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Max'sKansasCity
Cartman?
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stonehearted
Those festivals are overrated--why would anyone want to immerse themselves in an alternate communiverse just to take in a set of rock music?
Perhaps the Woodstock movie helped make stars out of artists like Santana, Joe Cocker, and Ten Years After who otherwise might not have gotten such exposure to a general audience--but how are the performances "career defining"? The sound systems were awful, especially at Woodstock. The only reason Isle of Wight 1970 sounded so good was because The Who brought their own PA system which everyone else ended up using as well, as Townshend points out on the live Who album that was eventually released.
Gotta love that clip in the Isle of Wight movie where that bearded tripping hippie guy is getting busted for trying to storm the fences at the outer perimeter, who then gives them the excuse that "I was only painting the fence. Yeah, that's it! I was gonna paint the fence invisible." It must have been a rough come-down in the slammer.
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LieB
perhaps the Stones of mid-67 would have sounded dated alongside Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and a very energetic The Who?
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Max'sKansasCity
Posted by: stonehearted ()
Date: December 5, 2013 02:56
By the way, I wonder what happened to that guy who was trying to get lucky. Did he succeed? I also wonder what he's doing now, and who he may be doing it with
Yes he did and then he formed the company that makes and markets "Girls Gone wild" and became a millionaire.
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stonehearted
Those festivals are overrated--why would anyone want to immerse themselves in an alternate communiverse just to take in a set of rock music?
Perhaps the Woodstock movie helped make stars out of artists like Santana, Joe Cocker, and Ten Years After who otherwise might not have gotten such exposure to a general audience--but how are the performances "career defining"? The sound systems were awful, especially at Woodstock. The only reason Isle of Wight 1970 sounded so good was because The Who brought their own PA system which everyone else ended up using as well, as Townshend points out on the live Who album that was eventually released.
Gotta love that clip in the Isle of Wight movie where that bearded tripping hippie guy is getting busted for trying to storm the fences at the outer perimeter, who then gives them the excuse that "I was only painting the fence. Yeah, that's it! I was gonna paint the fence invisible." It must have been a rough come-down in the slammer.
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jamesfdouglas
The Stones simply don't fit into the calibre of many of these bands listed. They're better off in their own 'artistic isolation' that they've always had around them. For sheer musical (performing/writing/innovativeness) skill they can't compare to The Band, The Who, Hendrix, etc. They need to surraound themselves with lesser artists to shine, or no other artists at all. They count on fans being starved for their relatively simple kind of music.
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stonehearted
Those festivals are overrated--why would anyone want to immerse themselves in an alternate communiverse just to take in a set of rock music?
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jamesfdouglas
The Stones simply don't fit into the calibre of many of these bands listed. They're better off in their own 'artistic isolation' that they've always had around them. For sheer musical (performing/writing/innovativeness) skill they can't compare to The Band, The Who, Hendrix, etc. They need to surraound themselves with lesser artists to shine, or no other artists at all. They count on fans being starved for their relatively simple kind of music.
It's easier for them to play festivals now since their musicianship is very much a back-seat thing over their mere legend status. That's what keeps them going these days, smoke, mirrors, and the fact that they're THE STONES.
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His Majesty
Monterey seems to have been the best, right before things started getting too wanky.
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Aquamarine
Mostly they were overrated but I went to two good 'uns, the Bath Blues Festival in 1970 which was a totally shambles with everything running so late the bands had to play all night and we ended up having to leave in the middle of Jefferson Airplane who were headlining, but apart from that it was an amazing array of one fantastic band after another, from Canned Heat to Zeppelin. Mungo Jerry. Hot Tuna. Pink Floyd.
The other was some no-name festival in the middle of a field in Kent, where Woodstock's Wavy Gravy was dispensing the macrobiotic rice, the atmosphere was totally blissful all day, and then the Faces came out and tore the place down. And I was in time to catch my bus home.
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jamesfdouglas
The Stones simply don't fit into the calibre of many of these bands listed. They're better off in their own 'artistic isolation' that they've always had around them. For sheer musical (performing/writing/innovativeness) skill they can't compare to The Band, The Who, Hendrix, etc. They need to surraound themselves with lesser artists to shine, or no other artists at all. They count on fans being starved for their relatively simple kind of music.
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withaheadfullofsnow
I read Michael Lang's book and he talked about the Stones and Woodstock. He said the Stones were too big at the time and if booked, Woodstock would've been all about them.