Creedence Woodstock 1969

[BikerDude]

They didn't end up in the movie due to the paraquat they had for a record company, which of course would become evident in later years. But they had a great set at Woodstock even though they got bumped back to like 3:30AM after as John Fogerty said "the Grateful Dead put a half million people to sleep".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0-ZKaWVYSk

[Cubist]

And here I was thinking it was actually John Fogerty who didn't want the footage out.
It's a great performance though.

[BikerDude]

And here I was thinking it was actually John Fogerty who didn't want the footage out.
It's a great performance though.

Actually I stand corrected.
From the Creedence site.
http://www.creedence-online.net/faq/

Did CCR perform at Woodstock?
Yes. But their performance did not appear in either the film or original album "Woodstock" due primarily to John Fogerty's veto. He felt CCR's performance, impacted as it was by technical difficulties at the site and that it occurred in the wee hours immediately following a sleepy performance by the Grateful Dead, was not good enough to be forever documented on film and record. Four songs of the concert were released on the Woodstock box set in 1994.

I had always heard it was their paraquat record company.

[Cubist]

New shit has come to life, man. But who knows, maybe it was just John Fogerty acting on the paraquats' behalf.

[BikerDude]

New shit has come to life, man. But who knows, maybe it was just John Fogerty acting on the paraquats' behalf.

Mainly I think he was bummed about the circumstances of the show.
He was very pissed that the Dead took a long time since they had several equipment malfunctions.
Creedence who were supposed to headline that day got pushed back so late that he they played before a sea of sleeping people.
He was understandably pissed.
But listening to the show now it sounds like a pretty decent Creedence show to my ears.

The Dead by the way are very honest about how bad they (the Dead) sucked at Woodstock.

[Cubist]

He was understandably pissed.
But listening to the show now it sounds like a pretty decent Creedence show to my ears.

The Dead by the way are very honest about how bad they (the Dead) sucked at Woodstock.

You see a lotta comments on how his decision was nothing but a self-centered egoistic move but like you say, I think his emotions and decisions were justified.

The Dead, well, maybe they sounded just about right to the acid-driven crowd back then. Nice to hear they were being honest. I did not know that.