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1969













































US tours:
April-May,
August-September,
November-December







Fillmore review













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Rose and Mike at  Woodstock (Foto: Joe Sia)





WOODSTOCK






at Woodstock (Foto: Henry Diltz)


"This is the Incredible String Band at Woodstock. I was a huge fan of their music; I was just as thrilled to shoot them as practically anybody at Woodstock. This was in the performers area out behind the stage; they were sitting there before they went on. All four of ‘em were right there at the table and I went up to them and asked if I could take a picture of ‘em. So I was thrilled to do that -- I totally loved their music." Henry Diltz




Joe Boyd: ... "We were booked to go on on Friday night. We had a perfect slot - we were after Joan Baez, 10.30 in the evening - but they didn't have a proper stage roof, (...) - and it started to rain. At that time the ISB had started very actively with amps, so they had a pick-up on the sitar, pick up on the gimbri etc. and the electric bass. Of course you couldn't play in the rain with all these electric instruments - so we were struck. I said " just go on with your acoustic instruments and play" and they said "we can't, wait 'til it's stopped raining"....

"What happened then was I said, "you don't know what's going to happen - you may never get on stage" but they wanted to wait for the rain to stop and so someone else went on - Melanie - who triumphed in that slot and wrote "Candles in the Rain" about that exact moment!  (...) We ended up going on the following afternoon after Canned Heat in the baking sun. People were ready for something heavy and loud and they came on and just - died!"

Joe Boyd: "It was Joe Boyd's Greatest Mistake. If I could do it all over again I would put them on in the rain. They would have triumphed like Melanie. They would have been in the movie, and everyone who was in the movie had a huge break. Who know what would have happened...." (beGlad Winter 1994)










" ... konnten gleich zu Beginn Jefferson Airplane (US$ 10.000), Creedance Clearwater Revival (US$ 10.000) und Canned Heat (US$ 12.000) für Woodstock gewonnen werden. Früh wurden auch die gerade erst sich formierende Supergruppe Crosby, Stills & Nash für US$ 10.000 unter Vertrag genommen – später gesellte sich dann auch noch Neil Young dazu.

Anfang Juni war dann der Folk-Freitag bis auf Tim Hardin (US$ 2.000) bereits vollständig gebucht: The Incredible String Band (US$ 4.500), Ravi Shankar (US$ 4.500), Ritchie Havens (US$ 6.000), Arlo Guthrie (US$ 5.000) und Joan Baez (US$ 10.000). Donovan und Johnny Cash schlugen das Angebot aus.

... The Grateful Dead (US$ 7.500), Janis Joplin (US$ 15.000) und Santana (US$ 1.000) ..."

(http://musikwirtschaftsforschung.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/
rezension-the-road-to-woodstock/)





Another source has these payments: The Woodstock'69 payments 1. Jimi Hendrix – $18,000 2. Blood, Sweat and Tears – $15,000 3. Joan Baez – $10,000 4. Creedence Clearwater Revival – $10,000 5. The Band – $7,500 6. Janis Joplin – $7,500 7. Jefferson Airplane – $7,500 8. Sly and the Family Stone – $7,000 9. Canned Heat – $6,500 10. The Who – $6,250 11. Richie Havens – $6,000 12. Arlo Guthrie – $5,000 13. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – $5,000 14. Ravi Shankar – $4,500 15. Johnny Winter – $3,750 16. Ten Years After – $3,250 17. Country Joe and the Fish – $2,500 18. Grateful Dead – $2,500 19. The Incredible String Band – $2,250 20. Mountain – $2,000 21. Tim Hardin – $2,000 22. Joe Cocker – $1,375 23. Sweetwater – $1,250 24. John B. Sebastian – $1,000 25. Melanie – $750 26. Santana – $75027. Sha Na Na – $700 28. Keef Hartley – $500  29. Quill – $375







(Foto: Barry Z. Levine) (Foto: A. Corbis)















