How many Woodstock bands have you seen?

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I was surprised I’ve seen 10.

I’ve seen CSN the most but CSN&Y only once.

I actually got to stage crew for Arlo Guthrie during a Pumpkin Festival in Manhattan for Clearwater. I’ve seen him 3 times.

I’ve seen the Who twice. Both were incredible shows.

I saw the Dead once but members of the Dead several more time. Weird and sad thing, the only Dead show I made it too was in MSG. I was up in the rafters and the sound was terrible and they were terrible that night. I actually left the concert. It was during Space I gave up and headed out into the city to do something more enjoyable.
I have seen Hot Tuna both Electric and Acoustic at the Stone Pony. But didn’t click Airplane of course.

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Sadly, only one: The Who.

Although it was the best concert I’ve ever attended.
mmm

23

Santana (2011), the Who (2002, 2006, & 2016), and the Dead (2004 & 2016) for me.

24

Melanie.

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Santana (once)
Grateful Dead (7 times)
The Who (many, many times, including solo shows by Pete and Roger and John w/Ringo and the Walk Down Abbey Road Tour)
Ten Years After (once)
Crosby Stills Nash & Young (CSNY once, Steven Stills once, Neil solo 3 times)
(I didn’t vote for Creedence, but I have seen John Fogerty once)

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Havens in 1982 (age 10), presumably followed by tons of amusement park rides at the World’s Fair in Knoxville, TN. No recollection of it at all.

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Santana I saw once it man the 80s. It was Carlos of course but the rest of the band was different.

CSN was my first concert and I saw them a few times but without Neil. Saw Neil once alone.

I saw the Robertson-less version of The Band when they opened for CSN. I also saw them when Roger Waters played The Wall at the Berlin Wall.

The Who I have only seen at the 12-12-12 concert. The Daltry Townsend version.

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Mountain - I saw them in the mid 80s, opening up for… Triumph, I think?

Grateful Dead - I’ve never been a huge fan, but a friend talked me into seeing them. Sometime around 1988 or so? It was okay.

Ten Years After - another opening act, but I genuinely don’t recall who they were opening up for. And to be honest, it may have been Alvin Lee solo and not Ten Years After.

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Also in the late 80s with the same friend who talked me into see the Dead. I enjoyed this one more.

Sha Na Na - my very first concert. I must’ve been around 8 or so. Was a fan of the tv show, and my dad took me to the concert. Late 70s.

29

I count 15:

Arlo Guthrie, Nashville, mid 80’s with John Prine
Joan Baez, early 80’s, Chastain Amphitheater, Atlanta
Country Joe McDonald, 2004(?), Fur Peace Ranch, Ohio
Incredible String Band, mid 70’s, Great Southeast Music Hall, Atlanta
Mountain, 1970, Atlanta Stadium
Grateful Dead, Many Times
Creedence, 1969, Atlanta Pop Festival
Janis Joplin, 1969, Atlanta Pop Festival
The Who, 1970, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, 1972, Tuscaloosa AL, 1975 The Omni, Atlanta
Jefferson Airplane, 1970, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium
Ten Years After, 1971, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium
The Band (with Bob Dylan), 1974, The Omni, Atlanta
Johnny Winter, 1969, Atlanta Pop Festival, 1971, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium
Jimi Hendrix, 1968, Atlanta Municipal Auditorium
Santana, 1970, Piedmont Park, Atlanta

Damn, I’m old!

30

Well, you beat my total of, um, zero, and I was nineteen when it happened. I was living in Pennsylvania at the time and wanted to go, but the $20 ticket price was too high for my wallet, to say nothing of the travel expenses getting there.

In hindsight, I probably would have wound up being one of the million+ wandering around outside rather than the half-million on the grounds, but still…

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Well, to be fair, several were playing at various live music festivals as part of the included admission, acts that I wouldn’t have likely otherwise gone to had it been a stand-alone show that would have cost me $40, $50 or $60 to see on their own. (Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Country Joe, Johnny Winter, none of which were my cup of tea, from a musical standpoint.

That said, I have paid to see some of these bands dozens of times (Santana, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, in various combinations) and in the case of the Grateful Dead, well over 100 times, so I guess like most things artistic, it boils down to a matter of personal taste.

32

Two - The Grateful Dead in Denver in the early 90’s, and Joe Cocker as opening act for the Guess Who in Seattle in '95 or so.

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I’ve seen Crosby, Stills and Nash, separately, I’ve seen Neil Young. I haven’t seen “The Grateful Dead”, but I have seen Phil Lesh and Friends (IIRC, Dickey Betts may have been playing with them as well, they were opening for the Allman Brothers), and I’ve seen Arlo Guthrie.
Not a lot of them, but not to bad considering I was born in 1980.

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Really, only the Who, although at at various times I attended concerts with members of Mountain, the Grateful Dead, and the Band.

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CSNY and the Dead. (Who also intersected in another way in that era.) Mrs. FtG has also seen The Band.

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Only The Who.

Although I have seen Neil twice.

37

I was there, and I didn’t see most of them.

38

I’m honestly very surprised so many folks have seen Arlo Guthrie. I mean The Who( major rock band )and Grateful Dead( dedicated live show fans and non-stop touring ethic), sure. But more folks have seen Arlo Guthrie than Santana? I always kinda slotted him into the ‘third-tier-folkie-with-one-minor-novelty-hit’ position. Is he just one of those guys who plays on every festival/county fair circuit he can find, or his really that popular?

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Who was your favorite?

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Yeah. Not many of these folks were still preforming when I was old enough to go to concerts in the 90s. Joe Cocker was in maybe 1990, and my parents saw him then, but they left my brother and me with great-grammy that night.