtake footage of “Saint Stephen”, “Mama Tried”, “High Time” and two different edits of “Turn On Your Lovelight” in circulation. Portapak #1 captured excerpts of “Saint Stephen”, “Mama Tried”, “Dark Star” and “Turn On Your Lovelight” as well as some pre-show announcements and a short segment from the mid-set break.

At long last, 2009 saw the Dead finally consent to having a piece of their set released when the nearly forty-minute “Turn On Your Lovelight” was included on the 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. The Amazon.com exclusive bonus disc of this DVD set featured another Dead tune, “Mama Tried”. Additionally, Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set included “Dark Star”.

Finally, Ken Bielen’s audience tape caught a segment of “Turn On Your Lovelight” from The Dead’s set.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
2009: An edit of 6 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 2 was issued on the Amazon.com exclusive bonus disc of this DVD set. 4 was released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.




CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL

1. Born On The Bayou
2. Green River
3. Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)
4. Bootleg
5. Commotion
6. Bad Moon Rising
7. Proud Mary
8. I Put A Spell On You
9. Night Time Is The Right Time
10. Keep On Chooglin'
11. Suzie Q

One of the hottest bands of the period, Creedence Clearwater Revival (or CCR)’s Louisiana-by-way-of-the-Bay-Area swamp sound provided an interesting contrast to the Dead’s psychedelic noodlings. They did manage to turn in something of a gritty and dynamic performance however, despite clearly fighting various elements like a shaky PA system.

Despite this, the band refused to allow their music to be used in either the Woodstock film or the two albums extracted from the Festival recordings. In fact it would be 1994 before any part of their set was released legitimately, when four songs (“Commotion”, “Green River”, “Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won’t Do)” and “I Put A Spell On You”) were issued on the 25th Anniversary CD box. The 2009 Rhino CD box set 40 Years On saw the first official release of “Bad Moon Rising” alongside “Green River” and “I Put A Spell On You”.

A very good-quality audio recording of the group’s complete set, taken from the film crew’s audio feed, circulates among collectors.

Several songs from CCR’s set also circulate on video among collectors, taken from the Wadleigh outtake cache. These include “Born On The Bayou”, “Bad Moon Rising”, “I Put A Spell On You” and the great version of “Keep On Chooglin’”. Three of these songs (minus “Bad Moon Rising”) were released officially on the 2009 40th Anniversary edition of the Woodstock film.

Portapak #1 also captured decent-length sections of Creedence’s set including “Proud Mary”, “I Put A Spell On You”, “Night Time Is The Right Time” and “Keep On Chooglin’”.

Taping from the audience, Ken Bielen caught several songs from the Creedence set on his portable recorder. These include “Born On The Bayou”, “Green River”, “Bad Moon Rising” and “Proud Mary”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1994: 2,3,5 and 8 were released on the 25th Anniversary box set.
2009: 1, 8 and 10 were issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 2, 6 and 8 were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.




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. Kozmic Blues
7. Can't Turn You Loose
8. Work Me Lord
9. Piece Of My Heart
10. Ball and Chain

It is fairly well-known that Janis Joplin did not bring her A-game to Woodstock. The most commonly given reasons for this would include the lack of musical camaraderie with her backing band, known as the Kozmic Blues Band. If this is the case however it’s pretty hard to tell as Janis seems to have a good time with the band, and in fact she only seems really happy when directly interacting with her fellow musicians (particularly during a wild “Can’t Turn You Loose”). Based on the recorded and filmed evidence, it appears that Janis had trouble dealing with the vastness of the crowd, and her voice is noticeably weak which may have been the result of the serious partying she had been indulging in all day.

To put it mildly, the official release history of Janis’ set is a wee bit convoluted. Although there was a serious effort to include some of Janis’ performance in the Woodstock film, the rather dark onstage lighting rendered Pearl difficult to see and as a result her material was left on the cutting room floor. Somehow, in 1974 a clip of “Can’t Turn You Loose” snuck into the documentary film Janis with little fanfare.

The next bit of Janis’ set to emerge from legit circles came to us in 1991 when “Work Me Lord” was issued on the Warner Lost Performances video. Interestingly enough this unique version intercuts the Wadleigh color outtake with footage from Portapak video #1. In 1994 “Work Me Lord” was added to the 25th Anniversary Director’s Cut of the original 1970 film, this time in a new edit from the original Wadleigh footage. In that same year three songs, “Try”, “Work Me Lord” and “Ball And Chain”, were released on the 25th Anniversary CD box set. Film footage of “Try” turned up alongside an edited “Ball And Chain” on the Woodstock Diaries documentary in that same year, and were also issued on the documentary’s soundtrack CD.

Two more songs, “Summertime” and “Piece Of My Heart”, were released in 1999 on the Columbia Legacy CD reissue of Joplin’s 1969 album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!. Sony’s 2003 compilation CD The Essential Janis Joplin contributed “To Love Somebody” and “Kozmic Blues” to the released collection. 2009 was something of a watershed year for Janis’ Woodstock set, with Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set including “Work Me Lord” and “Ball And Chain” (again) and Sony’s Woodstock Experience CD including Janis’ nearly-complete Woodstock set, minus a section of “Can’t Turn You Loose”, possibly to eliminate part of Snooky Flowers’ “offensive” rap (which is not offensive at all of course).

As far as unofficial sources go, Janis’ complete set circulates from the Wadleigh crew’s audio feed. As with all of the Saturday night acts whose sets circulate from this source the sound is rough and ready but presents the clearest picture of the set as it happened. Portapak #1 captures portions of “Try”, “Kosmic Blues”, the end of “Can’t Turn You Loose”, most of “Work Me Lord”, a complete “Piece Of My Heart”, and a section of “Ball And Chain”. The Redmond/Campbell audience tape captured part of “Raise Your Hand” from Janis’ set, which is also available on the internet in a video version that includes a snatch of Janis’ performance. The Ken Bielen tape cache contains most of Janis’ set, including “Raise Your Hand”, “As Good As You’ve Been To This World”, “To Love Somebody”, “Summertime”, “Kozmic Blues”, “Work Me Lord”, “Piece Of My Heart” and “Ball And Chain”.


OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1974: A section of 7 was released in the film Janis.
1991: 8 was released on the The Lost Performances video.
1994: Both the Director’s Cut DVD of the Woodstock film and the 25th Anniversary CD box set included 8. This was later reissued on the 2009 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 5, 8 and 10 were released on the 25th Anniversary box set. 5 and 10 were included in the Woodstock Diary documentary, and were also released on the Woodstock Diary CD.
1999: 5, and 9 were released on the CD reissue of I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!.
2003: The Essential Janis Joplin CD included 3 and 6.
2009: 1-10 were issued on the Janis Joplin: The Woodstock Experience CD, with 7 being an edited version. 8 and 10 were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.



SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE

1. M’Lady
2. Sing A Simple Song
3. You Can Make It If You Try
4. Everyday People/Dance To The Music
5. Music Lover
6. I Want To Take You Higher
7. Love City
8. Stand!

It wasn’t until around 2003 that the Wadleigh crew’s audio feed of Sly And The Family Stone’s set began circulating—in amazing quality no less—in collector’s circles, initially in the form of a bootleg CD titled Down On The Farm. What was revealed in the full performance was exactly what was hinted at in the excerpts made available on various official releases: this is a truly STUNNING set, with Sly getting the late-night crowd up, laying down the funk and setting Saturday night ablaze. If any set deserved to be issued in its entirety, this was certainly a contender. The version of “Everyday People” alone makes the full set worth seeking out.

In terms of official releases, Sly’s energetic workings made this performance a natural for the big screen. Wadleigh and co. made this a reality when they included “I Want To Take You Higher” in the 1970 Woodstock movie. The Soundtrack album meanwhile included “Dance To The Music” and “Music Lover” alongside “I Want To Take You Higher”. In 1991, the Warner Brothers Lost Performances video gave us a new song, “Love City”. This was also included in superior quality on the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary. The soundtrack CD from this documentary also included “Love City”. 2009 saw the “Dance To The Music” medley reissued on Rhino’s 40 years On CD box set, while Sony had the good sense to issue the entire Sly & The Family Stone set on a Woodstock Experience CD.

On the unofficial side of the fence, besides the complete soundboard tape mentioned above, Portapak #1 captured parts of “M’Lady” and “I Want To Take You Higher” while Ken Bielen caught most of Sly’s set including “M’Lady”, “Sing A Simple Song”, “Everyday People/Dance To The Music”, “Music Lover”, “I Want To Take You Higher” and “Stand”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 6 was featured in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. A segment of 4 plus all of 5 and 6 were released on the Soundtrack album from the film.
1991: 7 was released on the The Lost Performances video.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included 7. This has been issued on DVD. It was also released on the Woodstock Diary CD.
2009: 1-8 were issued on the Sly & The Family Stone: The Woodstock Experience CD. A segment of 4 plus all of 5 and 6 were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.



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. Christmas
9. Acid Queen
10. Pinball Wizard
11. Abbie Hoffman Incident
12. Fiddle About
13. There's A Doctor I've Found
14. Go To The Mirror Boy
15. Smash The Mirror
16. I'm Free
17. Tommy's Holiday Camp
18. We're Not Gonna Take It
19. See Me Feel Me
20. Summertime Blues
21. Shakin' All Over
22. My Generation/Naked Eye

Woe to be The Who at Woodstock! The group arrived on site early, waiting around for twelve hours tripping after drinking one of a seeming million spiked backstage beverages. Not the most “peace and love” of rock groups to begin with, by the time they took the stage their demeanor--particularly that of guitarist Pete Townshend—had turned decidedly ugly.

After clearing the stage of photographers and film crew (including an unfortunate kicking incident involving director Michael Wadleigh) Townshend and company began their set, playing a smattering of oldies and most of their recently-released rock opera Tommy in just over an hour. The anger and frustration the group clearly felt manifested itself in a powerhouse performance, which if a little rough around the edges certainly qualifies as a Classic Set even if the band would denounce their own performance for the next forty years.

Townshend’s rage culminated in the brutal “Abbie Hoffman Incident” in which the radical New York Yippee found himself unceremoniously kicked (or rather swatted) off the front of the stage by Townshend after making the mistake of commandeering the guitarist’s microphone in order to make a political speech. This story has gone down in rock legend and lore, and rightly so. How did the peace-and-love crowd react to this display of wanton violence? They cheer it on, of course. Pete, meanwhile, announced to the side-stage onlookers that “The next person who walks across the ****ing stage is gonna get ****ing killed! You can laugh, but I mean it!”.

Despite the band’s misgivings about their performance The Who’s Woodstock set has been reasonably well represented on various official releases. The 1970 Woodstock film included “See Me Feel Me” and “Summertime Blues” as well as the very end of “Naked Eye” complete with Townshend’s set-closing guitar bashing. The Film’s Soundtrack album included the very end of “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and all of “See Me Feel Me”.

In 1977 director Jeff Stein researched the Woodstock outtake film footage for material he could use in his 1979 Who documentary The Kids Are Alright. He wound up including “Sparks”, “Pinball Wizard” and a different edit of “See Me Feel Me” in that film. The soundtrack album The Kids Are Alright included these three tracks as well.

In 1994 the Who CD box set 30 Years Of Maximum R&B included “Sparks” (mistitled “Underture”) and audio of the famous “Abbie Hoffman Incident”. Unfortunately it is fairly well-known that film footage of this event has been missing since at least the mid-1970s when Jeff Stein failed to locate it in the mass of film footage the Wadleigh crew shot of The Who’s set. An interesting rumor has circulated for the years that none other than the FBI confiscated the infamous Abbie footage (caught by reportedly a single camera manned by Hart Perry), presumably for their “Abbie Hoffman” file.

Also in 1994 the Woodstock Diaries documentary gave us our first look at “My Generation/Naked Eye”, with most of “Naked Eye” edited out due to missing performance footage.

In 2009, the 40th Anniversary DVD version of the Woodstock film contained more Who as bonus tracks, this time in the form of a complete “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and a more complete edit of “My Generation/Naked Eye” that used an assortment of editing tricks to cover the missing performance footage. The DVD bonus disc issued by Target department stores with the 40th Anniversary DVD set also included an alternate edit of “Sparks” with about an extra minute of “Amazing Journey” at the start.

Also in 2009, Rhino’s 40 Years On box set included “Amazing Journey”, “Pinball Wizard”, the “Abbie Hoffman Incident” and a complete “We’re Not Gonna Take It”.

The final segment of footage shot by Portapak #1 concentrated on The Who, and managed to capture most of their set, with an occasional cut. The most heartbreaking of these was during the “Abbie Hoffman Incident” when the recordist momentarily stopped filming, starting again just after the kicking had taken place! Jeff Stein had also looked through this video in 1977 for The Kids Are Alright, and confirms that the footage is missing on the master tape as well.

