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Again keeping with the flow, here is someone you can say started off the woodstock festival. They were the first one to sign up for it, prior to that many were hesitant to sign for something like that and once news got around they had signed it, the rest follwed.

CCR : Fortunate Son

Woodstock

Those who cancelled:

Jeff Beck Group (The band broke up in July, forcing cancellation)
Iron Butterfly (Stuck at the airport, their manager demanded helicopters and special arrangements just for them. Were wired back and told, as impolitely as Western Union would allow, "to get lost", but in other 'words'.)
Joni Mitchell (Joni's agent put her on "The banana Cavett Show" instead)
Lighthouse (Feared that it would be a "bad scene".)
Ethan Brown (Arrested for LSD three days before the event.) In preparation for the concert??

Those who declined:

The Beatles (John Lennon said he couldn't get them together)
Led Zeppelin (Got a higher paying gig at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey that weekend)
Bob Dylan (Turned it down because of his of the hippies hanging around his house) Now that's funny!!!
The Byrds (Turned it down because of a melee during their performance at the first Atlanta International Pop Festival, held at the Atlanta International Raceway on July 4 and July 5, 1969)
Tommy James & the Shondells (Turned it down because of being misinformed about the size and scope of the event)
Jethro Tull (Turned it down because they thought it wouldn't be a big deal.)
The Moody Blues were included in the original posters as performers, but backed out after taking a gig in Paris on the same weekend.
Spirit (they had other shows planned and did not want to back out of their commitments; not knowing how big that Woodstock would ultimately become)
Mind Garage (Declined because they thought it wouldn't be a big deal and had a higher paying gig elsewhere)

Good research BB!

I know a lot of headliners pulled out or couldn't make it for one reason or another but this is a definitive list and educational!

Woodstock started the era of big outdoor music festivals and they continue to this day. Glastonbury is obviously the daddy in the UK but the V Festivals attract some very high note performers.

Was at Joe Cocker last night and the band could really play. He still has a charisma and there is music coming from every pore of his body...like the sweat he was drenched in! The poor guy was really struggling with the humidity and the stage lighting but carried on regardless and put on an awesome set. The average age of the audience was about 55 but it was really refreshing to see a lot of youngsters there really appreciating the skill and the emotion that went into the performance.

A memorable gig.



Knight

Actually when I found that info I was very surprised and found it interesting who and why.

Joe Cocker = That's a concert I wouldn't mind having gone to seeing as how there were so many grownups. I'm sure when you say youngsters you don't mean the 5 and 6 year olds!!!

I'm very put off by concerts that I might want to go to because way to many people bring their "little ones" along or people get sloppy drunk. Both of which I find extremely irritating. I wouldn't even go to the big race for those reasons - more so because of the sloppy, obnoxious drunks.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

Bora Bora wrote:Actually when I found that info I was very surprised and found it interesting who and why.

Joe Cocker = That's a concert I wouldn't mind having gone to seeing as how there were so many grownups. I'm sure when you say youngsters you don't mean the 5 and 6 year olds!!!

I'm very put off by concerts that I might want to go to because way to many people bring their "little ones" along or people get sloppy drunk. Both of which I find extremely irritating. I wouldn't even go to the big race for those reasons - more so because of the sloppy, obnoxious drunks.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

By 'youngsters' I meant anyone under 30!

They gave you a bracelet that said "21+" to enable you to buy infidel juice...I dared them to check my id!

There wasn't a single child in the place, it was calm, orderly, easy to get in and out, no jostling, people chilled out with picnic blankets on the grass, some dancing, no-one drunk, no disturbances, no hassles. A grown up event and very well organised by Done Events.

The only downers were the weather (not in anyone's control) and the guy on the vision mixing for the big screens who seemed not to realise that when the spotlights shone on a performer who was playing a solo, he should actually show it on screen and not keep focusing on the quite hot female bass player!



Knight

Edited for the sake of BBs dirty mind

Speaking of concerts, Roxette was brilliant. Geeze she's aged, haven't we all, but it was high engery from start to finish and transported me back to the days of studying (cramming) for my leaving cert.
I went to see Mark Knoffler when he was here a few years back (Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms was my first big concert when I was all of about 5" tall), and was very disappointed, mainly with the crap band... and no sax!

benwj wrote:Speaking of concerts, Roxette was brilliant. Geeze she's aged, haven't we all, but it was high engery from start to finish and transported me back to the days of studying (cramming) for my leaving cert.
I went to see Mark Knoffler when he was here, which was more like my Junior Cert years (Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms was my first big concert when I was all of about 5" tall), and was very disappointed, mainly with the crap band... and no sax!

