# How many Woodstock bands have you seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806 "2019-08-17T18:35:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/1 "2019-08-17T18:35:28Z")
Not necessarily at the festival, but after (or before)? Poll to come. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/2 "2019-08-17T18:52:49Z")
Live performances, if there’s any question. For me, it was Mountain, John B. Sebastian, Jefferson Airplane, Sha Na Na, and . . . Bert Sommer. Also Johnny Winter, who made a guest appearance at an Edgar Winter concert (Edgar made a guest appearance at Woodstock with Johnny). ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/3 "2019-08-17T18:53:30Z")
Funny that you’re asking. I watched the Woodstock movie yesterday and asked myself the same question, and though I only was born in 1968, I expected it to be a few more, but I only saw Santana ca. 1992, in the Stadthalle Bielefeld of all places (that was before his big comeback with _Supernatural_). ---
**Author:** ![Royal\_Nonesutch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@Royal\_Nonesutch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Royal_Nonesutch)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/4 "2019-08-17T18:54:50Z")
Just 13 total as of 2019, but then again I was born less than 2 months after the last notes of the festival rang out over Yasgur’s Farm. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/5 "2019-08-17T18:59:09Z")
Correction: I also saw Neil Young twice, 1993 at the Schüttorf Festival with Booker T and the MG’s and 2014 with Crazy Horse in Cologne. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/6 "2019-08-17T18:59:29Z")
Only one, The Who. Though Ravi Shankar taught my wife to play the sitar. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/7 "2019-08-17T19:05:54Z")
Only Arlo Guthrie, back in the 80s in New York at the Chautauqua theatre. I think that these days I’d have to be a dedicated Woodstocker to have seen very many of them because I only even recall around 5 of them even touring in the past 25 or so years, so if some of the rest of them still are, I’d have to be looking better. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/8 "2019-08-17T19:09:09Z")
None of them by actively seeking out a show. But as a young man I worked at a venue where Santana and the Dead played on multiple occasions. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/9 "2019-08-17T19:38:58Z")
I saw The Who, post-Moon (1979-ish) and Blood, Sweat and Tears around 1998 (David Clayton Thomas and a very young backing band; he was awesome.) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/10 "2019-08-17T20:00:36Z")
I was a couple of years too young for Woodstock. Reeeeeally wanted to go (friends’ older brother was going!), but after seeing the film/pics/articles, I would’ve been freaked out. But instead, I went to Summerfest. Every day, all day, every summer for a dozen years or so. Saw a number of the bands who played Woodstock. Three of them on the same day, in an epic downpour. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/11 "2019-08-17T20:14:04Z")
\*\* shakes head \*\* When I was in high school and young adult, I was in New Mexico. Not a lot of bands went touring in our direction. And I didn’t have $$$ to go anyhow. Emigrated to NY in 1984. Definitely didn’t have $$$ to go to shows, didn’t have $$$ to do diddly squat for quite a long time. First live concerts I saw were Indigo Girls, 10,000 Maniacs, the Roches. Woodstock-wise, I finally got to hear Crosby Stils & Nash live & in concert, and separately Neil Young the latter of whom was impressive in a still-making-music-NOW way (went out and bought his latest album shortly after concert). The rest, nope. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/12 "2019-08-17T20:35:22Z")
Seen the Who 3 times. And I also put in a vote for CSN, even though I’ve only seen 2/3rds of them. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/13 "2019-08-17T20:53:12Z")
Arlo Guthrie - Saw in a club somewhere Country Joe - Saw him solo at a college gig in Northern California Santana - Berkeley 1974-ish, Las Vegas John B. Sebastian - A tribute concert, I believe Canned Heat - Saw them at Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino. Grateful Dead - Too many times to remember (That’s it! Yeah!) Jefferson Airplane - Winterland 1974? Joe Cocker - At a club in Los Angeles CSN & Y - CSN in LA, Y - multiple times, with multiple Neils ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/14 "2019-08-17T21:18:40Z")
Just Guthrie (twice), Baez (once), the Dead (a hundred squadrillion times), and Crosby, Stills, & Nash (w/o Young) (once). I clicked on the Airplane because I saw Jefferson Starship (Slick, Balin, Kantner) during the ‘70s, and Hot Tuna (Kaukonen, Casady) many times. I was too young to go to orgaistic rock concerts when there was still a Jefferson Airplane. As for The Band, I saw Rick Danko team up with Paul Butterfield at Toad’s Place in New Haven around 1980, but he’s only 20% of The Band. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/15 "2019-08-17T21:37:56Z")
I was there. I saw them all (except for a few I may have slept through). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/16 "2019-08-17T21:41:13Z")
I saw the Who sometime in the late 80s. That’s it. I did see Arlo Guthrie once, but it wasn’t a performance… I saw him walking down the street in Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/17 "2019-08-17T22:48:42Z")
I’m 10 years younger than Woodstock but I saw Country Joe some years ago at a club where my brother was booking. I went with my dad, who’s a Vietnam vet. It was weird. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/18 "2019-08-17T22:56:33Z")
Shankar, Guthrie, Who ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/19 "2019-08-17T23:55:28Z")
I was only 4 years old in 1969; I only started going to concerts when I was in college in the 1980s, so a number of the Woodstock acts were either dead, or long broken up, by that point. I’ve not ever seen any of the surviving performers live; of the list, the only surviving ones that I think I’d like to see are Guthrie, Baez, and CSNY (though that one appears to now be unlikely, given the acrimony between Crosby and the rest). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806/20 "2019-08-18T00:09:49Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I was there. I saw them all (except for a few I may have slept through). Sweet!🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-woodstock-bands-have-you-seen/838806.md?page=2)