And as with most of the other Saturday night acts, The Who’s complete Woodstock set has long been available in collector’s circles. This again comes from the Nagra audio reels made by Michael Wadleigh’s film crew, and can be found on various bootleg releases in excellent quality.

In addition, the Redmond/Campbell audience tape included “Heaven And Hell” and the end of “Naked Eye”. Ken Bielen captured virtually all of The Who’s set from his position in the audience including “Heaven And Hell”, I Can’t Explain”, “It’s A Boy”, “1921”, “Amazing Journey”, “Sparks”, “Eyesight To The Blind”, “Christmas”, “The Acid Queen”, “Pinball Wizard”, “Do You Think It’s Alright?”, “Fiddle About”, “There’s A Doctor I’ve Found”, “Go To The Mirror”, “Smash The Mirror”, “I’m Free”, “Tommy’s Holiday Camp”, “We’re Not Gonna Take It”, “See Me Feel Me”, “Shakin’ All Over” and “My Generation/Naked Eye”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 19 and 20 were featured in the Woodstock film. They are currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. A segment of 18 plus all of 19 was released on the Soundtrack album from the film.
1979: 6, 10 and 19 were released in The Who’s film The Kids Are Alright. The same tracks were issued on that film’s soundtrack album that same year.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included an edit of 22. This has been issued on DVD. The Who’s 30 Years Of Maximum R&B CD box set included 6 and 11.
2009: 18 and a new edit of 22 were issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 6 (including a bit of 5) was issued on the exclusive Target department store bonus disc that came with the reissue DVD. 5, 10, 11 and 18 were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.



JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

1. The Other Side Of This Life
2. Somebody To Love
3. 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
4. Won’t You Try/Saturday Afternoon
5. Eskimo Blue Day
6. Plastic Fantastic Lover
7. Wooden Ships
8. Uncle Sam Blues
9. Volunteers
10. The Ballad Of You & Me & Pooneil
11. Come Back Baby
12. White Rabbit
13. The House At Pooneil Corners

With the sun having risen over Woodstock Nation at the end of The Who’s set, San Francisco legends Jefferson Airplane took the stage early on Sunday morning to greet the dawn and (technically anyway) bring Saturday evening to a close. Although the Airplane did not make the original cut of the 1970 Woodstock film, their performance of “Volunteers” from the festival was issued on the film’s Soundtrack album. The following year saw two more songs, “Saturday Afternoon”/”Won’t You Try” and “Eskimo Blue Day”, issued on the Woodstock Two album.

It would be a further 21 years before any more Jefferson Airplane material would see commercial release. The CD box set Jefferson Airplane Loves You included two previously unreleased tracks from the Festival, “Plastic Fantastic Lover” and “Uncle Sam Blues”. In 1994 the Woodstock 25th Anniversary box set included five songs from the Airplane’s set: “Volunteers”, “Saturday Afternoon”/”Won’t You Try”, “Uncle Sam Blues”, “Somebody To Love” and “White Rabbit”. The last two of these tracks were released on video in that same year on the Woodstock Diaries documentary.

Also in 1994, the Director’s Cut DVD of the original Woodstock film rectified the Airplane’s omission from the previous edit of the movie by including three songs in the new edit: An excerpt of “The Other Side Of This Life”, “Saturday Afternoon”/”Won’t You Try” and “Uncle Sam Blues”. The 2009 40th Anniversary DVD of the film went even further by including one brand-new song, “3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds”. The Amazon.com exclusive version of this release featured video footage of the band performing “Volunteers” on its bonus disc.

Further Airplane goodness surfaced in 2009 with the release of “The Other Side Of This Life” (complete for the first time), “Somebody To Love”, “Saturday Afternoon”/”Won’t You Try” and “Volunteers” on the Rhino 40 Years On box set. Sony outdid everyone however by issuing the complete Airplane set from Woodstock on a Woodstock Experience CD.

One song from the group’s set can be found on the Redmond/Campbell audience tape. This is another excerpt of “The Other Side Of This Life”. Ken Bielen’s audience tape also contains a few Airplane tunes, these being “The Other Side Of This Life”, “Saturday Afternoon”/”Won’t You Try” and “White Rabbit”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 9 was released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album.
1971: 4 and 5 was released on the Woodstock Two album.
1992: 6 and 8 were released on the Jefferson Airplane Loves You CD box set.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included 2 and 12. This has been issued on DVD. These tracks were also issued on the documentary’s Woodstock Diary CD. The Director’s Cut DVD of the Woodstock film included an excerpt of 1 plus complete versions of 4 and 8. This was later reissued on the 2009 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. The 25th Anniversary CD box set included 2, 4, 8, 9 and 12.
2009: 3 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 9 was issued on the Amazon.com exclusive bonus disc of this DVD set. 1, 2, 4 and 9 were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set. 1-13 were issued on the Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience CD.



DAY THREE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1969

JOE COCKER and THE GREASE BAND


1. Jam (The Grease Band without Joe Cocker)
2. Dear Landlord
3. Something's Coming On
4. Feelin’ Alright
5. Let's Go Get Stoned
6. I Shall Be Released
7. With A Little Help From My Friends

After a lengthy break (during which Hugh Romney, now better known as Wavy Gravy, led his Hog Farm commune in providing “breakfast in bed for 400,000”), Sunday got off to a fast start with a fairly new act from England, R&B singer Joe Cocker supported by his Grease Band. By the end of his set, the course of Cocker’s future career and legend were, like that of many other high-profile Woodstock artists, well-assured.

Various sources can be used to compile less than half of Cocker’s set. Only a few bits and pieces of his set have been issued through official channels. The first and most famous of these was the release of Cocker’s superlative rendition of The Beatles’ classic “With A Little Help From My Friends” which graced both the 1970 Woodstock film and its Soundtrack album. Twenty-one years passed before another look into his performance was issued when an edited version of “Let’s Go Get Stoned” was released on the Warner Lost Performances video. In 1994 the Woodstock Diaries documentary included an edited version of Joe’s cover of Bob Dylan and The Band’s “I Shall Be Released”, set to unrelated footage of Festival-goers. This was also issued complete on the Woodstock Diary CD that same year. Both the documentary and its soundtrack CD also included an edited version of “Let’s Go Get Stoned”.

