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Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: AJ Date: August 3, 2017, 10:23 pm
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Johnny Winter...Woodstock, 1969...Pure Texas Blueman
HTML https://youtu.be/M6kPQLLLYAc
Leslie West and Mountain, Woodstock, 1969...Who sez you need two
pickups?
HTML https://youtu.be/YnK9skV4z0Y
HTML https://youtu.be/YnK9skV4z0Y
O0
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: Luke17 Date: August 4, 2017, 7:14 am
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Creedance was scheduled to be in the movie, but Fogarty asked
them to pull it because he wasnt happywith their
performance..The other band members were soo pissed.
Ironically CCR was one of the very few bands I got close enough
to see perform.
Whole thing was a clautrophopic nightmare for me.
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: AJ Date: August 4, 2017, 7:26 pm
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[quote author=Luke17 link=topic=55.msg489#msg489
date=1501848847]
Creedance was scheduled to be in the movie, but Fogarty asked
them to pull it because he wasnt happywith their
performance..The other band members were soo pissed.
Ironically CCR was one of the very few bands I got close enough
to see perform.
Whole thing was a clautrophopic nightmare for me.
[/quote]
I remember you talking about what a nightmare Woodstock became
for you. While there were some iconic performances in the movie,
the festival itself looked like a muddy, unsanitary mess.
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: indigo_dave Date: August 6, 2017, 7:54 am
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BTW, another good concert festival movie is "Festival Express"
from around 1970. A train rolls across Canada with bands getting
on and off the train and playing various concerts. It has Janis
Joplin, The Band, Grateful Dead (IIRC) and others.
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: AJ Date: August 6, 2017, 4:28 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=55.msg530#msg530
date=1502024087]
BTW, another good concert festival movie is "Festival Express"
from around 1970. A train rolls across Canada with bands getting
on and off the train and playing various concerts. It has Janis
Joplin, The Band, Grateful Dead (IIRC) and others.
[/quote]
You know, I think PBS played that one a couple of years ago..I
seem to remember some parts of it...There were festivals popping
up all over the place back then after Woodstock...
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: indigo_dave Date: August 7, 2017, 7:59 am
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The one thing that stuck with me most from "Festival Express"
is The Band doing "The Weight". The guy on bass (can't remember
his name) played a bass line that I liked a lot. If you happen
to listen to the bass line being played at the refrain "take a
load of Fanny".
I read the auto bio by Levon Helm. I hate reading those bios
where "I was on the coke. I went and dried out. Got back on
the coke. Blah blah blah". For Miles Davis' auto bio it was
heroin. I get weary of seeing serial stupidity. I guess it's
easy for me to sit in judgement.
The Band doing "The Weight" (not sure how well the bass will be
heard in this).
HTML https://youtu.be/7-XmvrZRKGc
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: Luke17 Date: August 7, 2017, 5:30 pm
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[quote author=AJ link=topic=55.msg484#msg484 date=1501817023]
Johnny Winter...Woodstock, 1969...Pure Texas Blueman
HTML https://youtu.be/M6kPQLLLYAc
Leslie West and Mountain, Woodstock, 1969...Who sez you need two
pickups?
HTML https://youtu.be/YnK9skV4z0Y
HTML https://youtu.be/YnK9skV4z0Y
O0
[/quote]
Leslie fucking West...Felix fucking- Paplia -fucking- ardi.!!
Jeez, AJ...tell me, my Gorgeous Gear Guru...was Felix playing
an elderly LP Jr. in this vid?
The drummer is good..but Corky Laing took Mountain to a higher
plane.
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: AJ Date: August 7, 2017, 6:03 pm
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Leslie was indeed playing an ancient LP Junior....Leslie didn't
need but one pickup...Gawd I loved that man's tone and his voice
as well. Felix was a one man wunderkind for that band as
well..keyboards, bass, guitar, singer.
Leslie just broke the mold as far as rock stars..A Big 'Ol
homely mountain of a man that could do it all. He was fat,
didn't give a shit...Fuck all those rail thin wimp rockers,
y'know. He may not have been a bastion of technique or flashy
but sombitch his playing just cut right on through...You just
knew he had on goin' on. Gawd I loved Mountain.
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: AJ Date: August 7, 2017, 6:11 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=55.msg538#msg538
date=1502110746]
The one thing that stuck with me most from "Festival Express"
is The Band doing "The Weight". The guy on bass (can't remember
his name) played a bass line that I liked a lot. If you happen
to listen to the bass line being played at the refrain "take a
load of Fanny".
I read the auto bio by Levon Helm. I hate reading those bios
where "I was on the coke. I went and dried out. Got back on
the coke. Blah blah blah". For Miles Davis' auto bio it was
heroin. I get weary of seeing serial stupidity. I guess it's
easy for me to sit in judgement.
The Band doing "The Weight" (not sure how well the bass will be
heard in this).
HTML https://youtu.be/7-XmvrZRKGc
[/quote]
Everybody always raved about Robbie Robertson. I always thought
it was the rest of the Band that made him sound good. Rick Danko
was the bass player. All those guys were crack musicians. Danko
had a really fine singing voice too. He employed bass chords
maybe more than most bass players until REM came along and Mike
Mills took that method to another level. But all the
guys...Levon Helm was a rock solid drummer and had that whiskey
soaked voice that made ya think of biscuits and gravy. Richard
Manuel, the piano player was a classically trained pianist.
Garth Hudson was simply put, earthshaking when he cranked up
that Lowery organ....
Sad...Only Hudson and Robertson still survive.
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Re: Giants that didn't make it into the movie...
By: indigo_dave Date: August 8, 2017, 9:08 am
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In the Levon Helm book, it sounds like RRobertson was refraining
from the hard partying the 3 dead ones were engaging in. I
don't know who wrote what songwriting wise, but the some other
members seemed to feel they weren't given credit due them. I
wonder if they were working songs up in rehearsal and felt like
some of their input wasn't given credit. I do think they
weren't paying attention to the business end.
I remember Leslie West. I remember reading some interview with
Felix Papalardi. He was producing Cream as I remember. In the
little interview I read he said that Leslie West was, in his own
way, as good as Clapton. I have my doubts about that. But I
remember liking Mountain.
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