Weren't you a bit young for sax?? (Sorry, couldn't help myself. )

Bora Bora wrote:Woodstock

Those who cancelled:

Jeff Beck Group (The band broke up in July, forcing cancellation)
Iron Butterfly (Stuck at the airport, their manager demanded helicopters and special arrangements just for them. Were wired back and told, as impolitely as Western Union would allow, "to get lost", but in other 'words'.)
Joni Mitchell (Joni's agent put her on "The banana Cavett Show" instead)
Lighthouse (Feared that it would be a "bad scene".)
Ethan Brown (Arrested for LSD three days before the event.) In preparation for the concert??

Those who declined:

The Beatles (John Lennon said he couldn't get them together)
Led Zeppelin (Got a higher paying gig at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey that weekend)
Bob Dylan (Turned it down because of his of the hippies hanging around his house) Now that's funny!!!
The Byrds (Turned it down because of a melee during their performance at the first Atlanta International Pop Festival, held at the Atlanta International Raceway on July 4 and July 5, 1969)
Tommy James & the Shondells (Turned it down because of being misinformed about the size and scope of the event)
Jethro Tull (Turned it down because they thought it wouldn't be a big deal.)
The Moody Blues were included in the original posters as performers, but backed out after taking a gig in Paris on the same weekend.
Spirit (they had other shows planned and did not want to back out of their commitments; not knowing how big that Woodstock would ultimately become)
Mind Garage (Declined because they thought it wouldn't be a big deal and had a higher paying gig elsewhere)

I often wondered why some of the bigger names weren't performing at Woodstock, you mentioned Santana earlier, and the penultimate track in my Disco days, the final slow number of the night for that gratuitous pelvic grinding grope in the dark, was of course, Santana’s Samba Pa Ti…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzSayxVM_E0

And the last was no less than Jeff Beck with Hi-Ho Silver Lining, with such clear intelligible and positive lyrics, it was impossible not to sing along, the theory was that everyone left the disco in high, happy spirits rather than fighting in lumps, the last two tracks were mandatory and never varied from one disco to another!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9T47Hnccpw

Dillon, are you sure about that second link? If so, that must have been the Brits version of disco, which definitely differs from what us yanks know disco to be!!!

I know that neither of the above would have been played at Studio 54!!!!

Bora Bora wrote:Dillon, are you sure about that second link? If so, that must have been the Brits version of disco, which definitely differs from what us yanks know disco to be!!!

I know that neither of the above would have been played at Studio 54!!!!

Absolutely certain Bora! and never mind! I didn’t expect the rest of the world to be quite as sophisticated as we were in God’s Country.

Dillon wrote:

Bora Bora wrote:Dillon, are you sure about that second link? If so, that must have been the Brits version of disco, which definitely differs from what us yanks know disco to be!!!

I know that neither of the above would have been played at Studio 54!!!!

Absolutely certain Bora! and never mind! I didn’t expect the rest of the world to be quite as sophisticated as we were in God’s Country.

Yeah, us yanks knew (and still know) how to have a good time. Were you so sophisticated that you wore a suit and tie and wingtip shoes at the disco??

If thats Disco than Pavarotti is hip hop !

This, however is D.I.S.C.O



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VemW5i69 ... re=related

This even has the madatory big afros required for disco

Now I'm listening with the sound of silence...

Is that like getting a sun burn in the moonlight ?

Or were you refering to this ?

Listening to bellydance drum solo music

Careful with your back K!



Knight

Its what keeps my back in shape!

New Kid in Town by Eagles...xD

<- What is Love - Saturday Night Live with special guests

From way back when

Really hate Jim Carrey !

Michael Jackson - Wanna be startin' something

Awwww Mikey....what a loss Hey but the music will always remain. Two of my favs



Ok not all MJ but still me loves it !

That's so funny. Earlier I was looking at mass mobs performing to Michael's music in several different countries in 2009. Most were to Thriller.

That would be the Phillipino inmates

ABBA - Does your mother know
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Trammps - Disco Inferno

A few blasts from the past !

[quote="desertdudeshj"]That would be the Phillipino inmates

No, not that one. My bad. They are called flash mobs. Done in Paris, Canada, Taipei and a few other countries (one had over 13,000 people). And they weren't inmates!! A great one was the mass mob for Black Eyed Peas doing I've Got a Feeling. One girl starts it off:

Jermaine Stewart 'We don't have to take our clothes off..na na naaananana!'

Chocoholic wrote:Jermaine Stewart 'We don't have to take our clothes off..na na naaananana!'

Now that IS an awesome tune, I remeber hours rocking away to that. Classic !

How ironic that he himself died of AIDS

Here is another one from that era