For years his version of “Something’s Coming On” from the Festival circulated among collectors from an acetate disc apparently compiled by Eric Blackstead’s team of tracks under consideration for the Woodstock Soundtrack and Woodstock Two albums. This track would finally be issued officially on the 40th Anniversary DVD of the original Woodstock film. The 2009 Rhino CD box set 40 Years On included the previously uncirculated “Feelin’ Alright” alongside “Let’s Go Get Stoned” and “With A Little Help From My Friends”.

The remaining extant bits of Joe Cocker’s Woodstock performance can be found in underground collector’s circles. The Redmond/Campbell audience tape included an incomplete “Dear Landlord”, and a color Wadleigh outtake circulates featuring a longer version of “Let’s Go Get Stoned”.

Ken Bielen’s audience tape collection closes with a generous portion of Cocker’s set, including a number of songs unavailable to collectors elsewhere. Songs included are “Jam” (performed by The Grease Band without Joe Cocker, and vaguely based on “Feelin’ Alright”), “Do I Still Figure In Your Life?”, “Feelin’ Alright”, “Just Like A Woman”, “I Shall Be Released” and “With A Little Help From My Friends”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 6 was featured in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. 6 was released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album. It is also available on the 25th Anniversary CD box set.
1991: An edited version of 4 was released on The Lost Performances video.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included an edited version of 5. This has been issued on DVD. The Woodstock Diary CD included a complete version of 5 and an edit of 4.
2009: 2 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 3, 4 and 6 were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.



COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH

1. Rock And Soul Music
2. Love
3. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
4. Summer Dresses
5. Silver And Gold
6. Love Machine
7. Rock And Soul Music (reprise)
8. The “Fish” Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin-To-Die-Rag

Immediately following Joe Cocker’s set, the denizens of Woodstock were besieged by the biggest and most famous rainstorm of the weekend, with high winds and buckets of soaking rain making for something of a nail-biting experience for those folks charged with the safety of the masses. The tension and madness was captured on film, most famously in the 1970 Woodstock film and also on the Woodstock Diaries documentary, in an alternate edit.

Fortunately disaster did not come to Yasgur’s Farm and the crowd, by now thoroughly entrenched in mud, dealt with the situation rather good-naturedly. Finally around 6 p.m. the music resumed with a set from the Bay Area group Country Joe And The Fish. Country Joe McDonald had already performed an acoustic set on Saturday afternoon, though his group was no less energetic for it on Sunday.

Most of Country Joe And The Fish’s Woodstock set can be compiled from various legit sources. The 1970 Woodstock movie and its Soundtrack album both included the group’s opening number, a revved-up “Rock And Soul Music”. This film adds the band’s closing cry of “Marijuana!” to both the beginning and ending of the song, presumably for reasons of “hepness”.

In 1981 two more numbers, “Love Machine” and the full-band rendition of the “Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-To-Die-Rag” (the Saturday solo Country Joe version of which is far better known) were released on the 1981 compilation album The Life And Times Of Country Joe And The Fish. 1994 saw the Barry Melton-sung “Love” included in the Woodstock Diaries documentary.

In 2009 the group’s rendition of their “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine” finally surfaced legitimately on the Amazon.com exclusive bonus disc of the 40th Anniversary edition of the original Woodstock movie. A rough Wadleigh outtake of this track had circulated among collectors for years on video prior to its official release. That same year some more uncirculated Country Joe And The Fish material was made available when “Summer Dresses”, “Silver And Gold” and a reprise of “Rock And Soul Music” turned up on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set alongside “Rock And Soul Music”, “Love” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 1 was featured in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. 1 was released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album. It is also available on the 25th Anniversary CD box set.
1981: 6 and 8 were released on The Life And Times Of Country Joe And The Fish album.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included 2. This has been issued on DVD.
2009: 3 was issued on the Amazon.com exclusive bonus disc of the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 1-5 and 7 were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.



TEN YEARS AFTER

1. I’m Going Home

The next act to make an indelible impression on Woodstock Nation was England’s Ten Years After, led by the dynamic blues guitarist Alvin Lee. Despite playing a full set at the Festival, only one song from their set has ever surfaced either officially or otherwise. This is a barnstorming version of their “I’m Going Home”, which was used effectively in the 1970 Woodstock film as a centerpiece to the film and shows off Lee’s considerable guitar chops.

Unfortunately the recording made of the group’s set was marred by technical problems which resulted in drummer Ric Lee’s instrument not making it to the multitrack tape. According to Dale Belll’s book Woodstock, studio percussionist Larry Bunker was brought in by the Film’s music mixer Dan Wallin to overdub drums on “I’m Going Home” during the production of the Film and its Soundtrack. However, Mountain drummer Corky Laing claims in his book (co-written with Leslie West) Nantucket Sleighride that he overdubbed the drums part himself, earning himself not less than two gold album awards for the Woodstock soundtrack though he didn't even play there (one for this job, one for his work on the two non-Woodstock Mountain tracks).

Either way, it has been reported that this is the only Ten Years After number captured on film by the Wadleigh crew. This is borne out by the fact that no other film of their set exists in the Woodstock film archive.

In fact, while “I’m Going Home” was a natural choice for inclusion in the Film, the length of the original performance—over twelve minutes—posed challenges for both audio and video editors. The Soundtrack to the Film trimmed the song down by nearly three minutes, and while the Film restores much of this it is still edited, a fact borne out by the longer audio edit of the track that was issued on the 1994 25th Anniversary CD box set, which I suspect is the complete rendition of the song at last. For some odd reason Ten Years After are not represented on the 2009 Rhino 40 Years On box set, allegedly because the band declined to participate in the project (though both bassist Leo Lyons anddrummer Ric Lee were interviewed for documentary segments taped for inclusion on the 2009 40th Anniversary reissue DVD of the original Woodstock film).

A shorter, tighter edit of the track was also included in the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: An edited version of 1 was featured in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. A shorter edit of 1 was released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album. It is also available on the 25th Anniversary CD box set.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included a shorter edit of 1. This has been issued on DVD. The 25th Anniversary CD box set included the most complete version available of 1.



THE BAND

1. Chest Fever
2. Baby Don't You Do It
3. Tears Of Rage
4. We Can Talk
5. Long Black Veil
6. Don't Ya Tell Henry
7. Ain't No More Cane
8. This Wheel's On Fire
9. I Shall Be Released
10. The Weight
11. Lovin' You (Is Sweeter Than Ever)

The country of Canada and the town of Woodstock, NY were (more or less) represented by The Band, who at the time were on their first tour of the USA on their own after several years of being Bob Dylan’s unofficial backing group. The audience was certainly aware of the group’s background, as shouts of “Where’s Dylan?” can be heard from the crowd occasionally during the performance.

