Stuck on 17B - Day Three
Days Two and Three at Woodstock seem to kind of blur together, with no real separation: Although technically part of Saturday, The Who didn’t go onstage until about 4 a.m. Sunday morning. Jefferson Airplane, also technically scheduled for Saturday, finally went on at around 8 a.m. Sunday.
Day Three of Woodstock officially started at 2 p.m. when Joe Cocker took the stage. The fuzziness of each days’ borders would continue – aided by the rains, which would periodically bring everything to a standstill – through to the
next morning, when Jimi Hendrix would finally close the festival at about 11 a.m.
As the Airplane took the stage, Grace Slick introduced the band with the words, “All right friends, you have seen the heavy groups, now you’ll see morning maniac music, believe me....”
Day Three performancesJefferson Airplane
Plastic Fantastic Lover.mp3White Rabbit.mp3Joe Cocker
Let’s Go Get Stoned.mp3Ten Years After
I’m Going Home.mp3The Band
The Weight.mp3Blood Sweat And Tears
Johnny Winter
Tobacco Road (w/Edgar Winter).mp3Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.mp3Sea of Madness.mp3Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Love March.mp3Sha-Na-Na
Labels: classic rock, current events, live albums, live music, Neil Young
Neil Young at Farm Aid 2008
In case you didn’t know, the annual Farm Aid show took place a little over a week ago (June 20, to be exact). The Pretenders, Jakob Dylan, and Arlo Guthrie were among the acts that performed alongside Farm Aid stalwarts Willie Nelson, John Mellancamp, and Neil Young.
Neil Young’s set was, by most accounts, sensational. Writing on
Thrasher’s Wheat about Young’s version of the Beatles classic, “A Day in the Life,” a fan named Coby said, “I was amazed and blown away. This is what the show is all about, you bring it, and the emotion compels you. Compliments and applause. Touch that inner nerve and twist.”
Young has performed at all of the Farm Aid festivals, appearing either solo or with old band-mates Crosby, Stills, and Nash. “Just as rock & roll is loud and proud, so is Farm Aid,” Young is quoted as saying. “Farm Aid's greatest accomplishment, I believe, is in the spirit. It's the fact that we represent the spirit of the good fight, to keep something good happening. It just keeps getting stronger and stronger.”
Today’s music is a couple of tunes from Neil Young’s Farm Aid set this year. The show was broadcast in HD on DirectTV, so the sound is pretty clean. I found these tracks on a site called Big O, which often posts Recordings of Indeterminate Origin.
Jump over there for the rest of the show as well as recordings of some of the other Farm Aid performances. A warning, though: while they post awesome stuff, Big O has pretty strict time limits on how long the tracks remain up, so don’t dilly-dally!
Powderfinger.mp3 A Day in the Life (Beatles cover).mp3Labels: classic rock, covers, live music, Neil Young
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Long Road.mp3 ~ Eddie Vedder, with Mike McCready and Neil Young, from
America: A Tribute to HeroesLabels: current events, Neil Young, Pearl Jam
Neil Young at Farm Aid 2007
Earlier this month, the 22nd Farm Aid benefit concert took place at Randall’s Island in New York. As usual, Willie Nelson and Farm Aid's other three famous board members, Dave Matthews, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp headlined this year's concert.
“We’ll be doing Farm Aid until we die,” Mellencamp told the
New York Times. “We had no idea that this would last 22 years. Last time we got together, we looked at each other and started laughing. ‘Can you believe we’re still here?’ ”
Farm Aid grew out of a remark Bob Dylan made at the Live Aid concert in 1985: “Wouldn’t it be great if we did something for our own farmers right here in America?” Nelson liked that idea and contacted Young and Mellencamp, who was about to release his album
Scarecrow, with a song about a farmer losing his land to a foreclosure. In six weeks they put together what turned out to be the first Farm Aid on Sept. 22, 1985, in Champaign, Ill.
Neil Young’s set, the subject of today’s post, drew decent reviews from
Rolling Stone: “Neil Young, as usual, completely walked away with the show. Joined only by his wife Pegi on acoustic guitar and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith, Young did an eight-song set of hits (“Heart of Gold”), obscurities (”Human Highway”) and Farm Aid staples (”Homegrown”). It was his first set in nearly a year but he sounded like he had been perfecting his show on the road for months.”
There were some, though, who wanted Young to tone down his politics: “As Young introduced his Farm Aid staple ‘Homegrown,’ explaining that the meaning of the song had changed over the years from a flippant marijuana reference to a plea for the purchasing of family farm-generated products, one drunken voiced interrupted, urging him to ‘just sing, Neil.’” (
from Bad News Beat)
This is an audience recording, so the sound quality’s not A+, but it’s pretty decent.
Human Highway.mp3 Silver and Gold.mp3 Beautiful Bluebird.mp3 Too Far Gone.mp3 Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.mp3 Heart of Gold.mp3 Enter Willie Nelson and Mickey Raphael.mp3 Homegrown.mp3 Four Strong Winds.mp3Labels: classic rock, live music, Neil Young
Day Three of Woodstock officially started at 2 p.m. when Joe Cocker took the stage. The fuzziness of each days’ borders would continue – aided by the rains, which would periodically bring everything to a standstill – through to the next morning, when Jimi Hendrix would finally close the festival at about 11 a.m. 
