Day 2 Woodstock Music Art Fair
Saturday 16 August 1969
My piece of…
…the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was mainly day 2. My friend Tony and I had left New Jersey on Friday night after hearing about heavy traffic around the festival. Leaving 12 hours early for what we thought would be a 90 minute trip seemed a good idea.
Around the same time that Arlo Guthrie announced that authorities had closed it, we drove up the NY Thruway.
We arrived in the Monticello area within a couple of hours, but as everyone knows, Rt 17B was jammed. We crawled along for a few miles before deciding to pull off the road and park. It was dark. It was misty. And there were as many people walking toward the festival as away, the latter saying the festival was cancelled.
We slept in the car until dawn, got up, and started walking. Around noon we got to the field, put our uncollected tickets back in our pockets, and waited.
It was a beautiful day literally and figuratively. It was going to be an historic weekend. Here is the line up, their personnel, and set list for Woodstock Day Two.
Day 2 Woodstock Music Art Fair
Quill
Quill started at 12.15 pm; played for 30 minutes.
| Dan Cole: vocals Jon Cole: bass, vocals |
Norman Rogers: guitar, vocals Phil Thayer: keyboard, saxophone, flute Roger North: drums |
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Country Joe
Country Joe was not on Saturday’s schedule, but trying to keep the music going once started required some ingenuity on the part of Michael Lang et al.
They recruited a guitar-less Joe with a strapless guitar and a found piece of rope. Joe’s solo performance has become part of the Woodstock legacy.
He started at 1 pm; played for 30 minutes,
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Santana
Santana started at 2 pm; played for 45 minutes.
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John Sebastian
Like Country Joe, Woodstock Ventures drafted the unscheduled John Sebastian to perform to buy time for setting up the next group. The solo Sebastian started at 3.30 pm and played for 25 minutes.
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Keef Hartley Band
Keef Hartley Band started at 4.45 pm; played for approx 45 minutes
| Keef Hartley: drums Miller Anderson: guitar, vocals |
Jimmy Jewell: saxophone Henry Lowther: trumpet, violin Gary Thain: bass |
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Halfbreed Medley: Sinnin’ For You (Intro) >Leaving Trunk > Just to Cry > Sinnin’ for You |
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The Incredible String Band
The Incredible String Band were scheduled for Friday’s folk lineup, but travel issues prevented that. They started at 6 pm; played for 30 minutes.
| Mike Heron: multi-instrumentals Robin Williamson: vocals, multi-instrumentals |
Christina “Licorice” McKechnie: organ, vocals, multi-instrumentals Rose Simpson: bass, vocals, multi-instrumentals |
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Canned Heat
Canned Heat started at 7.30 pm; played for 60 minutes.
| Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson: guitar, harmonica, vocals Bob “The Bear” Hite: vocals, harmonica |
Harvey “The Snake” Mandel: guitar Larry “The Mole” Taylor: bass Adolpho “Fito” de la Parra: drums |
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Mountain
Mountain started at 9 pm; played for 60 minutes.
| Leslie West: guitar, vocals Felix Pappalardi: bass |
Steve Knight: keyboards Norman “N.D.” Smart: drums |
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Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead started at 10:30 pm; on stage for 95 minutes (with extended sound issue stretches during set).
| Jerry Garcia: guitar, vocals Bob Weir: guitar Ron “Pig Pen” McKernan: keyboards, vocals |
Tom Constanten: keyboards, vocals Phil Lesh: bass Bill Kreutzmann: drums Mickey Hart: drums |
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival started at 12:30 am; played for 50 minutes.
| John Fogerty: vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano Tom Fogerty: rhythm guitar, vocals |
Stu Cook: bass Doug “Cosmo” Clifford: drums |
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Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin started at 2 am; played for 60 minutes.
| Janis Joplin: vocals Terry Clements: tenor saxophone Cornelius “Snooky” Flowers: baritone saxophone Luis Gasca: trumpet |
John Till: guitar Richard Kermode: keyboards Brad Campbell: bass Maury Baker: drums |
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Sly and the Family Stone
Sly and the Family Stone started at 3.30 am; played for 50 minutes.
| Sly Stone: vocals, keyboard Freddie Stone: guitar, vocals Jerry Martini: saxophone |
Cynthia Robinson: trumpet Rosie Stone: keyboard, vocals Larry Graham: bass Greg Errico: drums |
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The Who
The Who started at 5 am; played for 65 minutes.
| Roger Daltrey: vocals Pete Townshend: guitar |
John Entwistle: bass Keith Moon: drums |
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Jefferson Airplane
The sun rose and the Jefferson Airplane started at 8 am; played for 100 minutes.
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Next…Day 3, Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Hi Jim. We did pull off and leave our car in a stranger’s driveway. But not because we were tired or stuck in traffic. The transmission started to slip. We walked back on Sunday not knowing for sure if the car would still be there- or even if it would get us home.
I suppose the traffic didn’t help. I always say that part about how worried we were about whether the car was going to be there. I guess we got home.
Hey this is a nice peak back at that amazing time!
Gonna look for more posts from you.
Thanks. I have been able to post something new (not necessarily about Woodstock) everyday since I started the blog last fall.
Shoutout to the lovely local lady who let us set up a tent in her yard. I went with good friends Deborah D. & Charles L. and we had a memorable time. Happy Woodstock 50!
In between “Spanish Fly” and “She’s Gone” the Keef Hartley Band did a song called “Think It Over”. It’s not listed on Wikipedia either. I got it from The Woodstock Project 2012, which was a thing a group of enthusiasts organized to get as much recorded material from that weekend and put it all in as close order as possible.