That any part of The Band’s set was filmed at all was an impressive feat on the part of the Wadleigh team. Prior to their taking the stage, The Band had threatened that if any members of the group caught sight of a photographer on stage the group would end their set immediately. Nevertheless several songs from this performance were captured by the Wadleigh crew, though the effort seemed wasted initially when The Band’s manager Albert Grossman refused permission for the recorded audio and video materials to be used in the Film and album projects, allegedly feeling that the group’s participation fee was much too low.

Twenty-two years after the performance, the first issue of any material from The Band’s Woodstock set finally emerged when an edited version of their classic song “The Weight” appeared on the Warner Lost Performances video. The edit here is something of a hack job, losing an entire verse for no real reason.

In 1994 the 25th Anniversary CD box set brought us “Long Black Veil”, “The Weight” (complete this time) and “Lovin’ You (Is Sweeter Than Ever)”. In that same year, The Band’s 3-CD box set Across The Great Divide included “Ain’t No More Cane”, this time titled “Ain’t No Cane On The Brazos”. Additionally, “The Weight” turned up on both the Woodstock Diaries documentary and the Woodstock Diary CD. Once again, The Band is a shocking omission from Rhino’s 40 Years On box set. Apparently the members of the group decided to not be included this time around, even if their music HAD already been released on the 1994 box set. So it goes.

Unofficially, the group’s entire set circulates in excellent quality among collectors, taken from the Wadleigh crew’s audio feed. In addition, Wadleigh color film outtakes circulate of “The Weight” (complete) and Richard Manuel’s beautiful vocal on the Dylan co-write “Tears Of Rage”.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1991: An edited version of 10 was included on The Lost Performances video.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included an edited version of of 10. This has been issued on DVD. The 25th Anniversary CD box set included the most complete version available of 10, along with 5 and 11. The Band box set Across The Great Divide included 7.





JOHNNY WINTER

1. Mama, Talk To Your Daughter
2. Leland Mississippi Blues
3. Mean Town Blues
4. You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
5. I Can’t Stand It (featuring Edgar Winter)
6. Tobacco Road (featuring Edgar Winter)
7. Tell The Truth (featuring Edgar Winter)
8. Johnny B. Goode (featuring Edgar Winter)

The ragin’ Texan blues guitarist Johnny Winter was still relatively new on the scene when he appeared at Woodstock. Despite turning in an impressive set his filmed and recorded materials from the Festival remained shelved for twenty-five years following Woodstock.

Finally in 1994 this changed when an edited version of “Mean Town Blues” was featured in the Woodstock Diaries documentary, and was also released on the Woodstock Diary CD. This same edited was also released on the Woodstock 25th Anniversary CD box set that same year. “Mean Town Blues” was again issued, this time in complete form, on the 40th Anniversary DVD release of the 1970 Woodstock film.

Those who were hoping for more Winter had their prayers answered in 2009 when Sony issued Johnny’s complete Woodstock set as part of their Woodstock Experience CD sets. This is, needless to say, a must-have for everyone living on planet Earth. Among the highlights heard here are three killer tunes performed with his brother Edgar, including “Johnny B. Goode” even though Sony left Edgar’s name off the credits for that song (he is clearly audible on the recording).

In August of the same year Rhino included “Leland Mississippi Blues” and “Mean Town Blues” (a more complete edit) on its 40 Years On CD box set.

Unofficially, following Woodstock Soundtrack producer Eric Blackstead’s death in 2000 his estate sold a number of Woodstock mixdown tapes that he had stored in his archives. Excerpts from these tapes were placed on a website by the Blackstead Estate, and among these excerpts were minute-long excerpts from two then-unavailable Johnny Winter outtakes, his cover of J.B. Lenoir’s “Mama, Talk To Your Daughter” and “Leland Mississippi Blues”. In addition to this a lengthy Wadleigh color outtake circulates of a complete “Mean Town Blues” featuring a meandering intro and solo section that would obviously have to be trimmed before official release.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included an edited version of of 3. This has been issued on DVD. The Woodstock Diary CD included an alternate edit of 3. The 25th Anniversary CD box set included an alternate edit of 3.
2009: Yet another edit of 3 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 1-8 were issued on the Johnny Winter: The Woodstock Experience CD. 2 and 3 were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.




BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS

1. More And More
2. Something’s Coming On/More Than You’ll Ever Know
3. Spinning Wheel
4. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

Formed in 1968 by I-Am-Everywhere-type-musician Al Kooper, Blood Sweat And Tears combined Rock with strong jazz and R&B influences to create a sound that took Rock an almost big band-type grandeur. By the time of the Woodstock Festival Kooper had departed the band, with the big voice of David Clayton-Thomas assuming vocal duties. Soon after BS&T would enjoy their most enduring hit with “Spinning Wheel”.

BS&T has been a bit of a forgotten Woodstock act. This is mainly due to the fact that for years very little of the group’s performance had seen official release, with only “More And More” sneaking out on the 1991 Lost Performances video. This changed in 2009 when Rhino included the previously uncirculated “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” on their 40 Years On CD box set.

The rest of the available material circulates among collectors on video, taken from the Wadleigh film outtake cache.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1991: The Lost Performances video included 1.
2009: 4 was released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.



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. Long Time Gone
9. Sea Of Madness (intro only--music not recorded at Woodstock)
10. Wooden Ships
11. Find The Cost Of Freedom

Soon-to-be-legends Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were—as Stephen Stills noted from the stage at Woodstock—playing their second-ever gig at the Festival. Despite being (in Stills’ words again) “scared ********” they played a tremendous set at Woodstock, portions of which have been enshrined for eternity on various releases. Their full set still does not circulate among collectors however, though hopefully one day it will surface.

Of the material that is available, about half of this is performed during the opening acoustic set without Neil Young who joined in near the end of the set. Crosby and Nash then left the stage leaving Stills alone with Young, the pair being re-introduced as “The Buffalo Springfield” (a reference to the band Stills and Young had been members of prior to CSN&Y). It has long been alleged that Neil Young would not allow himself to be filmed at the Festival but this seems to be true only for his original songs, and even then not entirely, as a Wadleigh outtake of Neil’s “Mr. Soul” circulates among collectors. The full group later returned to the stage for a short electric set and a two-song encore.