13/08/69
16/08/69
16/08/69

21/08/69
23/08/69
24/08/69
27/08/69
31/08/69
Carnegie Hall, New York
Woodstock
Singer Bowl Folk Festival,
Flushing Meadow Park, NY
Merryweather Post Pavilion, Columbia
Philadelphia Folk Festival
Philadelphia Folk Festival
Electric Factory, Philadelphia
Texas International Pop Festival, Dallas

















Tracklist "Tallulah Records" CD, 2003

Dust Be Diamond
Black Jack Davy
This Moment
When You Find Out Who You Are
Air
Come With Me
The Letter
Waiting For You

Tracklist Bootleg

Dust Be Diamonds
Black Jack Davy
This Moment
When You Find Out Who You Are
Come With Me
Queen Juanita & Her Fisherman Lover

One of many bootleg covers











Electric Factory, Philadelphia 27-8-1969





Texas International Pop Festival, 31.8.1969









Fotos: Mark Porter








 Fillmore West, 10. Sept. 1969 New England Life Hall, Boston
 
5. Sept. 1969
Flyer Houston Music Hall
7 Sept. 1969




03/09/69
04/09/69
05/09/69
07/09/69
08/09/69
10/09/69
13/09/69
14/09/69
The Electric Factory, Philadelphia
Fillmore East, New York
New England Life Hall, Boston
Music Hall, Houston
Aquarius Theatre, LA
Fillmore West, San Francisco
6. Annual Big Sur Festival
Fillmore East, New York

Fillmore East 14. Sept. 1969

Fillmore East 4. Sept. 1969








(Foto: Cambridge Poenix 1969)











The festival featured Joan Baez, Carol Ann Cisneros,
The Comb Sisters, Chris Etheridge, Mimi Farina, Ruth Ann Friedman, James Hendricks, The Incredible String Band, Dave Mason, Joni Mitchell, Dorothy Morrison, Julie Payne, John Sebastian, Sal Valentino. ... and CSN&Y.
(Concert chronology CSN&Y)

"(...) ... filmmakers Baird Bryant and Johanna Demetrakas decided to capture on film the 6th annual concert at Big Sur. Bryant had five cameras to film the event (...) About 12,000 people attended the two day event so this is a vastly scaled back outdoor concert from Woodstock that had happened only one month before. Crosby, Stills, Nash along with Neil Young who had joined CSN in their debut as a foursome at Woodstock are the featured act still working on their play list. Joan Baez who in her late teens lived at the Esalen Institute is a performer here as well as her sister Mimi Farina. Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian and Dorothy Morrison of the Edwin Hawkins Singers are the other nationally known acts on the bill. (...) The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Incredible String Band also performed at the festival but are not in the film."  MDb user comment for the film "Celebration at Bg Sur"
6th Annual Big Sur Folk Festival

13 September 1969






First concert in Amsterdam
(click on pictures to enlarge articles)

(Other info)



Cambridge 7-10-69


Newcastle, 26-10-69 Edinburgh, 1-11-69


Brighton 8-11-69 London 15-11-69


Fairfield Hall Croydon
7-11-69
Newcastle City Hall, 26.10.69











8. Nov. 1969






















Oct. 1969: Release of single
official release: 3:55 min
radio station copy: 4:23 min












November 1969 release of LP













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Boston 23.11.1969


Guthrie Theatre
Minneapolis 30.11.69


Cleveland, 1969


November - December 1969
US - Tour

Baltimore 22.11.1969


(Fotos: Julie Snow, Sing Out 1969)





4.12.69 Milwaukee


Montreal Gazette, 26.11.1969




Milwaukee, 4-12-1969 (Foto: Mark Goff)



Place des Arts, Montreal, 25-11-69



Concert review Montreal
(click on image to enlarge)

Handbill for 14.12.1969
(Evening Times)






St. Louis 5.12.69 (Foto: David Gulick)











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