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| The Who | ||
The Who at Woodstock
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| Performed on | Day 2 | |
| Started at | 5.00 am, Sunday, 17th | |
| Played for | 65 min. | |
| Further Information | ||
| Festival Day Chronology | ||
| Prev. artist | Sly & The Family Stone at 3.30 am | |
| Next artist | Jefferson Airplane at 8.00 am | |
The Who were scheduled as the second to last act (before Jefferson Airplane) to play on Saturday, August 16th. When they actually started playing it was already Sunday morning around 5:00. They played their exceptional Tommy album, a Rock Opera dealing with the struggle of a deaf, dumb and blind boy who later finds a cure and gains stardom with his messianic movement. The final of this perfomance took place during sunrise which occured at 6:05 am[1].
Musicians
- Roger Daltrey - vocals
- Pete Townshend - guitar, vocals
- John Entwistle - bass, vocals
- Keith Moon - drums
Setlist
- Heaven and Hell
- I Can't Explain
- It's a Boy
- 1921
- Amazing Journey
- Sparks
- Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker)
- Christmas
- Acid Queen
- Pinball Wizard
- The Abbie Hoffman Incident
- Do You Think It's Alright?
- Fiddle About
- There's a Doctor
- Go to the Mirror
- Smash the Mirror
- I'm Free
- Tommy's Holiday Camp
- We're Not Gonna Take It
- See Me, Feel Me
- Summertime Blues
- Shakin' All Over
- My Generation
- Naked Eye
Details
The Who were touring in support of their Rock Opera album Tommy which was released the same year. The Woodstock performance is not as long as others during this period but powerful and insane given the time The Who were performing. Songs not played from the album are: "Overture", "Cousine Kevin", "Underture", "Tommy, Can You Hear Me?", "Miracle Cure", "Sensation", "Sally Simpson", "Welcome".
The setlist is a pretty standard example of their 1969 tour program, just a little shortened at times. For instance they didn't play "A Quick One While He's Away", "Magic Bus" or a longer medley around "My Generation" which sometimes reached a length of 15 minutes. Nevertheless the presentation of the chosen songs was impressive and the magic and spirit of the music grew as Tommy reached its grande final with "See Me, Feel Me". The dawn was coming up and the first daylight hit the stage. The Who closed with "My Generation", an old hit dating back to the year 1965, and "Naked Eye". There were only a few sleepless people in the audience left who finally witnessed the ritual guitar smashing of Pete Townshend pointing out that the gig has really come to an end.
Miscellaneous
The Abbie Hoffman Incident [2] was an incident that happend during The Who's set right after the song "Pinball Wizard". Abbie Hoffman was able to get on stage and grab a microphone while Pete Townshend tuned his guitar. He said: "I think this is a pile of shit! While John Sinclair rots in prison...". Hoffman was protesting against the imprisonment of John Sinclair (leader of the White Panther Party and manager of the left-winged Hard-Rock band MC5) who had been convicted and sentenced to nine years of prison because of marijuana possession. Townshend, angry that someone took the stage, yelled: "Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!", hit him with his guitar and sending him off stage again. Townshend then added: "I can dig it!"; And after the song "Do You Think It's Alright?": "The next fucking person that... on the stage gets fucking killed! [crowd cheers] You can laugh!!" (this is hardly audible)[3]. A 16 second sound bite of the incident can be heard on The Who compilation set entitled Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (Disc 2, Track 20, "Abbie Hoffman Incident").
Pete Townshend threw his smashed guitar off stage but according to The Kids Are Alright DVD liner notes the guitar was retrieved from the crowd by one of the roadies for the band[4].
Like a few other artists performing at Woodstock, The Who already played two years earlier at the Template:WikipediaLink.
Availability
A soundboard tape of the complete The Who performance is available. Official releases containing single songs include:
Audio
- 1970: Woodstock I
- 1979: The Kids Are Alright (Soundtrack)
- 1994: Woodstock - Three Days of Peace and Music
- 1994: Best of Woodstock
- 2009: Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm
Video
- 1970: Woodstock
- 1979: The Kids Are Alright (Film)
- 1994: Woodstock Diaries
Images
References
- ↑ Sunrisesunset.com
- ↑ Template:Wikipedia Link
- ↑ Yahoo! Woodstock Project mailing list - Pete Townshend transcript of the Abbie Hoffman incident
- ↑ Yahoo! Woodstock Project mailing list - information about Pete Townshend smashed guitar