Fortunately we have much of the reported set in circulation, but it has to be compiled from a number of sources. The first releases of material from their performance came in 1970 when “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” was released in both the Woodstock movie and it’s accompanying Soundtrack album. “Wooden Ships” also made the Soundtrack, but the version in the Film is the original studio version of the song. A third song, Neil Young’s “Sea Of Madness”, was also included on the Soundtrack but this version was not recorded at Woodstock but rather at the Fillmore East in New York City on September 20, 1969.

A year later in 1971, “Guinnevere”, “4 + 20” and “Marrakesh Express” were released on the Woodstock Two album, the last of these featuring a post-production Stephen Stills guitar overdub as well as a bass overdub. In 1991 “Blackbird” and “Marrakesh Express” (with overdubs) were included on The Lost Performances video. 1994’s Woodstock Diaries documentary also included “Blackbird”, as did the Woodstock Diary CD.

1994’s 25th Anniversary CD box set rounded up “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”, “Guinnevere”, “4 + 20”, “Marrakesh Express” (with overdub) and the fraudulent “Sea Of Madness”, adding to these tracks their previously unavailable final encore “Find The Cost Of Freedom”. Rhino’s 2009 40 Years On CD box set included “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”, “Guinnevere”, “Marrakesh Express” (sans overdubs), “4 + 20”, “Sea Of Madness” (from the Fillmore East again) and “Wooden Ships”.

Once again a handful of color Wadleigh outtakes circulate on video and help to fill in some of the gaps. These include “Helplessly Hoping”, “Mr. Soul” and a loose version of “Long Time Gone” (the studio version of which was again used in the Woodstock film).

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 1 was included in the Woodstock film. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. 1 and 10 were released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album. 9 was also released on the Soundtrack, but the music itself was not recorded at Woodstock.
1971: 4, 5 and 6 were released on the Woodstock Two album. 5 features a post-production guitar overdub.
1991: The Lost Performances video included 2 and 5.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included 2. This has been issued on DVD. This track was also issued on the Woodstock Diary CD. The 25th Anniversary CD box set included 1, 4, 5 (with overdub), 6, 9 (not recorded at Woodstock), 10 and 11.
2009: 1, 4-6, 9 (once again not recorded at Woodstock) and 10 were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.



BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND

1. No Amount Of Loving
2. Drifting Blues
3. Morning Sunrise
4. All In A Day
5. Love March
6. Everything's Gonna Be Alright


By 1969 The Butterfield Blues Band, which began life in the mid-1960s as a small but powerful Chicago blues-styled unit, had graduated to an R&B-influenced, big band-esque ensemble with the addition of an admittedly incredible horn section. As the sun rose on Monday morning, powerhouse harmonica specialist Paul Butterfield and his comrades serenaded the quickly-disassembling Woodstock Nation with some tasty, bleary-eyed blues.

Although The Butterfield Blues Band was left out of the 1970 Woodstock film, one song from their set was issued on the Soundtrack album, the unrepresentative but fun “Love March”. This would later be reissued on the 1994 25th Anniversary CD box set. 1971 saw the inclusion of another Butterfield tune, an edited version of the rousing “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright”, included on the Woodstock Two album.

1991 saw the inclusion of a hacked-up, poorly-edited version of “Drifting Blues” included on the Warner Brothers Lost Performances video. An edited version of “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” meanwhile turned up on video in the Woodstock Diaries documentary. But the memory of the late Paul Butterfield and his ace crew is best served by the inclusion of the previously unissued “Morning Sunrise” on the 2009 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the original 1970 Woodstock film.

Also in 2009, Rhino’s 40 Years On box set included more Butterfield with the release of “No Amount Of Loving” alongside “Love March” and “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright”. The QVC-exclusive bonus disc issued with the set included another Butterfield track, “Morning Sunrise”.

Three songs from the Butterfield set, “Morning Sunrise”, “Drifting Blues” (unedited this time) and “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” (complete) circulate among collectors from the Wadleigh outtake cache. And an excerpt of the group’s opening number, “All In A Day”, became available to collectors through its appearance on the website created by the estate of Woodstock album producer Eric Blackstead, who were then selling Woodstock multitrack mixdown tapes that had been stored in Blackstead’s archive.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 5 was released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album. This is also available on the Woodstock 25th Anniversary CD box set.
1971: 6 was released on the Woodstock Two album.
1991: The Lost Performances video included an edited version of 2.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included an edited version of 6. This has been issued on DVD.
2009: 3 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film. 1, 5 and 6 were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set. 3 was released on the exclusive QVC edition of the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set.


SHA NA NA

1. Get A Job
2. Teen Angel
3. Wipe Out
4. Who Wrote The Book Of Love
5. At The Hop
6. Duke Of Earl
7. Get A Job (reprise)


Amazingly enough, the greasy 1950s revivalists Sha Na Na played their first high-profile gig at Woodstock. And they went over very well, delighting the audience with their almost-parodies of teen fluff like “Who Wrote The Book Of Love” and “At The Hop”. At least one audience member thought he was actually hallucinating when they started, so odd and unexpected was their act.

Of course they were naturals for the Woodstock movie, and 1970 saw the release of “At The Hop”/”Na Na Theme” in both the Film and its Soundtrack album. But that was it until 1994, when “Duke Of Earl” was included in the Woodstock Diaries documentary. In 2009 the sensitive “Teen Angel” was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD of the original 1970 Woodstock film, after circulating as a Wadleigh outtake for years among collectors.

2009 also saw the release of more songs from Sha Na Na’s set when “Get A Job” and “Get A Job (reprise)” were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set alongside “At The Hop”.

Two other songs, “Wipe Out” and “Who Wrote The Book Of Love”, also circulate from the Wadleigh cache.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 5 was included in the Woodstock movie. It is currently available on the 1994 Directors Cut and the 2009 40th Anniversary reissues of that film. 5 was also released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album. This is also available on the Woodstock 25th Anniversary CD box set.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included 6. This has been issued on DVD.
2009: 2 was issued on the expanded 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the Woodstock film.1, 5, 7 were released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.


JIMI HENDRIX

1. Message To The Universe (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. Jam Back At The House (Beginning)
9. Izabella
10. Gypsy Woman / Aware Of Love
11. Fire
12. Voodoo Child (slight return)/Stepping Stone
13. Star Spangled Banner
14. Purple Haze
15. Woodstock Improvisation/Villanova Junction
16. Hey Joe


Of all of the performances heard at Woodstock, possibly the most legendary of these was turned in by the Diamond in the Rough himself, James Marshall Hendrix. Backed by a rather loose aggregation of musicians known as Gypsy Sun And Rainbows (despite MC Chip Monck’s persistent introduction of the group as “The Jimi Hendrix Experience”), Hendrix turned in an absolutely masterful performance, capped by his classic, incendiary reading of “The Star Spangled Banner”.

