the music starts
Despite all the organizers' troubles, the Woodstock Festival got started nearly on time. On Friday evening, August 15, Richie Havens got up on stage and officially started the Festival. Sweetwater, Joan Baez, and other folk artists also played Friday night. The music started up again shortly after noon on Saturday with Quill and continued non-stop until Sunday morning around 9 am. The day of psychedelic bands continued with such musicians as Santana, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and The Who, to name just a few.Though throughout the weekend, it was rainy, food was scarce, and sanitation was poor, the music was so revolutionary and the "scene" was so remarkable that the festival became an instant legend, and very few people had complaints.
Woodstock's place in music history is legend. It was a career changer for some artists, a sales boost for others. A few slipped into obscurity. Thanks to a wealth of audio and video recordings, nearly all of those historic performances are still available.
Woodstock's place in music history is legend. It was a career changer for some artists, a sales boost for others. A few slipped into obscurity. Thanks to a wealth of audio and video recordings, nearly all of those historic performances are still available.
the bands of 1960's: leading to woodstock
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this is the band the "the who". this was a famous 60's band. they played at woodstock.
By the early 1960s two new strains entered the world of American popular music. One, influenced by the folk songs of Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger, had its birth in New York's Greenwich Village. Led by Bob Dylan, the Byrds and Joan Baez, this protest folk rock embodied the intellectual side of popular music. The new primal force of popular music was the product of an export from across the Atlantic. In 1962 the Beatles arrived from Liverpool, England, bringing the British rock invasion to thousands of screaming fans. They were soon followed by such groups as the Who and the Rolling Stones. These two strains developed, both independently and together, to form other new music forms. By the end of the 1960s rock-n-roll embodied everything from traditional guitar-driven rock, to folk rock, to psychedelic musings.