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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Aug 17, 2009 15:16:53 GMT -6
Poor Carlos only got $1500! IMHO [and I think by general consensus] among the rock bands, Santana easily put on the best performance at the festival. $1500 probably wasn't a bad payday. You could buy a pretty tricked-out new Mustang for about $3,000 in 1969. Santana was great. Killer P90/Marshall tone! I am going to buy the updated concert on DVD. There were lots of bands who didn't make it onto the movie. One in particular was CCR. John |
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Post by stratpurist on Aug 21, 2009 7:34:57 GMT -6
My favorite band of the time did not make the movie either -
Leslie West and Mountain! bring on the DVD
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Post by shattered on Aug 24, 2009 10:35:58 GMT -6
You need to keep in mind that Jimi Hendrix was Jimi Hendrix, while Carlos Santana wasn't really known outside San Francisco. Bill Graham helped him get the Woodstock gig, as he knew him well from playing at the Fillmore. Thus, the difference in pay.
There's a Woodstock box set coming out with remixed audio. Supposedly, they contacted Carlos to overdub some of the original stuff he played; he still had the gear he used at the show, including the SG, and was able to replicate his sound to a T.
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Post by stratpurist on Aug 24, 2009 12:36:12 GMT -6
Carlos Santana wasn't really known outside San Francisco
not to nitpick but I grew up in Indiana and Carlos was very well known to me and my friends by virtue of his appearance on the seminal 1968 LP "The Live adventures of Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield"
when Bloomfield went into the hospital after the second night, Carlos filled in for one set, Elvin Bishop the second set. I think the liner notes read Carlos Santana of the Santana Blues Band.
his playing was distinct even in that blues rock setting.
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Post by quarry on Aug 24, 2009 17:12:37 GMT -6
My favorite band of the time did not make the movie either - Leslie West and Mountain! bring on the DVD Did you know that prior to Woodstock, Mountain had played only a hand-full of bar gigs?!?!? Imagine how it must have felt to look out on a sea of half a million people....  |
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Post by shattered on Aug 25, 2009 9:46:24 GMT -6
One of my first gigs was in a coffeehouse. I was so nervous, you'd have thought I was playing for 500,000!  |
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Post by dnic on Aug 25, 2009 13:48:23 GMT -6
I still have that deer in the headlights look for the first couple songs. After that I can make a complete fool of myself. Absolutely alcohol free. And the amount of people makes no difference. d  |
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Post by shattered on Aug 26, 2009 14:08:45 GMT -6
I still have that deer in the headlights look for the first couple songs. After that I can make a complete fool of myself. Absolutely alcohol free. And the amount of people makes no difference. d HAHAHA! Why waste all that money on drinking, right? ;D ;D |
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Post by quarry on Sept 23, 2009 15:56:16 GMT -6
ʎɐqǝ uo pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐן ǝɥʇ sı sıɥʇ  ;D |
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Sept 23, 2009 18:19:19 GMT -6
ʎɐqǝ uo pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐן ǝɥʇ sı sıɥʇ ;D Hey Brother -- I've been there and done that...but it was cheap! John ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2009 19:39:56 GMT -6
ʎɐqǝ uo pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐן ǝɥʇ sı sıɥʇ ;D Hey Brother -- I've been there and done that...but it was cheap! John ;D Been there done that more than once. I guess you get what you pay for!! |
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Post by dnic on Sept 23, 2009 22:49:22 GMT -6
There are so many things I don't know how to do on my keyboard. Which one of the guys at Woodstock did that? d |
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Post by bloodmoon on Oct 8, 2009 7:11:42 GMT -6
32k is like 8k more than I GROSS A YEAR, for two sets!?, must have been nice to be Jimi in that time period!! Late 60's early 70's that would be a LOT of coin!!! Crap that's a lot of coin NOW even. |
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