Woodstock Dream Roster

Germaniac

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Getting the idea from Sigma 7 What would be your dream Woodstock Roster. In other words what bands would make Woodstock even greater than it was.

Mine would be...
The Grateful Dead
CCR
Janis Joplin
THE WHO!!!
Neil Young
Jimmy Hendrix
(Thats it for those who where there)
The Doors
Led Zeppelin
Jethro Tull
Bob Dylan

The One Band I would NOT want their would be the Beatles. They might have been one of the most influential bands EVER, however I was never impressed with their live performances.
 
THE FREAKIN' WHO!!!! (BEST BAND EVER!!!!)
The Doors
Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Jefferson Airplane
Cream
Traffic
Led Zeppelin
 
A punkier/darker woodstock.

There was a thread sometime back asking for one, I believe.

I would keep most of the original line-up but add...


The Fugs (now, this is radical-- It'll be like telling people wit is more important than talent. Also un-PCs the whole stuff!)
The MC5 (yes! Hippies with guns are better than hippies with flowers)
13th Floor Elevators (well, we could have PODs in '67 and '68 to prevent the tragedies with this great band)
The Doors (why not? They had dark songs a plenty)
Black Sabbath (maybe, their rise is faster ITTL.)
The Stooges ("1969" says it all, and they might compete with Sabbath for the loudest band of the night. Whoever wins, the audience wins more)
 
The One Band I would NOT want their would be the Beatles. They might have been one of the most influential bands EVER, however I was never impressed with their live performances.

The Beatles wouldn't preform live at a point well before Woodstock (though I can't recall the exact date), because things were just way too chaotic. The reason their live performances suffered and why they stopped is because the audience just screamed so loud and were so loud that you couldn't even hear the band nor they themselves. So, if they preformed live and people weren't shouting their heads off, I'd say it'd be a good performance, but I think it's a bit of an uphill thing to ever get them at Woodstock.
 

The Sandman

Banned
Let's add in Bob Marley, the Moody Blues, Joni Mitchell, and the Outlaws. Sadly, it's a couple of years too early for either Aerosmith or Skynyrd.
 
Woodstock badly needed more diversity, not so much racially as musically. Except for Santana and Sly Stone, its performers had overwhelmingly white audiences. (True of Hendrix and Richie Havens also.)

Where the hell was James Brown? How could any gathering of the great music of the time not include him, not include the Temptations or Marvin Gaye.

Where the hell were the great blues acts? How could they not include Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and BB King when every white act there worshipped them?

And though they weren't so famous yet (or some cases wouldn't ever be), some other great acts deserved to be there.

Malo
Sapo
Redbone
XIT
Tower of Power
War (minus Eric Burdon)

And the festival should try to break at least one internat'l act, the same way Monterrey Pop made Ravi Shankar famous in the US.

My vote- Celia Cruz
 
Most of the bands there fitted perfectly, I just can't imagine Woodstock without them. However I think there would have been room for Tyrannosaurus Rex, Free and The James Gang. They were all playing some of their best material in '69 and include three of the very best axemen in the business.
 
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