Jimi’s set has a very involved official release history. The 1970 Woodstock film and its Soundtrack album included “Star Spangled Banner”, “Purple Haze” and “Villanova Junction”, the latter re-titled “Instrumental Solo”. The Soundtrack also includes the tail end of “Stepping Stone”. 1971 saw the release of three more Hendrix songs, “Jam Back At The House (Beginning)”, “Izabella” and “Getting My Heart Back Together Again”, on the Woodstock Two album, all in edited versions. In 1973, an excellent alternate edit of “Star Spangled Banner” turned up in A Film About Jimi Hendrix. Since then “Star Spangled Banner” has been regular fare on a multitude of Hendrix compilations.

We would have to wait until 1992 for new, official releases of Hendrix’s performance from the Festival. In that year longtime posthumous and rather dubious Hendrix “producer” Alan Douglas turned his (actually unwanted) attention to Jimi’s Woodstock set, cooking up a video of highlights from the performance titled Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock. Although still valuable for a number of alternate camera angles and non-Hendrix footage unavailable elsewhere, the video was disappointing in as much as the songs were rather haphazardly edited. Sometimes the editing was justifiable (such as dropping nearly all of second guitarist’s Larry Lee’s severely out of tune playing), while other edits were “artistic decisions” made to cram the set into an hour-length format. This video would be reissued on DVD by Jimi’s family’s company Experience Hendrix in 1999.

In 1994,The Woodstock Diaries documentary included “Star Spangled Banner”, “Villanova Junction” and the first release of “Woodstock Improvisation”. The Woodstock Diary CD however includes an edited version of “Voodoo Child (slight return)”. The 25th Anniversary CD box set included an alternate edit of “Voodoo Child (slight return)”/”Stepping Stone” alongside Star Spangled Banner”, “Woodstock Improvisation” and “Villanova Junction”. In August 1994 Alan Douglas released one of his final Hendrix projects when Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock was issued on CD. This turned out to be not much more than the soundtrack to the 1992 video, though with a very interesting bit tucked in at the end: MC Chip Monck’s final words to Woodstock Nation post-Hendrix’s set, thanking them “so very much” and asking them to stay and help clean up Yasgur’s Farm. A nice touch. Video of this appears on the bonus disc issued with the 40th Anniversary DVD reissue of the original 1970 Woodstock Film.

Control of Hendrix’s recordings reverted back to Jimi’s family in 1995, though fans would have to wait a while for Experience Hendrix to address the issue of Jimi’s Woodstock performance. Finally in 1999 Live At Woodstock was released. This is probably as good of a job as could be done to issue Hendrix’s “full set” though the two songs sung by Larry Lee (“Master Mind” and “Gypsy Woman”/”Aware Of Love”) were omitted, as were Lee’s solos and bits of between-song patter and tuning.

In 2005 Experience Hendrix released what must be The Final Word on Jimi’s Woodstock performance, the 2-DVD set Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock. Not only did this feature nearly all of the usable Wadleigh crew-shot material still extant on disc one, but it also included some priceless, hitherto unknown footage from a 22 year-old audience member named Albert Goodman who brought his own Sony Portapak video recorder onstage, recording most of Hendrix’s set (and becoming Portapak #2 in the process). Other than a few quibbles about edits (which are pretty much all perfectly justifiable), this is the ultimate presentation of Jimi at Woodstock, and one every serious Hendrix and/or Woodstock fan should own. Plus it features a nice interview with Eddie Kramer in which the master engineer reflects on his experiences recording the Woodstock Festival.

Jimi Hendrix could hardly be excluded from Woodstock’s 2009 40th Anniversary celebrations, so of course he did get some love when Rhino issued “The Star Spangled Banner”, “Purple Haze” and “Woodstock Improvisation” on their 40 Years On CD box set. The DVD bonus disc issued by Target department stores with the 40th Anniversary DVD set also included an alternate edit of “Spanish Castle Magic”.

Finally, a tape circulates among collectors containing Hendrix’s full, uncut set, taken directly from the Nagra reels used by the Wadleigh film crew. An audience tape containing “Message To The Universe” also circulates as does at least two silent 8mm films, one taken from behind Hendrix onstage.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1970: 13, 14 and 15 (with 15 heavily edited) were included in the Woodstock movie. The end of 12 plus 13, 14 and 15 (with 15 still edited) was also released on the Woodstock Soundtrack album.
1971: Edited versions of 2, 8 and 9 were released on the Woodstock Two album, all in edited form.
1973: An alternate edit of 13 was included in A Film About Jimi Hendrix. This has been issued on DVD.
1992: The Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock video included 1 (edited), 4 (edited), 8 (edited), 9 (edited), 11, 12 (edited), 13, 14 and 15.
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included 13 and 15. This has been issued on DVD. The Woodstock Diary CD included an edited version of 12. The 25th Anniversary Director’s Cut of the original Woodstock movie added an edited version of 12 to 13, 14 and 15, with 15 finally unedited. The Woodstock 25th Anniversary CD box set included an edited version of 12 plus complete versions of 13, 14 and 15. The Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock CD included 2, 4, 8 and 9 (all edited) plus 11, 12 (edited), 13, 14 and 15.
1999: The CD Live At Woodstock included 1, 2, 3, 4 (edited), 6,7, 8 (edited), 9 (edited), 11, 12 (edited), 13, 14, 15 and 16.
2005: The DVD Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock included 1, 2, 3, 4 (edited), 6,7, 8 (edited), 9 (edited), 11, 12 (edited), 13, 14, 15 and 16.
2009: 3 was issued on the exclusive Target department store bonus disc that came with the 40th Anniversary DVD version of the 1970 Woodstock Film. 13, 14 and 15 were issued on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.

[semidetached]

This is just incredible work. Thanks so much for sharing.

[kelhard]

Nice work again Scott. Kudos!

[jamesmaya]

Wow.

[Ma Kelly]

Originally Posted by SM7609

a list of available woodstock performances

THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND

1. Invocation
2. The Letter
3. This Moment
4. When You Find Out Who You Are

The folk-inspired English group The Incredible String Band were originally scheduled to play on Friday night, but backed out for fear that the evening’s heavy rains would possibly electrocute the band members who were using electric instruments. They were rescheduled for Saturday afternoon, though their placement in the middle of a variety of better-known acts and hard rockin’ music ensured that the ISB would not go down particularly well at Woodstock. As a result it took years until an official release of any part of their set would be issued, when a one-minute excerpt of “When You Find Out Who You Are” was included for no particularly good reason on the 1994 Woodstock Diaries documentary.

