# Parallel Universe Woodstock **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 30, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117 "2001-03-30T15:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117/1 "2001-03-30T15:33:03Z")
I was thinking about the sci-fi genre of alternate histories, Like what would the world be like if the Axis powers won WW2, or if Kennedy survived his assasination. Thinking about Woodstock, I imagined what acts would’ve been sweet, and what should’ve been chucked. The Beatles Elvis The Rolling Stones Led Zepplin The Doors Get rid of Country Joe and the Fish Who would you like to have seen at Woodstock? ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117/2 "2001-03-31T01:40:26Z")
Hey, hang on to Country Joe. “Rockin’ Soul Music” still smokes, and “Fixin’ To Die Rag” is a cultural artifact. But if you gotta add: **Temptations** **Mamas & Papas** **Simon & Garfunkel** **Quicksilver Messenger Service** **Creedence Clearwater Revival** Mmmm, such memories. Oh, yeah, and it goes without saying that **The Beatles** would be at the absolute top of any rational person’s list, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117/3 "2001-03-31T03:28:01Z")
**Parallel Universe Woodstock** , huh? Well I was thinking that he wouldn’t be a small yellow bird at all and he wouldn’t be Snoopy’s sidekick anymore. Oh yeah, he would have to, this is funny, he’d have to… What’s that? Oh. Different Woodst… [sub]sorry[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117/4 "2001-03-31T03:38:47Z")
Hmmmm… Tito Puente Mel Torme Elvis Richie Valens Buddy Holly Glen Miller Benny Goodman Edith Piaf Johnny Cash Merl Haggard Hank Williams I Spike Jonze John Fogerty Tina Turner Gladys Knight and the Pips The Shirelles ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117/5 "2001-03-31T16:36:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hometownboy \* > \*\ ***Creedence Clearwater Revival** \*\* Sorry, but CCR **was** at Woodstock in 69. If you want a complete list of the performers of the original Woodstock, I suggest that you get Robert Stephen Spitz’s _Barefoot in Babylon_ the story behind the creation of Woodstock. And since it’s an alternate history Woodstock (I’ve noticed that several of the performers mentionned before where dead before the show), I would like to also go _forward_ in time and suggest a scrambled list Bob Marley and the Wailers Pink Floyd Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) Eric Clapton The Doors ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117/6 "2001-04-01T03:10:45Z")
Cream - Eric Clapton Allman Brothers Band - Duane Allman Then maybe Duane and Eric would have met a few years before they did IRL, and we would have had more than one album (Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Love Songs) of these two geniuses working together. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117/7 "2001-04-01T05:26:44Z")
The Stooges! The Stooges at Woodstock! “It’s 1969, ok. All across the U.S.A. Another year for me and you Another year with nuthin’ to do.” Definately, the Stooges at Woodstock. And then the Velvet Underground. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parallel-universe-woodstock/60117/8 "2001-04-02T02:38:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by detop \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Hometownboy \* > > \*\ ***Creedence Clearwater Revival** \*\* > > Sorry, but CCR **was** at Woodstock in 69. If you want a complete list of the performers of the original Woodstock, I suggest that you get Robert Stephen Spitz’s _Barefoot in Babylon_ the story behind the creation of Woodstock. > > And since it’s an alternate history Woodstock (I’ve noticed that several of the performers mentionned before where dead before the show), I would like to also go _forward_ in time and suggest a scrambled list > Bob Marley and the Wailers > Pink Floyd > Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) > Eric Clapton > The Doors \*\* Thanks for the added info. Guess I was going by the expanded Woodstock video and assumed (silly me) that if CCR had performed, they would have been a shoe-in for the movie. Sigh. While we’re at it, let’s redo the movie and dump much of the now-dated interviews with the locals and the concertgoers. Put a couple of CCR songs in their place.