Our next Woodstock ’69 festival installment offers up more rare and unseen images from Jim’s voluminous work generated during those three (well, really four considering it all ended on Monday morning) frantic, freakish and fantastic days in August. I noted in last week’s Woodstock blog that Jim was on assignment for Newsweek, which may go some ways to explaining his extraordinary attention to detail in shooting all the action that was happening around, behind and in front of the stage, as well as the usual suspects kicking ass and taking names (as Jim would say) on the stage.
We saw Jim's "immersion approach" to documenting festivals at Monterey Pop, where performers, friends, fans, groupies intermingled at will, strolling the grounds, everything just too mellow. But at Woodstock it seemed the sheer number of people, bands, equipment, media plus the precariousness of the venue (size of acreage involved, lack of amenities, the last-minute changes), combined with a couple of good old-fashioned New York summer flash rainstorms, made for a much more challenging time. And Jim, as always, was in the thick of it.
So here is another batch of great images from Jim's Woodstock plus a list of performers. For information on each set, check out this list of performances or click on each performer's name in the list below. Thirty-two acts performed over the course of the festival:
Friday, August 15
Richie Havens
Swami Satchidananda – gave the invocation for the festival
Sweetwater
Bert Sommer
Ravi Shankar
Tim Hardin
Melanie
Arlo Guthrie
Joan Baez
Saturday, August 16
Quill
Country Joe McDonald
John Sebastian
Santana
Keef Hartley Band
The Incredible String Band
Canned Heat Mountain
Grateful Dead
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band
Sly & the Family Stone
The Who
Jefferson Airplane
Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18
The Grease Band
Joe Cocker
Country Joe and the Fish
Ten Years After
The Band
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Johnny Winter featuring his brother, Edgar Winter
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Sha-Na-Na
Jimi Hendrix
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