A much more respectful look at ISB’s Woodstock performance surfaced in 2009 when “The Letter” and “When You Find Out Who You Are” was released on Rhino’s 40 Years On CD box set.

Having said that, the rest of the group’s set was fairly well documented. Color outtakes from the Wadleigh crew circulate among collectors, including “The Letter”, “This Moment” and a complete version of “When You Find Out Who You Are”. In addition, Portapak #1 captured a few moments of pre-set preparations as well as most of the group’s opening number “Invocation” and a few scattered moments from later in the set.

OFFICIAL RELEASES:
1994: The Woodstock Diaries documentary included a short excerpt of 4.
2009: 2 and 4 were issued on the Rhino 40 Years On CD box set

a performance of Gather Round has been circulating recently from Woodstock. Its good quality, though i dont recall its source. I'd assumed its from an upcoming Woodstock release, though now i'm not sure. anyway, it's an "available" performance.
oh, and they're scottish not english

edit - oh and i wouldnt say the rest of their set is well documented - nobody really knows what songs they did! there's a photo of Rose with a recorder, which probably means they also did Come With Me, though nobody really knows.

not nitpicking - just like jabbering about the ISB!

[H-Man]

Thank you so much, man! I really needed this to remember exactly where and what I was doing for those 3 days.

[SM7609]

Originally Posted by Ma Kelly

a performance of Gather Round has been circulating recently from Woodstock. Its good quality, though i dont recall its source. I'd assumed its from an upcoming Woodstock release, though now i'm not sure. anyway, it's an "available" performance.
oh, and they're scottish not english

edit - oh and i wouldnt say the rest of their set is well documented - nobody really knows what songs they did! there's a photo of Rose with a recorder, which probably means they also did Come With Me, though nobody really knows.

not nitpicking - just like jabbering about the ISB!

Me too! That's just what this sort of thing is about. I was thinking at the time of Joe Boyd's quote about "these English hippies" going on in the midst of all that rock and roll. I knew better. Honest!

So "Gather 'Round" is out there? Now I've gotta find it!

Oh, we do know now what the ISB played in full--the full Woodstock setlist for all bands was published in the new Rhino CD box set. Andy Zax compiled it after listening to ALL of the multitracks so I'm pretty sure we can call it definitive. They played:

1. Invocation
2. The Letter
3. Gather ‘Round
4. This Moment
5. Come With Me
6. When You Find Out Who You Are

So they DID play Come With Me! Good call!

[Ma Kelly]

Originally Posted by SM7609

Me too! That's just what this sort of thing is about. I was thinking at the time of Joe Boyd's quote about "these English hippies" going on in the midst of all that rock and roll. I knew better. Honest!

So "Gather 'Round" is out there? Now I've gotta find it!

Oh, we do know now what the ISB played in full--the full Woodstock setlist for all bands was published in the new Rhino CD box set. Andy Zax compiled it after listening to ALL of the multitracks so I'm pretty sure we can call it definitive. They played:

1. Invocation
2. The Letter
3. Gather ‘Round
4. This Moment
5. Come With Me
6. When You Find Out Who You Are

So they DID play Come With Me! Good call!

ah so the set list has been published? so we finally know what they did! only took 40 years to figure it out!

i'd assumed Gather Round was on this new boxset, but i didnt really pay attention where it came from, but it sounds "official release" sound quality. hmm...

[SM7609]

Originally Posted by Ma Kelly

ah so the set list has been published? so we finally know what they did! only took 40 years to figure it out!

i'd assumed Gather Round was on this new boxset, but i didnt really pay attention where it came from, but it sounds "official release" sound quality. hmm...

Well, let's see...according to this page:

http://www.wolfgangrostek.de/5000onions/index.html

it may be on a bootleg known as Live At Woodstock. Though I may well be misreading the chart! If so, we may have Come With Me as well!

[musiclover56]

thank you for sharing your research.
plus i like your previous posting bout the skeeters at Big Pink.
my wife and i found out the same thing about 12 years ago.

-mike

[JulesDassin]

Thanks ! great post! good luck with the book.

[kevin5brown]

I need to read this later. For whatever reason, I really get into music's effect, and the artists involved in terms of (wait for it ... here it comes ... ) social change. A short list for me would be Woodstock, the punk movement in '77, and grunge in the early '90s, and maybe you could MP3 downloading after that somehow.

[Ma Kelly]

Originally Posted by SM7609

Well, let's see...according to this page:

http://www.wolfgangrostek.de/5000onions/index.html

it may be on a bootleg known as Live At Woodstock. Though I may well be misreading the chart! If so, we may have Come With Me as well!

hmm...possibly. i couldnt quite follow that chart. i read it to be the whole set list, and showing what bootlegs the songs appear on. I read it to show Gather Round and Come With Me, though performed, ARENT on that boot. who knows!

[SM7609]

That sounds reasonable to me! Did the Gather Round turn up on a CD by chance?

[SM7609]

Originally Posted by kevin5brown

I need to read this later. For whatever reason, I really get into music's effect, and the artists involved in terms of (wait for it ... here it comes ... ) social change. A short list for me would be Woodstock, the punk movement in '77, and grunge in the early '90s, and maybe you could MP3 downloading after that somehow.

Absolutely right on Kevin! I am VERY guilty of treating all music as a historical document at times, especially Woodstock. But the Festival certainly was a symbol of social change for it's time. Given the relative social climate, it could never happen again!

[SM7609]

Thanks guys! I appreciate it. Hope it will be worth it. Those Big Pink skeeters are for real, man--they're used to dining on humans! Literally we were covered in 'em. It was comic gold!

[SM7609]

Oh, and here is something interesting!

http://www.woodstockmastertapes.com/index.html

[markbrow]

bumping this so that more people see it.

[birdoffire]

Grear work, what an essential article!

[kevin5brown]

Originally Posted by SM7609

Absolutely right on Kevin! I am VERY guilty of treating all music as a historical document at times, especially Woodstock. But the Festival certainly was a symbol of social change for it's time. Given the relative social climate, it could never happen again!

Pivotal man. End of the 60's beg of the 70's. Viet Nam. The different role of newspapers and the media. The end of "innocent". Drugs more in the public view in the context of rock and roll and society in general. The moon shot. Civil rights, equal rights. Etc !! (Am I leaving anything out?)